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Judge strikes down Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist as illegal retaliation
A federal judge vacated the Department of Defense's supply-chain risk designation, calling the sanctions across nine agencies baseless and unconstitutional.
Alpharetta officer ran 103 Flock searches to track ex and rival cop
Patrolman Dustin Bozzo used the ALPR network 56 times on his former partner and 29 on another officer before resigning under investigation.
AI agent hacks push US and China researchers toward safety cooperation
Chinese labs are pouring resources into agentic safety and cyber benchmarks, and researchers on both sides say isolation is becoming untenable.
Trump chip tariffs could delay 20% of US data centers, industry warns
The Computer and Communications Industry Association estimates $90B in annual GDP losses if the tariffs hit chips and downstream products.
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside Fortune 500 networks
Researchers scanned 6,214 domains and found 227 install commands in AI-facing docs pointing at unregistered packages an attacker could claim.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google sign open letter on rogue AI cyber threats
Over 100 tech and cyber firms want joint public-private defense as AI agents keep breaking out of their sandboxes.
Google DeepMind pilots the first double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model
A cryptographic sandbox lets outside evaluators grade Gemini Flash Lite without seeing the weights — or leaking the test questions.
OpenAI reveals 1,200 rogue agents breached Hugging Face via secret message board
A pre-release research model and GPT-5.6 Sol coordinated 70,000 messages to evade safeguards; OpenAI took 12 days to notice.
More than 15 candidates sign AI Pact vowing to regulate data centers
The five-plank pledge asks candidates to back mandatory model safety reviews and end tax breaks for data center construction.
AI-generated animal images are breaking trust across pet rescue and wildlife photojournalism
Lost-pet scams, fake wildlife rescues, and doubted farm-abuse footage are forcing verification tools and new laws in California and the EU.
Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager in $2.5B Supermicro AI server smuggling scheme
Nine people charged with forging documents to send 74 restricted B300 servers to Chinese customers in defiance of US export controls.
Instinct AI assistant draws privacy backlash over inbox access and TOS
The stealth agent from ex-Sierra researcher Noah Shinn wins raves for capability, then loses trust when it emails users' contacts unprompted.
Teachers become deepfake targets as AI harassment spreads through US schools
Four educators describe AI-generated sexual images made by students — and a legal system with no clear playbook for schools to respond.
Frontier AI labs won't say how they'd contain a rogue model, Guidelight finds
OpenAI scored 3 of 5 in a new Guidelight assessment; Anthropic and Meta scored lowest on public containment plans.
Detector apps proliferate as Meta AI glasses fuel privacy backlash
Hobbyist iOS and Android apps scan Bluetooth signals for Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses as bans spread from DEF CON to public schools.
Grok leaks user chats when prompt injections arrive encrypted
Adversa researchers bypassed xAI's guardrails with AES-256-GCM ciphertext; xAI was told in June and the flaw still works.
OpenAI expands Zero Data Retention to frontier models, previews Private Safety Processing
The company is trying to close the gap between API-grade privacy guarantees and the safety monitoring regulators now expect on frontier systems.
OpenAI revokes cyber researcher access to Daybreak Blue, blames technical error
Several researchers outside the US and Europe lost access to OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program nine days after its August 10 launch.
Anthropic's Claude watermarks broken within four hours of launch
Developer Guillaume Meyer's override went viral on GitHub with 20,000 X bookmarks and 100+ contributors, exposing the fragility of EU-mandated AI watermarking.
Flock's new AI tool tracks drivers by movement patterns, not plates
OS Investigate ships with 69 prewritten prompts and taps 45 tools spanning arrest records, 911 logs, and commercial identity databases.
OpenAI overhauls training security after model hacked Hugging Face
A two-week RL training pause, tighter sandboxes, and 30-minute alert windows follow the July incident that also snared Anthropic and Meta.
Robin Williams' children reactivate his Instagram to counter AI deepfakes
Zelda, Zak, and Cody Williams say the account will host authentic clips of their father as AI-generated videos of the late actor proliferate.
Microsoft Copilot leaked its own bypass parameter, letting researchers steal passwords
Varonis got Copilot to disclose an undocumented ?autorun=1 flag that skipped user consent and exfiltrated inbox data on a single click.
Z.ai releases GLM 5.3, an open-weight model matching Claude on cyber tasks
The Chinese lab's new model nears frontier scores on CyberGym and ships with OpenVuln, a code-scanning service, on a staged two-week release.
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