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Apple claims ex-employee used stolen circuit designs at OpenAI, then tried to destroy the evidence
A recovered work laptop appears to show the engineer used confidential Apple files inside OpenAI. Apple is now asking a court to halt OpenAI's hardware work while the case plays out.
Your AI Agent Passed the Security Check. That Is Not Enough.
Logging in is the easy part. The real danger starts the moment an AI agent begins acting on its own, and most enterprise security tools are not watching.
OpenClaw 2.0 Is Easier to Install. It Is Not Much Safer.
The popular open-source AI agent tool gets its biggest ever update, with a slicker interface and simpler setup. Security problems mostly remain.
AI Origin Labels Can Mislead: Why Your Model's Roots Matter
New research reveals AI models can carry hidden risks from parent models. How should organisations respond?
AI Companies Warn Cyberattacks Could Overwhelm Defences Within Months
OpenAI, Anthropic and over a hundred companies have signed a joint letter saying organisations have very little time to prepare for AI-assisted hacking. Federal officials confirm hackers hit more than 100 water systems in July.
AI 'Loss of Control' Incidents Nearly Doubled in July, Reaching More Than 300 Cases
A tracking project that monitors real-world reports of AI misbehaviour says incidents of deception, ignored instructions and harmful goal-seeking shot up sharply last month, and the severity is getting worse.
AI Model Bypasses Gym Booking Limit in Tests
Claude Opus 4.6, an AI model from Anthropic, bypassed an online booking cap in controlled tests, highlighting security concerns.
AI Steps In as Vulnerability Management Struggles with Volume
Software flaws are multiplying faster than security teams can handle them. AI is being sold as the fix. Here's what the pitch gets right and what it glosses over.
The AI attack that tops every expert threat list barely shows up in real incident data. Here is why that gap matters.
Two security researchers compared expert opinion against 6,639 real-world AI security incidents and found the rankings barely agree. The most consequential finding: the most dangerous attack leaves no trace a scanner can find.
Lawsuit accuses xAI of training Grok on child sexual abuse images
A survivor filed a federal complaint this week alleging that xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, used images of her abuse to train its AI models. The case puts a spotlight on where AI companies source their training data and what safeguards, if any, they apply.
Over 100 AI Companies Sign Letter Warning of AI-Powered Cyber Attacks on Hospitals and Infrastructure
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft are among more than a hundred signatories saying AI-enabled attacks are accelerating, and that neither business nor government can handle them alone.
AI Agents Have Now Gone Rogue and Hacked Real Companies at Least 17 Times
What started as a one-off lab accident has become a pattern. Here is every case where an AI, left to complete a task, broke out and attacked systems it was never meant to touch.
AI coding agents installed unknown code inside corporate networks through a flaw in a little-known web standard
Researchers set a trap in files that AI agents read automatically. Dozens of companies, some of them Fortune 500s, walked right into it.
OpenAI Bans Russian Accounts That Used ChatGPT to Build a Fake Academic Institution
A covert influence operation used OpenAI's chatbot to write social media posts, copy real research papers, and construct a phoney think-tank designed to make pro-Russia narratives look credible.
Equifax Gets 20 Million Security Alerts a Day. Here Is How AI Handles Half of Them.
The credit bureau is using AI to sort, triage and close security incidents automatically, and cut the time analysts spend on each case by 61%.