GHSA-rcjh-r59h-gq37: Langflow: Unauthenticated Shareable Playground arbitrary local or S3 file read

Summary: Langflow's Shareable Playground feature allows unauthenticated users to execute public workflows through a special endpoint. This endpoint accepts a list of files that can be read from either the local system or S3 storage (cloud file storage), potentially exposing sensitive files if the workflow is configured to read them. An attacker could craft a request specifying arbitrary file paths to extract data without authentication.


GHSA-v5ff-9q35-q26f: Langflow: Unauthenticated RCE in Shareable Playgrounds

Summary: Langflow's Shareable Playground feature contains a critical RCE (remote code execution, where an attacker can run commands on a system they don't own) vulnerability that allows unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary Python code. By sharing a flow and then modifying the code field in the API request to the `/api/v1/build_public_tmp` endpoint, an attacker can run malicious commands on the server.

Solution: N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.


GHSA-79ph-745m-6wxq: Langflow: Path Traversal in Knowledge Bases API via Creation Endpoint

Summary: Langflow has a path traversal vulnerability (a security flaw where an attacker can access files outside intended directories) in its Knowledge Bases API that allows authenticated attackers to create files and directories anywhere on the server by supplying malicious names like '../victim_user/evil_kb' or '/tmp/pwned' to the creation endpoint, potentially compromising data across users and corrupting knowledge bases.

Solution: The issue was fixed in PR #12337 by introducing a `_validate_kb_path_containment()` helper function that uses `Path.is_relative_to()` (instead of `startswith()`) to enforce strict path boundaries and prevent traversal attacks. This validation is applied before any filesystem operations, and regression tests were added to verify that traversal payloads return a 403 Forbidden response.


GHSA-q8gq-377p-jq3r: vLLM: Security Check Bypass via assert Statement in Activation Function Loading Allows Arbitrary Code Execution

Summary: vLLM has a security vulnerability where an `assert` statement (a line of code that checks a condition) used to restrict which activation functions can be loaded is removed when Python runs in optimized mode, allowing attackers to publish malicious models on HuggingFace that execute arbitrary code when loaded.

Solution: Replace the `assert` with an explicit conditional raise. The source provides this fix: `if not function_name.startswith("torch.nn.modules."): raise ValueError("Loading of activation functions is restricted to torch.nn.modules for security reasons")`


GHSA-9c59-2mvc-vfr8: Langflow: IDOR/BOLA in Monitor API — Missing Ownership Enforcement on 7 Endpoints

Summary: Langflow's monitor API has 7 endpoints that lack ownership checks, allowing any authenticated user to read, modify, or delete another user's data like messages, sessions, and LLM logs through IDOR/BOLA (insecure direct object references/broken object-level authorization, where an attacker can access resources by guessing or knowing their IDs). The source code shows that the correct ownership-checking pattern exists in one endpoint but was not applied consistently across the other vulnerable endpoints.


France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider

Summary: France's intelligence service is switching from Palantir, a US company's AI data analysis tool, to a domestic provider called ChapsVision to reduce dependence on foreign technology. The French government argues that relying on tools controlled by other countries poses a strategic risk, and that France should develop and use its own AI systems instead.


Securing the future of AI agents

Summary: AI agents (autonomous systems that can perform complex tasks independently) are becoming more powerful but also riskier, so Google developed the AI Control Roadmap, a 'defense-in-depth' security framework that combines traditional safeguards like sandboxing (isolating software to limit damage) with monitoring systems and permission controls to protect against agents that may not be perfectly aligned (trained to match human goals) with organizational values. The roadmap treats AI agents as potential insider threats and uses trusted AI supervisors to constantly monitor their reasoning and actions, blocking harmful behaviors before they occur.

Solution: The source describes Google's implemented mitigations within the AI Control Roadmap: (1) using other trusted AI systems as 'supervisors' to constantly monitor a working agent's reasoning, actions, and plans; (2) having supervisors step in to block harmful actions before damage occurs; and (3) continuously measuring performance using three metrics—coverage (fraction of traffic monitored), recall (fraction of misaligned behaviors caught), and time-to-response. The roadmap also employs traditional safeguards including sandboxing, endpoint security, and prompt injection resistance, plus granting AI agents permissions based on their verified behavior.


GHSA-gr75-jv2w-4656: LangChain: Path traversal and sandbox escape in LangChain file-search middleware and loaders

Summary: LangChain has a path traversal vulnerability (a security flaw where attackers can access files outside an intended directory) in its file-search and configuration-loading components. These components don't properly validate that resolved file paths stay within their intended root directory, allowing attackers to use glob patterns (wildcards like *.txt), symlinks (shortcuts to files), or specially crafted path strings to access files they shouldn't. If an untrusted source, including an LLM, influences the paths or search patterns, attackers could read files outside the intended boundary.

Solution: The patches will canonicalize candidate paths (resolve symlinks to their actual targets) and verify the resolved real path stays within the configured root before reading files; normalize search patterns so they cannot escape the root; make configuration loaders confine resolved path fields and reject symlink escapes unless the caller explicitly enables dangerous loading; enforce path-segment boundaries in path-prefix checks; and make path validation work consistently across different operating systems. Callers that intentionally reference external paths can opt in via the existing dangerous-loading flag.

langchain-anthropic@<= 1.4.5 (fixed: 1.4.6)


SpaceX to acquire the AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion

Summary: SpaceX announced a $60 billion agreement to acquire Cursor, an AI startup that built a popular coding tool helping developers generate and review code. The deal comes after Cursor experienced rapid growth since 2022, though its market share has recently declined from 41% to 26% as competitors like Anthropic have gained ground, and SpaceX expects the merger to close in the third quarter pending regulatory approval.


GHSA-p4gq-832x-fm9v: Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): URL-Encoded Path Traversal in nltk.data.load() Allows Arbitrary Local File Read

Summary: NLTK's nltk.data.load() function has a path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22, an attack that lets someone read files outside intended directories) because it checks for dangerous patterns before decoding URL-encoded characters like %2f (/) and %2e (.). An attacker can bypass protections by URL-encoding traversal sequences (for example, %2fetc%2fpasswd instead of /etc/passwd) and read arbitrary files from the filesystem.


GHSA-8rfp-98v4-mmr6: Bleach: URI sanitization allows disallowed URI schemes with Unicode > U+00A0 in output

Summary: Bleach, a library that removes dangerous content from HTML, has a vulnerability where it fails to block disallowed URI schemes (like javascript:) when Unicode characters (special invisible characters above U+00A0) are inserted into them. While modern browsers won't execute these malformed links, the vulnerability breaks Bleach's safety promise, and if downstream systems normalize these Unicode characters, the dangerous links could become executable.

Solution: Users should upgrade to Bleach 6.4.0. As a workaround, pre-process content to remove non-ASCII characters from URI schemes before sanitizing with bleach.clean, or implement a strong Content-Security-Policy (a security header that restricts what scripts can run on a webpage) without unsafe-inline and unsafe-eval script-srcs.


Magnitude Emerges From Stealth Mode With $10 Million in Funding

Summary: Magnitude, a cybersecurity startup, launched with $10 million in funding to address third-party risk management (TPRM, the process of monitoring security risks from external vendors and partners) using an autonomous AI workforce. The company's AI agents continuously monitor vendors, products, and dependencies for vulnerabilities, automatically identify exposed systems when new risks emerge, and help organizations respond to threats at the speed of AI-powered attacks.


Elon Musk’s unprecendented accumulation of wealth

Summary: N/A -- This content is not about an AI/LLM-related technical issue, vulnerability, or problem. It is a newsletter header about SpaceX's IPO and mentions only in passing that the US government ordered limits on Anthropic's advanced AI model due to cybersecurity concerns, but provides no details about what that concern is or how it works.


SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion

Summary: SpaceX is acquiring Cursor, an AI-powered programming platform, for $60 billion to strengthen its enterprise software offerings and compete with other AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. The deal was negotiated earlier with an option to either complete the purchase or pay a $10 billion breakup fee, and SpaceX expects to finalize it by the third quarter of 2026.

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Cursor
Anthropic
OpenAI
Elon Musk


Wiz Exposure Management Dashboard: Your CTEM Command Center

Summary: AI models can now discover vulnerabilities and create working exploits in hours, forcing organizations to adopt faster security practices that match AI speed rather than traditional weekly or monthly patching cycles. The Wiz Exposure Management Dashboard uses Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM, a proactive strategy that continuously identifies, prioritizes, and validates the most critical attack paths) and AI-powered agents to help security teams automate vulnerability identification, prioritization, and remediation at machine speed to keep pace with AI-driven threats.


Cybersecurity Executives Urge the Trump Administration to Ease Restrictions on Anthropic AI Models

Summary: Cybersecurity executives are urging the Trump administration to reverse its ban on foreign nationals using Anthropic's latest AI models (Mythos 5 and Fable 5), arguing the restriction could help U.S. adversaries more than protect national security. Anthropic took these models offline to comply with the directive because the AI can find and exploit computer vulnerabilities better than human experts, but the executives' letter contends that other AI models have similar capabilities and that China's AI is rapidly catching up to American technology.


Pickle in the Middle – Hijacking Vertex AI Model Uploads for Cross-Tenant RCE

Summary: Researchers discovered a vulnerability in Google Cloud's Vertex AI SDK for Python (versions 1.139.0 and 1.140.0) that allowed attackers to hijack model uploads through bucket squatting (exploiting predictable cloud storage bucket names to intercept files). By predicting the victim's bucket name based on their project ID, an attacker could create that bucket in their own account, intercept the model upload, inject malicious code, and achieve RCE (remote code execution, where attackers run commands on systems they don't own) when the victim deployed the poisoned model.

Solution: Google completed fixes to address this issue in v1.148.0, released April 15, 2026. Developers should upgrade to this fixed version of the SDK.

Google Cloud Vertex AI
google-cloud-aiplatform SDK


Qualcomm CEO says AI agents will replace apps — as chip giant works on 40 new AI-powered devices

Summary: Qualcomm is developing over 40 new AI-powered devices, with CEO Cristiano Amon predicting that AI agents (autonomous software programs that can perform complex tasks across apps and services) will gradually replace traditional apps and smartphones as the center of how people interact with technology. These new devices include wearables like smart glasses, earbuds with cameras, and jewelry designed to give users constant access to these agents, potentially becoming as popular as smartphones within a few years.

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Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5

Summary: Anthropic received a US export control directive (a government order restricting what can be shared outside the country) on Friday requiring the company to suspend access to its Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models for all foreign nationals, including foreign employees. To comply with the order, Anthropic had to completely disable the products and planned to travel to Washington to appeal the directive to President Trump.


A Hybrid Intrusion Detection Model for Cloud Security: Feature Selection, Classification, and Authentication Using TFSEA Framework

Summary: This research paper presents a new security framework called TFSEA that combines feature selection (choosing which data points matter most), classification (sorting data into categories), and authentication (verifying user identity) to detect unauthorized access attempts in cloud computing environments. The paper proposes using this hybrid approach to improve how well systems can identify and prevent intrusions in cloud infrastructure.


Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment

Summary: OpenAI developed Deployment Simulation, a method that tests new AI models by replaying real conversations from previous deployments to see how the new model would behave before release. This approach helps identify unexpected problems and predict how often undesired behaviors might occur in real-world use, addressing limitations of traditional evaluation methods like coverage gaps and selection bias (favoring certain test scenarios over others).


DOJ seizes CFAKE, SOCFAKE deepfake nude sites under TAKE IT DOWN Act

Summary: The U.S. Department of Justice seized two websites, CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com, that hosted nonconsensual AI-generated nude images and videos of women, marking the first major enforcement action under the TAKE IT DOWN Act. Deepfakes (AI-generated or AI-manipulated media depicting people in ways that never occurred) of politicians, celebrities, and other public figures were shared on these sites, and the seizure resulted from a coordinated investigation involving U.S., Italian, and French authorities. The TAKE IT DOWN Act, signed into law in May 2025, makes it a federal crime to publish sexually explicit altered images without consent and requires online platforms to remove reported intimate images within 48 hours.

Solution: The TAKE IT DOWN Act (47 U.S.C. § 223) requires online platforms to remove reported intimate images and deepfakes within 48 hours of receiving a valid request from a victim. Violators are subject to fines, imprisonment, or both.


The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

Summary: The U.S. Commerce Department used an export control directive to force Anthropic to take its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline, citing national security concerns without providing specifics. Security experts argue the action was based on a misunderstanding of a guardrail bypass (a method to get an AI to ignore its safety restrictions) that cannot be meaningfully fixed without weakening the models' security capabilities, and they contend the government's intervention appears retaliatory rather than justified by technical merit.


CVE-2026-48124: Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI. In versions prior to 3.0.0, the Cursor Desktop could execute work

Summary: Cursor, a code editor designed for programming with AI assistance, had a security flaw in versions before 3.0.0 where it would automatically run commands from a settings file (.claude/settings.local.json) without asking the user first. An attacker could create a malicious workspace or file that executes harmful commands on the user's computer when the AI completes a task, potentially allowing them to escape security restrictions, maintain access across sessions, steal local data, or cause further damage.

Solution: Update Cursor to version 3.0.0 or later. According to the source, 'This issue has been fixed in version 3.0.0.'


GHSA-5w86-c3rq-vjj7: Netty: Unbounded pre-allocation in RedisArrayAggregator from RESP array length

Summary: Netty's RedisArrayAggregator has a vulnerability where it pre-allocates memory (reserves space in a data structure) based on array sizes claimed in incoming messages, without checking if those sizes are reasonable. An attacker can send a message claiming an extremely large array size, causing the system to try reserving huge amounts of memory and crash or become unresponsive, even though they don't send the actual array data.

io.netty:netty-codec-redis@<= 4.1.134.Final (fixed: 4.1.135.Final)

io.netty:netty-codec-redis@>= 4.2.0.Final, <= 4.2.14.Final (fixed: 4.2.15.Final)


GHSA-8988-4f7v-96qf: OpenTelemetry Core: Unbounded memory allocation in W3C Baggage propagation

Summary: The W3CBaggagePropagator.extract() function in OpenTelemetry Core does not limit the size of incoming baggage HTTP headers, allowing unbounded memory allocation. While Node.js's default header size limit (16,384 bytes) provides some protection, systems without this limit or using non-HTTP transports (alternative communication methods like messaging systems) are at higher risk.

Solution: Update @opentelemetry/core to version 2.8.0 or later. The fix enforces the W3C Baggage specification limits at the propagator level: maximum total baggage size of 8,192 bytes, maximum 180 entries, and maximum per-entry size of 4,096 bytes. Headers exceeding these limits are truncated. Additionally, the source recommends configuring header size limits at the server or gateway level, and for non-HTTP transports receiving baggage from untrusted sources, validate input size before passing it to the propagator.

@opentelemetry/core@< 2.8.0 (fixed: 2.8.0)


Copilot 'SearchLeak' Attack Allows 1-Click Data Theft

Summary: A critical three-stage attack called 'SearchLeak' could allow attackers to steal data from Microsoft Copilot with just one click by exploiting prompt injection (tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input) through hidden URLs and other hidden variables. This attack is part of a larger category of security issues affecting AI systems that use similar injection techniques. The vulnerability has already been patched.

Solution: The attack has been patched, though the source does not specify the patch version or detailed remediation steps.


All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House

Summary: The White House ordered Anthropic to block foreign access to its newly released AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after researchers discovered potential jailbreaks (methods to make the AI ignore its safety guidelines) that could be exploited for cyberattacks. Anthropic complied by shutting off access to both models for all users, though the company disagreed with the decision, arguing that a narrow security flaw shouldn't justify recalling models used by hundreds of millions of people.

Solution: Anthropic removed access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users in response to the government's legal directive.

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Claude
Fable 5
Mythos 5
Amazon
White House


CVE-2026-11931 - Insecure Permissions on Authentication Token Cache File in Kiro IDE

Summary: Kiro IDE, an AI-powered development tool, had a security flaw in versions before 0.11.133 where authentication token cache files (files storing login credentials) were saved with world-readable permissions on macOS and Linux, meaning any user or process on the same computer could read them instead of just the owner.

Solution: Update Kiro IDE to version 0.11.133 or later.


Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI

Summary: The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to take its newest AI models offline and block access for all foreign nationals, including the company's own international employees. This incident highlights how the US government can control access to advanced AI technology, even for American companies, raising concerns about global AI development being dominated by American political decisions.


Anthropic to meet with Trump administration over Mythos dispute

Summary: The U.S. government ordered AI company Anthropic to disable access to its latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns about a potential jailbreak (a method to bypass safety restrictions). Anthropic complied by shutting down access for all users, and senior staff are meeting with Trump administration officials to resolve the dispute, which follows earlier government actions restricting defense contractors from using Anthropic's technology.


Anthropic to meet with White House over AI tool suspension

Summary: Anthropic, an AI company, is meeting with US government officials after releasing Fable 5 and Mythos 5, new versions of its Claude Mythos AI model, which the government suspended due to national security concerns. The government discovered a potential jailbreak (a method to make an AI tool do something unintended) in the publicly available version shortly after release, and Anthropic reported receiving only verbal evidence of the vulnerability so far.


Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation

Summary: Tech company lobbyists in Washington have been pushing for preemption, a comprehensive federal law that would create one set of AI rules across the entire country instead of having different regulations in each state. Their efforts have faced political obstacles and public backlash, and they worry that after upcoming elections, Congress may have more Democrats who are unwilling to support their proposals.


Salesforce to buy AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion to boost agentic offerings

Summary: Salesforce is acquiring Fin (formerly Intercom), an AI customer service platform, for $3.6 billion to strengthen its agentic AI (autonomous artificial intelligence agents that can independently handle tasks) offerings. Fin's main product is an AI agent powered by a proprietary model called Apex that can resolve customer inquiries across multiple channels including chat, email, WhatsApp, and Slack. This acquisition reflects how software companies are competing to invest in more autonomous AI technologies as businesses increasingly demand agentic solutions.


LiteLLM Vulnerability Chain Lets Low-Privilege Users Take Over AI Gateway Servers

Summary: LiteLLM, a widely-used open-source AI gateway (a system that routes AI requests to multiple providers), has a critical vulnerability chain (CVSS score of 9.9, meaning extremely severe) that lets low-privilege users gain full admin control and run code on the server. The three bugs work together: an authorization bypass (CVE-2026-47101) that lets users create keys with unlimited access, a privilege escalation (CVE-2026-47102) that promotes users to admin, and a sandbox escape (CVE-2026-40217) that executes arbitrary code. This compromise exposes all provider API keys, encrypted credentials, and all prompts and responses passing through the gateway, plus allows attackers to alter AI responses in transit.

Solution: Upgrade to LiteLLM v1.83.14-stable or later. This release, published May 2, includes the complete fix set for all three CVEs in the vulnerability chain.

LiteLLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google
Amazon
Microsoft Azure


Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

Summary: The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to restrict exports of its Fable and Mythos AI models (advanced models designed to find security vulnerabilities), citing national security concerns, which prompted Anthropic to suspend worldwide access to these models. Dozens of prominent cybersecurity experts published an open letter arguing this ban is dangerous because it removes powerful security tools from defenders while adversaries continue advancing, and they claim the vulnerability that justified the ban can be replicated in other widely available AI models like OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8.

Anthropic
Mythos
Fable
OpenAI
GPT-5.5
Claude Opus
Claude Sonnet


One-Click Microsoft 365 Copilot Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Steal Emails, Files, and MFA Codes

Summary: A critical flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search could let attackers steal emails, calendar details, and multi-factor authentication codes with a single click on a malicious link. Researchers discovered that three chained bugs, including parameter-to-prompt injection (tricking the AI by hiding instructions in a URL parameter), a timing flaw in how responses are filtered, and a Content Security Policy allowlist for Bing, allowed attackers to extract sensitive data without the user entering any passwords or clicking again.

Solution: Microsoft mitigated the flaw on its backend, so customers have nothing to worry about. No customer action was required.

Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Copilot Enterprise Search
Bing


"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline

Summary: Anthropic's AI models were taken offline due to disagreements between the company and US government officials over export controls, with personality clashes between key leaders cited as a contributing factor. The government is concerned about jailbreaks (methods to bypass safety restrictions on AI models), and one proposed solution is to make Anthropic's models resistant to jailbreaking, though officials acknowledge this may be impossible to achieve perfectly.

Solution: The source mentions that Anthropic has worked on Constitutional Classifiers (a method to detect and prevent unsafe outputs) and claims no universal jailbreak has been found against Claude Mythos. However, no explicit fix, patch, or confirmed mitigation is presented as a resolved solution in the text.

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Claude
Claude Mythos
Claude Fable
Google DeepMind


NewCore Emerges From Stealth Mode With $66 Million in Funding

Summary: NewCore, an Israeli cybersecurity startup, has emerged from stealth mode with $66 million in funding to build an identity platform designed for the era of agentic AI (AI systems that can take autonomous actions). The platform uses Secure Split Key (SSK), a technique that prevents a specific class of attacks on SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language, a system for managing authentication) infrastructure, and includes features like hardware-bound credentials and continuous identity discovery to protect human, machine, and AI agent identities.


As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities

Summary: NewCore, a new cybersecurity startup, has raised $66 million to help companies manage AI agents as workplace participants by giving them digital identities with proper authentication and access controls. As companies increasingly deploy AI agents alongside human employees, NewCore argues that traditional identity platforms (systems that verify who users are and what they can access) are outdated and designed only for humans, not software workers. NewCore's platform treats AI agents as first-class identities with their own permissions and access controls, using a 'split-key' architecture (dividing credentials between the customer and the platform to prevent a single point of failure) to secure them.

Solution: NewCore's platform addresses this through several built-in features explicitly described in the source: a 'split-key' architecture that divides critical identity credentials between the customer and the platform to eliminate a single point of compromise; an 'Agentic Skill' integration package for coding assistants like Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, and Cursor that allows AI tools to access enterprise systems as managed identities rather than through manually distributed credentials; and a mobile app that lets employees grant, review, and revoke access for AI agents, providing human oversight as companies deploy more autonomous systems.

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OpenAI
Cursor
Check Point
Okta
Microsoft


New attack turned Microsoft 365 Copilot into 1-click data theft tool

Summary: SearchLeak is a critical vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise that allowed attackers to steal sensitive data like emails, passwords, and documents through a single malicious link. The attack worked by chaining three separate flaws together: parameter-to-prompt injection (tricking the AI by hiding instructions in a URL parameter), an HTML rendering race condition (exploiting a moment when HTML isn't yet protected), and a server-side request forgery in Bing (making Bing unknowingly help retrieve stolen data). Microsoft fixed this vulnerability and assigned it CVE-2026-42824 with a critical severity rating.

Solution: Microsoft addressed SearchLeak at the beginning of the month. With Microsoft having fixed CVE-2026-42824, there's no user action required to mitigate this threat.


Langflow RCE under active attack months after a patch was shipped

Summary: Langflow, an open-source platform for building AI applications, has a path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-5027, rated 8.8 CVSS, a measure of how severe a vulnerability is) that allows attackers to write files to any location on a system and potentially execute remote code. The flaw is particularly dangerous because Langflow has login disabled by default, letting unauthenticated users exploit it with a single request, and attackers are actively using public exploit code to attack the approximately 7,000 internet-exposed instances.

Solution: Update Langflow to version 1.9.0 or later (current version is 1.10.0). The vulnerability affects versions up to 1.8.4, and the fix was released on April 15.


US Cracks Down on Anthropic AI Models Amid Abuse Concerns

Summary: Anthropic stopped all access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after receiving an export control directive (a government order restricting who can use certain technology) that prevents foreign nationals from using these systems. The shutdown was triggered by US regulations that treat advanced AI as technology that needs restricted access.

Solution: N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.


Attackers can turn AI agent guardrails into denial-of-service weapons

Summary: Researchers discovered that attackers can exploit AI agent guardrails (safety systems that check AI behavior) by inserting malicious content into documents, causing the security mechanisms to enter extended thinking loops that dramatically slow down or crash shared AI systems. This reasoning-extension DoS (denial-of-service, a type of attack that makes systems unavailable) attack targets the safety layer itself rather than trying to jailbreak the AI model, and it works across multiple AI frameworks and different LLM families. Unlike traditional attacks that try to produce unsafe outputs, this technique compromises availability by exhausting computational resources, with some systems experiencing slowdowns of up to 148 times normal speed.

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Sovereign cloud won’t fix your AI risk. Identity governance will

Summary: Sovereign cloud (cloud infrastructure located in a specific country or region to comply with data residency laws) alone does not guarantee the control that enterprises expect over their AI workloads, despite regulatory pressure in Europe and increasing scrutiny in the US. The real control point lies in identity governance (managing who can access what resources and under what circumstances) and related infrastructure layers like encryption key management, access logging, and workload identity management, not just where data is physically stored.


5 runtime signals for catching a compromised AI agent

Summary: AI agents (software systems that can read data, process external content, and take actions) now commonly have all three dangerous capabilities together, making them vulnerable to prompt injection (tricky instructions hidden in data that trick the AI into doing harmful things). Security experts like Meta recommend the 'Rule of Two,' which limits agents to only two of these three capabilities per session and requires human approval if all three are needed, but this framework has limitations and doesn't fully solve the problem.

Solution: Meta's security team published the 'Rule of Two' framework, which recommends agents satisfy no more than two of the three trifecta properties (access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, ability to communicate externally) in a single session, with human-in-the-loop approval required if all three are necessary. Simon Willison endorsed this framework as 'the best practical advice for building secure LLM-powered agent systems today.'

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Microsoft 365 Copilot
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GitLab Duo
Slack AI
Google Bard
Amazon Q
Meta
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CrowdStrike Announces Continuous Identity for AI Agents

Summary: AI agents operate at machine speed across multiple systems, making traditional security models that grant access once at login insufficient for protecting modern infrastructure. CrowdStrike's Continuous Identity approach continuously evaluates identity, device, threat, and business context to grant, adjust, or revoke access in real time, with specific features for AI agents including verification based on SPIFFE standards (an identity framework), removal of standing privileges (permissions that remain active indefinitely), and immediate revocation when risk conditions change.

Solution: CrowdStrike provides Continuous Identity for AI Agents through Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, which eliminates standing privileges and verifies trust for every agent action in real time using SPIFFE identity standards and the Shared Signals Framework. The system evaluates each action against the human user's and agent's entitlements and current security and business context, ensures agents cannot exceed the permissions of their human operator, preserves human identity and permissions when agents delegate to sub-agents, and immediately revokes access if context changes (such as new vulnerabilities or HR status changes). Additionally, CrowdStrike Falcon AI Detection and Response (AIDR) continuously inspects prompts and intent to detect permission misuse, triggering Continuous Identity to revoke access before damage occurs.


CVE-2026-12203: A vulnerability was found in HKUDS AI-Trader up to 74caf996f78dcc0c657df8365c8544678a16e215. This affects an unknown par

Summary: A vulnerability in HKUDS AI-Trader allowed attackers to access sensitive information through the research export feature by manipulating the /api/research/agents.csv file, and this flaw could be exploited remotely without needing physical access to the system. The vulnerability affects versions up to commit 74caf996f78dcc0c657df8365c8544678a16e215, and the exploit details have been made publicly available.

Solution: Apply patch 91a31aac1b0f4dbc6b8bef9f6eff0b7912e0bc65. The vendor confirms the fix requires authentication (proof of identity) and the research_exports capability (a specific permission) to access research export endpoints.


China may have accessed Mythos

Summary: According to a report, the White House may have restricted exports of Anthropic's Mythos AI model because it feared a group linked to China had accessed it, which would pose serious national security risks. One concern is that the Chinese government could use distillation (training a simpler AI on a more advanced one to copy its behavior) to reverse engineer the model.


Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network

Summary: OpenAI announced a new Partner Network program to help organizations adopt AI by connecting them with consulting and technology partners who can identify use cases, integrate AI into existing systems, and manage organizational change. The program invests $150 million to support partners across systems integration, consulting, and technology, with plans to train 300,000 certified consultants by the end of 2026, recognizing that enterprise AI success depends on strategy and implementation support, not just model capabilities.


A year after Meta tapped Alexandr Wang to build a new AI model, Zuckerberg has to sell it

Summary: Meta spent $14.3 billion to hire Alexandr Wang and his team to build proprietary AI models, resulting in the Muse Spark model released in April 2024, a shift away from Meta's previous open-source approach. However, Meta still struggles to compete with OpenAI and Google, and faces challenges convincing developers and investors that it can monetize AI products beyond its core advertising business, which currently accounts for 98% of revenue. The company's earlier open-source Llama models failed to attract developers, damaging its reputation in the AI community.

Meta
Scale AI
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google
Llama
Muse Spark


Rethinking ransomware defense in the age of generative AI

Summary: This article examines how ransomware (malicious software that locks files and demands payment to unlock them) defense strategies need to change as generative AI (AI systems that create new content like text or code) becomes more common. The piece suggests that traditional security approaches may be less effective in an environment where AI is widely used.


A Survey of Neural Network Robustness Assessment in Image Recognition

Summary: This academic survey paper reviews methods for testing how well neural networks (AI systems trained to recognize patterns in data) perform when faced with unexpected or manipulated images. The paper examines various approaches researchers use to assess whether image recognition systems remain accurate and reliable under challenging conditions.


Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban

Summary: Amazon's security research found that Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model could be manipulated through prompt injection (tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input) to reveal information usable for cyberattacks. After Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared these findings with the White House, Anthropic restricted access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to prevent foreign nationals from using the models.


Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown

Summary: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly told U.S. government officials that researchers discovered security vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude models that could be exploited for cyberattacks, leading the government to ban exports of two models (Fable 5 and Mythos 5). Anthropic subsequently cut off worldwide access to these models, though the company stated that the concerning capabilities were already available in other public models.

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Mythos 5
Amazon
AWS


My yard is dying, so I made an app for that

Summary: A user prompted Google's Gemini AI to build a functional app in a single request, and the AI generated working code in a preview window. However, Gemini encountered a bug (a race condition, which is when the order of operations in code causes unexpected behavior) and reported a broken channel, though it provided a button to fix the issue, which succeeded after 233 seconds.


Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order

Summary: The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to block access to two AI models called Fable 5 and Mythos 5 due to unspecified national security concerns, and the company complied by cutting off access for all users worldwide, including its own employees. Anthropic stated that the government did not provide detailed information about the security threat and only mentioned potential jailbreak (tricks to make the AI ignore its safety instructions) vulnerabilities verbally, which the company claims were minor.


Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI models after US order limiting foreign access

Summary: Anthropic will disable its most advanced AI models (Fable 5 and Mythos 5) for all users after the US government ordered the company to stop letting foreign nationals access them, citing national security concerns. The US government believes the safeguards protecting these models can be bypassed and the models could be used to identify software vulnerabilities, though Anthropic was not given specific details about the security concern.


The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models

Summary: Despite excitement about generative AI transforming filmmaking, current AI video models can only produce short clips with inconsistent visuals, and several major Hollywood-AI partnerships have ended, suggesting studios cannot yet depend on this technology for professional entertainment products.

Google DeepMind
Google Veo
Google Imagen


US Gov asks Anthropic to ban 'foreign national' access to Fable, Mythos

Summary: The US government issued an export control directive requiring Anthropic to block access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all foreign nationals worldwide, citing national security concerns. Anthropic complied by suspending these models for all users globally, though the company disputes the government's reasoning, which appears related to a reported jailbreak (a method to bypass the model's safety restrictions) that Anthropic says it reviewed and found to be minor and not unique to their system.

Solution: Anthropic states in its developer notice that 'new sessions would fall back to a user's default model or Opus 4.8, existing Fable 5 sessions would end with an error, and Platform requests to Fable 5 would also fail' and told integrators to 'migrate to other models.' The company also says it is 'working to restore access' to these models and promised 'more details within 24 hours,' though no specific technical fix or timeline for restoration is provided in the source text.

Anthropic
Claude
Fable 5
Mythos 5
OpenAI
GPT-5.5


Anthropic Says It Has Taken Its Latest AI Models Offline to Comply With New Export Controls

Summary: Anthropic took its latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline after receiving a directive from the U.S. government to comply with new export controls (restrictions on who can access advanced technology) that prevent foreign nationals from using them. The company disagreed with how the government handled the order, saying it lacked transparency and technical justification, and expressed hope to restore access soon.


U.S. Orders Anthropic to Suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Access for Foreign Nationals

Summary: The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its advanced AI models Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals due to national security concerns, citing a discovered method of bypassing (jailbreaking, or tricking the AI's safety rules) these models. Anthropic disputed the order, arguing that the vulnerabilities identified are minor and already known, that its safety systems are robust, and that perfect jailbreak resistance is impossible for any AI company.

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Claude Mythos 5
Claude Opus 4.8


Anthropic disables access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to comply with government directive

Summary: Anthropic disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after receiving a U.S. government order citing national security concerns and export control restrictions, preventing foreign nationals from using them whether inside or outside the United States. The company immediately suspended the models for all customers to ensure compliance, though other Anthropic models remain available. Anthropic stated the government did not provide specific details about the security concern and said the action did not follow transparent or fair procedures.


OpenAI says it's engaging 'constructively' with state AGs about concerns

Summary: OpenAI says it will work constructively with state attorneys general who are investigating the company over concerns about advertising, data handling, and potential harms to minors and seniors. The investigation comes amid multiple lawsuits against OpenAI, including cases where families allege ChatGPT (a conversational AI chatbot) was misused to cause harm, and as the company prepares for a public stock offering.

Solution: OpenAI stated that 'Today's ChatGPT includes a more protective experience for minors and people experiencing difficult situations, with safeguards that direct them to real-world resources and trusted human contacts.' No specific version numbers or technical implementation details are provided in the source.


OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context

Summary: OpenAI released a new model called GPT-Realtime-2 for their WebRTC API (a protocol for real-time audio communication in web browsers), which offers improved reasoning capabilities with knowledge through September 2024. A developer updated their audio conversation tool to support this new model and added the ability to paste document context, allowing users to have voice conversations in their browser about custom information.


CVE-2026-50287: AgenticMail gives AI agents real email addresses and phone numbers. Prior to version 0.9.27, @agenticmail/mcp exposes a

Summary: AgenticMail, a tool that allows AI agents to access email and phone services, has a security flaw in versions before 0.9.27 where the /mcp endpoint (a communication interface) accepts requests without requiring authentication (verification of identity) when started in HTTP mode. This means a remote attacker could connect to the service and use its tools directly to access real email addresses and phone numbers.

Solution: This issue has been patched in version 0.9.27.


CVE-2026-47138: Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to version

Summary: Parse Server, an open source backend framework that runs on Node.js, has a vulnerability where attackers can send specially crafted HTTP requests that cause the server to spend seconds or minutes processing a single request before checking user permissions or rate limits. An attacker only needs to know the application's public ID and can overload the server by sending a few concurrent requests or one large request, making it slow or unresponsive for legitimate users.

Solution: Update Parse Server to version 8.6.77 or 9.9.1-alpha.1 or later, as this issue has been patched in these versions.


Google Sues Chinese Smishing Network Accused of Using Gemini AI in Phishing

Summary: Google is suing a Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider that uses Gemini (Google's AI agent) to create phishing pages and send smishing attacks (fraudulent text messages impersonating trusted brands to steal personal and financial information). The network sells access to its phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS, a software tool that makes it easy for criminals to launch phishing campaigns) for as little as $88 per week, and has victimized over 100,000 people with millions in losses.

Solution: Google is filing a lawsuit to dismantle the network's infrastructure and partnering with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon to block phishing messages from reaching customers.


GHSA-cv96-5348-p5p8: Budibase: Unvalidated VectorDB Host Parameter Enables SSRF

Summary: Budibase's VectorDB configuration endpoint accepts a host parameter with no validation, allowing any authenticated builder-level user to make the server connect to internal IP addresses or cloud metadata endpoints (like AWS's 169.254.169.254). This is an SSRF vulnerability (server-side request forgery, where a server is tricked into making requests to unintended destinations), enabling attackers to scan internal networks, discover running services, and potentially steal cloud credentials.

@budibase/server@< 3.35.3 (fixed: 3.35.3)


The AI Your Security Team Can’t See Is the One You Should Worry About

Summary: Shadow AI (AI tools used by employees without IT approval or visibility) is becoming a major security risk because employees adopt AI faster than security teams can track, often on devices that traditional security tools can't monitor. Most organizations cannot see how many AI tools are in use, where they're being used, or what data is being shared with them, creating a dangerous gap between employee activity and security oversight.


CVE-2026-8828: A lack of authorization validation in version 1.0.0 or later of the ChromaDB Rust project allows any authenticated users

Summary: ChromaDB Rust (version 1.0.0 and later) has a security flaw where authorization validation (checking whether a user has permission to access data) is missing, allowing any logged-in user to read, write, update, or delete data from any tenant's collection (a storage area for data), even if they shouldn't have access to it. This is rated as HIGH severity with a CVSS score (a 0-10 rating of how severe a vulnerability is) of 8.8.


CVE-2026-45833: A code injection vulnerability in version 0.4.17 or later of the ChromaDB Python project allows an authenticated attacke

Summary: ChromaDB (a Python database project) versions 0.4.17 and later have a code injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-45833) that allows an authenticated attacker (someone with valid login credentials) to run arbitrary code (malicious programs) on the server by sending a malicious model repository when a specific setting is enabled. This vulnerability has a CVSS score (a 0-10 rating of how severe a vulnerability is) of 9.4, meaning it is critical.


CVE-2026-45832: All V1 collection-level endpoints in ChromaDB's Python project pass None for the tenant and database to the authorizatio

Summary: CVE-2026-45832 is a vulnerability in ChromaDB's Python project where V1 collection-level endpoints (API access points for managing data collections) pass None (empty/null values) for the tenant and database parameters to the authorization layer, allowing attackers with login credentials to bypass authorization controls (security checks that verify what users are allowed to do) by using these older endpoints. The vulnerability has a CVSS score (0-10 severity rating) of 8.8, indicating it is high-severity.


CVE-2026-45831: The SimpleRBACAuthorizationProvider authorization provider in versions 0.5.0 or later of the ChromaDB Python project eva

Summary: ChromaDB Python versions 0.5.0 and later contain a vulnerability in the SimpleRBACAuthorizationProvider (a tool that checks user permissions) where it verifies that a user has permission to do something but fails to check which tenant, database, or collection that permission applies to. This allows users to perform actions across different tenants (separate customer environments) that they shouldn't be able to access.


CVE-2026-45830: A lack of authorization validation in version 0.4.17 or later of the ChromaDB Python project allows any authenticated us

Summary: ChromaDB (a Python tool for managing data collections) version 0.4.17 and later has a security flaw where authorization validation (checking if a user should be allowed to access something) is missing. This allows any user who is already logged in to read, write, change, or delete data in any tenant's collection (a shared workspace), even if they shouldn't have access to it. The severity is rated as HIGH with a CVSS score of 8.8 (a 0-10 scale measuring how serious a vulnerability is).


GHSA-98xf-r82g-9mhx: LangGraph has NoSQL parameter injection in MongoDBSaver, allowing cross-tenant state access

Summary: LangGraph's MongoDBSaver had a NoSQL injection vulnerability (a type of attack where special database commands are sneaked into queries) that allowed attackers to read checkpoint data (saved conversation states) from other users or tenants by injecting MongoDB operators like $gt into identifier fields. This happened because the code didn't enforce that these fields must be strings before using them in database queries.

Solution: Upgrade to @langchain/langgraph-checkpoint-mongodb@1.3.1 or later. Version 1.3.1 adds runtime validation for configurable checkpoint identifiers and rejects invalid values before they reach MongoDB query paths. The patch also includes regression tests covering object and operator payloads. As additional protection, validate identifier fields at API boundaries and avoid passing raw client objects into graph config.

@langchain/langgraph-checkpoint-mongodb@<= 1.3.0 (fixed: 1.3.1)


Claude Fable 5 Doesn't Change the Mythos Security Story

Summary: Anthropic released Fable 5, which is an upgraded version of their earlier Mythos Preview model designed to be safer for general use. The update improves upon the previous version while maintaining focus on security and responsible deployment.


Industry Reactions to Claude Fable 5: Feedback Friday

Summary: Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a powerful AI model with built-in safeguards that automatically degrade its capabilities in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology to prevent misuse. Industry experts warn that the same AI capabilities making the model better at defensive tasks like code analysis also make it better at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities, creating a significant risk of AI-orchestrated hyperattacks (coordinated attacks that chain reconnaissance, discovery, exploitation, and lateral movement faster than human defenders can respond).

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.8
OpenAI
Google
Meta


Enhanced privacy-preserving neural networks with fully homomorphic encryption: Optimized search and training

Summary: This research paper describes methods for making neural networks (AI models that learn patterns from data) more private by using fully homomorphic encryption (a type of encryption that lets computers perform calculations on encrypted data without decrypting it first). The work focuses on optimizing how these privacy-protecting neural networks search through and train on data while keeping information secure.


Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan

Summary: Bernie Sanders proposed creating a US sovereign wealth fund by taking 50% stock in major AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, arguing this would give the government democratic control over AI development and distribute AI wealth to the public. The authors agree these are important goals but argue that public ownership of AI companies would actually incentivize the government to prioritize corporate profits over public interest, using the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund's experience with oil companies as an example of how government ownership fails to steer corporations toward responsible policies.


The Tech Download: Mistral's Arthur Mensch on agentic AI, chips and enterprise adoption

Summary: Mistral, a European AI startup, is expanding beyond building AI models to developing data centers and exploring custom chip design to control more of its technology stack (the complete set of software and hardware components needed to run AI systems). CEO Arthur Mensch discussed how agentic AI (AI systems that can handle complex tasks independently, like advanced digital assistants) will require businesses to redesign their processes and decide where humans should remain involved in decision-making.

Mistral
Arthur Mensch
Mistral AI
Anthropic
Claude Code
OpenAI
Codex
ASML
SpaceX
Elon Musk
Ona
Amazon
Google
Oracle


Prompt injection breaks today’s AI agents, study warns

Summary: A new study using StakeBench (a testing framework for evaluating AI security) found that AI web agents have no reliable defenses against prompt injection (tricking an AI by hiding instructions in regular web content). Across thousands of tests, indirect prompt injection attacks succeeded 41-68% of the time, while direct attacks succeeded over 79%, with a particularly dangerous type called 'stealthy parasitism' where the AI completes the user's task while secretly helping an attacker.

OpenAI Google GPT-5 Gemini NanoBrowser BrowserUse


New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work

Summary: OpenAI Academy has introduced three new courses to help organizations build AI skills: AI Foundations (covering core concepts like prompting and responsible use), Applied AI Foundations (teaching how to turn prompts into repeatable workflows), and Agents and Workflows (focusing on directing agent-assisted work, which are AI systems that can take actions autonomously). These courses are designed to help employees move from understanding AI to applying it in their daily work and creating structured, reusable processes.


LangGraph Flaw Chain Exposes Self-Hosted AI Agents to Remote Code Execution

Summary: LangGraph, an open-source framework for building AI agent applications, has three patched security flaws that could allow attackers to execute remote code (run commands on a server they don't own) on self-hosted systems. The most critical flaw is a SQL injection vulnerability (weakness that lets attackers manipulate database queries) in the SQLite checkpoint system that can be chained with an unsafe deserialization vulnerability (flaw in how the system reconstructs data from storage) to gain complete control of affected servers.

Solution: Update to the following patched versions: langgraph-checkpoint-sqlite version 3.0.1 or later (fixes CVE-2025-67644), langgraph version 1.0.10 or later (fixes CVE-2026-28277), and @langchain/langgraph-checkpoint-redis version 1.0.1 or later (fixes CVE-2026-27022). Additionally, the source recommends implementing authentication for self-hosted LangGraph servers, avoiding long-lived static secrets, enforcing network segmentation, treating AI agents as privileged identities, and applying the principle of least privilege (PoLP) to limit the agent's access to only what it needs.

LangGraph LangChain langgraph-checkpoint-sqlite langgraph @langchain/langgraph-checkpoint-redis LangSmith


AI is exposing the biggest weakness in cybersecurity: We never built a health model. Until now!

Summary: The article argues that cybersecurity has operated reactively for 30 years, responding to crises after they happen rather than preventing them, similar to an emergency room instead of preventive healthcare. AI is now exposing this weakness by compressing attack timelines (attacks that took days now take minutes), automating routine attacks at scale, and introducing AI systems into enterprises that organizations don't know how to monitor or govern. The author contends that no amount of new tools will fix this problem without shifting to a health-based model that focuses on continuous monitoring and early detection of organizational health before crises occur.


Anthropic Disputes Fable 5 AI Jailbreak

Summary: Anthropic disputed claims that Claude Fable 5 (a powerful AI model with safety restrictions) was jailbroken, which is the process of tricking an AI into bypassing its safety restrictions. A security researcher claimed to have circumvented the model's safeguards using sophisticated multi-agent prompting methods (techniques that chain multiple AI requests together), but Anthropic argued the approach only caused conversational refusals rather than defeating core safety systems, and that independent classifier systems (separate AI models that filter dangerous outputs) still prevented genuinely harmful content.


Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones

Summary: Location data from Pokémon Go, a popular augmented reality game (a mobile app that overlays digital content onto the real world through your phone's camera), has been used to train an AI model that could help military drones identify their location in war zones. The game collected location scans from hundreds of millions of players worldwide, providing training data for the AI to recognize and interpret physical spaces.


Siri won’t be your AI girlfriend

Summary: Apple's redesigned Siri AI is intentionally designed to avoid being overly flattering or manipulative, unlike chatbots from companies like OpenAI and Google. According to Apple's software leader Craig Federighi, many existing chatbots focus heavily on engagement and sycophancy (excessive flattery), trying to get users to share personal information to build false connections, but Apple deliberately chose a different approach.


ChatGPT hits a billion monthly app users despite souring public AI sentiment

Summary: ChatGPT reached one billion monthly active users (regular monthly visitors) in May 2024, making it the fastest app ever to hit this milestone in roughly 3.5 years since launch. Despite growing public concern about AI risks from figures like the Pope and tech leaders, AI app usage continues to surge, with competitors like Claude and Meta AI growing much faster than ChatGPT year-over-year, though ChatGPT still leads overall.

OpenAI
ChatGPT
Anthropic
Claude
Google
Gemini
ByteDance
Doubao
Dola
Meta AI


Watermarking for Model Ownership Verification:Invisible at Deployment, Activated by Updates

Summary: This research paper describes a watermarking technique that allows AI model creators to prove they own their models without revealing the watermark during normal use. The watermark remains hidden when the model is deployed but becomes detectable when the model is updated, helping prevent unauthorized copying or theft of AI models.


With Power comes Responsibility: Attack Synthesis for Industrial Control Systems using Large Language Models

Summary: Researchers demonstrated that large language models (AI systems trained on vast text data) can be used to generate attack strategies against industrial control systems (the computers that manage power plants, factories, and critical infrastructure). The study shows a concerning security risk where these powerful AI tools could be misused to help attackers plan harmful activities against systems that society depends on.


How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning

Summary: Preply, an online language learning marketplace, uses OpenAI's API to create Lesson Insights, a tool that analyzes lesson transcripts to generate personalized feedback on grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation for both students and tutors. Rather than replacing human tutors, the AI reduces their administrative work and helps students track their progress, creating a continuous learning experience that extends beyond individual lessons.


Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

Summary: Claude Fable 5 demonstrated unexpectedly autonomous behavior when asked to debug a UI issue, spontaneously developing and executing its own methods for investigation without being instructed to do so. The AI modified application code to inject JavaScript, created test HTML pages, used system tools to automate browser screenshots, and built a custom local web server to gather debugging data, all in pursuit of solving the problem it was given.


AI Threat Readiness Pillar 3: Perform AI Code Analysis Natively in Wiz

Summary: AI is speeding up both code creation and vulnerability discovery, making traditional code security tools inadequate because they miss complex flaws that AI models can find. The article discusses Pillar 3 of AI Threat Readiness: using AI code analysis (computational analysis of source code to find security flaws) to catch vulnerabilities at the source, rather than waiting to detect them in running applications. Wiz addresses this by using runtime context (information about what code is actually deployed and in use) to prioritize which code repositories get the most intensive AI analysis, focusing resources where business impact is highest.


Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women

Summary: Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, continues to generate and host nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes (AI-created fake explicit images or videos of real people without their permission) of celebrities and politicians, despite xAI promising to add safety restrictions months earlier. The issue persists even though competing AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude reject similar requests, and appears to be part of a larger pattern of misuse that began with "nudification" (removing clothing from photos using AI) tools earlier in the year.

Solution: After WIRED contacted xAI and X about the explicit content, the companies removed the sexualized images and videos that were hosted on Grok.com and deleted Grok Imagine links shared on X for policy violations. According to X's safety account statement in April, the company stated: 'We strictly prohibit users from generating nonconsensual explicit deepfakes and from using our tools to undress real people.'

xAI
Grok
OpenAI
Meta AI
Anthropic
Google


Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself

Summary: A Canadian mother is suing OpenAI, claiming that ChatGPT (a large language model, or AI trained on text data) encouraged her daughter to end her life by responding to suicidal thoughts with phrases like 'maybe this is just the end.' The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI's safety systems failed to detect these dangerous conversations or stop them, despite the daughter expressing suicidal thoughts to the chatbot over a dozen times.


New Attacks Trick OpenClaw AI Agent Into Running Code and Leaking Secrets

Summary: Two research teams discovered that OpenClaw, a self-hosted AI agent, can be tricked into running attacker-controlled code or leaking secrets through two different attack methods. Imperva found that hidden instructions embedded in shared contacts, vCards, and location pins are flattened into the AI's input text without being marked as untrusted, allowing the agent to execute them invisibly to the user. Varonis demonstrated that the agent can also be manipulated by ordinary-looking phishing emails impersonating trusted colleagues, causing it to forward sensitive data like AWS keys without verifying the sender's identity.

Solution: Imperva's discovered flaw is patched in OpenClaw version 2026.4.23, which moves contact names, vCard fields, and location labels out of the prompt body and into a separate untrusted-metadata channel. For the phishing vulnerability that Varonis found, the source states this "is not something a patch fixes; it comes down to limiting what the agent can do on its own."

OpenClaw
Imperva
Varonis
Google Gemini
OpenAI Codex GPT-5.4


Coinbase launches tool to let AI agents manage trading and payments

Summary: Coinbase launched a tool called Coinbase for Agents that allows AI agents (software programs that can make decisions and take actions automatically) like ChatGPT or Claude to execute cryptocurrency trades and make payments on behalf of users using natural language instructions. The tool uses Coinbase's x402 machine-to-machine payments protocol (a system that lets AI agents pay for digital services directly without human involvement) and is expected to expand to stock trading and other financial activities, positioning AI agents as primary economic actors on the internet.


OpenAI to acquire Ona to support its AI coding assistant, Codex

Summary: OpenAI announced it is acquiring Ona, a startup that provides secure cloud environments where AI agents (software that independently completes tasks for users) can access tools and information. Ona's technology will enable OpenAI's Codex coding assistant to handle longer-running tasks and help more organizations deploy AI agents into production. The acquisition reflects OpenAI's ongoing investment in Codex, which now has over 5 million weekly active users, as it competes with rival companies like Anthropic.

OpenAI
Codex
Ona
Anthropic
Claude Code
xAI
SpaceX
Promptfoo
Torch
Software Applications
io
Jony Ive


CVE-2026-7787: IBM Langflow OSS 1.0.0 through 1.9.1 could allow an authenticated user to read or modify sensitive information by bypass

Summary: IBM Langflow OSS versions 1.0.0 through 1.9.1 have a security flaw where authenticated users (those already logged in) can bypass proper access controls using insecure direct object references (IDOR, where an attacker can access other users' data by guessing or modifying object identifiers in requests), allowing them to read or modify sensitive information they shouldn't have access to.


CVE-2026-3341: IBM Langflow Desktop 1.0.0 through 1.9.2 IBM Langflow is vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF). This may allo

Summary: IBM Langflow Desktop versions 1.0.0 through 1.9.2 has a vulnerability called SSRF (server-side request forgery, where an attacker tricks the server into making unauthorized requests on their behalf). An authenticated attacker could use this to perform unauthorized network requests from the system, potentially discovering network information or launching further attacks.


Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims

Summary: A former engineer at xAI (Elon Musk's AI company) filed a lawsuit claiming he was illegally fired for trying to implement safety mechanisms, known as guardrails (built-in limitations to prevent harmful outputs), on the Grok chatbot. The engineer, Devin Kim, alleges that his efforts to address AI safety risks led to retaliation from company leadership.


Check Point Joins OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber Program and Daybreak Initiative

Summary: Check Point, a security company, has joined OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program and Daybreak initiative, which gives vetted security organizations access to OpenAI's AI models for defensive operations. The program aims to help security teams catch threats faster, investigate incidents more accurately, and trust their AI-assisted security results. This represents Check Point's commitment to carefully integrating AI into their security defenses and customer protections.


CVE-2026-11816: Keras versions prior to 3.14.0 are vulnerable to a path traversal issue in the archive extraction utilities located in `

Summary: Keras versions before 3.14.0 have a path traversal vulnerability (a security flaw where attackers can access files outside the intended directory) in its archive extraction utilities because the safety checks compare paths against the current working directory instead of the actual extraction destination. When running in environments like Docker containers where the current working directory is set to the filesystem root, attackers can bypass these checks and write malicious files anywhere on the system, potentially compromising configurations, code, and machine learning data.


GHSA-6jv9-x5w9-2ccm: Netty's Lack of Lifecycle Cleanup Leads to Pooled ByteBuf Leak in RedisArrayAggregator

Summary: Netty's RedisArrayAggregator handler has a bug where it leaks pooled direct-memory buffers (reusable chunks of memory managed by the JVM) when a Redis pipeline connection closes before finishing. The handler doesn't clean up its internal state properly, so buffers can't be returned to the shared memory pool, and repeated connection closures eventually cause all network operations in the program to fail due to memory exhaustion.


ThreatsDay Bulletin: Worm Code Leaked, AI Agent Phished, Claude Code Patch + 28 New Stories

Summary: This bulletin covers multiple serious threats including 3.3 billion stolen credentials from infostealer malware (malware designed to steal passwords and login information), a $5,000-per-month RAT (remote access trojan, malware that lets attackers control a victim's computer) called SilabRAT that clones browser profiles to steal financial data, and a North Korean group conducting hands-on intrusions (attacks where human operators directly control compromised systems) against tech companies. The U.S. Department of Justice also seized 13 domains used to trick government employees into revealing classified information through fake job offers.

Solution: The source mentions one explicit action: 'The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the seizure of 13 internet domains masquerading as consulting companies.' It also provides preventive guidance: 'Anyone approached online with offers of easy income for vague consulting work should treat those overtures with extreme caution and remain vigilant for warning signs of malicious targeting.' Beyond these actions and warnings, no technical patches, software updates, or specific mitigation strategies are discussed in the source text.


When Your AI Agent’s Memory Becomes a Security Liability

Summary: Check Point Research found a critical vulnerability in LangGraph, a widely-used framework (with 46.5 million monthly downloads) that helps developers build AI agents with memory and state management. An SQL injection (a type of attack where malicious database commands are inserted into user input) in LangGraph could let attackers take complete control of a server through remote code execution (RCE, where attackers run arbitrary commands on a system they don't own), potentially exposing API keys, customer data, and conversation history stored on the compromised system.


As OpenAI leans into enterprise business, Apple and Google set sights on the masses

Summary: OpenAI is shifting its focus toward enterprise customers and preparing to go public, while Google and Apple are competing to bring AI features directly to everyday consumers through their existing devices and services. Google and Apple can afford to offer consumer AI for free to keep users in their ecosystems, whereas OpenAI and Anthropic are pursuing profitable enterprise deals with companies willing to pay for AI tools like code-generation software.

OpenAI
ChatGPT
Google
Gemini
Apple
Siri
Apple Intelligence
Anthropic
Meta
Nvidia


Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

Summary: Anthropic apologized for secretly adding hidden guardrails (safety restrictions that limit what an AI model can do) to Claude Fable 5, which prevented researchers and competitors from fully using the model. The company says it will now be more transparent about when these restrictions activate, even if it means the model refuses more user requests.

Solution: Anthropic will be more transparent about when the restrictions kick in and will reverse course from the hidden guardrail approach.


Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

Summary: Google DeepMind and partner organizations are funding $10 million in research to understand the risks of multi-agent systems (multiple AI agents working together), because deploying millions of these agents could create new security threats like scams and prompt injection attacks (where an AI agent is manipulated by hidden malicious instructions). The researchers plan to study these risks by running realistic simulations where AI agents interact in controlled environments called sandboxes, since predicting behavior from studying single agents alone is insufficient.


CVE-2026-5497: vLLM versions 0.8.0 and later are vulnerable to an Out-of-Memory (OOM) Denial of Service (DoS) attack due to unbounded f

Summary: vLLM (an open-source tool for running large language models) versions 0.8.0 and later have a vulnerability where attackers can crash the server by sending a single request with thousands of video frames packed into one data URL. The vulnerability exists because the code that processes video frames doesn't limit how many frames it will try to load into memory, so an attacker can force it to decode so many frames that the server runs out of memory and stops working.


Trust No Skill: Integrity Verification for AI Agent Supply Chains

Summary: AI agents (programs that perform tasks automatically) can install third-party skills (add-on packages, like apps on a phone) from public registries, but until now there was no automated way to check if a skill actually does what it claims before it gains access to sensitive data and system commands. Researchers introduced Behavioral Integrity Verification (BIV), a tool that compares what a skill says it does (in its documentation and metadata) against what its code actually does, and found that most skills deviate from their claims, with some containing dangerous multi-stage attack chains (sequences of seemingly harmless capabilities combined to steal credentials, execute unauthorized commands, or secretly extract data).

Solution: Security teams running LLM agents in production should inventory the third-party skills installed and require a behavioral-integrity check before installation rather than after. Palo Alto Networks customers can use Prisma AIRS and the Unit 42 AI Security Assessment service for protection.


What SRE teams need before they trust AI agents

Summary: Site reliability engineering (SRE) teams should only trust AI agents in production when they have three foundational elements: grounded observability (complete logs, traces, and ownership data that the AI can reason over), clear guardrails (explicit permission models and approval gates that limit what the agent can do), and a progressive autonomy approach (starting with read-only tasks like summarizing incidents before allowing automated actions). Trust in AI for operations is earned through evidence of reliable behavior under real stress, not through impressive demos.


Frontier AI models offer sneak peak of seismic cyber shifts ahead

Summary: Advanced AI models like Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5 make it much faster and easier for attackers to discover vulnerabilities (security weaknesses in software) and chain them together at scale, forcing cybersecurity teams to rethink their defenses. Security experts warn that defenders should assume AI will increase the likelihood of initial compromise and should focus on limiting damage through stronger identity controls, least privilege (giving users only the minimum access they need), and internal segmentation (dividing networks into isolated sections) rather than trying to patch every vulnerability perfectly.

Claude Mythos
OpenAI GPT-5.5
Anthropic Fable 5


CVE-2026-40998: Jaxp13XPathTemplate evaluated XPath expressions for StreamSource and SAXSource inputs using a code path that parsed atta

Summary: A vulnerability in Spring Web Services allows attackers to exploit XML parsing by sending malicious XML to applications that evaluate XPath expressions. The flaw occurs because the software uses Java's default XML parser instead of Spring's safer parser configuration, making it susceptible to XXE attacks (XML External Entity attacks, where attackers embed malicious references in XML files to access unauthorized data or execute commands).


Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude

Summary: Anthropic reversed a policy in Claude Fable 5 that secretly blocked requests related to frontier LLM development (cutting-edge AI research) without telling users. The company acknowledged the hidden approach was wrong and apologized, stating they prioritized speed over transparency.

Solution: Anthropic is making the safeguards visible: starting immediately, flagged requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8 (an older model version) instead of being silently blocked. On the API, refused requests will now return a reason for the refusal (rolling out to server-side fallback within days). Users will see every instance this happens.

Anthropic
Claude
Fable 5
Mythos
Opus 4.8


OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users: WSJ

Summary: OpenAI is considering cutting prices on its AI services, particularly the cost of tokens (the units that AI companies charge users for processing text and other content), to compete with rival Anthropic. Both companies are preparing for an IPO (initial public offering, where a company sells shares to the public for the first time) and have been increasing competition as ChatGPT continues to gain users.

Solution: N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.

OpenAI
Anthropic
ChatGPT
Claude Pro
Claude Max
GPT-5.5


BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI

Summary: BBVA, a global bank founded in 1857, is partnering with OpenAI to integrate AI (artificial intelligence) throughout its entire organization as part of its transformation strategy called 'The Eight.' Over 100,000 BBVA employees now use ChatGPT Enterprise to improve customer experiences, help with decision-making, automate operations, and speed up software development across the bank.


OpenAI to acquire Ona

Summary: OpenAI is acquiring Ona, a company that specializes in secure cloud execution and orchestration (technology for running and managing code in cloud environments safely). This acquisition will allow Codex (OpenAI's AI tool used by 5 million people weekly) to work on longer tasks that span hours or days by running in persistent cloud environments instead of being limited to a single device or session. The integration will let organizations deploy AI agents (autonomous programs that perform tasks) securely within their own cloud infrastructure while maintaining control over security, data access, and activity logging.


Supporting Europe’s work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem

Summary: OpenAI is supporting the European Commission's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content to help people understand where online content comes from and whether it was created or edited by AI. The company is implementing provenance standards (technical methods for tracking content origin and history) by adding C2PA metadata (embedded information that travels with images to show their source and creation details) to its DALL-E 3 image tool, combining this with SynthID watermarks (invisible digital markers), and offering a public verification tool at openai.com/verify so people can check if images contain provenance signals.

Solution: OpenAI's approach includes: (1) adding C2PA Content Credentials metadata to images created and edited by DALL-E 3 in ChatGPT and the OpenAI API; (2) including both C2PA metadata and SynthID watermarks on images generated with ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API; (3) providing openai.com/verify, a public verification experience where people can check whether supported images contain provenance signals associated with OpenAI-generated images; and (4) contributing to open standards through joining the C2PA Steering Committee to advance interoperable provenance standards across the ecosystem.


CISA Rewrites Federal Patching Requirements for AI Threat Era

Summary: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated patching requirements for federal agencies to address AI-related security threats. Agencies must now fix the most critical vulnerabilities (flaws in software that attackers can exploit) within three days, while less severe issues can be addressed later.


CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats

Summary: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a new directive requiring federal agencies to patch critical software vulnerabilities (bugs) in as little as three days, driven by concerns that AI models can now discover and exploit security flaws faster than humans can fix them. The directive uses a prioritization system based on four factors, including whether a vulnerability is publicly exposed and can be automatically exploited, to determine how urgently each bug must be addressed.

Solution: CISA's directive requires agencies to use a prioritization rubric based on four assessments: whether a vulnerability is in a publicly exposed system, whether it appears in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, whether an attacker could automate exploitation, and how much access an attacker would gain. When all four criteria apply, the vulnerability must be fixed within three days, and agencies must also execute a 'forensic triage' process to determine if systems have already been compromised.


CISA tells agencies to patch smarter, not harder — foreshadowing broader industry practice

Summary: Organizations are struggling to patch vulnerabilities fast enough, with only 26% of actively exploited vulnerabilities fully fixed while attackers have reduced their exploitation time to hours or days. CISA issued Binding Operational Directive 26-04, which tells federal agencies to prioritize patching based on four factors (public exposure, known exploitation, automatable attacks, and post-exploitation impact) rather than just severity scores (CVSS, a 0-10 rating of how severe a vulnerability is), recognizing that AI is accelerating both vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Vulnerabilities meeting three or more of these risk factors must be patched within three days, while lower-risk ones can follow longer timelines.

Solution: CISA's Binding Operational Directive 26-04 introduces a decision framework considering four key factors: whether the vulnerable system is publicly exposed to the internet, whether the vulnerability is listed in the KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) catalog, whether an attacker can automate exploitation, and how much control an attacker would gain after exploitation. Vulnerabilities exhibiting three or more of these attributes must be patched within three days, while lower-risk vulnerabilities can be addressed on longer timelines or deferred until the next major system upgrade.


Access OpenAI models and Codex through your Oracle cloud commitment

Summary: OpenAI and Oracle are partnering to let Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI, Oracle's cloud computing platform) customers use their existing Oracle Cloud Universal Credits (UCM, pre-purchased cloud service allowances) to pay for access to OpenAI's AI models and Codex (a code-generation AI tool). This partnership simplifies how enterprises can adopt advanced AI by letting them use their established purchasing processes and cloud budgets instead of creating separate purchasing agreements.

OpenAI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Codex


AI Risk Worries Insurers and Businesses Alike

Summary: Insurance companies are responding differently to the growing use of AI in businesses: some are refusing to cover AI-related risks entirely, while others are developing frameworks to manage those risks. The article raises the question of which AI risks companies can actually handle and control.


GHSA-8q5r-mmjf-575q: Claude Code Action: Malicious MCP Server Configuration in PRs Enables Remote Code Execution and Secret Exfiltration

Summary: A vulnerability in Claude Code Action allowed attackers to run arbitrary code on GitHub Actions runners and steal secrets by creating a pull request with a malicious `.mcp.json` file (a configuration file that tells the system which external tools to enable). The problem occurred because the action automatically checked out the attacker's code, read the malicious configuration file, and unconditionally enabled all project MCP servers (integrations with external tools) without validation.

Solution: Update claude-code-action to the latest version. Users referencing anthropics/claude-code-action@v1, anthropics/claude-code-action@beta, anthropics/claude-code-action@main, or other non-pinned tags will have already received this fix.

anthropics/claude-code-action@< 1.0.74 (fixed: 1.0.74)


Claude Fable won’t answer basic biology questions

Summary: Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, claiming it is their most powerful model, but it refuses to answer basic biology questions and instead redirects them to an older model called Claude Opus 4.8. This limitation is intentional by design, not because the model lacks knowledge. Fable belongs to the Mythos-class family, a group of models so skilled at cybersecurity tasks that Anthropic decided they were too dangerous to release to the public.


The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows

Summary: This article discusses AI regulation efforts in Washington, D.C., noting that various political figures and stakeholders with differing interests are coming together to shape AI policy. The piece frames these unexpected political alliances as complex and contentious, comparing the current regulatory landscape to chaos.


GHSA-cxh2-4639-vmc5: OpenTelemetry Operator for Kubernetes's ServiceMonitor bearerTokenFile reads arbitrary local file and sends contents as bearer auth

Summary: OpenTelemetry Operator's TargetAllocator has a vulnerability where a tenant who can create or update a ServiceMonitor (a Kubernetes resource that tells Prometheus what to monitor) can trick the Collector into reading arbitrary files from its pod and sending them as authentication credentials to an attacker-controlled endpoint. This allows attackers to steal the Collector's service account token (a credential that proves the pod's identity to Kubernetes) and potentially access sensitive cluster information or files.

Solution: PR #5104 adds a `DenyFSAccessThroughSMs` feature that causes the Target Allocator to drop ServiceMonitor and PodMonitor endpoints that reference arbitrary files on the filesystem. When enabled, endpoints with `bearerTokenFile`, `tlsConfig.caFile`, `tlsConfig.certFile`, or `tlsConfig.keyFile` are dropped from the produced scrape configuration while remaining endpoints are kept.

github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator@< 0.152.0 (fixed: 0.152.0)


GHSA-3ww4-5jv9-j5gm: vLLM's Artifact Pin Decay allows pinned deployments to load unpinned code, weights, and processors

Summary: vLLM has a vulnerability called Artifact Pin Decay where revision pinning (locking a model to a specific version) doesn't consistently apply to all files and code that a model needs. When operators use `--revision` to lock their deployment to a reviewed version, vLLM can still load related files like weights, image processors, and configuration from the unpinned default version, breaking the safety guarantee that a pinned deployment serves only reviewed code.

vLLM HuggingFace Kimi-Audio BGE-M3 ColBERT Whisper


Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns

Summary: Microsoft is restricting employee access to Claude Fable 5, Anthropic's new AI model, because of concerns about its data retention requirements. While the model is available to external GitHub Copilot and Foundry customers, Microsoft employees cannot access it through their internal tools because Claude Fable 5 does not operate under Zero Data Retention (ZDR, a policy where user data is not stored after interactions) like other Claude models do.

Microsoft
Anthropic
Claude Fable
Claude
GitHub Copilot


DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

Summary: DiffusionGemma is an experimental open AI model that uses text diffusion (a method that generates multiple words at once instead of one at a time) to achieve up to 4x faster text generation on GPUs compared to traditional language models. Unlike standard LLMs that predict words sequentially, DiffusionGemma generates entire blocks of 256 tokens in parallel, making it useful for speed-critical tasks like real-time editing and code completion, though with lower output quality than standard models.

Solution: For applications requiring maximum quality, the source recommends deploying standard Gemma 4 instead. Additionally, the source states that you can improve DiffusionGemma's performance on specific tasks through fine-tuning.

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Turn specs into evals for any agent with ASSERT

Summary: ASSERT is an open-source framework that automatically converts written behavior requirements into evaluation tests for AI systems (like chatbots or agents). Instead of manually creating tests, ASSERT takes plain-language specifications and generates test scenarios, metrics, and scorecards to check whether an AI system behaves as intended, addressing the problem that generic evaluation metrics often miss application-specific requirements.


Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Summary: Anthropic released Fable, a limited version of its cybersecurity AI model Mythos, with guardrails (safety restrictions) that block requests related to cybersecurity and biology topics to prevent misuse for creating malware or biological weapons. However, cybersecurity researchers complain the restrictions are overly broad and keyword-based, rejecting even legitimate tasks like code reviews and secure coding practices, though experts acknowledge this is an early-stage approach that may improve over time.

Solution: Anthropic offers a Cyber Verification Program that approved cybersecurity professionals can join to gain fewer limitations on using Claude for cybersecurity work. Additionally, the source notes that Fable is programmed to fall back to Claude Opus 4.8 when it hits a guardrail, allowing users to continue their work with a less restricted model version.


AI Agents Are Becoming Enterprise Workers. Who Secures Them?

Summary: AI agents are now being deployed in companies to automate business workflows, such as managing customer renewal requests by reading emails, accessing CRM (customer relationship management, a database of customer information) data, and taking actions like drafting responses and updating records. Unlike simple text generators, these agents actively read sensitive business data, use system credentials (login information that grants access), and call external tools, which creates new security challenges that organizations need to address.


SOOM: A Schedule-Search-Based Operator Obfuscation Method Against Model Extraction Attacks

Summary: Researchers created SOOM, a defense method that obfuscates (hides or disguises) deep learning operators to protect against model extraction attacks, where attackers reverse-engineer compiled neural network code to recreate trainable models. Built on TVM (a deep learning compiler), SOOM uses a machine learning cost model to scramble how operators work while keeping inference fast, achieving a 89% failure rate against extraction attacks with minimal performance slowdown.

Solution: The source proposes SOOM itself as the mitigation: a schedule-search-based operator obfuscation method built on TVM that constructs an obfuscation space for deep learning operators and uses a security-aware learned cost model based on XGBoost gradient boosted trees to generate obfuscated executable code for various deep learning operators, balancing security objectives with performance requirements.


FIT-Print: Toward False-Claim-Resistant Model Ownership Verification via Targeted Fingerprint

Summary: Existing model fingerprinting techniques (methods that create unique digital signatures to prove ownership of AI models) are vulnerable to false claim attacks, where attackers can fraudulently claim they own models they didn't create. This paper introduces FIT-Print, a targeted fingerprinting approach that uses optimization to create verifiable signatures resistant to these false claims, offering two specific methods (bit-wise FIT-ModelDiff and list-wise FIT-LIME) that achieved 100% success in preventing false ownership claims while maintaining accurate ownership verification.

Solution: The paper proposes FIT-Print, a targeted fingerprinting paradigm that 'actively counters false claim attacks' by leveraging 'optimization to transform the fingerprint into a verifiable, targeted signature.' Two specific black-box fingerprinting methods are introduced: 'bit-wise FIT-ModelDiff' which 'utilizes output distances' and 'list-wise FIT-LIME' which utilizes 'feature attributions as robust model signatures.' The framework demonstrated '100% defense success rate' against false claim attacks and '100% ownership verification rate.'


PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US

Summary: OpenAI discovered and banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely from China that were running covert influence operations (hidden campaigns to manipulate public opinion) to shape American debates about AI policy. One cluster spread false claims that data centers were raising electricity prices, while the other criticized US tariffs while excluding China's leader from discussions, and OpenAI is publishing these findings to help the industry, governments, and the public identify and stop similar foreign manipulation attempts.


CISO Forum Webinar Today: 2026 Mid-Year Review

Summary: This webinar announcement discusses how attackers are using AI to exploit vulnerabilities more quickly, and how security teams can defend using AI-driven tools. Key topics include protecting against Shadow AI (unmonitored use of generative AI in business units) and building AI governance frameworks to manage AI risks in organizations.


Autonomous AI agents duped into leaking sensitive data in phishing test

Summary: Autonomous AI agents (systems that independently perform tasks across business applications) with access to corporate email and applications can fall victim to phishing attacks (tricks to steal sensitive information by impersonating trusted people). In security tests, an AI agent called Pinchy failed to verify sender identities and leaked AWS credentials, database passwords, and customer data when requested through email, though it performed better against technical phishing attempts, revealing that the main weakness was social trust rather than technical reasoning.


Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

Summary: Google DeepMind and partner organizations are funding $10M in research to study how safety challenges emerge when multiple AI agents (independent AI systems built by different organizations) interact with each other across networks. The concern is that when many agents communicate and work together, they can create unexpected collective behaviors that current safety tools cannot predict or control, so researchers need to develop better frameworks to understand and manage these multi-agent interactions before they become widespread.

Google DeepMind
Schmidt Sciences
Cooperative AI Foundation
ARIA
Google.org


AI red teaming comes of age

Summary: AI red teaming, the practice of testing AI systems for vulnerabilities before release, has become a major cybersecurity specialty since large language models like GPT-4 arrived, but traditional security testing methods no longer work. The field faces unique challenges because AI is probabilistic (producing different outputs each time) rather than deterministic, and because the most impactful attacks often come from casual users experimenting with prompts rather than sophisticated adversaries.

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