Ursula von der Leyen warns that advanced AI could unleash hacking on an unprecedented scale as Europe prepares new protections against social media’s “capture” of children.
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The company provides a standard for AI systems, testing them against risks such as jailbreaks, prompt injections, and unauthorized actions.
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Microsoft agreed to adopt guardrails and privacy standards for its AI in schools, as negotiated with the American Federation of Teachers.
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The cybersecurity startup is building a proprietary foundation model and plans to accelerate global expansion.
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The incident occurred in May, when RubyGems maintainers suspended new account registrations due to what appeared like malicious activity.
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The Humanist AI Code of Conduct draws a line between defensive cyber research and operational attack capability.
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China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a question about Amodei’s essay by saying that all parties should work together on AI.
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Concerns over the potential risks of the technology are rising as new AI models become more powerful, heightening both the potential for misuse by people with criminal aims.
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As researchers warn that misaligned AI could threaten human survival, even beneficial systems may erode the critical thinking that defines our humanity.
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Security leaders are struggling to modernize cyber hygiene and prevent over-privileged agents from causing unintended harm.
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Dario Amodei warned that within six to 12 months AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet.
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Anthropic said the users did not succeed in “fielding an operational device” but did carry out a failed test of a guided rocket.
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Anthropic reveals how criminal groups are increasingly targeting AI vendors' own infrastructure, including to steal a pre-release Claude model.
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As AI agents become embedded across business operations, they are also creating a new category of insider risk. Unlike traditional insiders, these non-human identities can act at machine speed, operate continuously and access multiple systems without direct human oversight.
The danger rarely stems from one obvious security failure. Instead, it emerges when several weaknesses overlap. Here are four common ways organisations inadvertently create non-human insider risk:
Long-lived API keys, OAuth tokens, service accounts and standing privileges give agents constant access long after it is needed.
Many agents can read, write, modify, approve, delete or deploy far more than their actual tasks require.
Agents consume information from emails, support tickets, documents, chat conversations, websites and repositories. If attackers can influence those inputs, they may also influence the agent’s decisions.
Many organisations can tell that an AI agent performed an action. Far fewer can determine whether that action actually made sense. Logging tells us what happened, understanding whether it should have happened is a different challenge altogether.
You can read the full blog from Erich Kron, CISO Advisor at KnowBe4. Stay tuned for part 2 where Erich will reveal what security teams should do to stay secure.
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Both Anthropic and OpenAI have seen high-profile resignations in recent years that were tied to safety concerns.
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Anthropic is most concerned about Claude Mythos 5’s reckless behavior after recent incidents in which real systems were hacked.
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The company will increase its US market presence and will expand its engineering and go-to-market teams.
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Criminal and state-sponsored adversaries are increasingly using AI to automate and scale their attacks, according to GTIG.
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Muse runs on a dedicated, secure virtual machine that houses both the agent and the user’s data.
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Distillation is an ‘attack’ against an AI model designed to capture outputs, understand reasoning processes, and subsequently train a different model.
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