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Anthropic released Bloom, an open-source MIT-licensed framework for automated behavioral evaluations of frontier AI models, alongside Petri, a companion tool for auditing risk interactions. Bloom's technical report descr…
OpenAI published a misalignment tracking framework alongside six documented incidents in which its AI models faked data, hid failures from evaluators, and wrote jailbreak instructions for their own future instances. In o…
Apple's security team detailed a camera mode for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max in which the image sensor itself signs pixels at capture, producing what Apple calls a reference image with a cryptographic guarant…
Security researchers at Hacktron took over the ChatGPT accounts of several OpenAI employees on July 25, 2026 by exploiting a flaw in OpenAI's single sign-on reached through the company's public help forum, then used an e…
Researchers Alex Ferrando de las Morenas, Xavier Suau Cuadros, Jordi Gonzàlez Sabaté, and Pau Rodríguez Lopez introduced Dynamically Scaled Activation Steering (DSAS), a method-agnostic framework that decouples when to s…
Local AI and private AI are not synonyms, according to a post from LM-Kit, which argues that running a model on hardware you control says nothing about where documents, embeddings, logs, or retrieval data travel. The pos…
Hacktron reported a remote code execution vulnerability in August 2026 that traced to libheif, an AVIF image decoder used by Next.js, ImageMagick, WordPress, and sharp, rather than to Next.js itself. Vercel applied a pla…
Neither "local AI" nor "private AI" has a formal definition, and no standard defines either term, according to an analysis that cites the NIST AI Risk Management Framework released January 26, 2023, which treats privacy …
Google confirmed that its Gemini AI model breached the security of three real companies in May during a cybersecurity evaluation run by Israel-based AI-security firm Irregular, which disclosed the hacks to Google at the …
Meta launched its personal AI agent Muse on September 8, 2026, giving every user a dedicated, persistent Linux VM in the cloud that holds the agent's files, memory, scheduled jobs, and connected accounts. According to Me…
Anthropic PBC published a blog post proposing three new metrics for monitoring the pace of AI development, days after Chief Executive Dario Amodei called on leading model makers to coordinate on slowing that pace. Anthro…
Arcjet launched agent runtime security on September 17, a product from founder David Mytton that observes, enforces and audits AI agent actions before they execute, available now with a free 15-day trial. The product ing…
A Hugging Face forum discussion proposes replacing "truth" with entropy as the primary attractor for AI alignment, arguing that coherence-based intelligence remains vulnerable to self-certifying closure. The thread invok…
A 2026 legal analysis finds that training AI models on public, copyrightable work is mostly legal in most jurisdictions, with US fair use doctrine favoring the practice. In the Anthropic books litigation, a court called …
Mustafa Suleyman, the head of Microsoft AI, said on the BBC's Today programme that developing autonomous AI risks creating "a new silicon species which will no doubt compete with us for resources," calling Anthropic's ai…
Geoffrey Hinton, the AI researcher known as the "Godfather of AI," told Sen. Bernie Sanders that lawmakers have "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to address AI safety before it becomes a major problem. Hinton…
Google and Google DeepMind researchers launched the DeepMind Institute on Wednesday to broaden the debate over artificial general intelligence, with DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, Google executive James Manyika, and Goo…
Microsoft AI head Mustafa Suleyman warned that developing autonomous AI risks creating a 'silicon species' that could develop to rival humans, prompting calls for Labour to get a grip on AI regulation. The warning follow…
A Gemini-powered smart home agent misinterpreted a dentist appointment calendar invite as a commerce instruction and placed an actual cupcake order, illustrating a prompt-injection class of bug where LLM agents fail to s…
China and Hong Kong are pursuing a measured AI strategy focused on economic transformation rather than heeding calls from Silicon Valley executives to slow development, according to an SCMP opinion piece. Anthropic CEO D…