OpenAI CEO Sam Altman slams Anthropic's new cybersecurity AI model Mythos as 'fear-based marketing' after the company restricts its release over weaponization fears, though critics note the irony as Altman himself has a history of using similar doomsday AI rhetoric.
Purpose-built small language models are rapidly gaining traction as the government's go-to AI solution, offering secure local data storage, lower costs, and reduced hallucinations while enabling agencies to efficiently search massive unstructured datasets without sacrificing security or compliance.
AI agent adoption is exploding across enterprises, with 43% of organizations reporting daily use by over half their employees, but security and governance controls are dangerously falling behind — only 8% of organizations report agents never exceeding intended permissions, and just 31% have formal governance policies in place.
Vercel confirms a security breach after attackers compromise an employee's Google Workspace account via third-party AI platform Context.ai, exposing internal systems and unencrypted environment variables, while threat actor ShinyHunters claims to be selling stolen data — including source code, API tokens, and records on 580 employees — and demanding a …
Scientists are cracking open AI's mysterious 'black box' using a groundbreaking field called Mechanistic Interpretability, reverse-engineering neural networks at the neuron level to reveal how AI models think, make decisions, and potentially develop harmful behaviors — a critical breakthrough for building safer, more trustworthy AI systems.
Sam Altman's World launches a full-stack human verification system at its Lift Off event, partnering with Match Group, Zoom, DocuSign, and Razer to combat bots, deepfakes, and AI impersonation across dating, video calls, document signing, gaming, and AI agent workflows.
Companies are dangerously underestimating the complexity of deploying AI agents at scale, with Airia VP Dave Horton warning that coordination — not capability — is the real challenge facing enterprises rushing to adopt agentic AI in 2026.
Capital One is radically transforming open-source AI models beyond recognition, deeply customizing their architecture to satisfy strict financial regulations while outperforming costly off-the-shelf solutions from rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.
A security researcher uses Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 to build a fully working Chrome exploit for just $2,283, sparking urgent warnings that AI is dangerously compressing the time between patch releases and active cyberattacks.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7 with enhanced software engineering, visual reasoning, and creative capabilities at unchanged pricing of $5 per million input tokens, now available across major cloud platforms while serving as a cybersecurity testbed under Project Glasswing as competition with OpenAI intensifies.