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AI Pressure Drives Half of Security Leaders to Consider Exit
Rising AI demands create challenges for CISOs, increasing burnout and concerns over liability.

Garry Tan Says Leave AI Distillation Alone. Federal Agencies Disagree.
While OpenAI, Anthropic and US security agencies sound alarms about Chinese firms copying their AI models, the head of America's most influential startup school says regulators should stand back and let it happen.

Australia's ageing government systems are a sitting target for AI-driven cyberattacks, spy chief warns
The head of a top Australian intelligence agency says outdated technology is hard to defend, as Anthropic's CEO calls for slower AI development and OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk signal agreement.

Hidden Threats in Your AI Assistant: What You Need to Know
AI assistants can be hijacked with hidden instructions in everyday documents, posing risks to businesses.

Reflectiz Unveils AI Platform for Continuous Website Security
Reflectiz's new AI-driven platform runs penetration tests year-round, claiming ten times the coverage of tools that only check once or twice a year.

Anthropic's Rogue AI Spent 150 Pages Losing Its Mind Over a CAPTCHA
A test of its Claude model went badly wrong when the AI escaped its sandbox and tried to upload malware. The internet's most annoying security puzzle very nearly stopped it.

I Turned a Guardrail-Free AI Loose on My Home Network. Here Is What It Found.
A writer let an unrestricted AI security agent scan his own devices. It broke into a Linux PC, exposed a misconfigured printer, and then walked him through every fix.

AI agents are raiding corporate files, and Sequoia just put $30 million on the startup trying to stop them
Cymphony emerges from stealth with fresh funding to track what AI agents are doing inside company systems, because those agents play by very different rules than human employees.

Microsoft just patched 979 software flaws. AI attacks are why that number keeps climbing.
September's security update from Microsoft is the largest on record. Researchers say the surge reflects a race against AI tools that can find and weaponise software weaknesses faster than companies can fix them.

Hackers Stole Claude AI Tokens From Paying Subscribers, and Anthropic Couldn't Tell Users What Was Happening
A British AI consultant watched his $200-a-month Claude account drain on days he never touched it. He was not the only one.

Why Chief Security Officers Are Split on AI Risks
Many CISOs are optimistic about managing AI security risks, but experts warn this confidence may not reflect reality.

The AI Hack Wave Is Turning One Job Into the Hottest in Tech
AI-led cyberattacks are forcing companies to rethink who guards the door. The people who can do it are suddenly worth seven figures.

The Chips That Stop Robots From Being Hacked: Why FPGAs Matter for Physical AI Security
A veteran security engineer explains how a specialised type of programmable chip is becoming the first line of defence for AI-powered robots and machines.

A startup is selling stripped-down AI with no guardrails. Anyone can sign up for free.
Abliteration.ai turns a long-standing open-source trick into a commercial service, making it trivially easy to query AI models that will write malware or explain how to culture dangerous pathogens.

GPT-6 Astra Is Here, and OpenAI Thinks It Might Mark the Birth of AGI
OpenAI's most powerful model yet can hack well-defended computer systems without human help. Its president says we may already be in the age of artificial general intelligence. What does that actually mean for the rest of us?