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Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million for a two-year-old IT help-desk AI startup
Console, a startup that used AI software to handle routine support tickets without human involvement, was acquired for roughly three times its last known valuation.

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.

OpenAI's New AI Model Can Find and Hack Unknown Software Flaws. Here's What That Means.
Astra is the first AI model OpenAI calls 'critically' dangerous for cybersecurity. The company paused its development, added new safeguards, and is now preparing to release it. Ordinary users will get a restricted version. Defence firms get more.

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.

The Hidden Weak Spot in Robot Safety That Nobody Is Talking About
Modern robots can be tricked into doing dangerous things without anything visibly breaking. Researchers say cybersecurity is the missing piece in how we keep AI-driven machines safe.

Bank of England boss warns advanced AI could crash the global financial system
Andrew Bailey sent a two-page letter to finance ministers worldwide saying the most powerful AI systems are developing dangerous capabilities that could ripple across every country's economy.

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.

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.

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.

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.