New tools, products, platforms, funding rounds, and company developments in AI security.
OpenAI announced a new Partner Network program to help organizations adopt AI by connecting them with consulting and technology partners who can identify use cases, integrate AI into existing systems, and manage organizational change. The program invests $150 million to support partners across systems integration, consulting, and technology, with plans to train 300,000 certified consultants by the end of 2026, recognizing that enterprise AI success depends on strategy and implementation support, not just model capabilities.
Meta spent $14.3 billion to hire Alexandr Wang and his team to build proprietary AI models, resulting in the Muse Spark model released in April 2024, a shift away from Meta's previous open-source approach. However, Meta still struggles to compete with OpenAI and Google, and faces challenges convincing developers and investors that it can monetize AI products beyond its core advertising business, which currently accounts for 98% of revenue. The company's earlier open-source Llama models failed to attract developers, damaging its reputation in the AI community.
A user prompted Google's Gemini AI to build a functional app in a single request, and the AI generated working code in a preview window. However, Gemini encountered a bug (a race condition, which is when the order of operations in code causes unexpected behavior) and reported a broken channel, though it provided a button to fix the issue, which succeeded after 233 seconds.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Amazon's security research found that Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model could be manipulated through prompt injection (tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input) to reveal information usable for cyberattacks. After Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared these findings with the White House, Anthropic restricted access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to prevent foreign nationals from using the models.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly told U.S. government officials that researchers discovered security vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude models that could be exploited for cyberattacks, leading the government to ban exports of two models (Fable 5 and Mythos 5). Anthropic subsequently cut off worldwide access to these models, though the company stated that the concerning capabilities were already available in other public models.
The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to block access to two AI models called Fable 5 and Mythos 5 due to unspecified national security concerns, and the company complied by cutting off access for all users worldwide, including its own employees. Anthropic stated that the government did not provide detailed information about the security threat and only mentioned potential jailbreak (tricks to make the AI ignore its safety instructions) vulnerabilities verbally, which the company claims were minor.
Anthropic 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 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.
Fix: 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.
BleepingComputerThe 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.
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.
Fix: 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.
CNBC TechnologyFix: 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.
The Hacker NewsShadow 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.
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).