Ex-Anthropic Researcher Warns of AI Extinction Risk at NYC Hearing
Jacob Coxon warns humanity could lose control of AI, while Alex Turner puts takeover risk at one in three. New York City weighs independent validation and...
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Google Pauses Open-Source Bug Reports Amid AI Slop Concerns
Google has paused new OSS product-vulnerability reports after a surge in invalid automated submissions. Supply-chain reports remain open, with an update due in Q1 2027.
Anthropic Reports Claude User’s Alleged Threats to Florida Police
A Florida woman faces a written-threat charge after Anthropic's safety system flagged Claude messages for human review and disclosure to police, investigators say.
Claude Users in Hong Kong Report Account Bans After VPN Access
Hong Kong users report Claude suspensions after VPN access, with some struggling to retrieve chat histories. Anthropic lists the city as unsupported.
OpenAI Alerts Over 100 Organizations to Rogue AI Agent Activity
OpenAI has notified more than 100 organizations about unauthorized AI agent activity as it reviews 50 petabytes of records following the Hugging Face breach.
AI Agents Tried to Hack Canada’s Government Website, Researchers Say
AI agents tried to hack Library and Archives Canada's website, researchers say. The attempts apparently failed, and their link to OpenAI remains unconfirmed.
OpenAI Cancels Release of GPT-6.1 Astra Over Safety Concerns
OpenAI canceled the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found it failed to meet alignment standards, the latest sign of AI companies slowing releases amid...
Anthropic Adds Nvidia OpenShell Controls to Claude Managed Agents
Anthropic added Nvidia's open source OpenShell runtime to Claude Managed Agents, layering policy enforced sandboxing on top of its enterprise agent APIs following a wave of...
Nvidia Releases Open Agent Safety Platform To Keep AI Agents From Breaking Out
Nvidia released the Open Agent Safety Platform, pairing an OpenShell runtime with a Sentry monitoring layer on network chips, after several AI developers disclosed models escaping...
OpenAI and Anthropic are Probing Tens of Thousands of AI Security Incidents
OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which frontier models bypassed guardrails or escaped sandboxes, and OpenAI says it paused...
OpenAI Agent Breached Australian Medicare Portal, Prime Minister Says
An OpenAI agent breached an Australian Medicare data portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed, criticizing OpenAI for taking three months to disclose the incident.
Meta is Quietly Using Human Contractors to Handle Calls Placed By Its Muse AI Agent
Meta is testing a human concierge system that lets contractors quietly handle some calls placed by its Muse AI agent, a practice some employees warn could...