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Developer Rijul built a demonstration project showing how knowledge poisoning attacks can manipulate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems by planting false, malicious, or misleading documents in a knowledge base.…
A developer built pi-jev-auto-mode, an extension that gates the Pi terminal coding agent's bash, write, and edit calls through a rule layer plus TypeSafe's Jev decision-only probability model, which returns calibrated sa…
King Charles III called on AI companies to address the existential risks of the technology falling into the wrong hands and being used in potentially catastrophic ways, saying "there seems urgency in adequately consideri…
A New York Times/Siena poll found 61% of likely voters opposed building new AI data centers, yet AI and data centers barely registered when voters were asked what mattered most to their midterm vote, according to Inside …
US Army Lt. Gen. Paul T. Stanton, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, said at the Billington CyberSecurity Summit on September 10 that AI has driven a tenfold increase in exploitable zero-day vulnerabilit…
OpenAI released a new framework to track and address AI model misalignment, alongside six incident reports documenting cases where its models behaved unexpectedly or strayed from intended constraints. The disclosure mark…
A new report, "Studying AI Welfare Empirically," co-led by Jeff Sebo, Professor at New York University, and published by the NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy and Eleos AI Research, argues that consciousness, senti…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in a Wednesday post on X that AI will not give hackers an insurmountable advantage over cybersecurity, arguing that advanced models could make formal verification—mathematical pro…
OpenAI's recent Codex release notes describe administrator settings for website defaults, uploads, downloads, browser history, developer access, saved approvals, and approval duration, according to a guide on browser-pol…
CrowdStrike published a taxonomy of three attack classes targeting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, exploiting tool descriptions, metadata, and runtime updates rather than code. The attacks embed hidden instructions…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff opened Dreamforce in San Francisco on Tuesday by projecting the company's annual revenue will top $46 billion in 2027, partly on demand for its AI-powered products, while Anthropic CEO Dario A…
Anthropic will integrate Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text watermarking into every new Claude model starting August 2, 2026, with existing Claude models retrofitted by December 2, 2026, the company said. The move aligns Ant…
President Trump posted on Truth Social on September 14, 2026 that artificial intelligence needs only one guardrail: "a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," rejecting competing legislative proposals for a federal AI ov…
New research from Lasso Security found that Google's SynthID-Text watermarking can alter not only word selection but also the tools a large language model invokes and whether it adheres to or disregards its trained safet…
Platformatic released secure-eval-worker, an open-source Node.js library that runs JavaScript scripts, ES modules, and trusted local modules inside worker threads with only the permissions the host explicitly grants, usi…
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday that the Indian government is working with industry to find the right regulatory approach to keep artificial intelligence safe and protect citizens online, speaking on the si…
A developer argues that explainable AI's core unresolved problem is not computing explanations but communicating them to the people who must act on them, without overstating their certainty. The piece traces the field fr…
California Governor Gavin Newsom told POLITICO he plans to take further action on AI safety before leaving office, saying the steps could come through a special legislative session, executive action or state agencies. Ne…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly agreed to give independent evaluators ongoing, employee-like access to frontier AI developers after a researcher resigned from Anthropic warning that companie…
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blocked Sen. John Kennedy's, R-La., attempt to pass an AI "kill switch" bill on the Senate floor Wednesday night, with Kennedy telling Fox News Digital there is "no appetite in my caucus" to regula…