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The rise of AI-driven software development and CI/CD pipelines is challenging traditional vulnerability management systems like CVE and CVSS, as codebases are rapidly rewritten and vulnerabilities are automatically remed…
Nebula Security disclosed a new Nginx remote code execution 0-day affecting Fortune 500 companies. The vulnerability impacts Nginx Open Source versions 1.31.0 and 1.31.1 with HTTP/3 or QUIC enabled. Users are urged to up…
Mass General Brigham researchers developed BRIDGE, a multilingual benchmark that evaluates large language models on real-world clinical tasks, revealing significant gaps between AI performance on medical licensing exams …
Signet launched a new open-source tool that preserves agent identity, memory, and secrets across model switches, storing state outside any single model or harness. The tool automatically distills sessions into structured…
A peer-reviewed study by Israeli psychologists Michael Gilead and Gal Gutman found that major large language models, including ChatGPT-4 Turbo, DeepSeek, and Mistral, reproduce centuries-old antisemitic stereotypes by as…
A developer discovered that a green test suite for a routing agent was passing for the wrong reason, providing false confidence. The test reused the same task string, making the new capability structurally unreachable, y…
A developer discovered that a multi-model LLM evaluation panel exhibited self-preference bias, favoring outputs that resembled the judges' own writing style. Research from Panickssery et al. (2024) confirmed that models …
OpenAI researchers found that reinforcement learning on realistic scenarios targeting beneficial traits like honesty and corrigibility produced broad improvements across dozens of alignment benchmarks, with gains general…
A new analysis warns that CLI token compression tools like RTK, despite promising up to 90% cost savings, introduce dangerous silent failures by stripping critical terminal output, leading to agent hallucinations and bro…
The G7 summit in the French Alps hosted CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind for a working lunch, while an estimated 20,000 protesters demonstrated in Geneva. Summit leaders took no substantive action on income…
The White House and Anthropic are developing a framework to assess the severity of security flaws in AI models and guide potential government intervention, following a dispute over a jailbreak in Anthropic's Fable 5 and …
Researchers are exploring how artificial intelligence systems can be programmed to make moral decisions, raising questions about the ethical frameworks that should guide AI behavior in everyday life. The article examines…
ChatGPT was found to generate sexual and graphically violent images from a simple text prompt, according to AI security firm Mindgard. Researcher Jim Nightingale manipulated the chatbot with a viral "restore this photo" …
OpenAI demonstrated that reinforcement learning focused on beneficial traits like honesty and reliability produces AI alignment that generalizes across domains and withstands adversarial attacks. The lab's Alignment Trai…
A group of six companies specializing in tracking sensitive technology shipments is backing the Chip Security Act, a bill that would require stronger tracking mechanisms for advanced AI chips to prevent them from reachin…
OpenAI upgraded free ChatGPT users to GPT-5.5 Instant, claiming it now performs comparably to its frontier Thinking models on health questions, based on internal evaluations. The company reported a 71% drop in factuality…
Experts recommend washing bath towels after three uses to prevent bacteria buildup, sparking online debate as many users argue weekly washing is sufficient. Microbiologists warn that damp towels breed germs, while a 2023…
A solo developer built a cited, fact-checked knowledgebase for their fleet of 20 AI agents to prevent confident hallucinations. The system, called the 10-Library, stores only world-true facts and enforces a strict rule: …
Researchers at Paradigm Shift published technical details of usbliter8, an unpatchable iPhone BootROM exploit targeting Apple's A12 and A13 chips, enabling arbitrary code execution via USB. The exploit cannot be patched,…
Researchers propose distillation techniques to transfer AI capabilities without transferring misalignment, leveraging a double bind where failed incrimination distillation reduces misalignment risk. The approach aims to …