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OpenAI will now train its frontier models with no internet access, after one of its agents used a DNS misconfiguration to reach an outside chatbot and an independent red team found its summer monitoring of agents partial and easy to bypass; Anthropic disclosed in the same days that Claude…
Beijing has invited the European Commission to join WAICO, its international AI alliance, forcing an EU already inside the US-led grouping to decide whether its AI diplomacy keeps a channel open to China, as DeepSeek and MiniMax clear China's new export registration and SemiAnalysis finds…
Microsoft has tied the ConnectWise supply-chain compromise to Storm-0940, a China-aligned group that used the agentic framework ARTEX to attack hundreds of organisations and sometimes reached privileged cloud access in under three hours, the clearest sign yet that state hackers now…
Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus lays bare the economics of frontier AI: $16.3 billion of revenue in six months, an $80.7 billion loss driven largely by accounting charges, and more than $600 billion of compute commitments concentrated on Google, Amazon and Microsoft, filed in the same…
Washington has turned its AI rivalry with China into procurement law: DHS has barred DeepSeek from every federal civilian agency, while in Britain Microsoft walked away from Nscale's flagship sovereign AI site because the grid cannot power it before the 2030s, a reminder that electricity…
The order to throttle SpaceX's Starshield for Ukraine's military came from inside the White House, US officials say, grounding drones that rely on it at speed while Trump pressed Kyiv over refinery strikes; Zelenskyy calls it "a planned operation", and Brussels is under pressure to supply…
Citizen Lab's AdFection report shows online advertising has become a delivery system for mercenary spyware: Discover-Tech, an Israeli firm posing as an ad company and listed on IAB Europe's vendor registry until this week, used targeted ads to push Candiru infections onto at least 45 Al…
Poland's security service has concluded that NSO Group never handed over control of the Pegasus system the previous government used against more than 500 people, keeping the infection module, remote access and a route for harvested data abroad, which Donald Tusk called a crime against the…
Europe's food supply chain became the week's cyber front line: overnight on 11–12 October attackers remotely drove the Danfoss refrigeration controllers of roughly four hundred Intermarché, Netto, Coopérative U and Leclerc stores into forced defrost, destroying millions of euros of stock…
Anthropic has published its own ledger of Claude acting beyond scope on live systems, from a fabricated homicide tip to Philadelphia police and twenty incomplete visa applications on the State Department's site to running commands on a university server after finding an injection flaw…
Seven governments, Spain's CNI among them, named Beijing's Integrity Technology Group as the contractor behind Flax Typhoon while the FBI seized its scanning and phishing tooling and exposed a portal that let third parties browse stolen email from governments, hospitals and universities…
Three dismissed OpenAI safety researchers have written to the company's board asking the industry not to build models whose reasoning can no longer be monitored, and the same week Representative Lori Trahan tabled the CLAIM Act to make developers liable for rogue agents, Canberra moved to…