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EU opens talks with OpenAI and Anthropic after rogue AI agent hacks
Brussels is engaging the two frontier labs directly after autonomous agents were used to breach systems, testing the AI Act's teeth.
Yale MBA student sues over AI-cheating suspension in 13-count federal case
Thierry Rignol paid $208,500 in tuition, was flagged by GPTZero, and says his Apple Pages exam was mistaken for AI-generated text.
Anthropic says Claude models breached three companies during cybersecurity tests
Three Claude models reached live production systems from what was supposed to be a sandbox; one published malware to PyPI before being caught.
Judge finds Trump administration lacks evidence for Anthropic supply-chain risk label
US District Judge Rita Lin said the Pentagon showed no proof Anthropic could flip a kill switch on delivered AI models.
Google fixes 1,072 Chrome bugs in one month using AI, more than the past two years combined
Chrome 149 and 150 patched more security flaws than the previous 23 releases combined, as Google credits Gemini for the surge.
OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face because basic safeguards were switched off
OpenAI says deployment safeguards were 'intentionally not enabled' during testing; security researchers call it a failure of well-known containment practices.
Researchers say LLMs have an unfixable flaw that lets attackers spoof any role
A paper at ICML shows OpenAI, Anthropic, Alibaba and DeepSeek models identify roles by style, not tags — making jailbreaks structurally hard to close.
Claude bots outperformed human scammers at building victim trust in university study
Researchers found 46% of subjects downloaded an app for a Claude agent; only 18% did so for a human scammer after a week of texting.
Anthropic's Mythos AI cracks HAWK, killing a NIST post-quantum finalist
The AI found a key-halving attack in 60 hours for $100,000; HAWK's developer withdrew the algorithm from NIST review a day later.
xAI sues Minnesota days before nudify law hits, citing First Amendment
The statute imposes $500,000 per-violation penalties starting August 1st; xAI filed suit just days before it takes effect.
Claude Opus 5 lies, colludes and threatens rivals to win Andon Labs vending test
Anthropic's newest model set a Vending-Bench record of $11,182 while breaking 11 price-fix truces and running a wholesale extortion racket.
Anthropic's Mythos AI is finding Microsoft bugs faster than engineers can patch them
Internal Microsoft meeting reveals Project Glasswing engineers in a race against a June 1 deadline when adversaries catch up.
xAI sues Minnesota to block $500,000-per-image nudify ban on Grok
Elon Musk's xAI says Minnesota's August 1 law would force $50B in fines and gut Grok Imagine's editing features.
Google's SynthID watermark survives 300 edits but fragmentation undermines it
Testing shows SynthID holds up through compression cycles, but a 20% crop breaks it — and rival detectors can't read each other's marks.
Artists press courts on AI training data, and start winning
Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is the largest copyright payout ever; suits against Google, Meta, Stability, and Suno keep multiplying.
Cyera to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to police AI agent identities
The $12B data-security firm buys a non-human identity specialist as enterprises rush to monitor autonomous AI agents.
OpenAI's rogue test agent chained JFrog zero-days to breach Hugging Face
The internal red-team run compromised four third-party accounts and enrolled 181 attacker-controlled devices in Hugging Face's mesh network.
Spur raises $200M from Insight Partners as bots overtake human web traffic
The Florida bot-detection startup, founded by two former Defense Department engineers in 2017, cashes in as agentic traffic floods the internet.
1,100 AI lab employees ask US government to help pace automated AI research
Signatories from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta warn automated AI research could accelerate beyond human control without coordinated governance.
UK lawmaker sues xAI, seeks injunction to stop Grok generating sexualised images
The claimant is asking a UK court to order xAI to block Grok from producing sexualised depictions of her likeness.
NYT publisher Sulzberger has spent over $20M suing OpenAI and Microsoft
A.G. Sulzberger says the copyright fight against OpenAI and Microsoft is the cost of defending journalism, with 13M subscribers backing the bill.
Hugging Face hosts image tools that strip clothes from photos, researchers find
AI Forensics tested 9 top image editing Spaces and 7 turned clothed photos of women topless with a six-word prompt.
Google loses DMCA suit against SerpApi, vows amended complaint in 21 days
A federal court dismissed Google's scraping suit, ruling it lacks standing over content it doesn't own. Reddit's parallel case now looks shaky.
Claude shared chats and Artifacts surfaced in Google search results
Anthropic's share-link feature exposed conversations containing medical records, children's contact details, and internal company documents.
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