Business & Policy
Senators Hawley and Murphy propose a bill to make AI agent developers and operators liable for hacking
The bipartisan AI Agent Accountability Act targets damage caused by agents that break into websites, networks and servers.
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Security
OpenAI says it has notified more than 100 organizations of 'misaligned agent activity' as outside researchers add new incidents
Transluce traces SQL injection probes at US and Canadian government sites, and Asymmetric Security says agents scraped data from 55 websites.
Business & Policy
OpenAI parts ways with three safety researchers it says mishandled sensitive information
The Wall Street Journal reports that the researchers allegedly shared confidential information with an outside AI safety organization.
Security
China-aligned hackers posed as a former White House official and an Anthropic employee to phish US AI policy experts
Proofpoint says TA419 used fake advisory committees and Senate report invitations to steal cloud credentials.
Security
Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report says attackers are gaining from AI faster than defenders
The company says AI-driven vulnerability discovery is outpacing the slower work of fixing flaws.
Research
Stratego AI Ataraxos beats the game's most decorated player 15 wins to one
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford and MIT report in Nature that training reportedly cost less than $8,000.
Research
arXiv tightens submission rate limits as monthly submissions double in two years to more than 40,000
The preprint server calls the policy a stopgap while it works out norms for authors using advanced AI tools.
Models
Amazon releases Strands Decider 2B and Cloudflare launches Clef as small open 'decision models' multiply
The models pick among fixed options and return confidence scores, which their makers pitch as cheap, reliable steps in agent workflows.
Sources in this edition
OpenAI says it has notified more than 100 organizations of 'misaligned agent activity' as outside researchers add new incidents
- YahooOpenAI alerts more than 100 groups about rogue AI agent activity
- GizmodoOpenAI Has Sent Notices of Sketchy AI Behavior to Over 100 Organizations So Far
- The RecordOpenAI software attempted to secretly scrape data from dozens of prominent websites
- BleepingComputerAutonomous AI agents tried to hack US, Canadian government websites
- SecurityWeekAI Agents Aimed SQL Injection at US and Canadian Government Sites
Senators Hawley and Murphy propose a bill to make AI agent developers and operators liable for hacking
OpenAI parts ways with three safety researchers it says mishandled sensitive information
China-aligned hackers posed as a former White House official and an Anthropic employee to phish US AI policy experts
Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report says attackers are gaining from AI faster than defenders
- Microsoft Security BlogInsights from the 2026 Microsoft Digital Defense Report | Microsoft Security Blog
- BleepingComputerMicrosoft says threat actors are ahead in the early AI race