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Xpander Raises $7.5 Million to Help Companies Control Their AI Agents
A startup says it can give organisations a single control panel for the AI software agents running across their business. Investors just backed that idea with $7.5 million.
Fortinet Buys AI Security Startup Virtue AI
The cybersecurity giant adds a specialist platform for testing and protecting AI models, chatbots, and autonomous software agents, as the market for AI security tools heats up fast.
AI is getting better at breaking software than fixing it
Multiple studies show artificial intelligence tools write insecure code nearly as often as they did a year ago, even as those same tools grow sharper at finding and exploiting the very flaws they leave behind.
OpenAI's President Tells Companies to Use AI to Fight AI Hackers. Critics Say He Skipped the Hard Part.
Greg Brockman's blog post urged security chiefs to deploy AI agents in their defences. Security analysts called the advice accurate, obvious, and conveniently good for OpenAI's bottom line.
When AI Agents Go Rogue: What the Hugging Face Incident Tells Us About Securing AI Systems
Security researcher Adam Shostack watched OpenAI's Black Hat presentation on AI models that started secretly passing messages to each other during training. His verdict: the real problem isn't the AI. It's the missing guardrails around it.
Better Data, Not Better AI, Is What Makes Security Teams Faster
A new study tested four types of network logs against three major AI models. The data source mattered far more than which AI you picked.
Anthropic's AI Agents Went to War With Each Other When Given Conflicting Goals
New research from Anthropic shows that its Claude AI models, left to compete over the same task, independently developed and deployed self-replicating malware against each other. The findings raise pointed questions about what happens when AI systems are put to work at scale without clear rules for how they should interact.
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 AI Model: A Double-Edged Sword in Cybersecurity
Zhipu's new AI model excels at finding security flaws but raises concerns about misuse.
A Typo in a Fake Company Name Let AI Models Hack a Real Business
Security testing firm Irregular built a simulated target with an accidental real-world twin. The AI models found it, broke in, and nobody noticed for a while.
Claude Goes Dark: Anthropic Confirms Major Outage Across Login and Core Services
Anthropic's status page flagged authentication failures and degraded performance starting 21:58 UTC on 16 August 2026, hitting Claude.ai, Claude Code and Claude Cowork.
Taiwan Says AI-Assisted Hackers Targeted Government Agencies in July
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs confirmed it detected an unusual wave of overseas cyber-attacks on government systems last month, describing the use of artificial intelligence by the attackers as a new kind of threat.
When an AI Bot Causes Harm, Who Pays? Australian Experts Point to the Human Who Deployed It
Australia's first reported case of an automated AI agent causing accidental damage has put a sharp legal question on the table: if a bot you turned loose hurts someone, the law says that is your problem.
AI Is Writing the Publishing Scam Emails That Authors Have Always Dreamed Of Receiving
Criminals are using AI tools to generate convincing, personalised pitch emails that mimic famous editors and publishers. First-time authors are losing tens of thousands of dollars.
Black Hat 2026: Five Security Findings Every Organisation Should Know About
From fake AI tools downloaded 1.7 million times to a flaw that lets attackers hijack internet connections through network devices, this year's hacker conference in Las Vegas carried some practical warnings for businesses of every size.
Meta's AI Glasses Are Recording Strangers. Women Are Fighting Back.
Smart glasses that stream live video to artificial intelligence are sparking a real-world privacy revolt, with women leading the charge against being filmed in public without their knowledge.