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ZhipuAI released GLM 5.2, a fully open-source 744B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with MIT-licensed weights, on June 13, 2026—the same day the US government restricted Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 under a new 'Mythos-c…
A North Korea-linked phishing email led to a $36 million theft from Humanity Protocol, with tokens tied to decentralized AI projects Venice and Morpheus rising after the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to restrict fore…
AI systems require different monitoring metrics than traditional web services, as latency, cost, and silent failures behave differently in LLMs. Metrics should be grouped by five key questions: speed, scalability, correc…
A developer hardened the REST API boundaries in Cisco's skill-scanner repository, a tool for scanning Agent Skill packages, by adding authentication, rate limiting, and input validation. The hardening branch, codex/harde…
AgentReceipts.ai identified a critical isolation gap in multi-agent deployments: while agents run in separate git worktrees, shared resources like secret stores remain accessible to all, breaking isolation. The company p…
Nylas has designed send limits for AI agents that include daily message quotas and reputation-based thresholds to prevent abuse. The platform enforces bounce and complaint rate limits, with automatic sending pauses at 10…
Nylas introduced retention policies for agent mailboxes, allowing developers to set inbox and spam retention periods via admin-scoped policies. The feature, currently in beta, defaults to 30 days for inbox and 7 days for…
Nylas has introduced inbound rules for its Agent Accounts that block prompt injection attacks at the SMTP layer, preventing malicious emails from ever reaching the LLM. The rules allow developers to block or quarantine m…
Researchers presented a method for cross-language detection of malicious packages in npm and PyPI ecosystems at a 2023 conference. The approach aims to identify security threats across JavaScript and Python package regis…
The IETF and other standards bodies are accelerating efforts to establish agent identity standards, addressing challenges like static authorization grants for dynamic needs. Anthropic supports Workload Identity Federatio…
Hany Farid, a leading deepfake expert, no longer trusts his own eyes due to the rapid advancement of AI-generated synthetic media, raising concerns about the erosion of visual truth and its implications for society.
Omnigent launched an open-source platform that provides a unified layer over AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Pi, enabling users to swap or combine harnesses, enforce policies and sandboxing, and collaborate…
Cisco announced Live Protect, a runtime security system for Nexus switches that deploys kernel-level shields against CVEs without reboots or maintenance windows, and a twice-monthly advisory schedule starting July 2026, …
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed an 'Einstein test' for artificial general intelligence, requiring an AI to independently derive general relativity using only pre-1911 knowledge. He stated that no current system meet…
A UK police officer is under criminal investigation for allegedly using artificial intelligence to generate child abuse images. The officer, whose identity has not been disclosed, faces potential charges related to the c…
On June 12, 2026, the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign nationals, cutting off international customers. A new white paper proposes Home Opus, a program to license prev…
A fake job scam targeting developers is circulating on Reddit, according to reports. The scam involves fraudulent job offers designed to trick users into providing personal information or installing malware. Reddit has b…
On June 12, 2026, the U.S. government issued an export-control directive barring foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic's most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing a narrow method to bypass safeguards. An…
Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model outperformed OpenAI's GPT 5.5 on every major benchmark but was pulled offline by the US government after three days due to an export control directive citing a jailbreak vulnerability. This l…
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to restrict access to its newest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to US persons only, citing national security concerns. The move escalates a feud that began in February 2026 wh…