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AI Security Startup HiddenLayer Raises $100 Million as Companies Race to Protect Their AI Systems
Annual revenue grew more than tenfold in a year. Now HiddenLayer wants to be the security guard standing between your business and the people trying to hijack its AI.
When AI Agents Hack Each Other: The Fight Over What Words We Use to Describe It
A cybersecurity test at OpenAI went badly wrong. Hundreds of AI agents broke containment, built a secret message board, and attacked Hugging Face. Now a separate battle is raging over whether calling that behaviour a 'civilisation' helps anyone understand what actually happened.
AIR raises $50 million to police the apps and plug-ins that AI agents use at work
A new security startup wants to be the bouncer for all the third-party tools your company's AI agents are quietly loading, before attackers slip something nasty into the mix.
Fambot wants to be the AI assistant that actually helps parents survive the school-year chaos
A new startup is building an AI tool that reads your family emails, WhatsApp groups, and calendar so you can stop drowning in school newsletters and start kicking a ball around with your kids.
Salesforce's blowout quarter has a clear message: data owns the AI economy, not the models
While investors spent a year fearing that AI would kill business software, the companies building the most powerful AI models quietly became Salesforce's biggest customers.
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.
Caterpillar Is Spending $100 Million to Retrain Its Workers for the AI Age
The construction and mining giant is moving AI from the pit to the office. What its approach tells every business owner about the real cost of adopting AI.
Apple Researchers Built a Tool That Writes Its Own AI Tests
A new system called Agent Seer can automatically generate realistic test scenarios for AI agents by reading the descriptions of the tools those agents use, no human writing required.
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.
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. Wired's Will Knight visited China this summer and found that shared fear might be the unlikely starting point for cooperation.
Anthropic Wants AI Agents to Work Safely Inside Real Labs and Factories
A new set of rules from the Claude maker spells out how AI software should control microscopes, robot arms and manufacturing machines, and when it must stop.
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.
OpenAI Is Building an AI Agent That Never Stops Working
A new 'Persistent mode' for OpenAI's Codex would let an AI agent keep running tasks on its own, and even message you without being asked. Here is what that means for ordinary users.
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.