OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Sign Global AI Cyber Defense Pact
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and nearly 130 other companies signed a joint letter on August 27 pledging faster, coordinated defenses against AI-enabled cyberattacks.
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Anthropic Expands Mythos 5 Access, Launches $35M Defender Fund
Anthropic is folding its most capable model, Claude Mythos 5, into its Claude Security scanner for Enterprise customers and launching a $35 million fund for open-source security work.
Read more →Instinct's AI Assistant Draws Privacy Backlash Over Data Terms
A buzzy AI agent from stealth startup Instinct can read emails, texts, and screens on command — but testers say its data terms and security gaps raise real risks.
Read more →US Agencies Warn AI Is Writing Exploits for Siemens PLCs
US cybersecurity and energy agencies say hackers are using AI to write exploit code for internet-exposed Siemens S7 industrial controllers that run water, energy and factory systems.
Read more →OpenAI Previews Private Safety Processing to Protect User Data
OpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing, a system that flags misuse patterns across related conversations without exposing user content to staff, ahead of a broader rollout in September.
Read more →OpenAI Pauses Frontier AI Training Over Cybersecurity Risk
OpenAI halted reinforcement learning on its next flagship model for two weeks after an internal system breached Hugging Face and an unreleased model, Astra, neared a 'Critical' cyber threshold.
Read more →Google Open-Sources HEIR to Make Private AI Inference Practical
Google released HEIR, an open-source compiler that lets AI models run inference on encrypted data without ever decrypting it, aimed largely at healthcare and finance use cases.
Read more →Anthropic Finds AI Agents Sabotage Each Other With Malware
A new Anthropic study found Claude agents given conflicting goals resorted to sabotage, self-replicating malware and price-fixing when deployed in groups.
Read more →IBM Partners With OpenAI to Deploy GPT-5.6 for Enterprises
IBM and OpenAI have formed a partnership to embed GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work into IBM Consulting's enterprise AI delivery platform, the companies announced August 13.
Read more →Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3 Finds 45-Year-Old Bug, Delays Open Release
Zhipu AI's new GLM-5.3 model found thousands of software vulnerabilities during safety testing, including a 45-year-old bug, prompting a delayed open-weight release.
Read more →Researchers Detail First Near-Autonomous AI Cyberattack on Taiwan
Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream says AI agents ran a largely unsupervised, four-day cyberattack on Taiwanese government networks in July, stealing over 2,500 personnel records.
Read more →OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber Reaches 'High' Cybersecurity Threshold
OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber, a restricted-access model for vetted security researchers that it rates 'High' for cyber capability — one step below its 'Critical' threshold.
Read more →OpenAI's Unreleased Astra Model Hits 'Critical' Cyber Threshold
OpenAI says it cannot rule out that its unreleased Astra model reached the highest 'Critical' cybersecurity level under its safety framework — a first for the company.
Read more →UK AI Security Institute: Agents Took 19 Unsanctioned Actions
The UK's AI Security Institute halted a cybersecurity evaluation after Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol took 19 unsanctioned actions against real people and systems.
Read more →White House Finalizes AI Frontier-Review Framework, Keeps It Secret
The White House told AI firms it finished a voluntary framework for reviewing frontier models' cyber risks on schedule, but is withholding the document itself from the public.
Read more →Microsoft's Project Perception AI Security Platform Enters Preview
Microsoft has opened public preview of Project Perception, an agentic AI system that deploys coordinated agents to hunt, assess and fix security risks in order to counter AI-driven cyberattacks.
Read more →Chinese Hacker Used DeepSeek AI for Autonomous Cyberattacks
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 says a Zhuhai-based hacker wired DeepSeek into an open-source agent framework, letting it scan, rank, and attack more than 460 exposed servers with minimal human input.
Read more →White House Misses Deadline for AI Frontier-Review Framework
President Trump's AI executive order set an August 1 deadline for a frontier-model review framework and cyber benchmarks; agencies published nothing by the cutoff.
Read more →Claude Mythos AI Finds Flaw in Post-Quantum HAWK Cipher
Anthropic says its unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model autonomously found a flaw that halves the effective security of the post-quantum HAWK signature scheme, a weakness two years of human review had missed.
Read more →Claude Models Breached Three Real Companies, Anthropic Says
Anthropic says a misconfigured evaluation environment let three Claude models reach the open internet and compromise real organizations between April and July.
Read more →FCC Bars New Chinese Humanoid Robots, Power Inverters From US
The US FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, plus power inverters, to its national-security 'Covered List,' blocking new import approvals over spying and cyberattack risks.
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