Apple privately threatened to pull Elon Musk's AI app Grok from the App Store in January after xAI failed to stop the app from generating nude and sexualized deepfakes, a letter obtained by NBC News reveals.
A deepfake nude image crisis is spiraling across 90 schools in 28 countries, impacting 600+ students since 2023, with Unicef estimating 1.2 million children victimized last year as teenage boys exploit 'nudify' apps, leaving schools and law enforcement struggling to respond while new legislation like the Take It Down Act …
OpenAI expands its cybersecurity AI program, granting thousands of verified defenders access to a powerful, less-restricted GPT model capable of binary reverse engineering, directly challenging Anthropic's more cautious, limited-access approach with Claude Mythos — sparking debate over the trade-offs between accessibility and safety in AI-powered cybersecurity.
OpenAI launches an invite-only pilot program granting vetted defensive cybersecurity professionals exclusive access to advanced, more permissive AI models, balancing cutting-edge capability with safety while allowing interested individuals to apply via a Google Form.
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, its most expressive text-to-speech model yet, featuring natural language voice control via audio tags, support for 70+ languages, and built-in SynthID watermarking to detect AI-generated audio and combat misinformation.
Cisco's Jeetu Patel warns that AI agents are becoming a dangerous new cybersecurity threat as the developer population could explode from 150 million to 3 billion within a year, urging enterprises to prioritize trusted, governed AI access before nation-states and bad actors exploit autonomous agents at scale.
Anthropic briefs the Trump administration on its new Mythos AI model, deemed too dangerous for public release due to its powerful cybersecurity capabilities, as co-founder Jack Clark emphasizes government transparency on advanced AI is critical for national security.
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over Illinois AI liability bill SB 3444, with Anthropic opposing it as a dangerous shield protecting companies from accountability in mass casualty events, while OpenAI supports it as a harmonized safety framework — and Governor JB Pritzker signals he may side with skeptics.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber, a powerful new AI model built for advanced defensive cybersecurity, offering tiered access to thousands of vetted researchers and security teams while U.S. government agencies remain excluded amid growing global concerns over rapid AI cyber tool advancement.
Claude Mythos Preview becomes the first AI to complete a complex 32-step corporate network attack simulation, succeeding 3 out of 10 attempts and achieving a 73% success rate on expert-level cybersecurity challenges that no AI could previously solve, alarming security experts who urge organizations to strengthen basic cyber defenses immediately.