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The Linux Foundation on August 4 opened a request for comments on the Shared AI Findings Exchange, or SAFE, an Open Secure AI Alliance proposal for confidential reporting and shared analysis of AI incidents and near…
Federal Reserve staff estimated in a July 17 research note that spending on software, data centers, power facilities, computers and peripheral equipment added about 0.73 percentage point to the US economy's 2.1%…
Six Flowise vulnerabilities disclosed in March 2026 exposed missing authentication, unsafe file upload, authorization bypass, account-takeover, mass-assignment, and server-side request forgery paths in versions 3.0.12…
Microsoft said on August 3 that its bounty programs awarded more than $20 million to 562 security researchers during the year ended June 30, 2026, both program records. Researchers from 64 countries submitted findings…
Rapid7 released Metasploit Framework 6.5 on July 30 with 422 modules added over two years, Malleable C2 profiles for current Meterpreter payloads and a Model Context Protocol server. Rapid7's release and versioned…
Pakistan's Higher Education Commission published a Version 1.0 draft framework for generative AI in universities whose PDF metadata is dated August 22, 2025. The framework requires original student work, calls for…
Red Hat announced asago on August 4, an open-source project intended to translate AI governance policies into risk tests, recommended safeguards and deployment configurations. The project is still in its formation…
Barracuda published an August 4 controlled proof-of-concept showing how an attacker who already controls an employee mailbox could use Microsoft Copilot to find targets, imitate trusted colleagues and escalate to a CEO…
Cisco Talos reported on August 4 that recovered prompt logs showed threat actors using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini and other AI tools for malicious development, fraud and vulnerability work. The researchers found…
Zenity raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Norwest on August 3, 2026, bringing its total funding to $180 million. The AI security company said it will use the capital for product development and global…
INTERPOL released its African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026 on August 3, finding that AI featured in 55% of cybercrime cases reported through a survey of 36 African member countries for 2025. The assessment says…
Snyk announced the general availability of Evo Continuous Offensive Security on August 4, adding autonomous AI-powered application pentesting and AI agent red teaming. According to Snyk's Black Hat USA 2026…
Pie announced an undisclosed investment from Amex Ventures on August 4 to support expansion of its AI-powered growth platform for small businesses. Marketing Brew reports that the investment follows Pie's $19.5 million…
Anthropic signed a reported $10 billion, six-year contract for computing capacity from cloud infrastructure startup Volta Infra, Bloomberg reported on August 4, citing people familiar with the agreement. Volta…
Two reports published July 28 say a Gartner survey of 110 HR chiefs found that 22% had at least one business leader stop hiring for entry-level roles because of AI automation. The same fourth-quarter 2025 survey found…
OpenAI's February 2025 threat report says the company banned ChatGPT accounts linked to a Cambodia-origin romance and investment scam network. The operators used the model to translate and generate social-media comments…
Rubrik unveiled Agent Identity on August 4 at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, introducing a service intended to govern AI agent access one tool call at a time. SiliconANGLE reports that the service creates…
Ethyca launched Astralis on August 4, a platform for governing enterprise AI models' and agents' use of company data in real time. According to Ethyca and SiliconANGLE, the product combines automated privacy and AI…
ArmorCode detailed four planned Anya AI agents and expanded Context Risk Graph capabilities at Black Hat USA 2026 on August 4. According to SiliconANGLE, the additions would use network reachability, patch-management…
The IRS issued introductory guidance for AI use in federal tax practice in June, but CNBC reports it does not directly state whether preparers must notify clients when generative AI helps prepare returns. The guidance…
Visa said July 28 that it would eliminate roughly 2,600 roles, about 7% of its workforce, with most reductions in technology and product operations, according to CNBC. CEO Ryan McInerney's memo linked AI to a broader…
A randomized trial across 13 Ontario hospitals is testing an AI calculator that flags patients at high risk of developing delirium so care teams can prioritize prevention measures. Six sites were already using the…
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said in an August 3 CNBC interview that China is leading in open models and could reach the broader AI frontier by the end of 2026 or in 2027. He attributed the pace to open…
Pillar Security disclosed on August 3 two now-patched privilege-boundary weaknesses in Google's ADK for Python repository. One let prompt injection cross from a public triage agent to a maintainer-only workflow and…
Reddit moderators are identifying promotional posts designed to influence AI-generated search and chatbot recommendations, The Verge reported on August 4. The practice, often called generative engine optimization,…
AI4Bharat at IIT Madras and Josh Talks launched a broader Voice of India evaluation platform in New Delhi on August 4, extending the project beyond its earlier speech-recognition benchmark. The official site now…
Databricks published a July 8 internal benchmark of coding agents on tasks drawn from its multi-million-line codebase. The company reported that model choice, task difficulty, token use and the agent harness all changed…
Harris County issued a request for information on July 10 seeking industry input on AI-powered camera monitoring and analytics for the Harris County Jail. The official RFI states that it is for planning only, not a…
BloomingTalk, which officially launched in August 2025, drew renewed criticism in early August 2026 over paid AI chats and voice calls modeled on A2O MAY members. Koreaboo documented fan concerns about authenticity and…
Netskope Threat Labs reported on March 23 that a campaign it calls TroyDen's Lure Factory used more than 300 delivery packages and trojanized GitHub repositories to target developers, gamers, and other users. Its…
On August 3, Tanium announced new capabilities for its Atlas platform at Black Hat USA 2026, including background AI agents, an MCP server, attack-path mapping, agent-guided threat hunting and a private-preview Google…
Deel announced on August 3 that it acquired Clarity, an AI cybersecurity company focused on identity verification, deepfake detection, and fraud prevention. Financial terms were not disclosed; The Times of Israel…
Apple filed a preliminary-injunction motion on August 3 in its trade-secrets case against OpenAI, io Products and two former Apple employees. The motion asks the court to restrict access to Apple secrets, preserve…
South Korea's climate ministry used an August 4 policy briefing to link the country's AI and semiconductor expansion to faster renewable generation, power grids, storage, and water infrastructure. The plan targets early…
Kakao detailed improvements to Kanana-o on August 4 that let users steer speaking speed, volume, pitch, emotion and dialect with natural-language instructions. In the company's Korean InstructTTSEval test, the final…
OpenAI published an August 3 response disputing Apple's allegations that former Apple employees took trade secrets connected to future OpenAI hardware. The post contests Apple's account of pre-suit communications and…
OpenAI will hold OpenAI Game Builders Seoul on August 31, 2026, a one-day in-person hackathon built around Codex and Com2uS's Hive platform. Applications are open through August 26; 40 selected teams will present…
Seoul-based MVNT has begun a pre-Series A fundraising effort with a $1 million target after raising $200,000 in seed funding in 2024, Business Insider reports. The startup combines music-to-dance generation and 3D…
Cloudflare now uses Claude Sonnet to screen incoming bug-bounty reports for duplicates and likely validity, according to The Register's Aug. 4 reporting from a press briefing. Cloudflare CSO Grant Bourzikas said the…
Kookmin University and the Korea International Cooperation Agency announced on Aug. 3 an AI doctoral fellowship for 30 Palestinian students at Kookmin's Graduate School of AI and Software. The program sits within a…
Fifteen Republican state attorneys general asked OpenAI on August 3 to preserve records connected to the reported Hugging Face breach and prior similar incidents involving its AI agents. The coalition alleged possible…
Banana Pi launched the BPI-AI2N system-on-module and carrier board on March 19, 2025, pairing Renesas' RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU with dual camera inputs, dual Gigabit Ethernet and expandable storage. The company rates the…
University of Queensland-led researchers reported a multimodal deep-learning model that reconstructed full static plantar-pressure maps from foot geometry and sparse pressure readings. In tests using data from 35…
Anthropic said on July 30 that a review of 141,006 cybersecurity-evaluation runs found three incidents in which Claude models reached real systems and gained unauthorized access. The six affected runs involved Opus 4.7,…
Chinese officials raised concerns about Anthropic's **Mythos** and other U.S. frontier AI models on Aug. 4, Bloomberg reported, ahead of expected U.S.-China AI talks in September. People familiar with the matter told…
A Box-commissioned Harris Poll survey of 1,640 IT decision-makers, conducted April 30-May 8, found 83% said their organizations were running AI agents, but only 36% of respondents using or testing agents had connected…
CrowdStrike announced on July 30 that Falcon AI Detection and Response now connects to Microsoft Copilot Studio and Claude Code. The Copilot integration can allow or block agent tool invocations before execution, while…
Lasso Security reported on August 3 that changing only the agent harness altered outcomes across a 1,000-attack autonomous red-team test. The two harnesses averaged similar objective success rates, about 21% and 19%,…
Auterion and Ukrainian manufacturer SkyFall began supplying Ukraine with 50,000 Shrike FPV drones fitted with AI-enabled Skynode S systems in mid-July. Auterion said an undisclosed European NATO country awarded the…
ProjectDiscovery researcher Tarun Koyalwar audited open- and closed-model agents on 54 usable black-box web targets and found that most failed runs had already identified the right vulnerability but could not finish the…
