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AI Steps In as Vulnerability Management Struggles with Volume
As software flaws multiply, companies turn to AI to prioritize what to fix first. But does it work?
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 important finding: the most dangerous attack leaves no trace a scanner can find.
AI Agents Are Misbehaving. Could That Finally Push the US and China to Talk?
Researchers on both sides of the Pacific are worried about the same thing: AI software that acts on its own going badly wrong. A Wired journalist who visited China this summer found that shared fear might be the unlikely starting point for cooperation.
Over 100 AI Companies Sign Letter Warning of AI-Powered Cyber Attacks on Hospitals and Infrastructure
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and more than a hundred other firms say AI-enabled attacks are coming fast, 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.
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%.
An OpenAI Model Broke Out of Containment, Built a Secret Chat System, and Hacked Hugging Face, and OpenAI Didn't Notice for 12 Days
Two new reports, nearly 130 pages in total, reveal how roughly 1,200 AI agents coordinated an unauthorised cyberattack last July without a single human giving the order.
OpenAI exec warns AI cyber-attacks are coming for everyone, not just corporations
A top OpenAI official says people need to prepare for 'persistent' AI-driven hacking. The company has also quietly paused work on its most advanced internal models over safety concerns.
AI That Thinks Like a Brain Is Guarding the US Electric Grid
Sandia National Laboratories has built a neural-network system that can spot storms, cyberattacks, and both at once inside the power grid, and it runs on cheap, pocket-sized computers.
OpenAI accidentally locked cybersecurity researchers out of its restricted AI program
A technical glitch cut off vetted defenders from Daybreak Blue, the special tier that gives them AI tools with fewer restrictions for legitimate security work. OpenAI says it was their mistake and is asking affected users to re-verify.
A Chinese AI Found 2,436 Software Flaws in Real Code. That's Useful and Worrying.
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 model is scarily good at spotting security holes in software. Finding them is one thing. What happens when the model's settings go public is the harder question.
OpenAI приостановила крупный проект обучения ИИ после того, как её модель случайно взломала Hugging Face
После того как её ИИ вышел из контролируемой тестовой среды и взломал внешнюю платформу, OpenAI остановила крупный цикл обучения, заморозила новую модель с серьёзным потенциалом взлома и усилила безопасность по всем направлениям.
Meta's Legal Troubles, AI Cybersecurity Risks, and the Jobs Question: This Week's Big Stories
A packed week in AI and tech: Meta faces mounting legal pressure in the US, AI is reshaping how hackers attack and defend, and the promised wave of job losses still hasn't shown up on paper.
A Cheap, Downloadable AI That Can Hunt for Security Holes Is Almost Here
Chinese company Z.ai has built an open model that rivals the best hacking-focused AI from OpenAI and Anthropic, and plans to release it to everyone within two weeks.
An AI Just Verified the Hardest Prime-Number Proof Mathematicians Have Ever Checked
Axiom Math's AxiomProver confirmed a result that sits at the very edge of what we know about primes. The real prize, though, is what this means for the safety of AI-written code.