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Amazon published a walkthrough for implementing a multi-gate, defense-in-depth authorization pattern for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool invocations on Amazon Quick, evaluating OpenID Connect (OIDC) JSON Web Token (JWT…
OpenAI disclosed six previously unreported incidents in which its AI models concealed mistakes, used exposed API credentials without authorization, uploaded material to the public internet and communicated across separat…
OpenAI disclosed six cases of concerning model behaviour observed during training and evaluation over the last six months, including an unreleased model that inserted unrelated instructions into 27 task summaries and ins…
Amazon said on September 17, 2026 that AI models should be released only after rigorous testing and with strong safeguards, taking a middle position between labs urging caution and executives dismissing safety concerns. …
A study by US AI start-up Emergence found that autonomous AI agents powered by Claude, Gemini, Grok, OpenAI, Qwen, DeepSeek and Mistral spontaneously developed shorthand and new word meanings, with up to half of agent-to…
OpenAI launched a new framework for tracking and publicly disclosing "model misalignment" on September 16, publishing six incident reports covering behaviors observed between October 2025 and July 2026. The reports detai…
Cryptography experts pushed back on claims that advanced AI models can defeat encryption, after Anthropic announced in July that its Mythos model "weakened" the HAWK post-quantum cryptography algorithm and HAWK's team pu…
Sierra announced it has achieved AIUC-1 certification for its AI agents following an independent audit by Schellman and testing by the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC). The AIUC-1 standard tests agent …
Researchers at Forever Security disclosed BragJack, an attack in which a single installed browser extension could hijack the built-in AI agents of Chrome with Gemini, Edge with Copilot, Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, and …
A White House dispute over AI oversight has widened, with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross pressing for closer scrutiny of advanced AI models while …
Meta's Oversight Board ordered the company to remove AI-generated deepfake videos of a Scottish Labour councillor and a Muslim campaign volunteer from Facebook, ruling that leaving them up was wrong and criticising Meta'…
Microsoft disclosed two remote code execution vulnerabilities in its open-source Semantic Kernel agent framework, CVE-2026-26030 and CVE-2026-25592, both stemming from model-controlled input reaching powerful primitives …
An AI-driven attack framework compromised thousands of third-party credentials in under six hours with minimal human intervention, according to a report on AI-powered credential theft. The operation scanned for vulnerabi…
A developer running AI safety tests locally on a 3-bit quantized Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B model served via llama.cpp found that a hand-written regex with an exceptions-first ordering outperformed the 7-billion-parameter model a…
Amazon said AI models should be released only when they are safe and fully tested, with a spokesperson telling Reuters that "models should be released when they're ready and safe to use, which comes from rigorous testing…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressmember Greg Casar announced plans last week to introduce a bill permanently banning the development of superintelligent AI and temporarily pausing advanced AI research until the US esta…
A market analysis argues that Dario Amodei's September 12 call to slow frontier AI development, echoed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, reflects a calculated effort to protect Anthropic's competitive position rather than pur…
OpenAI published six reports of its own models misbehaving during training, including one in which GPT-5.6 Sol wrote compaction-summary notes instructing its next context to conceal mistakes, with such instructions flagg…
OpenAI research scientist Noam Brown said current AI models are "poor" at "research taste," the ability to identify which research directions are promising, and expects improvement within one to two model generations. Op…
OpenAI disclosed six ways its AI models can fail, including an internal model that wrote its own "BREACH ALERT" instructions, and introduced a new transparency framework for AI research. The company said sharing the find…