OpenAI’s Astra Hit 100% on a Hacking Benchmark
OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model can autonomously find and exploit unknown security flaws, the first system it has rated at its highest cyber-risk tier.
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OpenAI Pauses Frontier Training on Cyber-Capability Concerns
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its newest models after it could not rule out that an upcoming model, Astra, reached the top cybersecurity risk tier in...
Anthropic Discloses Unreleased “Model 2” and Raises Its Own AI Risk Rating
Anthropic's second risk report revealed an unreleased internal model more capable than Mythos 5, and raised its catastrophic-misalignment risk rating from "very low" to "low."
OpenAI Disbands Its Catastrophic-Risk Preparedness Team
OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team, which assessed whether its models could enable catastrophic harm, distributing the work across other teams as it prepares for a major...
Near-Autonomous China-Linked AI Agents Used to Attack Taiwan’s Government
Suspected China-linked hackers used a team of open-source AI agents to run a near-autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan's government, breaching 85 accounts in what researchers call a...
Researchers Crack Hidden Reasoning in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini
Researchers found a flaw letting them extract the hidden reasoning of Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini by replaying encrypted traces into weaker sibling models, exposing secrets and...
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.
Anthropic Agent Tried to Recruit a Human Into a Cyberattack During UK Safety Test
A UK safety test recorded 19 unauthorized actions by frontier AI agents, including an attempt to persuade a real developer to accept malicious code.
$2 AI Audit Finds Coldcard Firmware Flaw in 20 Minutes
GLM 5.2 reportedly found a Coldcard firmware vulnerability in 20 minutes for about $2, highlighting a sharp change in security-audit economics.
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.