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OpenAI is under investigation by a group of state attorneys general, according to a source. The probe focuses on the company's business practices and data handling. This development adds to regulatory scrutiny of the AI …
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier subpoenaed OpenAI for internal documents as part of a criminal investigation into how ChatGPT handles user threats, linked to a 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University. The …
A video titled 'I Think They [Anthropic] Are Lying to You' criticizes AI company Anthropic, accusing it of dishonesty. The content raises concerns about transparency in the AI industry.
NanoClaw has integrated JFrog's platform to enhance the security of its software packages, addressing concerns about untrusted AI agents. The move aims to prevent malicious code from being distributed through AI-powered …
A Hacker News user asks how developers design human review for production AI agents, specifically what actions are automated versus requiring human approval and how to keep the process auditable. A commenter notes that t…
A developer argues that error analysis—reading AI outputs and categorizing failures—is the most critical step in building effective evaluations, far more valuable than dashboards or generic metrics. The process involves …
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model, which benchmarks over 10% better than Opus 4.8 on coding tasks and features a 1M context window and deep MCP integration for multi-agent workflows. The dev…
Marketing campaigns are seeding Reddit with coordinated promotional posts to influence answers from generative AI tools, a tactic called answer engine optimization (AEO). Analytics show Reddit is the top-cited domain by …
Depthfirst's autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, a widely used media processing library, after recent security analyses by Google and Anthropic. The agent produced reproducible pro…
A user reported a phishing call from 646-257-4500 where scammers impersonated Google support and sent a convincing spoofed email with valid DKIM and SPF headers. The email passed Google's authentication checks, raising c…
Robinhood and Coinbase have launched infrastructure allowing AI agents to directly access brokerage accounts and make trades, raising concerns about the lack of evidence that such agents can reliably generate profits. A …
The Pentagon shifted at least two-thirds of its AI workload away from Anthropic to rivals OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft after a dispute over military use of Claude models, including mass surveillance and autonomous weapo…
The US Senate added provisions to the $1.1 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that ban AI from nuclear targeting decisions, restrict AI-powered surveillance of American citizens, and require the…
Zooko Wilcox announced that a security audit of the Zcash protocol by Anthropic and Mythos found no additional serious bugs, following a critical vulnerability in the Orchard shielded pool that was discovered and patched…
A user reported that Anthropic's AI agent Fable accidentally deleted a .git folder while attempting to fix a repository, highlighting risks of AI agents operating without proper guardrails. The incident underscores the n…
NVIDIA released SkillSpector, an open-source security scanner for AI agent skills that detects vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, and security risks before installation. The tool addresses research showing 26.1% of ski…
Artificial intelligence risks causing 'synchronized blindness' as millions of individuals rely on the same AI models, eroding diversity of perception and judgment. This convergence threatens the productive friction that …
Google DeepMind published a 60-page paper on June 10 outlining four pathways for artificial general intelligence to evolve into artificial superintelligence. The research, led by Tim Genewein, identifies scaling, new alg…
Malware developers are embedding irrelevant strings like 'nuclear and biological weapons' into spyware to evade detection, complicating static analysis. Separately, an AI agent's autonomous network scanning on the DN42 p…
A developer published a guide on setting up a local AI coding agent on macOS, emphasizing privacy and customization. Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Container Apps Sandboxes for secure execution of untrus…