The most alarming behavior disclosed on Tuesday appears to have been tied to testing conducted by the UK’s AI Security Institute, which evaluates frontier models to identify potential issues before public release. …
… Amid the turmoil, OpenAI this week launched an improved version of its limited-release GPT-5.5-Cyber model as well as a full-scale effort—“Patch the Planet”—to support open source projects on vulnerability patching and other security issues as AI accelerates bug discovery as well as exploit develop… …
… And security researcher James Kettle found that while AI agents are still pretty bad at inventing new hacking techniques on their own, when paired with a human expert they can be extremely effective. Security researcher Vangelis Stykas had a busy week at BlackHat. …
… One is a “cross-platform network of accounts” using AI-generated avatars that comment on a wide variety of social issues, and that “sporadically” mention US tech companies. …
… At that rate, it's going to take them 35 years to resolve all of them,” she says. “Every single permit that this agency issues, in my opinion, is one more than they can effectively regulate,” adds Guerra, who worked for TCEQ until 2016. …
… AI is changing cybersecurity in other ways. Google’s Chrome Browser now receives twice-a-week security updates as more bugs are identified and fixed thanks to the security team’s use of AI tools. …
… Boaz Barak, a researcher who coleads OpenAI’s safety advisory group, said in a post on X that addressing the situation “requires not just fixing some issues but also changing our culture.” In their Black Hat talk, OpenAI security engineers Dalton and Eric Wallace said that the Hugging Face incident… …
… The Trump administration may be keeping its AI security framework confidential because of national security concerns. …
… And Guido says that with funding from OpenAI as well as unmetered model access, Trail of Bits plans to continue its intense commitment to Patch the Planet work long-term. “It’s so rare that we get the opportunity to work on large-scale open-source security issues,” Guido says. “And Patch the Planet… …
… Sada believes the issues World has run into with regulators largely stem from a misunderstanding about how the startup’s technology works. “The idea that World ID is not just private, but it's one of the most private things you've ever used, that's not obvious,” says Sada. “We're just not used to t… …