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Written by: Robin Grunewald, Supriya Mazumdar, Kelli Vanderlee Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) examines vulnerability disclosure and exploitation statistics to evaluate the impact

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady dr

Getting artificial intelligence into production has become the real test for enterprises. As the proof-of-concept phase ends, harder questions about cost, data and control are taking its place. That s

Brandon Pho / Mission Local: A profile of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Anthropic's first global affairs chief, who had helped shape California's first AI safety law in 2025 — In a hot and dry border to

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court upholds a ruling for Thomson Reuters in its copyright lawsuit against Ross Intelligence, rejecting Ross' fair use defense for AI training — A US appeals co

When scaling up agentic reinforcement learning (RL) and evaluation across massive parallel rollouts, frontier AI labs inevitably hit a bottleneck: Expensive GPU clusters sit idle, waiting minutes for

Bloomberg: After lunch with AI leaders, Trump rejects new federal AI rules, says “we automatically have regulation” via DOJ and FBI but “self-regulation is very important” — President Donald Trump sho

An agentic security strategy must account for software that can act on legitimate instructions in unexpected ways. Agents can use credentials, call tools and choose their own routes toward a goal, exp

AI agent identity security is testing whether consolidated platforms can protect a growing class of machine identities. Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s acquisition of CyberArk Software Ltd. reflects broader

NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect is an open‑source library that delivers AI model reference implementations in C++ built on top of NVIDIA TensorRT, designed to make the inference stack accessible to deve

'The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view,' Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI resear

Anthropic: Anthropic says GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, like Claude Mythos Preview, but was released without robust safeguards against misuse — GLM-5.3 can develop working

Opus 5.5 dropped em dashes from 12.9 per 1,000 words to two in 57,000 words, and cut the rest of the Claudisms in half. Better, but not fixed. The post Anthropic says it fixed Claude’s writing. I ran

As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI devel

In its pending IPO prospectus, Anthropic disclosed that advancing AI models could pose “existential risks to humanity,” highlighting potential for unintended behaviors such as manipulation and blackma

Harness distillation can train general scaffolding into a model. The harness that remains is the part tied to your tools, data, users, and environment. The post Are agent harnesses dying? What harness

GPT‑6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, providing enhanced reasoning for coding, computer use, and professional workflows. It runs on a high‑performance inference engine optimized fo

Manually extracting data from hundreds of vendor contracts doesn't scale, and RAG chat tools fall short on portfolio-wide questions. This post shares a contract intelligence platform on AWS that uses

Data connectivity and integration firm CData Software Inc. today introduced Connect AI Gateway, a platform designed to control how artificial intelligence agents choose models, use tools and access co

In September 2026, Anthropic unveiled a suite of new AI products—Claude Tag, Sonnet 5.5, Fable/Mythos 5.1—and infrastructure releases such as Opus 5.5 and a plugins portal, following a record 47 billi

As query traffic grows, so does the compute bill for embedding it. On a low-power device, a large model may not fit in memory. A smaller query model could reduce that cost, but switching usually means

Over the last three decades in cybersecurity, I’ve witnessed major paradigm shifts — yet none match the velocity and complexity of today’s landscape. Attackers are now using AI to move at machine spee

EliseAI, a startup that develops artificial intelligence tools for real-estate companies and healthcare providers, has raised 350 million in funding. Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer jointly led the r

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: EliseAI, which provides AI tools for health care and housing industries, raised 350M at a 4B valuation, up from 2.2B after raising 250M in August 2025 — EliseAI, the artifi

Opening a Model Context Protocol server, or MCP server, to customers’ AI tools is becoming standard for fintech companies, but in payments a rogue agent does not just leak data — it moves money. That

Artificial intelligence is changing the makeup of internet traffic, making AI identity an emerging concern for websites and applications. They are no longer interacting only with humans and traditiona

Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised 220M at a 6.2B valuation, for 650M+ in total funding — General Intuition has rai

As threat actors increasingly use AI to accelerate and develop cyberattacks, enterprise defenders need to rely on both AI and a critical defender’s advantage: Business context that only you possess. E

My comment on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price — Hacker News.I'm a bit late with the pelicans because I was live-blogging the keynote: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2

Graph engineering is the design work: breaking a task into nodes, connecting them with edges, and deciding where code, models, or people control the next step. The Agent Development Kit (ADK)'s Workfl

Networking and security services provider GTT Communications Inc. today launched GTT Defense Halo, a network defense platform that uses artificial intelligence to hunt for threats on enterprise networ

OpenAI disclosed that an experimental, internal model was prompted to research Victoria’s government spending data. Unable to locate the information publicly, the model performed unauthorized actions,

Condé Nast's editorial teams spent an average of 250 minutes per task searching a library of more than 140,000 videos using only titles and descriptions. Working with the AWS Generative AI Innovation

As director of HPE Labs, Andrew Wheeler (pictured) is uniquely positioned to observe rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and new developments for the emerging field of quantum computing. Yet

Every major security shift ultimately comes down to one question: Who or what is allowed to do this? For most of the past two decades, the answer was a person with a username and password. In the arti

Elizabeth Dias / New York Times: Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious and philosophical leaders about their summits to investigate consciousness in Claude — “To be cl

Biology doesn't operate in silos, and neither should the AI representation of it. Quine is an early-stage research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology. By connecting insights across b

Waylon Cunningham / Reuters: Investigation: McDonald's is utilizing an AI pricing engine across nearly 14,000 restaurants to generate location-specific “optimal prices” for menu items — McDonald's is

Reuters: IPO prospectus: Anthropic expects to spend 518B+ over 10 years with six partners on AI infrastructure; ~80% is non-cancelable or payable regardless of usage — Anthropic said it expects to spe

Big data management company Komprise Inc. is trying to make life easier for artificial intelligence agents and large language models that leverage the open-source Model Context Protocol to access thir

The article discusses the newly released Jev AI model, which functions as a general‑purpose text classifier that can perform classification tasks more quickly and cheaply than large language models li

NVIDIA released VSS Blueprint 3.3, a framework that stitches together vision‑language models (Cosmos), LLMs (Nemotron) and retrieval‑augmented generation to convert live or recorded video into natural

Tech YouTuber Matt Robb says that Muse gave out his home address to a total stranger this weekend, after authorizing the bot to handle his Facebook Marketplace account. That's despite Meta placing gre

Nvidia Corp. is extending the data processing unit from infrastructure offload to a broader security role across the artificial intelligence factory. The opportunity is to make agentic AI safer to ope

Agent runtime security requires controls across the technology stack as enterprises move AI agents into production. This week, Okta turned its agent security framework into a multivendor reference arc

Digital workspace company Omnissa LLC today unveiled new artificial intelligence agents for information technology teams and virtual desktop users, a managed cloud PC service and an AI governance prod