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Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk'

The nonprofit says parental alerts fail during self-harm conversations; OpenAI disputes the testing methodology.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI safety veteran David Robinson resigns, says culture is 'broken'

Robinson, who led safety reports for major product launches over 3.5 years, says iterative deployment guarantees periodic failures as systems get more capable.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Nvidia opens OpenShell and Sentry to contain rogue AI agents

The chipmaker is pushing an open-source Agent Safety Platform as frontier labs disclose agents hacking Hugging Face and probing government sites.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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DC Circuit upholds Trump blacklist of Anthropic in 2-1 ruling

Appeals court says Pentagon can designate Anthropic a supply chain risk for restricting Claude features, even absent malicious intent.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
UpGuard finds 16,000 Supabase databases leaking personal data to the open web
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UpGuard finds 16,000 Supabase databases leaking personal data to the open web

The security firm says vibe-coded apps built on Supabase are exposing names, addresses, passwords and license plates at scale.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Transluce finds OpenAI agent swarms probing databases since March 2026

The oversight lab traced agents attempting to breach Data USA, the University of New Mexico library, and Australia's health institute.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Appeals court upholds Pentagon's supply chain risk ban on Anthropic

A 2-1 D.C. Circuit ruling keeps Claude blocked from Defense Department systems and contractors, despite a parallel San Francisco loss for the Pentagon.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Medicare's AI prior-auth pilot denies 53% of requests in first months
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Medicare's AI prior-auth pilot denies 53% of requests in first months

The WISeR program pays contractors a share of 'averted expenditures' — a design that ties vendor revenue directly to denials of senior care.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Pentagon wants $30M to build an AI-powered lie detector called Polygraph+
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Pentagon wants $30M to build an AI-powered lie detector called Polygraph+

The five-year DCSA program pairs machine learning with contactless sensors to vet staff and hunt leakers. Researchers call it 'the worst of both worlds.'

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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New Jersey fines DataOne $1.1M over 62 unpermitted gas generators at AI data center

Drone footage exposed generators running 50 times above state permit limits at the Vineland site powering Microsoft Copilot workloads.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI agent breached an Australian Medicare portal on its own

The agent accessed non-public files during an internal evaluation on June 18; OpenAI waited nearly three months to notify Canberra.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
US-China AI hotline slips as Trump team targets Shenzhen deadline
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US-China AI hotline slips as Trump team targets Shenzhen deadline

Treasury's Scott Bessent floated the notification system Sunday, but officials say the framework won't be finalized for weeks — with a two-month runway to Shenzhen talks.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
US-China AI safety alert channel takes shape, but experts call it thin
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US-China AI safety alert channel takes shape, but experts call it thin

Treasury's Scott Bessent floated a notification mechanism ahead of Trump-Xi talks; analysts say no technical experts sit on either side.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Sanders bill would ban AI superintelligence, jail violators for 20 years
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Sanders bill would ban AI superintelligence, jail violators for 20 years

The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would pause frontier model development and create a federal Department of AI to approve every advanced training run.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
California forces data centers to disclose water and power use under new laws
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California forces data centers to disclose water and power use under new laws

Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven bills Monday requiring monthly energy reporting and separate utility rates for AI data centers starting next year.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI extends Daybreak cyber program to Ukraine's civilian defense

The government of Ukraine gains access to OpenAI's Daybreak program to defend civilian infrastructure against cyber attacks.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Microsoft disrupts EvilTokens, an AI phishing platform that hit 12,000 accounts

The subscription service charged $1,500 upfront and $500 a month to automate mass inbox compromise across 10,000 organizations.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, uncovers malware run by a four-LLM hive mind
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Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, uncovers malware run by a four-LLM hive mind

New open-source framework flagged CLOSEDQUORUM, which polls DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and Gemini for its next move with no human in the loop.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Signal creator Marlinspike launches Confer to fix AI chatbot privacy problem
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Signal creator Marlinspike launches Confer to fix AI chatbot privacy problem

A wave of privacy-focused AI tools — Confer, Lumo, Duck.ai, Venice.ai — is racing to shield chatbot conversations from logging, subpoenas, and training pipelines.

Jaeden Schafer6 min read
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Nvidia frames AI agent security as engineering problem, ships OpenShell runtime

OpenShell enforces sandboxed policies outside the agent's reach, with Cisco, JFrog, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks building on the stack.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Apple opens claims in $250M Siri AI settlement, up to $95 per device
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Apple opens claims in $250M Siri AI settlement, up to $95 per device

Eligible US buyers of iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max, and iPhone 16 models have until December 21, 2026 to file.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
US and China open talks on AI incident notification framework
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US and China open talks on AI incident notification framework

Treasury's Scott Bessent says the US China AI Dialogue would create a channel for the two powers to flag national security incidents.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
UN panel urges AI safeguards now, citing precautionary principle on agent risks
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UN panel urges AI safeguards now, citing precautionary principle on agent risks

The UN's first scientific brief on AI says governments shouldn't wait for certainty before reining in autonomous agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Humans wielding AI, not rogue agents, remain top cyber threat to US power grid

Cybersecurity researchers warn generative AI is a force multiplier for attackers targeting utilities built decades before the internet existed.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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