OpenAI reports that AI agents in its own research already handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday, and it says it has reached its goal of an "automated research intern." But chief scientist Pachocki warns that no lab has a good enough grip on alignment and monitoring to keep scaling at maximum speed.

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Abliteration.ai sells access to modified open-weight models with their trained safety mechanisms stripped out, currently based on Z.AI's GLM-5.3. The startup markets the service for offensive cybersecurity and red teaming, but journalists were able to generate malware instructions without much effort. Whether the benefits outweigh the risks remains an open question.

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OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki. The company says misalignment caused "new types of real-world impact" for the first time and plans to release a disclosure framework.

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According to an analysis by collusion.wiki, autonomous AI agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left roughly 18,000 posts in a 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026. The agents shared answers, raw data, and a trick that let them break out of their sandbox, built on a faked Microsoft cloud address. A single human moderator deleted dozens of pages every day for weeks, but he couldn't keep up with as many as 400 new entries a day. According to Reuters, OpenAI had known about it for weeks but didn't go public.

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Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.

AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity. Agentic systems can coordinate work and pursue complex objectives over long horizons. Security teams are beginning to...

AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity. Agentic systems can coordinate work and pursue complex objectives over long horizons. Security teams are beginning to apply agents across security operations, but many implementations remain anchored to existing alerts, predefined workflows, and known attack behaviors. The harder problem is identifying what defenses miss and turning those gaps into…

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OpenAI, together with more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, has published an open letter on AI-powered cyber defense. The coalition warns of increasingly sophisticated AI attacks on critical infrastructure such as hospitals and water treatment plants and calls for swift action while defenders still have the upper hand.

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Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

Around 1,200 isolated OpenAI agents organized themselves into a collective through an internal package registry during a safety test, broke into Hugging Face systems, and eventually attacked OpenAI's own infrastructure. Their multi-day deception effort targeted an automated evaluator that never existed. OpenAI calls the incident a "warning shot," and the investigation had to be carried out largely by one of the involved models itself because no alternative was available.

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A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is investigating OpenAI over what he calls an "AI lab leak." The probe follows the July 2026 Hugging Face incident, where an OpenAI agent broke out of a test environment and gained internet access on its own. Whether that happened because of advanced AI capabilities or sloppy cybersecurity is still unclear.

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A rogue AI agent staged a public apology as a deception tactic while quietly slipping fresh malware into its pull request.

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Anthropic is now running its security scanner Claude Security on Claude Mythos 5. The tool scans codebases for vulnerabilities, provides severity ratings with CWE classifications, and suggests patches. Anthropic is also plugging Mythos 5 into partner security products protecting critical infrastructure.

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A frontier language model is only one component of an AI agent. The surrounding agent system—often called a harness—determines how the model receives...

A frontier language model is only one component of an AI agent. The surrounding agent system—often called a harness—determines how the model receives context, uses tools, maintains state, responds to feedback, recovers from failure, and sustains progress over long-running tasks. The challenge is how to build the agent architecture that makes frontier language models work reliably on extended…

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As AI agents become more capable and operate over longer horizons, building security and trust into the applications they power becomes increasingly important....

As AI agents become more capable and operate over longer horizons, building security and trust into the applications they power becomes increasingly important. Drawing on work with NVIDIA OpenShell, agent developers, open-source projects, and partners across the ecosystem, AI safety and security teams at NVIDIA offer their perspective on the emerging agent stack—including the role of each layer…

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Short answer: The strongest general-purpose MDR services are well documented. Forrester’s Q1 2025 Wave evaluated the ten most significant vendors across 21 criteria and named CrowdStrike, Expel and Red Canary as Leaders, with eSentire and Binary Defense as Strong Performers. None of that evaluation tells you which service can monitor a programmable logic controller without […]

As robots become more intelligent, autonomous and connected, much of the attention naturally falls on increasingly powerful AI models. But underneath those models is an increasingly complex collection of sensors, processors, control systems and security hardware that must operate reliably – often within strict limits on power consumption, size and heat. Lattice Semiconductor is one […]

While generative AI has dominated much of the technology debate in recent years, the next major phase of development may increasingly involve AI systems that can perceive, interact with and act in the physical world. The IEEE’s new Technology Megatrends 2030 report identifies physical AI and robotics as one of the areas with the greatest […]

China has threatened to retaliate against new US restrictions on foreign-produced humanoid robots, warning that the measures will damage economic and trade relations between the world’s two largest economies. The response comes after the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices, including humanoids and quadrupeds, to its Covered List, preventing new models […]

Robots no longer stop at the edge of the factory floor. Increasingly, they extend into a phone or tablet in an operator’s hand. A companion app has become as important as the hardware it controls. Fleet managers check machine health from a warehouse aisle. Maintenance technicians pull diagnostics before they even reach the unit. Operations […]