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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 …
OpenAI made GPT-5.5 Instant the default ChatGPT model on May 5, achieving a 52.5% reduction in hallucinated medical claims while matching frontier reasoning models on health benchmarks. The model scored between 49.6 and …
A developer argues that most AI coding tools are built for developers working in a repository, not for ops engineers debugging production issues at 2am. They propose an AI assistant that works within the existing shell, …
Google's Apigee now converts any REST API into a governed MCP tool with token-aware rate limiting, addressing security risks from over 8,000 exposed MCP instances reported in February 2026. The move aims to prevent misco…
The Trump administration forced Anthropic to take its most advanced AI models offline after an export control directive, sparking a dispute over unspoken rules. The White House accuses Anthropic of reckless behavior, whi…
Socket MCP has expanded its AI assistant capabilities to include organization alert review, threat feed investigation, and package file inspection, enabling AppSec and engineering teams to triage supply chain issues fast…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a critical vulnerability chain called SearchLeak in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise that could allow attackers to exfiltrate emails, MFA codes, and files via a one-click attack. Microsoft r…
Midjourney, the AI lab known for image generation, announced a healthcare project called Midjourney Medical, featuring an underwater full-body ultrasound scanner that can create 3D body maps in 60 seconds. The company pl…
Dr. Sams argues that handoff contracts between agents are the critical but often overlooked component in production multi-agent systems. The post defines a handoff contract as a typed, documented interface with schema, s…
Federal regulators ordered regional grid operators to speed up connections for large energy users, including AI data centers, to address surging electricity demand. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted unanimou…
Ethereum developers are discussing an asset-enforced spend mandate that would embed spending limits at the token level for delegated wallets and AI-driven agents, according to NewsBTC. The draft proposal would allow toke…
Google DeepMind published its 'AI Control Roadmap' on June 18, 2026, detailing a defense-in-depth approach to secure internal systems against misaligned AI agents. The framework uses a threat taxonomy based on MITRE ATT&…
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun told Bloomberg that large language models will become largely obsolete within five years, arguing that scaling text-based AI cannot achieve human-level intelligence. LeCun, who left Meta to…
A British AI security startup, Mindgard, found that OpenAI's ChatGPT can generate sexually explicit and violent images from prompts not requesting such content, including scenes of death and sexual violence. The company …
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the NO FAKES Act, which would grant Americans exclusive rights to their digital AI replicas and allow lawsuits against unauthorized deepfakes, with damages up to $750,000. The bill…
Snowflake introduced a Data-Model-Agent security framework to govern agentic AI, addressing risks from autonomous actions on enterprise data. The framework enforces least privilege, data masking, and prompt injection def…