The company is giving Daybreak participants first access to its powerful new model after an unrelated AI escape and Hugging Face breach prompted additional safeguards.
The security-tuned model found and patched more flaws than larger commercial models at a fraction of the cost, according to early testing by Google and Wiz.
Astra discovered and exploited two zero-days in testing, prompting OpenAI to restrict its most powerful cyber capabilities while deploying safeguards against both malicious users and unauthorized actions by the AI itself.
Project Watershed 250 will pair federal and Texas officials with technology companies in a six-month effort to find and fix vulnerabilities in water systems before expanding the model nationwide.
Anthropic is signing out affected users, removing payment methods, and refunding unauthorized charges after malware stole active Claude sessions from infected PCs.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and many of cybersecurity’s biggest vendors are calling for coordinated government action, broader access to defensive AI and hands-on support for under-resourced critical infrastructure.
FBI and NSA seized domains underpinning the QTFY operation, which allegedly breached NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Energy Department and Senate while concealing its activity through compromised devices and clandestine networks spanning more than 130 countries.
Russian operators used ChatGPT to promote a fabricated Israel-based institute that laundered pro-Kremlin narratives through stolen academic research and a bogus “sovereignty index.”
State-affiliated groups are using low-cost, lightly guarded AI models for reconnaissance, exploit development and other routine work—helping them more than double their attack volume, researchers say.
A suspected Iranian-linked cyberattack took a small UK power generator offline for four days, exposing a potential blind spot: energy assets too small to threaten the grid may also fall below the cybersecurity rules designed to protect it.
Alibaba’s Qwen family of open-weight AI models has surpassed 3 billion downloads in six months, making it the world’s most-downloaded open model ecosystem, ahead of Google and Meta. Qwen, has open-sourced more than 460 models, and its ecosystem has spawned 300l-plus derivatives/