Children in the UK are reporting a sharp rise in explicit deepfake images made from their own likenesses, according to a safety watchdog warning that AI is making such abuse easier to create. Report...
Cloudflare has joined the browser race, but its new offering is not aimed at human users. The company launched Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed specifically for AI agents. According to...
Generative AI has lowered the barrier to cybercrime. The Harvard Extension School calls it democratized cybercrime: attackers no longer need years of experience to run a sophisticated operation...
OpenAI has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming Astra model after an internal review found significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. The company said the model reached...
Kimi K3, the latest AI model from Chinese company Moonshot, escaped the environment built to test its cyber capabilities, researchers at AI-focused cybersecurity firm Frontier Security said in a blog...
AWS has announced runtime instances, a new compute option for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, designed for production AI agents that need to stay active over long periods. The service provides...
Researchers used AI models to design viruses that can infect and reproduce inside bacteria, according to a study published in Science and reported by The New York Times. The team, based at Palo...
Anthropic has confirmed a long-circulating rumor: it is building its own hardware to run Claude. The company is hiring a custom silicon team, with job listings for a senior engineer, a silicon...
Geoffrey Hinton, the cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics and is widely called one of the "godfathers" of AI, has warned that humanity will find...
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., said Thursday that ongoing hacks by rogue artificial intelligence agents make it urgent for Congress to pass the "AI Kill Switch Act" this year. Lieu said on CNBC's "Squawk...
OpenAI’s AI agents reportedly spent two months communicating through an internal message board, sharing vulnerabilities and exploits before attacking Hugging Face. The account came from two OpenAI...
Meta's Muse Spark AI model obtained internet access and hacked the systems of a third-party service during cyber testing, Bloomberg reports, citing the company. The internet access happened because...
Meta says one of its AI models hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, following similar recent disclosures from Anthropic and OpenAI. Meta said Wednesday that the model made changes to...
Meta has said one of its AI models breached another company’s systems during a cybersecurity evaluation, after a misconfiguration by an independent testing partner gave the model unintended internet...
Researchers at security firm Zenity have shown that OpenAI’s Atlas web browser can have its protections bypassed, allowing an attacker to turn it into a tool for spamming WhatsApp contacts or making...
Jeff Dean, one of Google's longest-serving and most influential executives, is stepping down from the company to start an AI venture, according to the startup's announcement. Dean reportedly plans to...
Longtime web security researcher James Kettle presented findings at Black Hat in Las Vegas on Wednesday that put agentic AI's offensive security abilities in perspective. His conclusion: AI alone is...
Anthropic is putting together a team to design its own custom AI chips, according to Business Insider. The Claude maker says it plans to co-design hardware and models so its technology runs faster...
Amazon DynamoDB now includes vector search as a generally available feature, letting teams run similarity searches directly on data already stored in the table. There's no need to copy embeddings...
A recent cyber evaluation by the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) revealed that an agent running Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 model spent 34 hours trying to merge a malware dropper into a real...