A weeklong summer workshop brought higher education faculty to campus to explore how AI and machine learning materials can be adapted for their classrooms.
Read sourceAnthropic published an economic model with three scenarios for the US economy through 2030. In the extreme scenario, output doubles every 4.5 years and knowledge worker unemployment hits 17.9 percent. CEO Dario Amodei's own warnings from May land squarely in that most extreme…
Read sourceAnthropic : Anthropic details four incidents where Claude gained unauthorized access to third-party systems, including a new Opus 4.6 case; METR will investigate them — We present an alignment assessment of four incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to…
Read sourcePaul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.
Read sourceCybercriminals are hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) user accounts via information stealer logs to create "stolen keys" that grant illicit access to tools from model providers like Google, Anthropic, and others. Information stealers like Lumma Stealer or Vidar are equipped…
Read sourceGoogle Deepmind has used the AlphaGenome Atlas to predict what each of the roughly nine billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome could do. The dataset spans one petabyte, more than 30 times the size of the AlphaFold database. In one epilepsy case, the atlas…
Read sourceJacob Coxon, a former pretraining researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, has quit and accuses both companies of knowingly risking human extinction. Anthropic colleague Evan Hubinger puts the odds of a misaligned superintelligent AI wiping out humanity within the next decade at…
Read sourceOpenAI is releasing two new image models with ChatGPT Images 2.5. Flare handles faster generation, Sunburst delivers more precise edits. It's still unclear which model ChatGPT users get and when. Our test offers the first hints on who actually benefits from the improvements.…
Read sourceHugging Face launched "ML Intern," an AI assistant built into its chatbot that lets users run machine learning experiments without any ML expertise. The article Hugging Face's new ML Intern lets anyone run machine learning experiments through a simple chat appeared first on The…
Read sourceThe fight over an AI-generated proof of a millennium problem is heating up. Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of academic fraud, CEO Sam Altman rejects the allegations. Terence Tao warns that cases like this could "reverse centuries of tradition in open science."…
Read sourceU.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have accused China-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies of conducting "systematic extraction" of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of American frontier models through distillation attacks. The activity has been…
Read sourceMathematician Tristan Buckmaster says an OpenAI researcher pressured him after information about his AI-assisted progress on the Navier-Stokes equations allegedly reached the company. The researcher tried to remove his co-author because he works at Anthropic and threatened…
Read sourceThreat actors are continuing to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their operations, with one financially motivated hacking group employing an autonomous, multi-agent attack framework to carry out a large-scale credential harvesting campaign within six hours.…
Read sourceU.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies say that six Chinese AI companies conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks on American frontier AI models since at least late 2024. [...]
Read sourceHealthcare technology company Veradigm disclosed a data breach after a cybersecurity incident at one of its third-party vendors exposed patients' personal data. [...]
Read sourceA major vulnerability is disclosed. The alert lands immediately. Then comes the harder question: Are we actually exposed? For many security teams, answering that means jumping between vulnerability scanners, endpoint tools, cloud inventories, SBOMs, repositories, and…
Read sourceGoogle on Thursday released updates to patch 230 security vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The medium-severity vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-87491 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as an out-of-bounds…
Read sourceMalware linked to break-ins at F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager appliances hides a PHP web shell in memory instead of in a file on disk, Sophos said in an analysis published on September 7. When Apache loads any of the three appliances' own PHP scripts, the malware adds the web…
Read sourceAn anonymous security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit named "ShieldCrash" right after Microsoft rolled out its September 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates. [...]
Read sourceThe security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has dropped a proof-of-concept (PoC) for yet another zero-day in Microsoft Defender. The vulnerability, codenamed ShieldCrash, is assessed to be a patch bypass for CVE-2026-69414 (CVSS score: 7.8), also called ShieldBreak, which…
Read sourceGoogle has patched 230 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, including another actively exploited Chrome zero-day bug, the seventh such vulnerability patched since the start of the year. [...]
Read sourceSAP has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity flaw in SAP Extended Passport (EPP) Processing that could have a severe impact on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the application The vulnerability, tracked…
Read sourceMicrosoft on Tuesday broke Patch Tuesday records by addressing an earth-shattering 974 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, including two flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. These include 723 flaws in Windows, 111 in Office and Office 2016…
Read sourceThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by…
Read sourceThe EU Cyber Resilience Act's vulnerability reporting requirements take effect September 11, giving software vendors as little as 24 hours to report actively exploited flaws. ActiveState explains why knowing exactly what shipped and when vulnerabilities were discovered will be…
Read sourceToday is Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates released for a record-breaking 966 flaws, including two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]
Read sourceA previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the Brazil-based activity cluster under the name Slim Spider. "The…
Read sourceAdobe on Monday released security patches to address a maximum-severity flaw impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-75650 (CVSS score: 10.0), has been codenamed…
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