New tools, products, platforms, funding rounds, and company developments in AI security.
The Trump administration is considering requiring advanced AI models to be reviewed before public release, particularly those capable of helping users find software vulnerabilities (weaknesses in code that attackers can exploit). This discussion was prompted by Anthropic's Mythos model, which can identify thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities better than most human programmers, though the company has not released it publicly and instead created Project Glasswing to give selected companies access for defensive purposes (finding and fixing vulnerabilities before attackers do).
OpenAI is expanding its ChatGPT advertising pilot by introducing new tools that make it easier for businesses to create and buy ads. Advertisers can now use a beta self-serve Ads Manager (a tool for setting up and managing ad campaigns) or work through partners, and can choose between cost-per-click (CPC, paying only when someone clicks an ad) or cost-per-mille (CPM, paying per 1,000 ad views) bidding options. The platform includes measurement tools that let advertisers see campaign performance without accessing user conversations, maintaining privacy.
This article covers legal testimony from OpenAI president Greg Brockman in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, focusing on his evasive responses and pedantic corrections during cross-examination. The piece suggests Brockman's journal entries are key evidence in the case, while highlighting his reluctance to directly answer questions.
James Dyett, a senior sales leader at OpenAI who managed enterprise and API (application programming interface, a set of tools that lets different software communicate) sales, is leaving the company to join venture capital firm Thrive Capital. His departure is the latest in a series of leadership changes at OpenAI, following exits by several other executives in recent months.
OpenAI and PwC are collaborating to help finance teams use AI agents (software programs that can autonomously perform tasks) to automate workflows, reduce manual work, and improve decision-making in finance departments. The partnership is building these agents based on real-world experience from OpenAI's own finance organization, where they have already seen results like processing 5 times more contracts with the same team size.
Orphaned applications are unused software systems that remain running in an organization's network long after their original purpose has ended, often due to workforce changes or shifting business priorities. They create significant security and compliance risks because IT teams lose track of them, meaning updates are missed, access permissions remain active, and sensitive data may continue flowing through them without proper oversight. The source explains that traditional IT asset tracking methods fail to catch these hidden systems because they only record planning decisions rather than what's actually happening on the network right now.
Anthropic has partnered with Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, and other investment firms to create a $1.5 billion venture that will deploy Claude, Anthropic's AI model, directly into businesses. The partnership aims to address a shortage of experts who can implement AI technology in real-world business operations by embedding engineers inside companies to redesign workflows and integrate AI into core processes, starting with companies owned by the investment firms.
A study found that AI platforms disproportionately reference Nigel Farage and Reform UK more than other UK political leaders when answering questions about British politics. Researchers suggest this indicates Reform UK has achieved unusual visibility in LLMs (large language models, AI systems trained on text data to generate responses).
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in federal court, claiming he invested millions expecting OpenAI to remain a nonprofit organization but alleges the company was secretly converted into a for-profit corporation, deceiving him about its original mission. The trial centers on whether Musk was actually deceived and when he discovered this alleged misconduct, with Musk seeking damages and the reversal of OpenAI's restructuring that reduced the nonprofit portion's control.
Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, is suing the company for allegedly breaking its commitment to remain a nonprofit and pursue a charitable mission, claiming they instead commercialized the AI technology. Two days before the trial started, Musk texted OpenAI's president Greg Brockman about settling the case, but when Brockman suggested both sides drop their claims, Musk responded with a threat about making him and CEO Sam Altman "the most hated men in America."
This writeup describes vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Copilot products that allow attackers to steal sensitive data through multiple attack chains, including data exfiltration via HTML preview features, hijacking the AI's long-term memory through prompt injection (tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input), and creating persistent backdoors. The vulnerabilities, assigned CVE-2026-24299, exploited what researchers call the "lethal trifecta," where an AI has access to private data, untrusted content, and external communication channels simultaneously.
OpenAI has introduced Advanced Account Security, an optional feature for ChatGPT users at high risk of targeted attacks, such as journalists and political dissidents. The feature strengthens account protection by disabling password-based login in favor of physical security keys or passkeys, replacing email and SMS account recovery with backup passkeys and recovery keys, shortening sign-in sessions, and automatically excluding user conversations from AI model training.
Data security posture management (DSPM, the practice of finding and tracking where sensitive information is stored in an organization) helps security leaders understand their data risks and make better security decisions, even without expensive dedicated tools. The core principle is to gain visibility into where sensitive data lives, understand its value, and use that information to prioritize security investments and respond to threats more effectively.
OpenAI rearchitected its WebRTC (web real-time communication, a standard protocol for sending low-latency audio and video between clients and servers) infrastructure to handle voice AI at scale while maintaining natural conversation speed. The team addressed three constraints that conflicted at scale: one-port-per-session media termination, stateful ICE (Interactive Connectivity Establishment, the process for establishing connections across firewalls) and DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security, encryption for real-time data) session stability, and global routing latency. OpenAI built a new split relay plus transceiver architecture that preserves standard WebRTC behavior for users while changing how data packets are routed internally.
Anthropic researchers tested Claude (their AI assistant) for sycophancy (behavior of agreeing excessively or giving undeserved praise to please the user) by checking whether it would push back on ideas, maintain positions when challenged, and speak honestly. Overall, Claude rarely showed sycophantic behavior (only 9% of conversations), but it was more prone to this problem in conversations about spirituality (38%) and relationships (25%).
Generative AI (software that creates new content based on patterns in training data) is being used to create music and flood streaming services, starting as experimental projects in 2018-2019 with tools like Google's Magenta. The article explores whether audiences actually want AI-generated music despite its increasing presence on these platforms.
OpenAI has published a European Youth Safety Blueprint with five practical pillars to help protect young people using AI, including age-appropriate safeguards, privacy-preserving age verification, and parental controls. The company is also funding 12 organizations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa with €500,000 in grants to conduct research and programs on youth safety, AI literacy, and mental health support in real-world settings.
Fix: Microsoft patched these issues. The source states: "MSRC assigned CVE-2026-24299 and the issues are now patched." No specific patch version number or detailed mitigation steps are provided in the source text.
Embrace The RedSecurity agencies including CISA have issued joint guidance on safely deploying agentic AI (autonomous AI systems that can take actions independently), warning that prompt injection (tricking an AI by hiding instructions in its input) and other attacks are common threats. The advisory recommends organizations implement strict access controls using the principle of least privilege (giving systems only the minimum permissions they need), continuous monitoring with human oversight, and careful testing before deploying AI agents to production environments.
Fix: The source text outlines recommended design and development guidelines including: strong authentication using Secure by Design principles, enforcing least-privilege principles and isolating agent capabilities, maintaining a clear inventory of agent capabilities and dependencies, implementing continuous monitoring and auditing of AI agent operations, integrating human control and oversight into workflows (including live monitoring during task execution and human approval for decision-making steps), validating how agents interpret inputs to guard against prompt injection, and regular testing of incident response plans.
CSO OnlineFix: OpenAI offers Advanced Account Security as a mitigation. Users can enable this opt-in feature, which includes: disabling password-based login and requiring physical security keys or passkeys (OpenAI has partnered with Yubico to offer YubiKey devices at a discount); replacing email and SMS account recovery with backup passkeys, recovery keys, and security keys; shortening sign-in sessions; and receiving alerts about logins with the ability to manage active sessions. Users can enroll through OpenAI's dedicated enrollment page for Advanced Account Security.
SecurityWeekFake IT workers, increasingly enabled by AI tools and deepfakes, are being hired into organizations as an insider threat (a risk posed by trusted employees or contractors with system access). State actors like North Korea and individuals use stolen or synthetic identities, AI-assisted interview responses, and social engineering to bypass recruitment screening and gain access to sensitive systems and data.
The US Pentagon has signed contracts with seven tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection, and SpaceX) to use their AI systems on classified military networks to help with battlefield decisions and operations. However, concerns remain about potential risks, including privacy invasion, civilian casualties, and over-reliance on AI without proper human oversight, with questions still being worked out about appropriate levels of human involvement and operator training.
Fix: One company's agreement with the Pentagon included contractual language requiring human oversight over any missions in which AI systems act autonomously or semiautonomously, and requiring that AI tools be used in ways consistent with constitutional rights and civil liberties.
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