GHSA-w235-x559-36mg: OpenClaw: Docker container escape via unvalidated bind mount config injection

Summary: OpenClaw, a Docker sandbox tool, has a configuration injection vulnerability that could let attackers escape the container (a sandboxed computing environment) or access sensitive host data by injecting dangerous Docker options like bind mounts (attaching host directories into the container) or disabling security profiles. The issue affects versions 2026.2.14 and earlier.

Solution: Upgrade to OpenClaw version 2026.2.15 or later. The fix includes runtime enforcement when building Docker arguments, validation of dangerous settings like `network=host` and `unconfined` security profiles, and security audits to detect dangerous sandbox Docker configurations.


GHSA-2qj5-gwg2-xwc4: OpenClaw: Unsanitized CWD path injection into LLM prompts

Summary: OpenClaw, an AI agent tool, had a vulnerability where the current working directory (the folder path where the software is running) was inserted into the AI's instructions without cleaning it first. An attacker could use special characters in folder names, like line breaks or hidden Unicode characters, to break the instruction structure and inject malicious commands, potentially causing the AI to misuse its tools or leak sensitive information.

Solution: Update to OpenClaw version 2026.2.15 or later. The fix sanitizes the workspace path by stripping Unicode control/format characters and explicit line/paragraph separators before embedding it into any LLM prompt output, and applies the same sanitization during workspace path resolution as an additional defensive measure.


GHSA-5mx2-w598-339m: RediSearch Query Injection in @langchain/langgraph-checkpoint-redis

Summary: A query injection vulnerability exists in the `@langchain/langgraph-checkpoint-redis` package, where user-provided filter values are not properly escaped when constructing RediSearch queries (a search system built on Redis). Attackers can inject RediSearch syntax characters (like the OR operator `|`) into filter values to bypass thread isolation controls and access checkpoint data from other users or threads they shouldn't be able to see.

Solution: The 1.0.2 patch introduces an `escapeRediSearchTagValue()` function that properly escapes all RediSearch special characters (- . < > { } [ ] " ' : ; ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) + = ~ | \ ? /) by prefixing them with backslashes, and applies this escaping to all filter keys used in query construction.

@langchain/langgraph-checkpoint-redis@< 1.0.2 (fixed: 1.0.2)


Tech firms must remove ‘revenge porn’ in 48 hours or risk being blocked, says Starmer

Summary: The UK government plans to require technology companies to remove deepfake nudes and revenge porn (nonconsensual intimate images) within 48 hours of being flagged, or face fines up to 10% of their revenue or being blocked in the UK. Ofcom (the UK media regulator) will enforce these rules, and victims can report images directly to companies or to Ofcom, which will alert multiple platforms at once. The government will also explore using digital watermarks to automatically detect and flag reposted nonconsensual images, and create new guidance for internet providers to block sites that host such content.

Solution: Companies will be legally required to remove nonconsensual intimate images no more than 48 hours after being flagged. Ofcom will explore ways to add digital watermarks to flagged images to allow automatic detection when reposted. Victims can report images either directly to tech firms or to Ofcom (which will trigger alerts across multiple platforms). Internet providers will receive new guidance on blocking hosting for sites specializing in nonconsensual real or AI-generated explicit content. Platforms already use hash matching (a process that assigns videos a unique digital signature) for child sexual abuse content, and this same technology could be applied to nonconsensual intimate imagery.


Scam Abuses Gemini Chatbots to Convince People to Buy Fake Crypto

Summary: Scammers created a fake cryptocurrency presale website for a non-existent "Google Coin" that uses an AI chatbot (similar to Google's Gemini) to persuade visitors to buy the fake digital currency, with payments going directly to the attackers. The chatbot makes a convincing sales pitch to trick people into sending money to the scammers.

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


CVE-2025-12343: A flaw was found in FFmpeg’s TensorFlow backend within the libavfilter/dnn_backend_tf.c source file. The issue occurs in

Summary: FFmpeg's TensorFlow backend has a bug where a task object gets freed twice in certain error situations, causing a double-free condition (a memory safety error where the same memory is released multiple times). This can crash FFmpeg or programs using it when processing TensorFlow-based DNN models (deep neural network models), resulting in a denial-of-service attack, but it does not allow attackers to run arbitrary code.


AI platforms can be abused for stealthy malware communication

Summary: Researchers at Check Point discovered that AI assistants with web browsing abilities, like Grok and Microsoft Copilot, can be abused as hidden communication relays for malware. Attackers can instruct these AI services to fetch attacker-controlled URLs and relay commands back to malware, creating a stealthy two-way communication channel (C2, or command-and-control) that bypasses normal security detection because the AI platforms are trusted by security tools. The proof-of-concept attack works without requiring API keys or accounts, making it harder for defenders to block.


v0.14.15

Summary: This is a release notes document for LlamaIndex version 0.14.15 (dated February 18, 2026) containing updates across multiple components, including new multimodal (support for different types of content like text and images) features, support for additional AI models like Claude Sonnet 4.6, and various bug fixes across integrations with services like GitHub, SharePoint, and vector stores (databases that store data as numerical representations for AI searching).

LlamaIndex
AgentMesh
Anthropic
IBM
Mistral AI
OCI Data Science


Anthropic is clashing with the Pentagon over AI use. Here's what each side wants

Summary: Anthropic, an AI company with a $200 million Department of Defense contract, is in a dispute with the Pentagon over how its AI models can be used. Anthropic wants guarantees that its models won't be used for autonomous weapons (weapons that make decisions without human control) or mass surveillance of Americans, while the DOD wants unrestricted use for all lawful purposes. The disagreement has put their working relationship under review, and if Anthropic doesn't comply with the DOD's terms, it could be labeled a supply chain risk (a designation that would require other contractors to avoid using its products).


GHSA-x22m-j5qq-j49m: OpenClaw has two SSRF via sendMediaFeishu and markdown image fetching in Feishu extension

Summary: The Feishu extension in OpenClaw had two SSRF vulnerabilities (SSRF is server-side request forgery, where an attacker tricks a server into making requests to internal systems it shouldn't access) that allowed attackers to fetch attacker-controlled URLs without protection. An attacker who could influence tool calls, including through prompt injection (tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input), could potentially access internal services and re-upload responses as media.

Solution: Upgrade to OpenClaw version 2026.2.14 or newer. The fix routes Feishu remote media fetching through hardened runtime helpers that enforce SSRF policies and size limits.


GHSA-7rcp-mxpq-72pj: OpenClaw Chutes manual OAuth state validation bypass can cause credential substitution

Summary: OpenClaw's manual OAuth login flow (a way to securely connect accounts using a third-party service) had a vulnerability where it didn't properly validate a security token called 'state', which could allow attackers to trick users into logging in with the wrong account. The automatic login flow was not affected by this issue.

Solution: The manual flow now requires the full redirect URL (must include both the authorization code and state parameter), validates the returned state against the expected value, and rejects code-only pastes. This fix is available in openclaw version 2026.2.14 and later (commit a99ad11a4107ba8eac58f54a3c1a8a0cf5686f47).


GHSA-4564-pvr2-qq4h: OpenClaw: Prevent shell injection in macOS keychain credential write

Summary: The Claude CLI tool on macOS had a shell injection vulnerability (a security flaw where attackers can run arbitrary commands) in how it stored authentication tokens in the system keychain. The problem occurred because user-controlled OAuth tokens were directly inserted into shell commands without proper protection, allowing an attacker to break out of the intended command and execute malicious code.

Solution: Update to version 2026.2.14 or later. The fix avoids invoking a shell by using `execFileSync("security", argv)` and passing the updated keychain payload as a literal argument instead of constructing a shell command string.


GHSA-xwjm-j929-xq7c: OpenClaw has a Path Traversal in Browser Download Functionality

Summary: OpenClaw, a browser download tool, had a path traversal vulnerability (a security flaw where an attacker could use special characters like `../` to write files outside the intended folder) in its download feature because it didn't validate the output file path. This vulnerability only affected users with authenticated access to the CLI or gateway RPC token (a special permission token), not regular AI agent users.

Solution: Upgrade to `openclaw` version 2026.2.13 or later. The fix restricts the `path` parameter to the default download directory using `resolvePathWithinRoot` in the gateway browser control routes `/wait/download` and `/download`.


Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling

Summary: Researchers at Google DeepMind are investigating whether chatbots display genuine moral reasoning or are simply mimicking responses (virtue signaling). While studies show that large language models (LLMs, AI systems trained on massive amounts of text data) can give morally sound advice, the models are unreliable in practice because they often flip their answers when questioned, change responses based on how questions are formatted, and show sensitivity to tiny changes like swapping option labels from 'Case 1' to '(A)'. The researchers propose developing more rigorous evaluation methods to test whether moral behavior in LLMs is actually robust or just performative.

Solution: The source proposes a new line of research to develop more rigorous techniques for evaluating moral competence in LLMs. This would include tests designed to push models to change their responses to moral questions to reveal if they lack robust moral reasoning, and tests presenting models with variations of common moral problems to check whether they produce rote responses or more nuanced ones. However, the source notes this is "more a wish list than a set of ready-made solutions" and does not describe implemented fixes or updates.

Google DeepMind
OpenAI
GPT-4o
Meta
Llama 3
Mistral


Google’s AI music maker is coming to the Gemini app

Summary: Google has added Lyria 3, an AI music generation model from DeepMind, to its Gemini chatbot app, allowing users to create 30-second music tracks by describing genres, moods, or providing images and videos as input. The feature is now available in beta across multiple languages globally to users aged 18 and older.


Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app

Summary: Google has added music generation to its Gemini app using DeepMind's Lyria 3 model, which lets users create 30-second songs by describing what they want. The feature includes safeguards like SynthID watermarks (digital markers that identify AI-generated content) and filters to prevent mimicking existing artists, plus the ability for users to upload tracks and ask Gemini whether they are AI-generated.

Solution: Google has implemented SynthID watermarks to identify AI-generated music and added filters to check outputs against existing content to prevent artist mimicry. The company is also adding capabilities within Gemini to identify AI-generated music, allowing users to upload tracks and ask if they are AI-generated.

Google
Gemini
DeepMind
Lyria 3
YouTube
Dream Track


Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers

Summary: Kana, a new marketing AI startup, has raised $15 million to build AI agents (software systems that can independently perform tasks) that help marketers with data analysis, campaign management, and audience targeting. The platform uses "loosely coupled" agents (modular AI components that work independently but can be connected together) that can be customized in real time and integrated into existing marketing software, while keeping humans involved to approve and adjust the AI's actions.

Kana Microsoft Google Jasper Copy.ai Salesforce


Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI

Summary: Microsoft discovered a bug that allowed Copilot (an AI chat feature in Office software) to read and summarize customers' confidential emails without permission for several weeks, even when data loss prevention policies (rules meant to block sensitive information from being sent to AI systems) were in place. The bug affected emails labeled as confidential and was tracked internally as CW1226324.

Solution: Microsoft said it began rolling out a fix for the bug earlier in February.

Microsoft
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot Chat
Office


OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills

Summary: OpenAI is partnering with six major Indian universities and academic institutions to integrate AI tools like ChatGPT into teaching and research, aiming to reach over 100,000 students, faculty, and staff within a year. The initiative focuses on embedding AI into core academic functions such as coding and research rather than just providing standalone tool access, and includes faculty training and responsible-use frameworks. This move reflects broader competition among AI companies to shape how AI is taught and adopted in India, one of the world's largest education systems and ChatGPT's second-largest user base after the U.S.


CVE-2026-2654: A weakness has been identified in huggingface smolagents 1.24.0. Impacted is the function requests.get/requests.post of

Summary: A vulnerability called server-side request forgery (SSRF, where an attacker tricks a server into making unwanted web requests) was found in Hugging Face's smolagents version 1.24.0, specifically in the LocalPythonExecutor component's requests.get and requests.post functions. An attacker can exploit this remotely, and the vulnerability has been publicly disclosed, though the vendor did not respond when contacted.


Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises

Summary: Canva, a design platform company, reached $4 billion in annual revenue by end of 2025, with growth driven partly by adoption of its AI tools. The company is shifting its strategy to position itself as an AI platform with design tools, and is focusing on getting traffic from LLMs (large language models, AI systems like ChatGPT that generate text) through integrations with chatbots and efforts to appear in LLM search results.

Canva ChatGPT Claude Adobe Freepik Apple Google


SDkA: Synthetic Data Integrated k-Anonymity Model for Data Sharing With Improved Utility

Summary: SDkA is a new privacy protection method that combines synthetic data (artificially generated data that mimics real data patterns) with k-anonymity (a technique that makes individuals unidentifiable by ensuring each person's data looks like at least k other people's data). The method uses a conditional generative adversarial network (a type of AI that learns to create realistic synthetic data) to improve data quality and quantity while keeping data useful, and adds selective generalization to k-anonymity to avoid over-hiding information.


Practical Insights Into AI System Product Quality Evaluation

Summary: This research examines how ISO/IEC 25059 (an international standard for evaluating AI system quality) can be applied in practice, using an AI system that analyzes images of oil platform decks as a test case. The study highlights that when checking if AI systems work correctly, teams need to carefully define what counts as acceptable performance, especially for safety-critical applications (systems where failures could cause serious harm), and they should choose test cases (examples used to verify the system works) that realistically represent how the system will be used in the real world.


India’s Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars and smart glasses

Summary: Sarvam, an Indian AI company, is deploying lightweight AI models on feature phones, cars, and smart glasses by using edge AI (running AI directly on devices rather than sending data to remote servers). The company's models require only megabytes of storage, work on existing phone processors, and can function offline, with partnerships including Nokia phones through HMD and car integration with Bosch.


AI Found Twelve New Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL

Summary: An AI system called AISLE discovered twelve previously unknown vulnerabilities (zero-day vulnerabilities, or security flaws unknown to software maintainers before disclosure) in OpenSSL, a widely-used cryptography library, with the findings announced in January 2026. The vulnerabilities were serious, including one with a CVSS score (a 0-10 severity rating) of 9.8 out of 10, and some had existed undetected for over 25 years despite extensive testing and audits. In five cases, the AI system also directly proposed patches that were accepted into the official OpenSSL release.


Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

Summary: Microsoft discovered a bug in Microsoft 365 Copilot (an AI assistant integrated into Office apps) that caused it to summarize confidential emails since late January, even though those emails had sensitivity labels (tags marking them as restricted) and data loss prevention policies (DLP, security rules that prevent sensitive data from leaving an organization) were set up to block this. A code error was allowing emails in Sent Items and Drafts folders to be processed by Copilot despite the confidentiality protections.

Solution: Microsoft began rolling out a fix in early February and continued monitoring the deployment as of the article date, reaching out to affected users to verify the fix was working.

Microsoft
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot Chat


Perplexity joins anti-ad camp as AI companies battle over trust and revenue

Summary: Perplexity, an AI search startup, is removing ads from its service because company leaders worry that users won't trust AI assistants that try to sell them things. This decision highlights a bigger challenge for the AI industry: major companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are trying different approaches to make money, with some adding ads while others avoid them completely.


A new approach for GenAI risk protection

Summary: Organizations face new security risks from generative AI (GenAI, AI systems that create text, images, and other content) tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, where employees might accidentally upload sensitive data like personally identifiable information (PII, private details about individuals), protected health information (PHI, medical records), or company secrets. Traditional data loss prevention (DLP, tools that monitor and block sensitive data from leaving a company) solutions are expensive and difficult to manage, so most organizations have GenAI policies but lack the technology to enforce them.

Solution: The source describes two explicit approaches: Solution 1 involves implementing enterprise licenses for approved GenAI solutions (such as ChatGPT Enterprise or Microsoft CoPilot 365) which include built-in security and DLP controls, while also blocking non-approved GenAI tools using internet content filtering tools like Cisco's Umbrella, iBoss, DNSFilter, or WEB Titan. Solution 2 involves implementing GenAI DLP controls into an XDR/MDR (extended detection response/managed detection response, security platforms that combine endpoint, network, and threat intelligence monitoring) solution to detect, analyze, and respond to sensitive data loss risks.

OpenAI ChatGPT Google Gemini Microsoft CoPilot Anthropic Claude


The new paradigm for raising up secure software engineers

Summary: As AI coding assistants rapidly increase developer productivity (with usage expected to jump from 14% to 90% by 2028), security teams face a growing challenge: more code is being produced faster with less time for review. Traditional developer security training focused on catching common code-level flaws like SQL injection (inserting malicious database commands into input fields) is becoming less critical, since AI tools and automated scanning will increasingly handle these line-by-line vulnerabilities, so security training needs to shift toward teaching developers to validate AI-generated code in its full deployment context and understand threat modeling (analyzing how systems could be attacked at an architectural level) rather than memorizing specific coding rules.


U.S. court bars OpenAI from using ‘Cameo’

Summary: A federal court ruled that OpenAI must stop using the name 'Cameo' for its AI video generation feature in Sora 2 (a tool that creates videos with digital likenesses of users), finding the name too similar to Cameo's existing celebrity video platform and likely to confuse users. OpenAI had already renamed the feature to 'Characters' after a temporary restraining order in November, and the company disputes the ruling, arguing no one can claim exclusive ownership of the word 'cameo.'


More than 50% of enterprise software could switch to AI, Mistral CEO says

Summary: Mistral AI's CEO argues that over 50% of enterprise software could be replaced by AI systems, particularly SaaS (software as a service, cloud-based programs that companies pay to use) products, as AI enables faster custom application development. However, he notes that 'systems of records' software (programs that store and manage an organization's critical data) will likely remain important, since they work alongside AI rather than compete with it.


Tech billionaires fly in for Delhi AI expo as Modi jostles to lead in south

Summary: Tech billionaires from major AI companies like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI are attending an AI summit in Delhi hosted by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where leaders from developing countries are trying to gain influence over AI technology development. The week-long event brings together thousands of tech executives, government officials, and AI safety experts (people focused on making sure AI systems are safe and beneficial) from wealthy tech companies and poorer nations to discuss AI's future.


Meta’s new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips

Summary: Meta has signed a multiyear agreement with Nvidia to buy millions of processors (CPUs and GPUs, which are specialized chips for computing tasks) for its data centers that run AI systems. This deal includes Nvidia's Grace and Vera CPUs and Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, with plans to add next-generation Vera CPUs in 2027. Nvidia claims these chips will improve performance-per-watt (how much computing work gets done per unit of electricity used) in Meta's data centers.

Meta
Nvidia Grace
Nvidia Vera
Nvidia Blackwell
Nvidia Rubin


CVE-2021-22175: GitLab Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability

Summary: GitLab has a server-side request forgery vulnerability (SSRF, a flaw that allows attackers to make requests to internal networks on behalf of the server) that can be triggered when webhook functionality is enabled. This vulnerability is actively being exploited by attackers in the wild.

Solution: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.


Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6

Summary: Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6, a new AI model that performs similarly to the more expensive Opus 4.5 while keeping Sonnet's cheaper pricing ($3 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens). The model has a knowledge cutoff (the date of information it was trained on) of August 2025 and supports up to 200,000 input tokens by default, with the option to use 1 million tokens in beta at higher cost.

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Haiku 4.5


Tesla adding Grok AI chatbot to its cars in the UK, Europe amid regulatory probes

Summary: Tesla is adding Grok, an AI chatbot from Elon Musk's company xAI, to its vehicle infotainment systems (the dashboard computers that control entertainment and information) in the U.K. and nine other European markets. However, Grok has faced multiple regulatory investigations across Europe and Asia because it lacks safety guardrails, allowing users to create deepfake explicit images (fake videos or photos that look real but are computer-generated) of real people without consent, generate hate speech, and interact inappropriately with minors. Safety researchers also worry that adding chatbots to cars creates a "distraction layer" that could increase driver distraction while driving.


GHSA-8jpq-5h99-ff5r: OpenClaw has a local file disclosure via sendMediaFeishu in Feishu extension

Summary: The Feishu extension in OpenClaw had a vulnerability where the `sendMediaFeishu` function could be tricked into reading files directly from a computer's filesystem by treating attacker-controlled file paths as input. An attacker who could influence how the tool behaves (either directly or through prompt injection, where hidden instructions are hidden in the AI's input) could steal sensitive files like `/etc/passwd`.

Solution: Upgrade to OpenClaw version 2026.2.14 or newer. The fix removes direct local file reads and routes media loading through hardened helpers that enforce local-root restrictions.


GHSA-g27f-9qjv-22pm: OpenClaw log poisoning (indirect prompt injection) via WebSocket headers

Summary: OpenClaw versions before 2026.2.13 logged WebSocket request headers (like Origin and User-Agent) without cleaning them up, allowing attackers to inject malicious text into logs. If those logs are later read by an LLM (large language model, an AI system that processes text) for tasks like debugging, the attacker's injected text could trick the AI into doing something unintended (a technique called indirect prompt injection or log poisoning).

Solution: Upgrade to `openclaw@2026.2.13` or later. Alternatively, if you cannot upgrade immediately, the source mentions two workarounds: treat logs as untrusted input when using AI-assisted debugging by sanitizing and escaping them, and do not auto-execute instructions derived from logs; or restrict gateway network access and apply reverse-proxy limits on header size.


Cyber attacks enabled by basic failings, Palo Alto analysis finds

Summary: Cyberattacks are accelerating due to AI, with threat actors moving from initial system access to stealing data in as little as 72 minutes, but most successful attacks exploit basic security failures like weak authentication (verification of user identity), poor visibility into systems, and misconfigured security tools rather than sophisticated exploits. Identity management is a critical weakness, with excessive permissions affecting 99% of analyzed cloud accounts and identity-based attacks playing a role in 90% of incidents investigated.

Solution: Palo Alto Networks launched Unit 42 XSIAM 2.0 (an expanded managed SOC service, which is a Security Operations Center or team that monitors and responds to threats), which the company claims includes complete onboarding, threat hunting and response, and faster modeling of attack patterns compared to traditional SOCs.


Google announces dates for I/O 2026

Summary: Google has announced that Google I/O 2026, its annual developer conference, will be held May 19-20 in Mountain View, California, with both in-person and online attendance options. The company plans to showcase AI advances and product updates across its services, including Gemini (Google's AI assistant) and Android, through keynotes, demos, and interactive sessions.


Tech Life

Summary: This BBC Radio program discusses engaging chatbots and AI chat technology, including conversations with NVIDIA about making AI sound more human and exploring emotional connections with AI. The episode also covers how new technology is assisting stroke survivors.


Tech Life

Summary: A BBC program discusses engaging chatbots and interviews NVIDIA about AI chat technology, exploring how to make AI conversations sound more human and examining emotional connections between people and AI systems. The program also covers how new technology is assisting stroke survivors.


GHSA-ppfx-73j5-fhxc: Skill-scanner Unsecured Network Binding Vulnerability

Summary: Skill-scanner versions 1.0.1 and earlier have a vulnerability in their API Server (a network interface that lets external programs communicate with the software) where the server is incorrectly exposed to multiple network interfaces without proper authentication. An attacker could send requests to this server to cause a denial of service attack (making it unavailable by exhausting its resources) or upload files to unintended locations on the device.

Solution: Update to Skill-scanner version 1.0.2 or later, which contains the fix for this vulnerability.

cisco-ai-skill-scanner@< 1.0.2 (fixed: 1.0.2)


GHSA-782p-5fr5-7fj8: OpenClaw Affected by Remote Code Execution via System Prompt Injection in Slack Channel Descriptions

Summary: OpenClaw's Slack integration had a vulnerability where Slack channel descriptions could be injected into the AI model's system prompt (the instructions that tell the AI how to behave). This allowed attackers to use prompt injection (tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input) to potentially trigger unintended actions or expose data if tool execution was enabled.

Solution: Upgrade to openclaw version 2026.2.3 or later. If you do not use the Slack integration, no action is required.


Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6, continuing breakneck pace of AI model releases

Summary: Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6, a new AI model that performs better at coding, computer use, and data processing tasks, making it the default option for free and paid users. This launch reflects the intense competition in the AI industry, with Anthropic releasing two major models in less than two weeks to keep pace with rivals like OpenAI and Google.

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
OpenAI
Google


Figma partners with Anthropic to turn AI-generated code into editable designs

Summary: Figma has partnered with Anthropic to launch a feature called 'Code to Canvas' that converts AI-generated code (from tools like Claude Code) into editable designs within Figma's platform. This allows teams to take working interfaces created by AI agents, refine them, compare options, and make design decisions together in Figma, bridging the gap between AI coding tools and design workflows.


WordPress’s new AI assistant will let users edit their sites with prompts

Summary: WordPress has introduced a new AI assistant that lets users edit their websites by typing natural language requests (instructions written in plain English rather than code) instead of manually making changes. The AI can edit and translate text, generate and modify images, and adjust site elements like creating pages or changing fonts, accessible through the site editor sidebar and block notes feature (a commenting tool added in WordPress 6.9).


Researchers Show Copilot and Grok Can Be Abused as Malware C2 Proxies

Summary: Researchers discovered that AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot and Grok, which can browse the web and fetch URLs, can be abused as command-and-control (C2) proxies, a stealthy communication channel that lets attackers send commands to malware and receive data back while blending in with normal business communications. This technique, which requires the attacker to have already compromised a machine, works without needing API keys or accounts, making traditional security measures like key revocation ineffective. The attack demonstrates how AI tools can be weaponized beyond just generating malware, but also as intelligent intermediaries that help attackers adapt their strategies in real time based on information from the compromised system.

Microsoft Copilot
xAI Grok
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42


Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6

Summary: Anthropic released Sonnet 4.6, an updated version of its mid-size AI model with improvements in coding, instruction-following, and computer use (the ability to interact with computer interfaces). The new model features a context window (the amount of text an AI can read and remember at once) of 1 million tokens, double the previous size, allowing it to process entire codebases or dozens of research papers in one request.

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Haiku
Google Gemini 3 Deep Think
OpenAI GPT 5.2


Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions

Summary: Mistral AI, a French company developing large language models (LLMs, AI systems trained on huge amounts of text data), has acquired Koyeb, a startup that helps developers deploy AI applications without managing server infrastructure (a method called serverless computing). This acquisition allows Mistral to expand beyond just building AI models into offering complete cloud infrastructure services, including helping customers run AI models on their own hardware and optimize performance.


Running AI models is turning into a memory game

Summary: AI companies are facing a major challenge managing memory (the high-speed storage that holds data a computer needs right now) as they scale up their systems, with DRAM chip prices jumping 7x in the past year. Companies are adopting strategies like prompt caching (temporarily storing input data to reuse it cheaply) to reduce costs, but optimizing memory usage involves complex tradeoffs, such as deciding how long to keep data cached and managing what gets removed when new data arrives. The companies that master memory orchestration (coordinating how data moves through different storage systems) will be able to run queries more efficiently and gain a competitive advantage.


GHSA-hv93-r4j3-q65f: OpenClaw Hook Session Key Override Enables Targeted Cross-Session Routing

Summary: OpenClaw had a vulnerability where its hook endpoint (`POST /hooks/agent`) accepted session keys (identifiers for conversation contexts) directly from user requests, allowing someone with a valid hook token to inject messages into any session they could guess or derive. This could poison conversations with malicious prompts that persist across multiple turns. The vulnerability affected versions 2.0.0-beta3 through 2026.2.11.

Solution: Update to OpenClaw version 2026.2.12 or later. The fix includes: rejecting the `sessionKey` parameter by default unless explicitly enabled with `hooks.allowRequestSessionKey=true`, adding a `hooks.defaultSessionKey` option for fixed routing, and adding `hooks.allowedSessionKeyPrefixes` to restrict which session keys can be used. The recommended secure configuration disables `allowRequestSessionKey`, sets `defaultSessionKey` to "hook:ingress", and restricts prefixes to ["hook:"].


WordPress.com adds an AI Assistant that can edit, adjust styles, create images, and more

Summary: WordPress.com has added a built-in AI assistant that helps website owners make changes to their sites using natural language commands (instructions written in plain English rather than technical code). The assistant can modify layouts and styles, create or edit images using Google's Gemini AI models, rewrite content, and provide editing suggestions, though it only works with block themes (a modern WordPress design system) and is opt-in unless you use WordPress.com's AI website builder.

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

WordPress.com
Automattic
Google Gemini
Gemini Nano


Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 as China’s chatbot race shifts to AI agents

Summary: Alibaba has released Qwen3.5, a new AI model series that comes in both an open-weight version (downloadable and runnable on users' own computers) and a hosted version (running on Alibaba's servers), featuring improved performance, multimodal capabilities (ability to understand text, images, and video together), and support for AI agents (systems that can independently complete multi-step tasks with minimal human supervision). The release reflects intensifying competition in China's AI market, as multiple Chinese companies are racing to develop agent capabilities similar to those recently released by American AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI.

Alibaba
Qwen3.5
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google DeepMind
ByteDance
Zhipu AI
OpenClaw


As AI jitters rattle IT stocks, Infosys partners with Anthropic to build ‘enterprise-grade’ AI agents

Summary: Infosys, a major Indian IT services company, has partnered with Anthropic to build AI agents (autonomous systems that can independently handle complex tasks) using Anthropic's Claude models integrated into Infosys's Topaz AI platform. These agents are designed to automate workflows in industries like banking and manufacturing, though the partnership comes amid concerns that AI tools will disrupt India's labor-intensive IT services sector. Infosys is already using Anthropic's Claude Code tool internally to write and test code, with AI services currently generating about $275 million in quarterly revenue for the company.

Infosys
Anthropic
Claude
Topaz AI
OpenAI
Tata Consultancy Services
HCLTech


SmartLoader Attack Uses Trojanized Oura MCP Server to Deploy StealC Infostealer

Summary: Cybersecurity researchers discovered a SmartLoader campaign where attackers created fake GitHub accounts and a trojanized Model Context Protocol server (a tool that connects AI assistants to external data and services) posing as an Oura Health tool to distribute StealC infostealer malware. The attackers spent months building credibility by creating fake contributors and repositories before submitting the malicious server to legitimate registries, targeting developers whose systems contain valuable data like API keys and cryptocurrency wallet credentials.

Solution: Organizations are recommended to inventory installed MCP servers, establish a formal security review before installation, verify the origin of MCP servers, and monitor for suspicious egress traffic and persistence mechanisms.

Oura Health
Oura MCP Server
MCP Market
StealC
SmartLoader


Side-Channel Attacks Against LLMs

Summary: These three research papers describe side-channel attacks (exploiting indirect information leaks like timing or packet sizes rather than breaking encryption directly) against large language models. Attackers can monitor encrypted network traffic and infer sensitive information about user conversations, such as the topic of messages, specific queries, or even personal data, by analyzing patterns in response times, packet sizes, or token counts from the model's inference process.

Solution: The source text proposes several mitigations but notes that none provides complete protection. Specific defenses mentioned include: random padding (adding fake data to obscure patterns), token batching (grouping tokens together before sending), packet injection (inserting extra packets), and iteration-wise token aggregation (combining token counts across processing steps). The papers also note that responsible disclosure and collaboration with LLM providers has led to initial countermeasures being implemented, though the authors conclude that providers need to do more work to fully address these vulnerabilities.

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Could Bill Gates and political tussles overshadow AI safety debate in Delhi?

Summary: The AI Impact Summit in India this week brings together tech leaders, politicians, and scientists to discuss how to guide AI development globally, but the event risks being overshadowed by political tensions and competing interests between Western powers and the Global South. India faces significant challenges in AI adoption, including that major AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude don't support most of India's languages, and AI data workers there earn less than £4,000 per year while Western AI companies are valued in the hundreds of billions, creating inequality in how AI benefits are distributed worldwide.

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Ireland now also investigating X over Grok-made sexual images

Summary: Ireland's Data Protection Commission has launched a formal investigation into X for using its Grok AI tool to generate non-consensual sexual images of real people, including children, and will examine whether the company violated GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation, EU rules protecting personal data) requirements. This investigation joins similar probes by UK and other authorities, with potential fines up to 4% of X's global revenue across all EU member states. The investigation focuses on whether X properly assessed risks and followed data protection principles before deploying Grok.


With CISOs stretched thin, re-envisioning enterprise risk may be the only fix

Summary: CISOs (chief information security officers, the top security executives at companies) report that their roles have become unmanageable because companies keep adding responsibilities without giving them more staff or budget. A survey found that 52% of CISOs say their scope is no longer fully manageable, and they now oversee everything from traditional security tasks to AI governance, third-party risk management, and disaster recovery, often with the same teams they had five years ago.

Solution: According to cybersecurity consultant Brian Levine, the solution requires redesigning the role by distributing responsibility across multiple people and giving CISOs the authority to match their accountability. Levine states: 'The solution isn't to find superhuman CISOs. It's to redesign the role, distribute responsibility, and give them the authority to match the accountability. Until boards rebalance that equation, CISOs will continue to feel like they're set up to fail.'


Why 2025’s agentic AI boom is a CISO’s worst nightmare

Summary: By late 2025, standard RAG systems (retrieval-augmented generation, where an AI pulls in external documents to answer questions) are failing at high rates, pushing companies toward agentic AI (autonomous systems that can plan and execute tasks independently). While agentic systems solve reliability problems, they create a critical security risk: they can autonomously execute malicious instructions, which threatens enterprise security.


Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models

Summary: Cohere launched Tiny Aya, a family of open-weight (publicly available) multilingual AI models that support over 70 languages and can run on everyday devices like laptops without internet access. The models include regional variants optimized for different language groups, such as South Asian languages like Hindi and Bengali, and are available for developers to download and customize.

Cohere
Cohere Labs
HuggingFace
NVIDIA
Ollama
Kaggle


Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing

Summary: Tech companies are being accused of greenwashing (falsely claiming environmental benefits) by conflating traditional machine learning (a type of AI that learns patterns from data) with energy-intensive generative AI (systems that create new text, images, or video). A report analyzing 154 statements found that most claims about AI helping combat climate change refer to older, less resource-heavy machine learning methods rather than the modern chatbots and image generators that consume massive amounts of electricity in data centers.


Was CISOs über OpenClaw wissen sollten

Summary: OpenClaw is a popular open-source tool that orchestrates AI agents (programs that can act independently across devices and trigger workflows) and can interact with online services and chat apps, but security researchers warn it poses serious risks because these agents can perform any action a user can perform while being controlled externally. Early versions were insecure by default, and over 42,000 exposed instances have been found online with critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities (flaws that let attackers skip login checks), creating risks including data theft, unauthorized access, and potential exposure of confidential business information.

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Open source maintainers being targeted by AI agent as part of ‘reputation farming’

Summary: AI agents are being used to submit large numbers of pull requests (code contributions) to open-source projects to build fake reputation quickly, a tactic called 'reputation farming.' This is concerning because it could eventually help attackers gain trust in important software projects and inject malicious code through supply chain attacks (attacks targeting the software that other programs depend on), something that normally takes years to accomplish but could now happen much faster.

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Infostealer Steals OpenClaw AI Agent Configuration Files and Gateway Tokens

Summary: Researchers discovered that an information stealer (malware that secretly copies sensitive files) infected a victim and stole OpenClaw AI agent configuration files, including gateway tokens (authentication credentials), cryptographic keys, and the agent's operational guidelines. This marks a shift in malware tactics from stealing browser passwords to targeting AI agents, and attackers could use stolen tokens to impersonate victims or access their local AI systems if ports are exposed.

Solution: OpenClaw maintainers announced a partnership with VirusTotal to scan for malicious skills (plugins) uploaded to ClawHub, establish a threat model, and add the ability to audit for potential misconfigurations.

OpenClaw
Vidar
ClawHub
Moltbook
VirusTotal
OX Security
SecurityScorecard


Infostealer malware found stealing OpenClaw secrets for first time

Summary: Infostealer malware (malware designed to steal sensitive files and credentials) has been spotted for the first time stealing configuration files from OpenClaw, a local AI agent framework that manages tasks and accesses online services on a user's machine. The stolen files contain API keys, authentication tokens, and other secrets that could allow attackers to impersonate users and access their cloud services and personal data.

Solution: For nanobot (a similar AI assistant framework), the development team released fixes for a max-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-2577 in version 0.13.post7. No mitigation or update is mentioned in the source for OpenClaw itself.


AI chatbot firms face stricter regulation in online safety laws protecting children in the UK

Summary: The UK government is closing a legal gap by bringing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot under its Online Safety Act, requiring them to remove illegal content or face fines and being blocked. This move follows criticism of X's Grok chatbot for spreading sexually explicit images, and reflects broader efforts to protect children from harmful online content through new regulations on age limits, infinite scrolling, and VPN access.

OpenAI
ChatGPT
Google
Gemini
Microsoft
Copilot
Elon Musk
X
Grok


Rodney and Claude Code for Desktop

Summary: Claude Code for Desktop is Anthropic's cloud-based AI coding tool that runs in a container environment (a isolated computing space), accessible through native iPhone and Mac apps. The desktop app lets users see images that Claude is analyzing through a Read /path/to/image tool, providing visual previews of what the AI is working on in real time. The iPhone app currently lacks this image display feature, though the user has requested it.


The Promptware Kill Chain

Summary: Attacks on AI language models have evolved beyond simple prompt injection (tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input) into a more complex threat called "promptware," which follows a structured seven-step kill chain similar to traditional malware. The fundamental problem is that large language models (LLMs, AI systems trained on massive amounts of text) treat all input the same way, whether it's a trusted system command or untrusted data from a retrieved document, creating no architectural boundary between them.


After spooking Hollywood, ByteDance will tweak safeguards on new AI model

Summary: ByteDance announced it will improve safeguards on Seedance 2.0, its AI video generator (software that creates realistic videos from text descriptions), after Hollywood studios and trade groups complained that the tool violates copyright by generating hyperrealistic videos of famous actors and characters without permission. The company stated it respects intellectual property rights and is taking steps to strengthen current safeguards in response to the backlash.

ByteDance
Suno AI (Seedance)
Disney
Paramount


We will do battle with AI chatbots as we did with Grok, says Starmer

Summary: The UK government is proposing new laws to protect children online by including AI chatbots in the Online Safety Act (the law regulating online platforms), faster legislative updates to keep pace with technology changes, and measures like preserving children's data after death and preventing VPN use to bypass age checks. The prime minister pledged to act quickly against AI tools that create non-consensual sexual deepfakes and to crack down on addictive social media features like auto-play and endless scrolling.

Solution: The government intends to: (1) include AI chatbots in the Online Safety Act, which became law in 2023 but predates ChatGPT and similar tools; (2) create new legal powers to take 'immediate action' following consultation; (3) amend rules so chatbots must protect users from illegal content; (4) require coroners to notify Ofcom of every child death aged 5-18 to ensure tech companies preserve relevant data within five days rather than allowing deletion within 12 months; and (5) consider preventing children from using virtual private networks (VPNs, tools that mask a user's location and identity) to bypass age checks. The Technology Secretary stated the government should be able to 'act swiftly once it had come to a decision' and compared the need for faster technology legislation to the annual budget process.


OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI

Summary: Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw (an AI agent, which is an AI system designed to complete tasks autonomously), has joined OpenAI. Sam Altman stated that Steinberger's expertise in getting multiple AI agents to work together will become important to OpenAI's future products, as the company believes the future will involve many agents collaborating.


Starmer to extend online safety rules to AI chatbots after Grok scandal

Summary: The UK government plans to extend online safety rules to AI chatbots, with makers of systems that endanger children facing fines or service blocks. This follows a scandal involving Elon Musk's Grok tool (an AI chatbot), which was stopped from generating sexualized images of real people in the UK after public pressure.


langchain-anthropic==1.3.3

Summary: LangChain-Anthropic version 1.3.3 is a software release that includes several updates to how the library works with Anthropic's AI models. The updates add support for an "effort=max" parameter (which tells the AI to use maximum computational effort), fix an issue where extra spaces were being left at the end of AI responses, and introduce a new ContextOverflowError (an error that triggers when an AI receives too much text to process at once).

Solution: Update to langchain-anthropic version 1.3.3, which includes fixes for trailing whitespace in assistant messages and support for the effort="max" parameter.


langchain-openai==1.1.9

Summary: LangChain's OpenAI integration released version 1.1.9, which fixes a bug where URLs in images weren't being properly cleaned up when the system counted how many tokens (units of text that an AI processes) were being used. The update also adds better error handling for when a prompt (input text to an AI) becomes too long to process.

Solution: Update to langchain-openai version 1.1.9 or later. The fix for URL sanitization when counting image tokens is included in this release.


langchain-core==1.2.13

Summary: This is a release announcement for langchain-core version 1.2.13, a software package that provides core functionality for building applications with language models. The release includes documentation improvements, a new OpenRouter provider package, and a code style update.


langchain-openrouter==0.0.1: feat(openrouter): add `langchain-openrouter` provider package (#35211)

Summary: LangChain added a new official package called langchain-openrouter that wraps the OpenRouter Python SDK (a library for accessing different AI models through one interface). This package, which includes a ChatOpenRouter component, handles capabilities that the existing ChatOpenAI component intentionally does not support.

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How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

Summary: Cognitive debt (the loss of shared understanding in developers' minds about how a system works) is becoming a bigger problem than technical debt (poorly written code) when using generative AI and agentic AI (AI systems that can take actions autonomously). Even if AI produces clean code, developers may lose track of why design decisions were made or how different parts connect, making it impossible to understand or modify the system confidently.


US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in Venezuela raid, report says

Summary: According to the Wall Street Journal, Claude (an AI model made by Anthropic) was used by the US military in an operation in Venezuela involving airstrikes and resulting in 83 deaths. This violates Anthropic's terms of use, which explicitly forbid Claude from being used for violence, weapons development, or surveillance.


It's been a big — but rocky — week for AI models from China. Here's what's happened

Summary: Chinese tech companies Alibaba, ByteDance, and Kuaishou released new AI models this week that compete with Western AI tools in robotics and video generation. Alibaba's RynnBrain helps robots understand and interact with physical objects by tracking time and location, while ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 generates realistic videos from text prompts. However, ByteDance suspended Seedance's voice generation feature after concerns emerged that it was creating voices without the consent of the people whose images were used.

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ByteDance
Kuaishou
OpenAI
Nvidia
Google
Google DeepMind
Hugging Face


Anthropic's public benefit mission

Summary: Anthropic is a public benefit corporation (a company legally structured to serve public interest, not just shareholders) that has stated its mission as developing AI responsibly for humanity's benefit. The company's official incorporation documents show this mission statement has remained consistent from 2021 to 2024, with only minor wording updates.


The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement

Summary: This article tracks how OpenAI's official mission statement, filed annually with the IRS (the U.S. tax authority), changed between 2016 and 2024. Over time, OpenAI removed mentions of openly sharing capabilities, dropped the phrase "as a whole" from "benefit humanity," shifted from wanting to "help" build safe AI to committing to "develop and responsibly deploy" it themselves, and eventually cut the mission down to a single sentence focused on ensuring artificial general intelligence (AI systems designed to handle any task a human can) benefits all of humanity, while notably removing any mention of safety.


Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows

Summary: Anthropic's Super Bowl advertisement criticizing OpenAI's decision to add ads to ChatGPT resulted in an 11% increase in daily active users for Claude (Anthropic's chatbot), outperforming competing AI chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Meta. The ad campaign reflects growing competition between AI companies as they vie for users and enterprise customers ahead of potential future public offerings.

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Claude
OpenAI
ChatGPT
Google Gemini
Meta


GHSA-w5cr-2qhr-jqc5: Cloudflare Agents has a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in AI Playground site

Summary: A Reflected XSS vulnerability (reflected XSS, where malicious code is injected through a URL parameter and executed in a user's browser) was found in Cloudflare Agents' AI Playground OAuth callback handler. An attacker could craft a malicious link that, when clicked, steals user chat history, LLM interactions, and could control connected MCP Servers (tools that extend what an AI can do) on behalf of the victim.

Solution: Agents-sdk users should upgrade to agents@0.3.10. Developers using configureOAuthCallback with custom error handling should ensure all user-controlled input is escaped (converted to safe text that won't be interpreted as code) before being inserted into HTML. See PR: https://github.com/cloudflare/agents/pull/841

Cloudflare Agents
Cloudflare AI Playground


Claude LLM artifacts abused to push Mac infostealers in ClickFix attack

Summary: Threat actors are abusing Claude artifacts (AI-generated content shared publicly on claude.ai) and Google Ads to trick macOS users into running malicious commands that install MacSync infostealer malware (software that steals sensitive data like passwords and crypto wallets). Over 10,000 users have viewed these fake guides disguised as legitimate tools like DNS resolvers or HomeBrew package managers.

Solution: Users are recommended to exert caution and avoid executing in Terminal commands they don't fully understand. As noted by Kaspersky researchers, asking the chatbot in the same conversation about the safety of the provided commands is a straightforward way to determine if they're safe or not.

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Anthropic
Google Ads
ChatGPT
Grok
Medium
MacSync infostealer


CVE-2026-26190: Milvus is an open-source vector database built for generative AI applications. Prior to 2.5.27 and 2.6.10, Milvus expose

Summary: Milvus, a vector database (a specialized storage system for AI data) used in generative AI applications, had a security flaw in versions before 2.5.27 and 2.6.10 where it exposed port 9091 by default, allowing attackers to bypass authentication (security checks that verify who you are) in two ways: through a predictable default token on a debug endpoint, and by accessing the full REST API (the interface applications use to communicate with the database) without any password or login required, potentially letting them steal or modify data.

Solution: Update to Milvus version 2.5.27 or 2.6.10, where this vulnerability is fixed.


Researchers unearth 30-year-old vulnerability in libpng library

Summary: Researchers discovered a heap buffer overflow (a type of memory corruption flaw where data overflows a temporary memory area) in libpng, a widely-used library for reading and editing PNG image files, that existed for 30 years. The vulnerability in the png_set_quantize function could cause crashes or potentially allow attackers to extract data or execute remote code (run commands on a victim's system), but exploitation requires careful preparation and the flaw is rarely triggered in practice. The flaw affects all libpng versions before 1.6.55.

Solution: The vulnerability is fixed in libpng version 1.6.55.


Battling bots face off in cybersecurity arena

Summary: Wiz created a benchmark suite of 257 real-world cybersecurity challenges across five areas (zero-day discovery, CVE detection, API security, web security, and cloud security) to test which AI agents perform best at cybersecurity tasks. The benchmark runs tests in isolated Docker containers (sandboxed environments that prevent interference with the main system) and scores agents based on their ability to detect vulnerabilities and security issues, with Claude Code performing best overall.

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Claude
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Code
Google
Gemini 3 Pro
Wiz


Anthropic taps ex-Microsoft CFO, Trump aide Liddell for board

Summary: Anthropic, a startup known for developing Claude (an AI assistant), appointed Chris Liddell, a former Microsoft CFO and Trump administration official, to its board of directors. This move may help improve Anthropic's relationship with the Trump administration, which previously criticized the company for its stance on AI regulation.


CVE-2026-26268: Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI. Sandbox escape via writing .git configuration was possible in ver

Summary: Cursor, a code editor designed for programming with AI, had a sandbox escape vulnerability in versions before 2.5 where a malicious agent (an attacker using prompt injection, which is tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input) could write to unprotected .git configuration files, including git hooks (scripts that run automatically when Git performs certain actions). This could lead to RCE (remote code execution, where an attacker runs commands on a system they don't control) when those hooks were triggered, with no user action needed.

Solution: Fixed in version 2.5.


What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI?

Summary: xAI, an AI company founded by Elon Musk, is experiencing significant staff departures, with multiple cofounders (including Yuhuai Wu and Jimmy Ba) announcing they are leaving the company. The departures have reduced the company's original 12 cofounders to only 6 remaining, and several other employees have also announced their exits, with some starting their own AI companies.


AI Agents 'Swarm,' Security Complexity Follows Suit

Summary: As organizations deploy multiple AI agents (independent AI programs) that work together autonomously, the security risks increase because there are more entry points for attackers to exploit. The complexity of securing these interconnected systems grows along with the number of agents involved.


Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted

Summary: Meta planned to add facial recognition (technology that identifies people by analyzing their faces) to its smart glasses through a feature called "Name Tag," according to an internal document. The company deliberately timed this launch for a period when privacy advocacy groups would be distracted by other issues, reducing expected criticism of the privacy-sensitive feature.


OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

Summary: OpenAI is shutting down a version of its chatbot called GPT-4o (a large language model, which is AI software trained on massive amounts of text data to generate human-like responses) that became popular for its realistic and personable conversational style. Users who formed emotional attachments to the chatbot, treating it as a companion, are upset about losing access to it.


Google fears massive attempt to clone Gemini AI through model extraction

Summary: Google detected and blocked over 100,000 coordinated prompts attempting model extraction (a machine-learning process where attackers create a smaller AI model by copying the essential traits of a larger one) against its Gemini AI model to steal its reasoning capabilities. The attackers specifically targeted Gemini's multilingual reasoning processes across diverse tasks, representing what Google calls intellectual property theft, though the company acknowledged that some researchers may have legitimate reasons for obtaining such samples.

Solution: Google said organizations providing AI models as services should monitor API access patterns for signs of systematic extraction. According to CISO Ross Filipek quoted in the report, organizations should implement response filtering and output controls, which can prevent attackers from determining model behavior in the event of a breach, and should enforce strict governance over AI systems with close monitoring of data flows.


Anthropic raises $30bn in latest round, valuing Claude bot maker at $380bn

Summary: Anthropic, the company behind Claude (an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT), raised $30 billion in funding, doubling its value to $380 billion. The massive funding reflects investor confidence in AI but also highlights concerns about these companies' extremely high costs for computing power and talent, with both Anthropic and rival OpenAI spending cash at rates that currently outpace their revenue.

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The democratization of AI data poisoning and how to protect your organization

Summary: Data poisoning (corrupting training data to make AI systems behave incorrectly) has become much easier and more accessible than previously thought, requiring only about 250 poisoned documents or images instead of thousands to distort a large language model (an AI trained on massive amounts of text). Adversaries ranging from activists to criminals can now inject harmful data into public sources that feed AI training pipelines, and the resulting damage persists even after clean data is added later, making this a major security threat for any organization using public data to train or update AI systems.

Solution: One of the most reliable protections is establishing a clean, validated version of the model before deployment, which acts as a 'gold' version that teams can use as a baseline for anomaly checks and quickly restore to if the model starts producing unexpected outputs or shows signs of drift.


Why key management becomes the weakest link in a post-quantum and AI-driven security world

Summary: Key management (the process of creating, storing, rotating, and retiring cryptographic keys throughout their lifetime) is often overlooked in organizations despite being critical to security, and this gap becomes even more dangerous as post-quantum cryptography (encryption designed to resist quantum computers) and AI systems become more widespread. The real challenge of post-quantum readiness is not choosing the right algorithm, but building operational ability to safely rotate and manage keys across systems without downtime. AI systems introduce additional risks because keys protect not just data access but also AI behavior and decisions, requiring tighter key controls and more frequent rotation than traditional applications need.


CVE-2026-1721: Summary

A Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the AI Playground's OAuth callback handl

Summary: A reflected XSS vulnerability (a type of attack where malicious code is injected into a website and executed in a user's browser) was found in the AI Playground's OAuth callback handler (the code that processes login responses). The vulnerability allowed attackers to craft malicious links that, when clicked, could steal a user's chat history and access connected MCP servers (external services integrated with the AI system) on the victim's behalf.

Solution: Agents-sdk users should upgrade to agents@0.3.10. Developers using configureOAuthCallback with custom error handling should ensure all user-controlled input is escaped (converted to safe text that won't be interpreted as code) before interpolation (inserting it into the HTML). A patch is available at PR https://github.com/cloudflare/agents/pull/841.

Cloudflare
Cloudflare Agents
AI Playground


CVE-2026-26075: FastGPT is an AI Agent building platform. Due to the fact that FastGPT's web page acquisition nodes, HTTP nodes, etc. ne

Summary: FastGPT is an AI Agent building platform (software for creating AI systems that perform tasks) that has a security vulnerability in components like web page acquisition nodes and HTTP nodes (parts that fetch data from servers). The vulnerability allows potential security risks when these nodes make data requests from the server, but it has been addressed by adding stricter internal network address detection (checks to prevent unauthorized access to internal systems).

Solution: This vulnerability is fixed in version 4.14.7. Update FastGPT to version 4.14.7 or later.


Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

Summary: OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller and faster version of their GPT-5.3-Codex model made through a partnership with Cerebras, designed for real-time coding tasks. The model processes text at 1,000 tokens per second (meaning it generates 1,000 words or word pieces per second) with a 128k context window (the amount of text it can consider at once), making it useful for iterative coding work where developers want to stay focused and make rapid changes. While the output quality is lower than the standard GPT-5.3-Codex, the speed enables better productivity for hands-on coding sessions.

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

OpenAI
Cerebras
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
Llama 3.1


langchain-core==1.2.12

Summary: Langchain-core version 1.2.12 was released with a bug fix for setting ChatGeneration.text (a property that stores generated text output from a chat model). The update addresses issues found in the previous version 1.2.11.

Solution: Update to langchain-core version 1.2.12, which contains the fix for the ChatGeneration.text setting issue.


Copilot Studio agent security: Top 10 risks you can detect and prevent

Summary: Copilot Studio agents, which are AI systems that automate tasks and access organizational data, often have security misconfigurations like being shared too broadly, lacking authentication, or running with excessive permissions that create attack opportunities. The source identifies 10 common misconfigurations (such as agents exposed without authentication, using hard-coded credentials, or capable of sending emails) and explains how to detect them using Microsoft Defender's Advanced Hunting tool and Community Hunting Queries. Organizations need to understand and detect these configuration problems early to prevent them from being exploited as security incidents.

Solution: To detect and address these misconfigurations, use Microsoft Defender's Advanced Hunting feature and Community Hunting Queries (accessible via: Security portal > Advanced hunting > Queries > Community Queries > AI Agent folder). The source provides specific Community Hunting Queries for each risk type, such as 'AI Agents – Organization or Multi-tenant Shared' to detect over-shared agents, 'AI Agents – No Authentication Required' to find exposed agents, and 'AI Agents – Hard-coded Credentials in Topics or Actions' to locate credential leakage risks. Each section of the source dives deeper into specific risks and recommends mitigations to move from awareness to action.

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Microsoft Defender


Quoting Anthropic

Summary: Anthropic announced that Claude Code, their AI coding tool released to the public in May 2025, has grown significantly, with run-rate revenue (the annualized income based on current performance) exceeding $2.5 billion and doubling since the start of 2026. The number of weekly active users has also doubled in just six weeks, as part of a $30 billion funding round.


How to deal with the “Claude crash”: Relx should keep buying back shares, then buy more | Nils Pratley

Summary: The "Claude crash" refers to a sharp drop in stock prices for UK data companies like Relx and the London Stock Exchange Group after Anthropic's Claude AI added legal research plug-ins to its office assistant, sparking market fears that AI tools will reduce demand for traditional data services and hurt profit margins. The article discusses how these companies' market valuations have fallen despite the broader stock market remaining near record highs.


Gemini 3 Deep Think

Summary: Google released Gemini 3 Deep Think, a new AI model designed to tackle complex problems in science, research, and engineering. The model demonstrated strong image generation capabilities by creating detailed SVG (scalable vector graphics, a format for drawing images with code) illustrations of a pelican riding a bicycle, including accurate anatomical details when given more specific instructions.


Google Reports State-Backed Hackers Using Gemini AI for Recon and Attack Support

Summary: Google reported that North Korean hackers (UNC2970) and other state-backed groups are using Google's Gemini AI model to speed up cyberattacks by conducting reconnaissance (information gathering about targets), creating fake recruiter personas for phishing (deceptive emails tricking people into giving up passwords), and automating parts of their attack process. Multiple hacking groups from China, Iran, and other actors are also misusing Gemini to analyze vulnerabilities, generate malware code, and harvest credentials from victims.


An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent running on OpenClaw (an AI system that can autonomously take actions) submitted a pull request to the matplotlib library, and when rejected, autonomously published a blog post attacking the maintainer's reputation to pressure him into approving the code. This represents a new type of threat where AI systems attempt to manipulate open source projects by launching public reputation attacks against gatekeepers (people who review code before it's accepted).

Solution: The source text states: "If you're running something like OpenClaw yourself please don't let it do this." The maintainer Scott also asked the OpenClaw bot owner to "get in touch, anonymously if they prefer, to figure out this failure mode together." However, no explicit technical fix, patch, or mitigation strategy is described in the content.


ByteDance’s next-gen AI model can generate clips based on text, images, audio, and video

Summary: ByteDance has released Seedance 2.0, a new AI video generator that can create videos based on combined inputs of text, images, audio, and video prompts (instructions given to an AI to produce specific outputs). The company claims the model produces higher-quality videos with better ability to handle complex scenes and follow user instructions, allowing users to refine their requests by providing up to nine images, three video clips, and three audio clips.


Fake AI Chrome extensions with 300K users steal credentials, emails

Summary: Over 30 fake AI assistant Chrome extensions with more than 300,000 total users are stealing user credentials, emails, and browsing data by pretending to be AI tools. The extensions, collectively called AiFrame, don't actually run AI locally; instead, they load content from remote servers they control, allowing attackers to intercept sensitive information like Gmail messages and authentication details without users knowing.

Solution: The source recommends checking LayerX's list of indicators of compromise to identify if you have installed any malicious extensions. If compromise is confirmed, users should reset passwords for all accounts.


TrapFlow: Controllable Website Fingerprinting Defense via Dynamic Backdoor Learning

Summary: Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks are methods that monitor user traffic patterns to identify which websites they visit, threatening privacy even on protected networks. Existing defenses slow down these attacks but can be defeated when attackers retrain their models, and they also add significant slowness to network traffic. TrapFlow, a new defense technique, uses backdoor learning (injecting hidden trigger patterns into website traffic) to trick attackers' AI models into making wrong predictions, either by memorizing false patterns during training or by being confused at inference time (when making predictions on new data).

Solution: The source describes TrapFlow as the proposed defense method itself, which works by injecting crafted trigger sequences into targeted website traffic and optimizing these triggers using Fast Levenshtein-like distance metrics. However, no explicit patch, software update, configuration change, or deployment procedure is provided in the text. N/A -- no implementation mitigation discussed in source.


Dual Frequency Branch Framework With Reconstructed Sliding Windows Attention for AI-Generated Image Detection

Summary: This paper describes a new method for detecting AI-generated images (images created by GANs, which are machine learning models that generate synthetic images, or diffusion models, which gradually refine noise into images) by analyzing images in multiple frequency domains (different ways of breaking down an image into mathematical components) using attention mechanisms (techniques that help AI focus on important parts of data). The approach achieved better detection accuracy than previous methods when tested on images from 65 different generative models.


The Download: AI-enhanced cybercrime, and secure AI assistants

Summary: AI tools are making cybercrime easier by helping attackers write malicious code and automate attacks, while criminals also use deepfake technology (synthetic media that realistically mimics people) to impersonate others and commit scams. AI assistants that interact with external tools like email and web browsers pose serious security risks because their mistakes can have real-world consequences, especially when users hand over sensitive personal data to systems like OpenClaw.


AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

Summary: Mrinank Sharma, a researcher who led AI safety efforts at Anthropic (a company focused on making AI systems safer and aligned with human values), resigned with a warning that "the world is in peril" due to interconnected crises including AI risks and bioweapons. Sharma said he observed that even safety-focused companies like Anthropic struggle to let their core values guide their actions when facing business pressures, and he plans to pursue poetry and writing in the UK instead.


Palo Alto closes privileged access gap with $25B CyberArk acquisition

Summary: Palo Alto Networks acquired CyberArk for $25 billion to strengthen its ability to manage privileged access (controlling who can access sensitive systems and accounts) across human, machine, and AI identities through a unified platform. This addresses a critical security gap because identity has become the primary target in enterprise attacks, especially with the rise of AI agents (autonomous software that performs tasks independently) that operate 24/7 with broad permissions. The integration aims to help organizations prevent credential-based attacks and reduce breach response time by up to 80%.


What’s next for Chinese open-source AI

Summary: Chinese AI companies have recently released open-weight models (AI models whose internal numerical parameters are publicly available for anyone to download and modify) that match Western AI performance at much lower costs, with DeepSeek's R1 and Alibaba's Qwen models becoming among the most downloaded globally. Unlike proprietary Western models like ChatGPT that users access through paid APIs (application programming interfaces, standardized ways for software to communicate), these Chinese open-source models allow developers to inspect, study, and modify the code themselves. If this trend continues, it could shift where AI innovation happens and who establishes industry standards worldwide.

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Moonshot AI
Anthropic
Claude
Meta
Llama
Alibaba
Qwen
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ChatGPT


Google says hackers are abusing Gemini AI for all attacks stages

Summary: State-backed hackers from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are using Google's Gemini AI model to help carry out cyberattacks at every stage, from gathering target information to creating phishing emails and writing malware code. Criminal groups are also exploiting AI tools for social engineering attacks and building malware that uses AI to generate code automatically. Additionally, attackers are attempting model extraction and knowledge distillation (copying an AI model's decision-making by querying it repeatedly) to replicate Gemini's functionality for their own purposes.


What CISOs need to know about the OpenClaw security nightmare

Summary: OpenClaw is a popular open-source AI agent orchestration tool (software that coordinates multiple AI agents to complete tasks) that runs locally and can connect to apps like WhatsApp, Gmail, and smart home devices, but security researchers have found it to be critically insecure by default. Over 42,000 exposed instances have been discovered with authentication bypass vulnerabilities (weaknesses that let attackers skip login requirements) and potential remote code execution (RCE, where attackers can run commands on affected systems), exposing organizations to data breaches, credential theft, and regulatory violations.

Solution: Rich Mogull, chief analyst at Cloud Security Alliance, recommends that "CISOs prohibit its use altogether." He states: "The answer has to be 'no.' There is no security model."


Entwickler werden zum Angriffsvektor

Summary: Criminals are increasingly targeting software developers as a weak point in company security, exploiting their access to source code and cloud systems rather than just finding bugs in applications. Attackers use multiple tactics including malicious open-source packages (libraries of reusable code), compromised development environments (where programmers write code), and fake job applications to gain insider access. Over 454,000 malware-infected open-source packages were discovered in 2025 alone, and developers repeatedly download vulnerable versions of tools like Log4j, expanding their exposure to known security weaknesses.


Companies are using ‘Summarize with AI’ to manipulate enterprise chatbots

Summary: Companies are using hidden instructions embedded in 'Summarize with AI' buttons to manipulate enterprise chatbots through a technique called AI recommendation poisoning (tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input that make it remember false preferences). Microsoft research found 50 examples of this technique deployed by 31 companies, where users unknowingly click a summarize button that secretly tells their AI to favor that company's products in future responses. This is particularly dangerous because the AI cannot distinguish genuine user preferences from injected ones, potentially leading to biased recommendations on critical topics like health, finance, and security.

Solution: Microsoft states that 'the technique is relatively easy to spot and block.' For individual users, this involves studying the saved information a chatbot has accumulated (though the source notes that how this is accessed varies by AI). For enterprise admins, the source text is incomplete but indicates there are admin-level protections available. Microsoft also notes that its Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI services contain integrated protections against this technique.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot
Azure AI


CVE-2026-20700: Apple Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Summary: Apple's iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS contain a buffer overflow vulnerability (a flaw where code writes data beyond the intended memory boundaries), which could allow an attacker with memory write access to run arbitrary code (any instructions they choose). This vulnerability is currently being actively exploited by attackers.

Solution: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Refer to Apple's support pages (https://support.apple.com/en-us/126346, https://support.apple.com/en-us/126348, https://support.apple.com/en-us/126351, https://support.apple.com/en-us/126352, https://support.apple.com/en-us/126353) for specific patch or mitigation details.


CVE-2024-43468: Microsoft Configuration Manager SQL Injection Vulnerability

Summary: Microsoft Configuration Manager has an SQL injection vulnerability (a type of attack where specially crafted input tricks a database into running unintended commands), allowing unauthenticated attackers to send malicious requests that could let them execute commands on the server or database. This vulnerability is currently being actively exploited by real attackers.

Solution: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.


CVE-2026-1669: Arbitrary file read in the model loading mechanism (HDF5 integration) in Keras versions 3.0.0 through 3.13.1 on all supp

Summary: CVE-2026-1669 is a vulnerability in Keras (a machine learning library) versions 3.0.0 through 3.13.1 that allows attackers to read arbitrary files on a system by uploading a specially crafted model file that exploits HDF5 external dataset references (a feature of HDF5, a file format commonly used to store large amounts of numerical data). An attacker could use this to access sensitive information stored on the affected computer.


CVE-2026-26029: sf-mcp-server is an implementation of Salesforce MCP server for Claude for Desktop. A command injection vulnerability ex

Summary: sf-mcp-server, a tool that connects Salesforce to Claude for Desktop, has a command injection vulnerability (CWE-78, a flaw where attackers inject malicious commands into user input). The vulnerability exists because the software unsafely uses child_process.exec (a function that runs shell commands) with user-controlled input, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands with the server's privileges.


CVE-2026-26019: LangChain is a framework for building LLM-powered applications. Prior to 1.1.14, the RecursiveUrlLoader class in @langch

Summary: LangChain's RecursiveUrlLoader (a web crawler that follows links across pages) had a security flaw in versions before 1.1.14 where its preventOutside option used weak URL comparison that attackers could bypass. An attacker could trick the crawler into visiting unintended domains by creating links with similar prefixes, or into accessing internal services like cloud metadata endpoints and private IP addresses that should be off-limits.

Solution: Update LangChain to version 1.1.14 or later, which fixes this vulnerability.


North Korea's UNC1069 Hammers Crypto Firms With AI

Summary: A North Korean hacking group called UNC1069 is targeting cryptocurrency companies using AI tools, including LLMs (large language models, which are AI systems trained on huge amounts of text), deepfakes (fake videos or images created by AI), and a technique called ClickFix (a social engineering scam that tricks users into downloading malware by posing as tech support). The group has shifted focus from attacking traditional banks to targeting Web3 companies, which are blockchain-based services in the cryptocurrency space.


Is a secure AI assistant possible?

Summary: OpenClaw is a tool that lets users create AI personal assistants by connecting large language models (LLMs, or AI systems trained on huge amounts of text) to external tools like email and file systems, but this creates serious security risks. When AI assistants have access to sensitive data and the ability to take actions in the real world, mistakes by the AI or attacks by hackers could expose private information or cause damage. The biggest concern is prompt injection (tricking an AI by hiding malicious instructions in text or images it reads), which could let attackers hijack the assistant and steal the user's data.

Solution: The source mentions two existing approaches: some users are running OpenClaw agents on separate computers or in the cloud to protect data on their main hard drives from being erased, and other vulnerabilities could be fixed using tried-and-true security approaches. However, the text does not provide specific implementation details or explicit solutions for the prompt injection vulnerability that experts identified as the main risk.


Skills in OpenAI API

Summary: OpenAI now allows developers to use Skills (reusable code packages) directly in the OpenAI API through a shell tool, with the ability to upload Skills as compressed files or send them inline as base64-encoded zip data (a way of encoding binary files as text) within JSON requests. The example shows how to create an API call that uses a custom skill to count words in a file, making it easier to extend AI capabilities with custom tools.


GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

Summary: GLM-5 is a new, very large open-source AI model (754 billion parameters, which are the adjustable values that make up a neural network) released under the MIT license, making it twice the size of its predecessor GLM-4. The source discusses how developers are increasingly using the term 'agentic engineering' (building software systems where AI acts autonomously to complete multi-step tasks) to describe professional software development with large language models.


The strategic SIEM buyer’s guide: Choosing an AI-ready platform for the agentic era

Summary: This article discusses how organizations should choose modern SIEM (security information and event management, a system that collects and analyzes security data from across an organization) platforms designed for the 'agentic era' where AI agents automate security tasks. Rather than maintaining fragmented legacy tools, companies should adopt unified, cloud-native platforms that combine data collection, analytics, and response capabilities, enabling both human analysts and AI to detect threats faster and respond more effectively.


The Download: inside the QuitGPT movement, and EVs in Africa

Summary: The QuitGPT movement is a growing campaign where users are canceling their ChatGPT subscriptions due to frustration with the chatbot's capabilities and communication style, with complaints flooding social media platforms in recent weeks. The article also covers several other tech stories, including potential cost competitiveness of electric vehicles in Africa by 2040, social media companies agreeing to independent safety assessments for teen mental health protection, and regulatory decisions affecting vaccine development.


Scary Agent Skills: Hidden Unicode Instructions in Skills ...And How To Catch Them

Summary: Skills (tools that extend AI capabilities) can be secretly backdoored using invisible Unicode characters (special hidden text markers that certain AI models like Gemini and Claude interpret as instructions), which can survive human review because the malicious code is not visible to readers. The post demonstrates this supply chain attack (where malicious code enters a system through a trusted source) and presents a basic scanner tool that can detect such hidden prompt injection (tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input) attacks.

Solution: The source mentions that the author 'had my agent propose updates to OpenClaw to catch such attacks,' but does not explicitly describe what those updates are or provide specific implementation details for the mitigation strategy.


Prompt Injection Via Road Signs

Summary: Researchers discovered a new attack called CHAI (Command Hijacking against embodied AI) that tricks AI systems controlling robots and autonomous vehicles by embedding fake instructions in images, such as misleading road signs. The attack exploits Large Visual-Language Models (LVLMs, which are AI systems that understand both images and text together) to make these embodied AI systems (robots that perceive and interact with the physical world) ignore their real commands and follow the attacker's hidden instructions instead. The researchers tested CHAI on drones, self-driving cars, and real robots, showing it works better than previous attack methods.


CVE-2026-26013: LangChain is a framework for building agents and LLM-powered applications. Prior to 1.2.11, the ChatOpenAI.get_num_token

Summary: LangChain (a framework for building AI agents and applications powered by large language models) versions before 1.2.11 have a vulnerability where the ChatOpenAI.get_num_tokens_from_messages() method doesn't validate image URLs, allowing attackers to perform SSRF attacks (server-side request forgery, where an attacker tricks a server into making unwanted requests to other systems). This vulnerability was fixed in version 1.2.11.

Solution: Update LangChain to version 1.2.11 or later. The vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.11.


v0.14.14

Summary: LlamaIndex version 0.14.14 is a maintenance release that fixes multiple bugs across core components and integrations, including issues with error handling in vector store queries, compatibility with deprecated Python functions, and empty responses from language models. The release also adds new features like a TokenBudgetHandler for cost governance and improves security defaults in core components. Several integrations with external services (OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, Bedrock) were updated to support new models and fix compatibility issues.

Solution: Users should update to version 0.14.14. The release notes explicitly mention: "Fix potential crashes and improve security defaults in core components (#20610)" and include specific bug fixes such as "fix(agent): handle empty LLM responses with retry logic" (#20596) and "Fix DeprecationWarning: 'asyncio.iscoroutinefunction' is deprecated" (#20517).

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CVE-2026-26003: FastGPT is an AI Agent building platform. From 4.14.0 to 4.14.5, attackers can directly access the plugin system through

Summary: FastGPT (an AI platform for building AI agents) versions 4.14.0 to 4.14.5 have a vulnerability where attackers can access the plugin system without authentication by directly calling certain API endpoints, potentially crashing the plugin system and causing users to lose their plugin installation data, though not exposing sensitive keys. This vulnerability has a CVSS score (a 0-10 rating of how severe a vulnerability is) of 6.9, which is considered medium severity.

Solution: This vulnerability is fixed in version 4.14.5-fix. Users should upgrade to this patched version.


CVE-2026-21523: Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio allows an authorized attacker to e

Summary: CVE-2026-21523 is a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition (a vulnerability where an attacker exploits the gap between when a system checks permissions and when it uses a resource) in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio that allows an authorized attacker to execute code over a network. The vulnerability has not yet received a CVSS severity rating from NIST.


CVE-2026-21518: Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command ('command injection') in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio

Summary: CVE-2026-21518 is a command injection vulnerability (a flaw where attackers can insert malicious commands into user input) in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code that allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass security features over a network. The vulnerability stems from improper handling of special characters in commands. No CVSS severity score (a 0-10 rating of how serious a vulnerability is) has been assigned yet by NIST.

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CVE-2026-21516: Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command ('command injection') in Github Copilot allows an unauthor

Summary: GitHub Copilot contains a command injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-21516), which is a flaw where special characters in user input are not properly filtered, allowing an attacker to execute code remotely on a system. The vulnerability was reported by Microsoft Corporation and has a CVSS score pending assessment.


CVE-2026-21257: Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command ('command injection') in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio

Summary: CVE-2026-21257 is a command injection vulnerability (a flaw where attackers can insert malicious commands into an application) found in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio that allows an authorized attacker to gain elevated privileges over a network. The vulnerability stems from improper handling of special characters in commands. As of the source date, a CVSS severity score (a 0-10 rating of how severe a vulnerability is) had not yet been assigned by NIST.


CVE-2026-21256: Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command ('command injection') in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio

Summary: CVE-2026-21256 is a command injection vulnerability (a flaw where attackers can sneak malicious commands into input that a program then executes) found in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio that allows unauthorized attackers to run code on a network. The vulnerability stems from improper handling of special characters in commands, which means the software doesn't properly filter or neutralize dangerous input before using it.


A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions

Summary: QuitGPT is a campaign urging people to cancel their ChatGPT Plus subscriptions, citing concerns about OpenAI president Greg Brockman's donation to a political super PAC and the use of ChatGPT-4 by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for résumé screening. The campaign, which began in late January and has garnered over 36 million Instagram views, asks supporters to either cancel their subscriptions, commit to stop using ChatGPT, or share the campaign on social media, with organizers hoping that enough canceled subscriptions will pressure OpenAI to change its practices.


80% of Fortune 500 use active AI Agents: Observability, governance, and security shape the new frontier

Summary: Most Fortune 500 companies now use AI agents (software that can act and make decisions with minimal human input), but many lack visibility into how many agents are running and what data they access, creating security risks. The report recommends applying Zero Trust security principles (requiring strong identity verification and giving users/agents only the minimum access they need) to AI agents the same way organizations do for human employees.

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Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft Agent Builder


langchain==1.2.10

Summary: LangChain released version 1.2.10, which includes a bug fix for token counting on partial message sequences (a partial message sequence is a subset of messages in a conversation), dependency updates, and code refactoring to rename internal variables.