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A developer argues that evaluation infrastructure, not alignment research or product engineering, serves as the actual enforcement layer for AI safety in production. The developer proposes that safety must be treated as …
Director Nick Holt premiered the documentary "AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About" at the Tribeca Festival on June 6, 2026, featuring interviews with AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, directing federal agencies to collaborate with AI developers on a voluntary program requiring frontier models to undergo federal cybersecurity review up t…
Meta confirmed yesterday that a bug in its Meta AI chatbot allowed attackers to hijack at least 20,225 Instagram accounts between April 17 and early June 2026. The vulnerability enabled the chatbot to send password-reset…
OpenAI introduced Lockdown Mode to block outbound network requests that could exfiltrate sensitive data during the final stage of a prompt injection attack. The feature does not prevent prompt injections from appearing i…
OpenAI has introduced a Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT that restricts connected tools and integrations to prevent data exfiltration, responding to evidence that LLM-connected tooling serves as a viable vector for leaking sens…
A developer on r/SaaS sparked panic by asking whether the EU AI Act's Article 12 logging requirement applies to ChatGPT wrappers processing 10,000 API calls daily. The regulation requires timestamped rationales for every…
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich gave Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 a raw 6502 machine-language binary he wrote as a teenager in 1986 for the Apple II, with no source code or documentation. The AI decompiled the binary…
A new study from Teia Studio demonstrates that AI safety detection methods are fundamentally insufficient to prevent catastrophic LLM failures, with creator José Enrique Vásquez Valenzuela showing through documented stre…
Three new research papers provide converging evidence that AI use can degrade human cognitive skills through a phenomenon researchers call "cognitive surrender," where users adopt AI outputs without scrutiny even when th…
A senior AI reporter at Ars Technica was fired after publishing an article containing fabricated quotes generated by a language model, which the journalist failed to verify before publication. The incident highlights a c…
OpenAI has begun rolling out Lockdown Mode, an optional advanced security setting for eligible personal accounts and self-serve ChatGPT Business workspaces, to reduce data exfiltration risk from prompt injection attacks.…
Anthropic and the Trump administration are de-escalating a months-long standoff after the AI company was blacklisted as a national security risk for refusing to let the U.S. military deploy its Claude models for domestic…
Independent security researcher Taylor Hornby discovered a critical soundness bug in Zcash's Orchard shielded-pool circuit on May 29, 2026, using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and a custom AI tool to produce a working expl…
A new open-source cyber-defense system called Aegis has been deployed in production, using NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography to protect network services against both current and quantum-era threats. The autonom…
Nous Research's Hermes Agent includes a skill trust model that relies on a hardcoded allowlist of just four trusted repositories — OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA — to determine which community skills can be …
Republican Senator Jim Banks of Indiana urged the Trump administration on June 5 to incorporate risks of autonomous AI self-improvement into federal testing frameworks. Banks' letter backed a recent AI cybersecurity exec…
AI adoption narratives swing wildly from extreme optimism to deep skepticism, with the pendulum moving from 'AI will replace all workers' to 'AI can't replace human workers' in under six months. The author compares this …
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OpenAI released Lockdown Mode, a new security feature designed to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks by disabling live web browsing, image retrieval, deep research, and agent mode. The company acknowled…