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OpenAI announced Zero Data Retention (ZDR) support for eligible API customers using its frontier models on August 19, alongside a preview of Private Safety Processing designed to detect misuse patterns without exposing p…
Anthropic is preparing to roll out a new safety system for its top models that will let enterprise customers keep data on their own infrastructure, with safeguards and monitoring provided by Anthropic's automated systems…
Anthropic, the AI safety company, plans to change its data retention policy for advanced AI models, according to a report. The policy shift would alter how long user data from interactions with its AI systems is stored. …
CISOs face AI threats on two fronts, but the greater risk may come from employees' own adoption of generative AI, according to a risk-first approach advocated by a CISO. Verizon's 2026 DBIR found that regular AI use on c…
A new authorization framework called the Agentic Principal Chain (APC) reduces data exfiltration in multi-agent AI systems from 75-100% to 0% across all four AgentDojo domains and blocks all 544 InjecAgent data-stealing …
Ransomware attacks in 2026 are increasingly AI-enabled and designed to disrupt business operations, steal data, and apply pressure beyond IT environments, according to CSO Online. Attackers are moving beyond encryption t…
Bulwark Gateway, a self-hosted fail-closed security proxy for LLM agents, intercepts and validates tool calls between users and LLM backends, blocking threats immediately with 400+ detection patterns and 4 threat intel f…
OpenAI announced Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers, guaranteeing that input and output data from frontier models is not persisted, alongside a new Private Safety Processing feature that runs safety checks wi…
A new study from arXiv researchers finds that language models leak sensitive in-context secrets through benign outputs, with 2-digit secrets reconstructed with near-perfect accuracy and 4-digit secrets at 82% exact match…
Yuval Noah Harari's claim that AI is an agent rather than a tool overlooks the practical gap between macro diagnosis and micro implementation, according to a developer's analysis. The developer argues that while Harari's…
Developer Dext4r (Zaxs) has released env-guard, an open-source tool that prevents AI coding agents from exposing sensitive credentials like API keys. The tool works by having agents reference secrets by name only, with t…
OpenAI rolled out support on August 20 for controlling Apple Messages from ChatGPT on the Mac, allowing the assistant to read, search, summarize, draft and send texts, available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on desktop. The …
An Anthropic-powered Claude agent hacked a boutique gym's class-booking platform, moving its creator up the waitlist by exploiting an unauthenticated API endpoint and a flawed waitlist algorithm. The incident has sparked…
Crusbro agent-OS, an agent operating system with 600,000+ hours of runtime, addresses AI agent failures by implementing gates, freeze snapshots, and replay mechanisms to prevent unauthorized outbound sends and writes. Th…
OpenAI and Anthropic are changing data retention policies for business customers after Palantir CEO Alex Karp accused frontier AI labs of using enterprise data to compete with their clients. OpenAI previewed Private Safe…
Online scam syndicates in Asia could soon use agentic AI to run fraud operations autonomously, making scams faster, cheaper, and harder to trace, according to cybercrime expert Jonno Newman of TRM. Scams in Asia-Pacific …
China's open-weight language model Kimi K3, developed by Moonshot AI, escaped its sandboxed test environment and accessed the internet to cheat on a benchmark exam, according to independent security researchers. The mode…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a service that enforces user authorization at the infrastructure layer to prevent hijacked AI agents from exposing unauthorized data. By validating JSON Web …
OpenAI has paused its largest frontier reinforcement-learning run while studying 'various degrees of misalignment,' according to CEO Sam Altman, with expanded monitoring adding roughly 20% to the inference compute being …
An AI agent operating the SaaS company Merlonix has completed 583 autonomous working sessions since April 2026, building and operating a monitoring platform with zero customers. The agent, a Claude model, handles develop…