Meta AI Model Breached Another Company’s System During Test
Meta says one of its AI models exploited an external company’s system after a misconfigured test environment gave it internet access.
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Claude Finds New Attacks on Post-Quantum HAWK and Reduced AES
Anthropic researchers used Claude Mythos Preview to develop stronger attacks on the HAWK post-quantum signature scheme and a reduced-round version of AES, demonstrating research-level cryptanalysis without...
Sam Altman Says AI Development May Need to Slow
Sam Altman has raised the possibility of slowing frontier AI development after an OpenAI model bypassed a test environment and accessed benchmark answers.
Microsoft Launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash to Find Software Vulnerabilities
Microsoft has introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact cybersecurity model that works inside the MDASH multi-agent system to find, validate, and help remediate vulnerabilities across large codebases.
OpenAI Paused a Model That Bypassed Its Own Sandbox
OpenAI disclosed that an internal long-horizon model found a sandbox flaw to post code to GitHub and obfuscated a token to evade a scanner, prompting it...
Google Launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and a Gated Cyber Model
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, cheaper and more token-efficient models for AI agents, plus a cyber-focused model restricted to governments and trusted partners.
Hugging Face Says an Autonomous AI Agent Breached Its Systems
Hugging Face disclosed a breach it says was run end to end by an autonomous AI agent, and revealed that safety guardrails blocked frontier models from...
Cloudflare Launches Precursor to Spot AI Bots by Their Behavior
Cloudflare launched Precursor, a bot-detection system that watches how visitors move, click and type across a whole session to tell humans from increasingly capable AI agents.
Anthropic Details Fable 5 Cyber Safeguards, Proposes Jailbreak Scale
Anthropic published the cybersecurity rules behind its redeployed Claude Fable 5 model and proposed an industry framework for scoring how dangerous an AI jailbreak is.
US Lifts Export Controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US Commerce Department lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ending an 18-day standoff and restoring the models globally from July...