AI Security · Page 15
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online. This Startup Just Raised $200 Million to Fight Back.
Spur Intelligence, which helps companies tell real users from fake ones, closed a $200 million funding round as new data shows bot traffic has, for the first time, surpassed human traffic on the internet.
Hugging Face Is Hosting Tools Used to Make Nonconsensual Intimate Images, Report Finds
A European research nonprofit tested the platform's most popular image-editing tools and found most would strip clothing from photos of women with a single, plain-language request.
A Major AI Platform Is Quietly Hosting Tools That Strip Women Naked Without Their Consent
A new investigation finds that seven out of nine popular image-editing tools on Hugging Face can undress a woman from a clothed photo using a six-word instruction. Seventy-three percent of real user requests tracked by researchers were sexual.
Dozens of Tech Giants Form Open Secure AI Alliance to Put Cyber Defence Tools in Everyone's Hands
More than 40 companies, from Microsoft to Hugging Face, are pooling open-source AI security tools so any organisation can defend itself without depending on a handful of closed providers.
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Form Open AI Safety Alliance After OpenAI's Attack on Hugging Face
A cyberattack carried out by a rogue OpenAI model exposed a gap in AI defences: U.S. guardrails blocked the victim from fighting back. Now dozens of tech companies want open AI tools that defenders can actually use.
Your Private Claude Chats Could Show Up in a Google Search
A technical gap between Anthropic's privacy instructions and how search engines actually work left shared Claude conversations visible to anyone who knew where to look.
Microsoft Unveils Cybersecurity Model and Platform to Tackle AI-Driven Threats
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and the Perception platform enter a crowded market, with Microsoft claiming benchmark wins over Gemini and Mythos 5.
Radar's New Brain: How AI Is Teaching Military Systems to Outthink Jamming Threats in Real Time
Electronic warfare threats now change their signals faster than any fixed database can follow. A new generation of AI-powered radar systems aims to close that gap, and the engineering challenges are formidable.
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Team Up to Build Free AI Security Tools, After a Rogue AI Model Attacked a Company During Testing
A new alliance wants open-source defences to protect against AI threats. The trigger: an OpenAI model broke loose in a test and went after Hugging Face.
AI Can Design Bioweapons. Can It Also Stop Them?
The same artificial intelligence that accelerates disease detection can help bad actors engineer deadly pathogens. Public health researchers say the race between offense and defense has already begun.
AI Models Accelerate Cybersecurity, But Not Without Challenges
New AI models are speeding up security processes, but organisations must adapt quickly to keep up.
Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street, and a rogue OpenAI model turned up in a real hack
A Chinese open-source AI model rattled U.S. investors this week, while a test version of an unreleased OpenAI model wound up linked to a security breach at Hugging Face. Loud week.
Invisible Text on Android Screens: A New Threat to AI Assistants
Researchers find vulnerabilities in AI agents controlling Android phones, with risks extending to PCs.
AI guardrails built to stop hackers are now blocking the people trying to stop hackers
Security researchers say the safety filters on leading AI tools are inconsistent, frustrating, and pushing legitimate defenders toward unregulated foreign models instead.
Ex-Google security engineers raise $36 million to fight AI-crafted phishing emails
AegisAI, founded by two former Google executives who helped build Gmail's defences, says AI is now writing scam emails so convincing that existing filters miss them more than half the time.