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RippleX has implemented a security-first approach for the XRPL Lending Protocol and Single Asset Vault (SAV) amendments, subjecting them to ten phases of review including AI-assisted security reviews, multiple independen…
Democratic operatives Shaunna Thomas and Leah Hunt-Hendrix launched the Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC backed by tech workers and labor unions, to support AI legislation with $5 million. The PAC aims to counter the inf…
Sebastian Kurz and Shalev Hulio's AI cybersecurity startup DREAM raised $260 million in Series C funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Bicycle Capital and Group 11. The company sells sovereign AI cyber defense system…
Accenture announced Thursday it will acquire a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos for $3.25 billion and purchase two smaller security companies, runZero and NetRise, for a total of $4.18 billion. The …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei manages only one direct report—his chief of staff—while all other senior leaders report to his sister and company president Daniela Amodei, a structure he calls 'incredibly freeing' that allows…
Google's AI Overviews feature is presenting fictional entities from the SCP Foundation horror fiction universe as real, without acknowledging their fictional nature. Searches for SCP-565 and SCP-426 return AI-generated s…
Researchers tested 400 ultra-cheap AI API proxy services offering GPT and Claude access at 90% off, finding that one drained crypto from a wallet while others injected malicious code or stole cloud credentials. The repor…
The TAKE IT DOWN Act, targeting non-consensual deepfake imagery, was signed into law by President Trump on May 19, 2025, after passing the Senate unanimously and the House with a 409-2 vote. The bill requires platforms t…
NILScript introduces an OpenAPI-like standard for agent actions that prevents unauthorized writes by enforcing a propose-approve-commit-rollback workflow. In 4,216 prompt-injection evaluations across two models, the syst…
A developer built a scanner that fires prompt-injection probes at a self-hosted AI agent and tested it across five model backends, finding leak rates ranging from 0% to 90% depending solely on the model. The scanner dete…
The npm account 'ai' publishes seven packages that collectively receive 964 million weekly downloads, yet none have npm provenance attestations. This single-publisher, no-provenance pattern mirrors recent supply-chain at…
Code sandboxes are isolated computing environments that allow developers to run untrusted code, such as code generated by large language models, without risking security breaches or data loss. They are experiencing a sur…
A developer argues that the real danger of AI-generated code is not its quality but the unrecorded decisions it introduces, creating hidden technical debt. Drawing on Martin Fowler's debt quadrant and examples like Repli…
Tenet Security emerged from stealth with $6 million in seed funding to address runtime security for autonomous AI agents. The round was led by The Westly Group with MizMaa Ventures participating. The company's Agent-side…
The US government issued an export control directive on June 12 suspending access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models for all foreign nationals, prompting Anthropic to disable the models for all customers. The act…
A developer audited three AI coding tools—Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline—for privacy and found that all archive conversations in local plaintext without informing users. Claude Code stored 43MB of conversation data and s…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over a cybersecurity jailbreak vulnerability, marking the first time Washington has targeted a commercial AI firm with …
Anthropic holds daily meetings with Trump administration officials since June 16 to resolve a standoff after a Commerce Department directive forced the company to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for foreign us…
A developer argues that chaining multiple AI agents compounds reliability failures, with ten 95% reliable agents yielding only 60% system reliability. Citing studies showing 41-87% failure rates in multi-agent frameworks…
The US government imposed export controls on Anthropic's new AI model Fable 5 and its underlying Mythos model, citing national security concerns, leading Anthropic to take both models offline. The move marks a significan…