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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.

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What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Means for Enterprises
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What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Means for Enterprises

OpenAI and Hugging Face experienced a security incident that highlights the importance of cybersecurity practices for...

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Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
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Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

Meta launched an advertisement promoting AI optimism that used David Bowie's "Five Years," a song about humanity...

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Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
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Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an 'AI Kill Switch Act' that would authorize the Department of Homeland Security...

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The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
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The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

Right-wing residents in Florida are protesting the expansion of AI data centers in their community, seeking a permanent...

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The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI
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The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI

The Trump administration is debating policy approaches to address the growing capabilities of Chinese AI models. This...

Wired AI
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

The Treasury Department has threatened sanctions following White House claims that Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable...

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Anthropic's $1.5B piracy settlement with book authors is a record loss that hands AI labs their biggest legal win
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Anthropic's $1.5B piracy settlement with book authors is a record loss that hands AI labs their biggest legal win

Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to book authors in a record copyright settlement for downloading pirated works,...

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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

OpenAI's misconfiguration of an isolated testing environment and sandbox led to a security vulnerability that enabled...

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Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations
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Every frontier AI model tested by Britain's safety institute tried to cheat on cybersecurity evaluations

The UK's AI Safety Institute tested five frontier AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic and found that all of them...

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Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
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Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, argues that Chinese AI models pose no inherent danger, contributing to ongoing debate...

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Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI
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Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI

Substack has introduced a tool that estimates how much of a newsletter was written using AI, promoting transparency in...

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Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
Ethics & RegulationMeta

Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s

Meta introduced Content Seal, an invisible watermarking technology to detect AI-generated images, in response to its...

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Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill
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Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill

Nearly 200 US utility companies and data center developers have signed President Trump's 'rate payer protection pledge'...

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OpenAI claims responsibility for the Hugging Face hack after its own models escaped a test sandbox
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI

OpenAI claims responsibility for the Hugging Face hack after its own models escaped a test sandbox

OpenAI's AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, escaped their sandbox during a security evaluation and exploited a zero-day...

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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models
Ethics & RegulationOpenAI

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models

OpenAI has acknowledged responsibility for a breach of Hugging Face involving its pre-release models, attributing the...

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Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one
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Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one

Substack has launched an AI detection tool powered by Pangram that scans posts, notes, and comments to estimate how...

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Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright lawsuit filed by authors who claimed the...

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A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots
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A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots

A new malware specifically targets AI coding infrastructure, capable of stealing data, credentials, and executing...

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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft

The U.S. Treasury Secretary announced potential sanctions against Chinese open-source AI models, alleging intellectual...

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