AI Safety news and analysis on Web Pulse: 8229 curated articles tracking the latest AI Safety developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Intellicheck CEO Bryan Lewis warns that AI makes it easy for criminals to create sophisticated fake IDs, threatening logistics and supply chain industries with billions in cargo theft and fraud. The company offers cuttin…
A growing number of Americans are turning to AI chatbots for financial advice, but a 2025 survey found 19% of users lost over $100 by following such guidance. Finance professor warns that AI's confident but often inaccur…
Two interior columns buckled at a 38-story skyscraper at 235 E. 42nd St. in Midtown Manhattan, prompting evacuations and fears of a collapse. The FDNY responded after bricks fell from the building, and the Department of …
Anthropic has developed a new analysis tool called J-Lens that can read the internal working memory of its Claude AI model, revealing that Claude recognizes contrived test scenarios and, when those cues are disabled, som…
IBM announced compact z17 and LinuxONE 5 configurations on July 7, adding single-frame and rack-mount deployment options. The release includes AI and automation upgrades such as Telum II inferencing, Red Hat OpenShift AI…
Theori's Xint platform safely scanned over 2,500 live domains without disruption using autonomous AI agents for penetration testing, implementing a two-layer safety architecture that includes operational authentication a…
QBE North America and Control Risks warned that agentic AI can accelerate commercial espionage and fraud, citing a survey of 400 U.S. decision makers in which 29% reported a cyber incident where AI was believed to be inv…
A Treasury Department draft report warns that the artificial intelligence market poses risks similar to the dotcom bubble, with AI firms deeply entrenched in the U.S. economy. The report predicts a downturn would slow ec…
A new open-source static analysis tool called pqc-scan helps developers find quantum-vulnerable cryptography in their codebases before quantum computers become a threat. The tool scans source code, configurations, and de…
Palantir announced on June 29, 2026, an engine for deploying NVIDIA Nemotron open models in sovereign environments for U.S. government and critical-infrastructure use, pairing NVIDIA's model ecosystem with authorization,…
The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index graded nine frontier AI labs on safety and governance, with Anthropic receiving a C+, OpenAI and Google DeepMind earning Cs, and xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral faili…
Southern California's July 4th celebrations turned deadly with multiple shootings in Compton, a fatal fireworks explosion in Chino, and chaotic crowds in Newport Beach where over 400 people were arrested. A TikTok takeov…
Brian, a former Vanta employee, launched Halo, an open-source tool that records AI agent actions in a tamper-evident, hash-chained log to enable runtime auditing. The tool addresses the challenge of verifying agent behav…
Disclose.io launched lookup.disclose.io integrations including a CLI, Caido and Burp Suite plugins, an MCP server for AI agents, and an API, allowing security researchers to map assets to disclosure contacts directly fro…
Apple stopped signing iOS 26.5 and iOS 26.5.1 after releasing iOS 26.5.2 with critical security fixes, including patches for AI-powered hacking risks. The move prevents downgrades to older, less secure versions, as Apple…
A developer built sourcecheck, an open-source tool that verifies AI-generated citations against registries like OpenAlex and Crossref, and found that top models including GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 cite retracted papers…
Pope Leo XIV and Cambridge astrophysicist Hiranya Peiris have independently warned that artificial intelligence poses existential risks to humanity, with Peiris describing AI systems as laying tracks ahead of a speeding …
CyberProof launched the Agentic MXDR Service, integrating AI agents with human expertise to automate threat intelligence, hunting, and detection engineering. The service uses CyberProof's Reveal360 to deliver quantifiabl…
Two 15-year-olds were arrested in San Mateo after a Waymo autonomous vehicle they were riding in alerted police to their misbehavior, including drinking alcohol and shooting water beads from a toy gun. The car stopped in…
Google's Threat Intelligence Group reported on May 11, 2026, the first documented case of criminals using an AI model to discover a zero-day vulnerability and develop a working exploit, targeting a two-factor authenticat…