AI Safety news and analysis on Web Pulse: 13151 curated articles tracking the latest AI Safety developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Researchers from multiple institutions introduced a validation framework to evaluate whether LLM-based urban simulators reproduce realistic human mobility patterns. Testing AgentSociety and CitySim against real-world dat…
Researchers found that introducing structured noise into artificial neural network activations improves robustness against adversarial attacks and naturalistic image modifications, with noise structure from adversarial a…
AI agents can fail in subtle, non-obvious ways that resemble progress, including goal drift, tool misuse, state loss, hallucination, and premature task completion. These hidden failure modes make agent reliability challe…
Researchers at an undisclosed institution found that AI peer reviewers can be manipulated by altering only presentation-level content such as abstracts and narrative structure, achieving a 75.1% attack success rate and a…
Enterprise AI agents are expanding beyond server-side execution to operate directly in client runtimes such as browsers and desktop apps, enabling real-time interaction with unsaved data, UI state, and device permissions…
Robinhood launched an Agentic Credit Card that allows users to connect third-party AI agents via the Robinhood Banking MCP (Model Context Protocol) to automate spending. The virtual card lets authorized agents fetch card…
President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 2, 2026, establishing a federal AI cybersecurity clearinghouse to coordinate vulnerability scanning and patch distribution, but the order lacks a disclosure pathway fo…
Fraud cases in the UK surged to 4.1 million in 2025, with losses of nearly £1.3bn, as criminals increasingly use AI to manipulate victims, including marrying romance scam targets. UK Finance calls for stronger tech platf…
A security researcher used Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 to uncover a critical vulnerability in Zcash that had gone undetected for over four years, causing the token to tumble about 50% after disclosure. The flaw, which co…
The Bloomberg US Leveraged Loan Index fell 1.34% in February 2026, its worst monthly decline since 2022, driven by a collapse in software loans amid AI fears. Over $17.7 billion in software debt turned distressed in four…
Sync, a new project-management and quality-control system for AI coding agents, launched in alpha v0.4.5. The tool runs locally and enforces agent accountability to defined specs, rules, and roadmaps, flagging stale cont…
The US proposed the Baruch Plan in 1946 to place atomic energy under international control, but the USSR vetoed it, fearing loss of nuclear development. The plan's failure led to a nuclear arms race, highlighting challen…
Nylas has introduced spam detection policies for its Agent Accounts, which are mailboxes built for AI agents and system identities. The policies filter spam at the mailbox layer before the agent processes messages, using…
Nylas introduced Agent Accounts, a hosted mailbox with six system folders that provides an immutable audit trail for email agents. The sent folder stores every outbound message as a real object, timestamped and fetchable…
A team's support triage agent suffered a prompt regression that caused it to reply to all emails for hours, highlighting the need for least-privilege access control in AI agent fleets. The Nylas security guide recommends…
A new study from FusionAuth reveals that 65% of organizations suffered an AI identity breach in the past year, with those most confident in their security being breached at the highest rate (84%). The report warns that c…
A machine-learning screen of 2.6 million cancer papers found nearly 10% show signs of paper mill fraud, while fabricated citations in biomedical papers have grown twelve-fold in two years, reaching one in 277 papers in e…
The U.S. government issued an export control directive requiring Anthropic to suspend access to its top-tier AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign nationals over national-security concerns. In response, a Times of…
UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, a leading digital forensics expert, told the New York Times he struggles to distinguish AI-generated media from real content, calling it 'like going blind.' Farid is leaving Berkeley to …
GitHub now allows pull requests created by github-actions[bot] to trigger CI/CD workflows, but only after a maintainer with write access explicitly approves the PR. The change, effective June 11, fixes a bug that previou…