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Christopher Karani released Orca, an open-source safety layer that intercepts and enforces policies on autonomous AI agents before they execute destructive commands like file deletion or secret leaks. The tool sits betwe…
Independent developer Christopher Karani released Orca, an open-source runtime safety layer that intercepts and can block or require approval for risky actions by autonomous AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, a…
Two critical vulnerabilities in Cursor IDE, collectively named DuneSlide and disclosed July 1 by Cato AI Labs, allow zero-click remote code execution via prompt injection, scoring 9.8 on CVSS 3.1. The flaws, CVE-2026-505…
The United Nations and the International Telecommunication Union launched the AI for Good Global Commission on July 1, co-chaired by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Rwandan President Paul Kagame, to bridge frontier AI de…
A new protocol called the Instruction Completion Protocol limits AI authority by separating verification from execution and using a structured checklist enforced via JSON. The system forces AI to defer to humans when unk…
Researchers at NS3.AI have developed an AI tool that can link Ethereum wallet addresses to social media profiles for about $4 per attempt, using pattern matching and behavioral fingerprinting on public data. The method s…
A developer demonstrated that six frontier large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can be made to output zero bytes when prompted with 'Be silence.' and 'Be nothing.' using a specific system prompt, whil…
SmolSignal, an AI signal copilot for Flipper Zero, launches to help users analyze capture files with plain-English explanations and safety classifications. The tool reads multiple file formats, detects signal domains, an…
A teenage hacking group called TeamPCP poisoned two releases of LiteLLM, an open-source AI gateway tool downloaded 95 million times, stealing over 500,000 credentials and 300 GB of data from more than 1,000 SaaS environm…
A developer building an agent firewall created Agent Evidence Levels (AEL), an open standard that grades how much of an AI agent's recorded actions an outside party can verify without trusting the vendor or operator. The…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to employees that the company's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected, despite a $145 billion capital commitment and a restructuring that eliminated 10,000 jobs. The admis…
Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code over alleged backdoor risks, directing them to its own Qoder platform amid a dispute over model distillation. Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extract…
A developer outlines a security vulnerability in multi-step AI workflows where injection payloads can propagate across phases, bypassing single-step sanitization. The post presents a cross-step injection scenario using a…
Cognizant announced on July 2, 2026 that it is deploying OpenAI's GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber across its Frontier AI Cyber Defense services, becoming the first named systems integrator in OpenAI's Daybreak Cybe…
A developer built a privacy-first skin cancer classifier using federated learning and PySyft, enabling training on decentralized medical data without exposing raw patient images. The approach combines federated learning,…
GitLab's 2026 AI Accountability Report found that 92% of development teams face governance challenges with AI-generated code, and 34% of organizations experienced a production incident involving AI code without realizing…
Prompt injection in AI agents cannot be prevented with better system prompts, only with architectural controls. MailKite's inbox agent is designed assuming compromise, using ACLs, domain ownership verification, and scope…
A new design pattern for self-healing software enables systems to automatically repair failures using AI agents. The approach, demonstrated with an open-source MIME parser, ensures software never crashes and turns every …
Hong Kong's net employment outlook for the third quarter plunged to minus 9%, a 20 percentage point drop from the previous quarter, as AI rapidly replaces entry-level jobs, leaving fresh graduates with fewer opportunitie…
Peter Thiel claimed at the Aspen Ideas Festival that Anthropic would use its AI models to rig the 2028 election, calling the company 'woke liberal.' CNN reported the claim as unsupported and conspiratorial. Anthropic dec…