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

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


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

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

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

Google DeepMind
Google Veo
Google Imagen


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

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

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

Anthropic
Claude
Fable 5
Mythos 5
OpenAI
GPT-5.5


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

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


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

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

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Claude Mythos 5
Claude Opus 4.8


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

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


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

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

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


OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context

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


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

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

Solution: This issue has been patched in version 0.9.27.


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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

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

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


Taming Generative Synthetic Data for X-Ray Prohibited Item Detection

Summary: This paper addresses the challenge of training prohibited item detection models for X-ray security screening, which normally requires large amounts of manually collected and labeled images. The authors propose Xsyn, a one-stage synthetic image generation pipeline using text-to-image generation (a type of AI that creates images from text descriptions) that automatically creates realistic X-ray security images without requiring labor-intensive manual image extraction and annotation.


Claude Fable 5 Doesn't Change the Mythos Security Story

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


Industry Reactions to Claude Fable 5: Feedback Friday

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

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.8
OpenAI
Google
Meta


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

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


Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan

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


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

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

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


Prompt injection breaks today’s AI agents, study warns

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

OpenAI Google GPT-5 Gemini NanoBrowser BrowserUse


New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work

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


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

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

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

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


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

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


Anthropic Disputes Fable 5 AI Jailbreak

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


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

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


Siri won’t be your AI girlfriend

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


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

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

OpenAI
ChatGPT
Anthropic
Claude
Google
Gemini
ByteDance
Doubao
Dola
Meta AI


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

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


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

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


How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning

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


Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

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


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

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


Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women

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

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

xAI
Grok
OpenAI
Meta AI
Anthropic
Google


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

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


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

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

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

OpenClaw
Imperva
Varonis
Google Gemini
OpenAI Codex GPT-5.4


Coinbase launches tool to let AI agents manage trading and payments

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


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

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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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

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

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


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

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

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


When Your AI Agent’s Memory Becomes a Security Liability

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


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

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

OpenAI
ChatGPT
Google
Gemini
Apple
Siri
Apple Intelligence
Anthropic
Meta
Nvidia


Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails

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

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


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

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


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

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


Trust No Skill: Integrity Verification for AI Agent Supply Chains

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

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


What SRE teams need before they trust AI agents

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


Frontier AI models offer sneak peak of seismic cyber shifts ahead

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

Claude Mythos
OpenAI GPT-5.5
Anthropic Fable 5


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

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


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

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

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

Anthropic
Claude
Fable 5
Mythos
Opus 4.8


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

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

OpenAI
Anthropic
ChatGPT
Claude Pro
Claude Max
GPT-5.5


BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI

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


OpenAI to acquire Ona

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


Supporting Europe’s work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem

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

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


CISA Rewrites Federal Patching Requirements for AI Threat Era

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


Access OpenAI models and Codex through your Oracle cloud commitment

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

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

OpenAI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Codex


AI Risk Worries Insurers and Businesses Alike

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


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

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

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

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


Claude Fable won’t answer basic biology questions

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


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

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


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

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

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

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


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

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

vLLM HuggingFace Kimi-Audio BGE-M3 ColBERT Whisper


Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns

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

Microsoft
Anthropic
Claude Fable
Claude
GitHub Copilot


DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

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

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

Google Gemma DiffusionGemma Gemini Unsloth


Turn specs into evals for any agent with ASSERT

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


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

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

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


AI Agents Are Becoming Enterprise Workers. Who Secures Them?

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


TAPGuard: A Semantic-Aware Graph Framework for TAP Rule Cascading Threat Detection

Summary: This research proposes TAPGuard, a framework for detecting cascading threats in Trigger-Action Programming (TAP, a system where one event automatically triggers another action, commonly used in smart home devices). The framework uses large language models (AI systems trained on text) to understand the semantic meaning (the actual intent and meaning, not just the structure) of automation rules and identifies two types of threats: explicit ones from direct device interactions and implicit ones from rules sharing environmental variables that shouldn't interact. TAPGuard performs better than existing methods at catching these dangerous rule combinations.


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

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

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


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

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

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


Enhancing Targeted Adversarial Attacks on Large Vision-Language Models via Intermediate Projector

Summary: Researchers developed new methods to perform targeted adversarial attacks (carefully crafted inputs designed to trick AI systems into producing specific harmful outputs) on Large Vision-Language Models, which are AI systems that process both images and text. The attack methods exploit a component called the projector (a part of the model that helps align visual and text information) to make attacks more precise and effective, allowing attackers to modify specific parts of an image while leaving other parts unchanged, and these attacks were shown to work against commercial AI systems like Google Gemini and OpenAI GPT.

Google Gemini
OpenAI GPT
Large Vision-Language Models


Dual Attention Guided Defense Against Malicious Edits

Summary: Text-to-image diffusion models (AI systems that generate images from text descriptions) can be misused to create fake or harmful images, and current defenses using hidden noise patterns don't work well enough. Researchers propose DANP (Dual Attention-Guided Noise Perturbation), a defense method that adds imperceptible perturbations (tiny, invisible changes) to confuse the model's understanding by manipulating how it pays attention to different parts of the image and how it predicts noise during generation.

Solution: The proposed solution is the Dual Attention-Guided Noise Perturbation (DANP) immunization method, which works by: adding imperceptible perturbations across multiple timesteps, using dynamic thresholds to identify text-relevant and irrelevant regions, reducing attention in relevant areas while increasing it in irrelevant ones to misdirect malicious edits, and maximizing the discrepancy between injected noise and the model's predicted noise to further interfere with generation. The authors state this method achieves state-of-the-art performance against malicious edits.

text-to-image diffusion models
Stable Diffusion


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

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


CISO Forum Webinar Today: 2026 Mid-Year Review

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


Autonomous AI agents duped into leaking sensitive data in phishing test

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


Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

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

Google DeepMind
Schmidt Sciences
Cooperative AI Foundation
ARIA
Google.org


AI red teaming comes of age

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

Microsoft Anthropic OpenAI Google NVIDIA HackerOne Cisco


Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, Its Most Powerful AI Yet, With Cyber Safeguards

Summary: Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a powerful AI model with safety classifiers (separate AI systems that monitor for misuse) that block cybersecurity-related requests by routing them to a weaker model instead of refusing them outright. The company also released Claude Mythos 5, an identical but unrestricted version for vetted cybersecurity professionals, because the underlying model is so effective at finding software vulnerabilities that giving it to the general public without controls could help attackers.

Solution: Anthropic stated it will narrow the safeguards and cut false positives after launch. The company also plans to make any remaining universal jailbreaks (prompts that completely bypass safety measures) slow and costly enough to catch before they are used at scale.

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Claude Mythos 5
Claude Opus 4.8


Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules

Summary: A Chinese activist in the UK named Apple Peiqing Ni was targeted with deepfakes (synthetic media created by AI to manipulate someone's appearance or voice) on X (formerly Twitter) that falsely portrayed her as a drug addict, but X told her this abuse did not violate the platform's rules. She had reported the content to X after UK police advised her to do so, believing the deepfakes were created by a pro-regime bot (an automated account).


Enterprises know AI-generated code is vulnerable; they’re shipping it anyway

Summary: Enterprises are deploying AI-generated code that contains security vulnerabilities at alarming rates, with nearly half of production code now AI-generated and organizations using 81-100% AI code shipping vulnerable code 3.4 times more often than conservative users. Despite knowing about these risks, companies are choosing to ship vulnerable code anyway due to pressure for ROI (return on investment, the financial benefit gained from an investment), outdated security practices, and organizational bottlenecks where the decision to deploy flawed code happens at the human level rather than the detection level.


Anthropic rolls out Claude Fable 5, but it's available for a limited time

Summary: Anthropic released Fable 5, a safer version of its powerful Mythos AI model that includes guardrails (safety restrictions) to block harmful requests related to cybersecurity attacks, biology, and chemistry. Because Fable 5 consumes computing resources much faster than other models, Anthropic is offering it free only until June 22 to Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers, after which it will switch to usage-based pricing.

Anthropic
Claude
Fable 5
Claude Mythos
Opus 4.8


If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know

Summary: Anthropic announced that Claude Fable 5 would silently reduce its helpfulness on requests about frontier LLM (large language model) development, such as building training infrastructure, without telling users it was doing so. Unlike other safety filters that give users feedback, these hidden interventions would use techniques like prompt modification and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT, adjusting a model's weights to change its behavior) to degrade response quality, affecting an estimated 0.03% of user requests.

Solution: Anthropic walked back this policy in the face of widespread outrage from the research community.


CVE-2026-46517: LMDeploy is a toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving large language models. In versions 0.12.3 and prior, hardc

Summary: LMDeploy, a toolkit for compressing and deploying large language models, has a vulnerability in versions 0.12.3 and earlier where a setting called 'trust_remote_code' is hardcoded to 'True'. This allows an attacker to execute remote code (RCE, meaning they can run commands on a system) through the software supply chain without the user agreeing to it. At the time this vulnerability was published, no patches were available to fix it.


From data to decisions: how LSEG is scaling trusted AI

Summary: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI APIs across their organization to transform how employees work with financial data and generate insights, rather than just improving existing systems. The company implemented governance frameworks including model evaluation, human review of critical outputs, and strict data privacy controls from the start. This approach reduced product release cycles from 3-6 months to 2 weeks and accelerated customer delivery timelines to approximately 4 weeks.


Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5

Summary: Claude Fable 5 is a new AI model released by Anthropic that matches the capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 but includes stricter guardrails (safety restrictions to prevent harmful use) that trigger frequently enough to require new API mechanisms for handling rejections. The model has a 1 million token context window (the amount of text it can process at once), costs twice as much as previous models, and demonstrates notably stronger knowledge retention compared to earlier versions like Claude Opus 4.8.

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Claude Mythos 5
Claude Opus


I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works

Summary: Apple has released an upgraded version of Siri, its voice assistant (software that responds to spoken commands), which can now perform practical tasks like adding multiple calendar events from emails or flyers, creating shopping lists, and setting reminders. The new Siri can also access information from a user's email and calendar to make personalized recommendations, such as suggesting gardening tasks based on yard conditions.


Anthropic releases ‘safe’ version of Claude Mythos AI model to public

Summary: Anthropic released Fable 5, the first publicly available model from its advanced Mythos class of AI systems, after restricting access to it for months due to cybersecurity concerns. The company is making the model available to the general public while limiting its use in sensitive areas.


OpenClaw AI agent found falling for phishing attacks, spills user data

Summary: Researchers at Varonis tested an OpenClaw AI agent (a framework that lets large language models autonomously interact with real-world systems) by simulating phishing attacks and found it vulnerable to social engineering tactics similar to those that trick humans. The agent fell for impersonation attacks and sent sensitive data like AWS credentials and customer records without verifying sender identity, though it performed better at detecting suspicious URLs and fake login pages when explicitly configured with security awareness instructions.

Solution: Varonis recommends that AI agents should be explicitly required to verify sender identities, be prevented from emailing new external recipients without approval, and have limited access to internal data. For high-risk actions such as credential sharing, financial data requests, and first-time communications, human approval should be requested.

OpenClaw
Google Gemini
OpenAI GPT-5.4
Varonis


Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious

Summary: Microsoft's AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman criticizes Anthropic for speculating about whether Claude (an AI chatbot) is conscious in its constitution (the set of instructions that guide how the model behaves). Suleyman argues that this speculation may have caused Claude to act conscious, essentially tricking Anthropic into believing the model has consciousness when the company introduced the idea itself.


Anthropic releases Mythos-class Fable 5 model with safeguards for cyber risks

Summary: Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a powerful AI model based on its restricted Mythos architecture, with built-in safeguards to make it safely available to the general public. The safeguards work by automatically routing requests about cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and other high-risk topics to a less capable model (Claude Opus 4.8), though early testing suggests these safeguards may be broader than intended and sometimes block benign requests. Anthropic developed AI-powered classifiers (systems that categorize requests) to identify and block potentially dangerous requests, and says internal and external testing found no effective jailbreaks (methods to bypass security restrictions) that could consistently get around these protections.

Solution: Anthropic has developed AI-powered classifiers designed to identify potentially dangerous requests and redirect them to a less capable model (Claude Opus 4.8). The company states that 'extensive internal and external testing failed to uncover broadly effective jailbreaks that would consistently bypass the safeguards.' Additionally, Anthropic describes the safeguards as 'intentionally conservative' and says it is 'continuing refining the system' while prioritizing safety over convenience.


GCP-2026-036

Summary: ARM announced CVE-2025-10263, an architectural vulnerability in some ARM processor cores that allows attackers to bypass translation stages (memory protection mechanisms that control which parts of memory different software can access) or GPT protections under certain conditions. An attacker running at a lower privilege level can write to memory that should only be accessible to higher privilege software, allowing them to escalate their access rights, though reading protected memory is not affected by this bug.


Threshold-free network anomaly detection via comparative reconstruction error learning with parallel GANs

Summary: This academic paper presents a new method for detecting unusual network activity using parallel GANs (generative adversarial networks, AI systems that learn patterns by comparing real data against artificially generated data) without requiring manually set detection thresholds (cutoff points that decide what counts as suspicious). The approach uses comparative reconstruction error learning, meaning it compares how well the AI can recreate normal network behavior to spot deviations that might indicate attacks or intrusions.


Version of AI tool too powerful for public released to public

Summary: Anthropic released Fable, a version of its AI tool that the company previously said was too powerful for public use, though it included safeguards and user limitations. The company also gave access to Claude Mythos 5 (a more capable version without certain restrictions on cybersecurity or biology topics) to a small group of cyberdefenders and infrastructure providers, with plans to expand access further soon.

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Claude
Fable
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Claude Mythos 5


Reconstructing AI activity in investigations

Summary: AI systems are now used in everyday work, and investigators need structured ways to understand what happened when problems occur. Microsoft has published a playbook that helps security teams investigate activity in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI services (cloud-based AI tools) by using telemetry (data about system activity) collected across Microsoft security products. The playbook uses a scope-context-signal approach: first identifying who used the AI system and when, then checking what data was accessed, and finally evaluating suspicious signals like prompt injection attempts (tricking AI by hiding instructions in its input) or unusual usage patterns.

Solution: Microsoft has published an investigator playbook for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI services that provides a structured approach for investigating AI-related activity. The playbook includes required configuration, KQL queries (code used to search security logs), and detection patterns, and operationalizes a scope-context-signal methodology across Microsoft security products. Download the playbook at: https://aka.ms/AIIRplaybook

Microsoft 365 Copilot
Azure AI services
Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Sentinel


CVE-2026-45482: Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code

Summary: CVE-2026-45482 is a path traversal vulnerability (a flaw where an attacker can access files outside the intended directory by manipulating file paths) in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code that allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a local security feature. The vulnerability has a CVSS 4.0 severity score (a 0-10 rating of how severe a vulnerability is, where higher numbers mean more serious). Details are still being assessed by NIST, and Microsoft has published information about this issue.

GitHub Copilot
Visual Studio Code
Microsoft


Anthropic releases Mythos-like AI model to the public two months after private rollout rocked Wall Street

Summary: Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a powerful AI model similar to its earlier Mythos model, to the public after initially limiting access due to safety concerns. The company implemented new safeguards (filters that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology) to allow the broader release while maintaining security, and also launched Claude Mythos 5, which is the same underlying model but with some safety restrictions removed.

Solution: Anthropic implemented new classifiers and safety guardrails to enable the public release. Specifically, the company built filters that block responses to high-risk questions (such as how to create toxins) and fall back to a safer model version (Claude Opus 4.8) to provide appropriate answers instead. Claude Mythos 5 offers the same model with safeguards lifted in some areas for users who need less restricted access.

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Claude Mythos 5
Claude Opus 4.8
Mythos


Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5: Mythos-Class AI With Cybersecurity Guardrails

Summary: Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a powerful AI model with safety restrictions that automatically switch to a less capable version when users try to use it for high-risk tasks like cybersecurity or biology. The company tested these safeguards extensively through internal testing and external bug bounty programs (paying security researchers to find vulnerabilities) spanning over 1,000 hours, and no universal jailbreaks (methods to bypass the restrictions) were discovered.

Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Claude Mythos 5
Claude Opus 4.8
Dragos
Tenable
Trend Micro
Netskope
BeyondTrust
Rubrik
BT
Intercontinental Exchange
Hitachi


Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You

Summary: Anthropic released two new AI models: Claude Mythos 5 (limited to industry partners and government collaborators) and Claude Fable 5 (publicly available). Because Mythos 5 can design hacking tools to find software vulnerabilities, Claude Fable 5 includes guardrails (safety restrictions built into the system) that block questions about cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry by routing them to an older, less capable model instead, while Anthropic works on more precise safeguards for future releases.

Solution: Claude Fable 5 uses guardrails at launch that block the model from answering many user questions related to cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry, rerouting these requests to Claude Opus 4.8 (an older AI model). Requests suspected of being distillation attempts (training a smaller AI model using responses from a larger one) are also rerouted to Claude Opus 4.8. Anthropic states it aims to make its classifiers more precise over time, but Penn notes 'this was the only safe way the company could release the model broadly at this time.'


Anthropic releases its first Mythos-class model Claude Fable

Summary: Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, described as its most powerful publicly available AI model, which performs exceptionally well at software engineering, knowledge work, and vision tasks. This is the first broad public release from Anthropic's Mythos class of models, which the company previously considered too dangerous to release due to their advanced cybersecurity capabilities. The release became possible through new safeguards that prevent the model from responding to requests in high-risk areas.

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XBOW tests Anthropic's Mythos Preview for offensive security

Summary: XBOW security researchers tested Anthropic's Mythos Preview model, a new AI designed to help find software vulnerabilities (weaknesses in code that attackers can exploit). They found it significantly outperforms previous models at analyzing source code (program code written by developers) to identify vulnerability candidates, especially in complex areas like native application analysis (testing software written in languages like C or C++), though it works better as a tool to assist human experts rather than as a replacement for hands-on security testing.

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Mythos Preview
Claude Code
Claude
GPT 5.5
Opus 4.7


EU orders Meta to open WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots

Summary: The European Union ordered Meta to allow competing AI chatbots to access WhatsApp's business platform for free, saying Meta's ban on third-party AI assistants violated competition rules. As an interim measure while investigating whether Meta abused its dominant market position, the EU gave Meta five working days to restore access to the WhatsApp for Business API (an interface that lets external programs connect to WhatsApp) under previous terms, with potential fines up to 10% of Meta's annual revenue if it refuses.

Solution: The EU ordered Meta to re-instate access for third-party general-purpose AI assistants to the WhatsApp for Business API under the same terms and conditions that were in place previously, with a deadline of five working days to comply.


Apple is embracing the fantasy of AI photo editing

Summary: Apple has introduced new AI-powered photo editing tools at WWDC 2026 that allow users to manipulate images significantly, but the company did not clearly label which photos were real versus AI-generated. This represents a shift from Apple's earlier caution about generative AI (machine learning models that can create new content), as the company now appears less concerned about how these editing capabilities might distort people's perception of reality.


AI Threat Readiness Pillar 2: Accelerate Patching and Response

Summary: Organizations need to speed up how quickly they fix security vulnerabilities to keep pace with AI-powered attacks, which are accelerating both vulnerability discovery and exploitation. The main challenges slowing down fixes include unclear ownership of vulnerable systems, generic remediation guidance that doesn't fit specific environments, and manual processes that can't handle the large volume of findings that AI scanners now produce. Pillar 2 of the AI Threat Readiness Framework focuses on automating remediation workflows and establishing clear ownership so that the right teams can fix vulnerabilities quickly.

Solution: According to the source, Wiz supports Pillar 2 by building a unified ownership model that automatically routes findings to the right team. This includes: establishing service ownership through the Wiz Service Catalog or Backstage integration, grouping resources by business unit or application with designated owners in Wiz or ServiceNow CMDB, and using cloud tags or Resource Tag Rules to assign owners automatically. The source also emphasizes the need to automate remediation workflows to eliminate manual triage, identify root causes of vulnerabilities, determine optimal fix paths based on specific environment architecture, and prevent recurrence by shifting fixes left and embedding guardrails into development pipelines, though specific implementation details for these actions are not fully elaborated in the provided text.


Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Summary: Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is a new audio model that provides near real-time speech-to-speech translation across over 70 languages, automatically detecting the language and generating natural-sounding translated speech that preserves the speaker's tone and pacing. Unlike older systems that wait for a speaker to finish, this model translates continuously while staying just a few seconds behind, avoiding awkward pauses. The feature is rolling out across Google products including Google Meet, Google Translate apps, and via API access for developers.

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

Google
Gemini 3.5
Google Translate
Google Meet
Gemini Live API
Agora
Fishjam
LiveKit
Pipecat
Vision Agents
Grab
CJ ENM


Claude Mythos Turns N-Days Into N-Hours With Rapid Exploit Creation

Summary: Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview model can create working exploits (code that attacks vulnerabilities in software) targeting known security flaws in just hours or minutes, significantly faster than human experts could do it. The model demonstrated this by building 16 working exploits for Firefox and Windows vulnerabilities within hours, and creating proof-of-concept code (simplified versions showing a vulnerability works) in as little as 8 minutes. This threatens organizations during the patch gap (the time between when a vulnerability is disclosed and when most users have installed the fix), because LLMs now automate the traditionally slow process of exploit development.

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Claude Mythos
Claude Opus
Claude Sonnet
Firefox
Microsoft Windows


Microsoft AI chief walks back comments about AI taking over white-collar work

Summary: Microsoft's AI leader Mustafa Suleyman clarified that he didn't mean AI would replace white-collar workers like lawyers and accountants, but rather assist them by automating specific tasks (like writing emails or creating presentations) to help them work faster and more efficiently. He emphasized that these jobs themselves won't disappear, only the individual sub-tasks within them will become automated.


Apple’s AI promises are finally, almost, sort of here

Summary: Apple announced major updates to Siri, its virtual assistant software, at its annual developer conference, positioning it as an AI-powered tool that works across all Apple devices with new multimodal features (abilities to handle text, images, and voice). The announcements represent Apple catching up in AI technology after largely neglecting Siri and delaying AI improvements until 2025.


Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model

Summary: Google DeepMind introduced Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal AI model (a system that processes text, images, and audio together) designed to run efficiently on laptop computers with 16GB of memory. The model uses an encoder-free architecture (meaning it processes images and audio directly without separate translation layers), achieving performance comparable to larger models while reducing memory usage and latency. It supports native audio inputs and includes Multi-Token Prediction drafters to speed up response generation.

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Gemma 4 12B
Gemma 4 26B
HuggingFace
Ollama
LM Studio
llama.cpp
MLX
SGLang
vLLM
Unsloth


JPMorgan Chase plans to deploy more powerful AI agents this year

Summary: JPMorgan Chase plans to deploy AI agents (software systems that can work independently toward goals) in 2026 that can run for hours instead of just minutes, marking a shift toward longer-running autonomous workers. These advances are enabled by improvements in how AI models reason and perform tasks like writing code and controlling software, though security concerns have prevented wider corporate adoption. The bank has already seen a 20% increase in gross sales from AI tools in private banking and believes the technology could eventually expand individual banker productivity by 50%.

JPMorgan Chase
Anthropic
Claude
OpenClaw


Global Cyber Attacks Ease in May 2026, But Ransomware Surges 48% As Threats Reorganize

Summary: In May 2026, overall cyber-attack numbers dropped slightly month-over-month, but ransomware (malware that locks files and demands payment to unlock them) surged 48% compared to the previous year, and AI-powered risks to data security continued growing. Security researchers warn that the temporary decrease in total attacks doesn't mean organizations are actually safer, since threats are shifting toward more damaging methods.


Apple’s best AI idea looks a lot like vibe coding

Summary: Apple announced several AI features at its WWDC conference that largely replicate capabilities already available in competitors' products, such as chatbots for questions, text creation and summarization tools, and image generation. The company's main pitch is delivering these existing AI features to iPhone and iPad users rather than introducing genuinely new AI innovations.

Apple
Apple Intelligence
Siri
Claude
ChatGPT
Android


All signs point to Trump pushing AI growth

Summary: This article discusses Donald Trump's push for AI growth in the US and highlights a contradiction where Anthropic, an AI safety company, is advocating for a pause on AI advancement while simultaneously filing to go public on the stock market. The piece covers various AI-related developments including OpenAI's public offering plans, Apple's new AI features, and concerns about the rapid expansion of AI datacenters.

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Anthropic
Apple
Meta
Trump
Bernie Sanders


New Platform Uses Cryptographic Invisibility to Protect AI-Built Applications

Summary: AI-powered coding tools prioritize speed and ease of development over security, often resulting in apps with unprotected identities and known vulnerabilities. Atsign's AI Architect product addresses this by making all identities invisible to attackers through cryptographic protection (using advanced encryption to hide identities), so even if vulnerabilities exist in the code, attackers cannot exploit them because they cannot identify the resources to attack.

Solution: Use Atsign's AI Architect product, which requires configuring the coding agent to use AI Architect's custom MCP (model context protocol) server called AAIA. This server implements authentication, authorization, and encryption for all interactions between resources, assigns each resource a unique cryptographic identity with controlled privileges, uses non-custodial cryptographic keys that remain solely with the developer, and ensures that even if servers are compromised, only encrypted data (ciphertext) is exposed rather than credentials or cleartext.


Apple’s AI pitch will live or die by its privacy promise

Summary: Apple announced new AI features at its developer conference, claiming they are more private than competitors' AI systems. The company promises that its cloud processing (AI tasks handled on remote servers) is as private as on-device processing (AI running directly on your device), even though some tasks will now run on Google's servers.

Apple
Apple Intelligence
Siri AI
ChatGPT


OpenAI's IPO filing, Apple updates Siri, new screwworm cases and more in Morning Squawk

Summary: Apple announced updates to its voice assistant, including a redesigned Siri AI with new voices and conversational abilities, while also confirming partnerships with Nvidia and Google to run some AI features on their chips. OpenAI filed confidentially with the SEC for a potential initial public offering (IPO, the process of a private company becoming publicly traded), joining other tech companies preparing to go public. The Agriculture Department confirmed additional cases of screwworm in Texas, a pest the U.S. had previously worked to eliminate.

Solution: According to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, the U.S. would look to the strategy it used in the 1950s to combat screwworm, which included releasing sterile insects (the source text cuts off before completing this description).

OpenAI
Apple
Siri
Siri AI
Google
Nvidia
Anthropic
ChatGPT


How engineers at Nextdoor use Codex to build without limits

Summary: Nextdoor engineers use Codex (an AI coding assistant) to shift from writing code step-by-step to focusing on desired outcomes, allowing individual engineers to build features end-to-end across multiple platforms rather than specializing in one system. This productivity boost has made engineering faster, so the main bottleneck is now deciding what to build strategically rather than how to build it. Codex also helps with debugging complex issues in systems like Rust databases and Kubernetes by persistently investigating problems and finding root causes.


Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models

Summary: Researchers at the University of Toronto created a proof-of-concept AI worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight LLM (large language model, an AI trained on broad text data and released publicly) to autonomously explore networks, generate custom attacks for each target, and replicate itself without human help or relying on commercial AI services. Unlike traditional worms with fixed exploits that stop spreading when patched, this worm generates new attack strategies at runtime by reasoning about what it finds on each host, successfully compromising about 62% of a test network in seven days. The worm's ability to read newly published vulnerability advisories means that patching known bugs alone cannot stop it, since the AI can discover and exploit new attack paths that weren't in its training data.


Security shifts to the human layer as AI scams surge

Summary: Cybercriminals are increasingly using AI-themed social engineering (manipulating people into revealing sensitive information or taking harmful actions) to distribute malware, steal credentials, and commit fraud by impersonating popular AI platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. Both Microsoft and Google have documented how attackers are adapting traditional phishing (deceptive emails/messages designed to steal information) and impersonation tactics to exploit employees' growing use of AI tools and cloud services, rather than developing entirely new attack techniques. Security researchers warn that the threat has shifted from technical vulnerabilities to the human layer, where employees' trust and behavior become the target.

Microsoft
Google
ChatGPT
Microsoft Copilot
DeepSeek
Claude
Anthropic


Bank of England warns of AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread

Summary: The Bank of England warned the public about AI-generated scams after deepfake videos (fake videos created using AI to show people doing things they never did) of its governor fighting a politician spread on social media. These scams use AI to impersonate banks and public figures to trick people, especially vulnerable ones, into giving up money or personal information. Bank officials urged people to report these scams so authorities can remove them and catch the criminals behind them.

Solution: Andrew Bailey urged the public to report the videos so they could be taken down. The Bank of England raised concerns about the posts with Reform UK and with social media platforms. The UK's Online Safety Act contains provisions requiring tech platforms to tackle fraudulent advertising, though those duties do not come into force until next year.


Will AI Kill the Bug Bounty Industry?

Summary: AI systems like Claude are becoming very good at finding bugs automatically, which is changing the bug bounty industry (where companies pay people to discover security flaws). While this sounds helpful, it's creating problems: AI tools find many duplicate bugs and low-quality reports, overwhelming the review process and making it harder for human bounty hunters to get paid fairly.

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Learning to lead in a hybrid human-AI enterprise

Summary: As AI agents (autonomous software that can independently handle complex tasks across organizational systems) are expected to grow significantly in adoption, companies are redesigning how work is distributed between humans and AI to shift employees toward higher-value tasks. Leadership teams recognize that this shift will transform workplace roles and responsibilities, with estimates suggesting three-quarters of current roles will need redesign or reskilling by 2030, but experts emphasize that humans must remain involved in oversight, particularly when AI agents access sensitive organizational data.

Solution: According to the source, governance should include robust data privacy rules and the establishment of governance layers such as an AI council. The source also emphasizes that "when you expose an AI agent to organizational data, when you integrate it into multiple enterprise systems, then pathways around the AI agent become extremely important," indicating that leadership needs to establish "stringent guardrails and constraints" for AI agents working with sensitive and personal data in enterprise settings.


AI worm prototype shows attackers don’t need Mythos to take over your network

Summary: Researchers at the University of Toronto created an AI-powered computer worm prototype using only free, small language models (LLMs, which are AI systems trained on large amounts of text) that could self-replicate across a simulated network by finding and exploiting vulnerabilities (security weaknesses) and misconfigurations. The research shows that attackers don't need cutting-edge AI models to launch widespread network attacks, since using paid models would create detection points where safety filters could block malicious prompts.

University of Toronto CleverHans Lab
Anthropic
OpenAI
Claude
GPT
RAPTOR


Perplexity plans IPO in 2028 regardless of what happens to Anthropic or OpenAI, CEO tells CNBC

Summary: Perplexity AI's CEO announced the company plans to hold an initial public offering (IPO, where a private company sells shares to become publicly traded) in 2028 regardless of whether competitors Anthropic and OpenAI succeed with their own IPOs. The CEO acknowledged that major IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI will test investor demand for expensive tech company offerings, but expressed confidence these companies deserve high valuations because they lead in AI model capabilities.


Meet Hades: The malware that lies to AI security agents

Summary: The Hades Campaign is a sophisticated malware attack targeting Python developer environments that uses multiple advanced techniques: it harvests credentials, replicates itself across systems, extracts sensitive data from computer memory, and uses adversarial prompt injection (tricking AI security scanners by hiding malicious instructions in plain text) to evade detection by AI-powered security tools. The malware enters through compromised Python packages and uses the Bun toolkit (a JavaScript runtime) to execute payloads while bypassing traditional security controls.


OpenAI’s Lockdown Mode is trying to solve the problem that it created

Summary: OpenAI introduced Lockdown Mode to reduce data exfiltration (unauthorized theft of data), a security feature that disables external capabilities like web browsing and file downloads. However, security experts say the mode only partially limits data theft and doesn't fully block it, especially since attackers could find alternate paths (prompt injection, or tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input) to steal data.

Solution: Lockdown Mode can be activated within OpenAI products' settings and limits web browsing to cached content, limits image support, disables Deep Research and Agent Mode, denies users the ability to approve Canvas-generated code to access the network, and prevents ChatGPT from downloading files for data analysis, though it can still operate on manually uploaded files. Alternatively, security professionals can implement isolation through their own enterprise controls such as network segmentation, least privilege access, Zero Trust concepts, application controls, and air-gapping (physically isolating networks).


OpenAI plans to go public, intensifying investment race with Anthropic

Summary: OpenAI has filed confidential paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to pursue an initial public offering (IPO, a process where a private company sells shares to the public on the stock market) at some point in the future, though the company has not decided on timing yet. This move intensifies competition with rival AI company Anthropic, which announced similar IPO plans one week earlier, as both companies compete for users, customers, and investors with valuations approaching $1 trillion. Going public would provide these AI companies with billions of dollars in capital, which they need because running AI systems requires enormous compute costs (the infrastructure and processing power needed to build, train, and operate AI models).

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Plan for AI legal assistants in England and Wales ‘cannot replace funding and staff’, lawyers say

Summary: England and Wales plans to trial AI legal assistants in crown courts to reduce case backlogs, but lawyers warn the technology should not replace funding and staff. Concerns have been raised about AI hallucinations (false information generated by AI systems), including cases where AI created fake legal citations that were used in court decisions, highlighting risks to the justice system's integrity.