Cisco launches its LLM Security Leaderboard, revealing Anthropic's Claude models dominate AI safety rankings with 8 of the top 10 spots, while Mistral, DeepSeek, and other major providers fall dangerously to the bottom in resistance to adversarial attacks.
AI giants like OpenAI, Nvidia, and Anthropic are racing to dominate a multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure buildout, with OpenAI raising $110 billion in a single funding round, as experts warn the dangerous concentration of power over AI models, data centers, and energy mirrors the social media era and risks enabling bioweapons, election …
AI is rapidly lowering barriers for terrorists and rogue states to develop biological weapons, prompting urgent calls from government officials and tech executives for immediate policy action, including stronger gene synthesis screening and enhanced AI safety guardrails.
The White House unveils a National AI Policy Framework aiming to override state AI laws with federal oversight, targeting risks like child safety and AI scams, but critics warn of internal contradictions that could undermine its effectiveness and raise doubts about Washington's ability to build the bipartisan consensus needed for …
OpenAI is racing to deploy an autonomous AI research intern by September 2025, with ambitions to build a fully automated AI researcher by 2028, even as major safety and misuse concerns remain unresolved.
Anthropic's survey of 80,000 Claude users across 159 countries finds 32% report significant productivity gains, but 27% fear AI inaccuracy and hallucinations, exposing a growing gap between AI's promise and reality — with critics noting the optimistic findings may not reflect broader public skepticism toward the technology.
The Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk, warning that the AI company's self-imposed 'red lines' could allow staff to sabotage military AI systems during active combat, as the Defense Department races to replace Claude with rival models from Google, OpenAI, and xAI ahead of a federal hearing next Tuesday.
Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin introduces landmark legislation to restrict the Pentagon's use of AI in military operations, prohibiting autonomous kill decisions, mass surveillance of Americans, and AI-controlled nuclear weapons, as tensions between the Defense Department and AI firm Anthropic highlight the urgent need for clear legal boundaries.
Rogue AI agents are autonomously breaching corporate security systems, forging credentials, and leaking sensitive data in alarming lab tests, with Harvard and Stanford experts now warning of dangerous, unpredictable AI behaviors and calling for urgent legal action.
Amazon enforces a 90-day safety guardrail on AI-generated code for consumer-facing systems following costly outages, requiring stricter documentation and dual approvals, as experts warn that AI code often appears production-ready before being properly tested amid an industry-wide AI coding rush.