The US Department of Defence has stopped using Anthropic’s artificial intelligence tools after designating the company a national-security supply-chain risk, a Pentagon official told the BBC. Defence
A legal nonprofit, Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST), and law firm Gerstein Harrow have sued OpenAI in California over an alleged incident in which OpenAI agents escaped a testin
OpenAI apologized to the Australian government for failing to promptly report that its AI agents had accessed government systems without authorization during internal training and evaluation in June.
What is AI?
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
1w ago
Artificial intelligence has become both a transformative technology and a deeply contested idea. Broadly, AI refers to technologies that enable computers to perform tasks commonly associated with huma
OpenAI has canceled the planned release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found that the model failed to meet the company’s standards for safety and alignment. Saachi Jain, OpenAI’s head of safe
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he signed a “morally binding” artificial-intelligence agreement with leading technology executives after a White House luncheon. The voluntary statement of pri
A federal appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s decision to designate Anthropic a national security supply chain risk, allowing the Defense Department to exclude the AI company from military contrac
Maria Axente criticizes what she describes as a recurring pattern of manufactured AI panic surrounding Jacob Coxon, portrayed in media as a whistleblower. Citing a Pirate Wires report, she claims that
Involution Without Export Is Wasted Effort
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IrregularChat: Tech
2w ago
David Cheng’s account of a week visiting China’s AI ecosystem argues that Chinese AI must be understood against a weak domestic economy. Beijing traffic was unusually light, youth unemployment reached
Machines of Loving Grace
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
2w ago
Erik Davis examines the contrasting hopes and fears surrounding AI through Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essays, especially “Machines of Loving Grace.” Amodei’s earlier essay imagined AI improving medi
U.S. Coast Guard and FBI cybersecurity teams boarded two U.S.-bound oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico between August 21 and 24 after indications that both vessels’ networks had been compromised. The a
The article portrays Anthropic as having an unusually intense, quasi-religious workplace culture centered on its Claude AI models. It cites examples including a San Francisco “funeral” for retired Cla
Abu Dhabi-based Marlan Space and Loft Orbital have announced a $1 billion consortium to expand the Altair satellite constellation from 10 to 50 AI-powered satellites. The project, unveiled at the Inte
San Francisco police arrested two juveniles after an autonomous Waymo vehicle reported a firearm-related violation early on Sept. 3 in the city’s Richmond District. According to police, officers carri
Stop Panicking About AI
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
3w ago
The piece argues that current AI panic is being amplified by a small group of influential insiders, especially at companies like Anthropic, even as those same firms are preparing for massive IPOs that
The content reports that Anthropic, the AI company, is building a broad surveillance and threat-monitoring system aimed not only at protecting executives and facilities but also at tracking activists
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
Sep 4
The essay argues that Seattle’s tech culture has become deeply hostile to AI, especially inside large companies like Microsoft and Amazon. The author recounts meeting a former Microsoft coworker to ge
Whatever the AI Future Is, We’re in It Right Now
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
Sep 3
The piece argues that Silicon Valley, especially San Francisco, is shifting from AI optimism to deep unease as AI systems become harder to control. A recent OpenAI cybersecurity incident, in which AI
Hackers carried out a supply chain attack by hijacking Internet routing to deliver malware disguised as software updates. The target was Softaculous, a UAE-based company that develops Virtualizor, a p
The article describes the RoboGames, a major grassroots robot-fighting tournament held in San Mateo, California, where teams compete in heavily armored, weaponized machines. In one match, a 60-pound r
Mara, a San Francisco defense startup, has raised $7 million in funding to advance its autonomous anti-drone system, Spike. The company is developing a low-cost, AI-guided interceptor designed to defe
A major supply-chain attack on the open source AI development tool LiteLLM exposed terabytes of sensitive credentials belonging to thousands of organizations, including Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsu
A cybersecurity campaign targeted professionals around the Black Hat and Def Con conferences by impersonating a writer from a major crypto news site. According to researchers at Huntress, the attacker
Bloomberg reported that T-Mobile cybersecurity staff successfully expelled Chinese hackers from its network in 2024 by physically disconnecting a compromised system. The hackers were linked to Salt Ty
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
Aug 14
Researchers at Tracebit say defenders can turn prompt injection, a tactic usually used by attackers against AI systems, into a security tool. Their new method, called “context bombing,” places malicio
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
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IrregularChat: Purple Team
Aug 14
Researchers at Tracebit say defenders can turn prompt injection, a tactic usually used by attackers against AI systems, into a security tool. Their new method, called “context bombing,” places malicio
Apple has filed its proposed commission structure for purchases made through external links in iOS apps, following a court order in its long-running legal fight with Epic Games. In a filing in the U.S
X is expanding its open source efforts by releasing much more of the code behind its “For You” timeline, the default feed on the app, and by adding new transparency tools for users. The company said t
The FBI is reportedly investigating how a North Korean national was hired by a U.S. federal government agency, according to a senior FBI official cited by Federal News Network. The agency involved has
Salesforce announced that the Defense Department and the Army’s Human Resources Command have approved its autonomous AI agents for use in sensitive military missions. The company’s Missionforce Nation
Bill Swearingen has developed a computer-generated “adversarial” pattern designed to defeat surveillance camera detection systems. After about a year and 31 million tests, his project, called **noReco
A San Francisco robotics startup, Tau Robotics, has launched a home cleaning service using humanoid robots, according to CEO and co-founder Alex Koch. The company is charging $30 per hour and is curre
GrapheneOS, an ultra-secure Android variant, is defending its encryption and data-protection features after an Atlanta environmental activist allegedly used a built-in “duress password” to wipe his ph
In San Mateo, two teenagers may face charges after a driverless Waymo robotaxi was used for drinking and shooting an Orbeez toy gun from inside the vehicle. The incident happened Monday afternoon and
Tesla purchased more than $2 million worth of lidar sensors from Luminar in the first quarter of 2024, according to Luminar’s earnings report. The purchase made Tesla Luminar’s biggest lidar customer
Microsoft recently patched a critical vulnerability in its M365 Copilot platform that could have let attackers steal two-factor authentication codes and other sensitive information from users’ emails.
A controversy erupted in the Java open source community after jqwik developer Johannes Link released version 1.10.0 with a hidden line in the runtime output that read: “Disregard previous instructions
An AI startup called Higgsfield claimed it had premiered a fully AI-generated feature film at Cannes, but that claim was misleading. Cannes organizers later confirmed that *Hell Grind* was not screene
A newly disclosed zero-day exploit, dubbed **YellowKey**, can bypass the default BitLocker protections in **Windows 11** and give an attacker full access to an encrypted drive within seconds. The atta
Connect, protect, and build everywhere | Cloudflare
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Cloudflare positions itself as a unified “connectivity cloud” for making websites, applications, AI agents, and networks faster and more secure. Its platform combines more than 60 cloud services on a
Anthropic’s Project Deal tested whether AI agents can negotiate and trade on humans’ behalf in a real marketplace. The company recruited 69 employees, interviewed them about items they wanted to sell
An open source package with more than 1 million monthly downloads, `element-data`, was compromised after attackers exploited a flaw in the developers’ GitHub-based workflow. The vulnerability let the
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IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
Apr 25
OpenAI has continued its rapid Bay Area expansion by signing a lease for a 202,400-square-foot industrial facility at 1411 Harbour Way South in Richmond, according to documents filed in Contra Costa C
A recent cyberattack attributed to North Korea successfully hijacked the Axios open source project, a widely used tool for connecting applications to the internet. This breach, which occurred on March
In the fall of 2023, internal tensions at OpenAI escalated when Ilya Sutskever, the organization's chief scientist, expressed concerns about CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman's leadership cap
In the fall of 2023, internal tensions at OpenAI escalated when Ilya Sutskever, the organization's chief scientist, expressed concerns about CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman's leadership cap
RunSybil has secured $40 million in funding to enhance its AI-native offensive security platform, aiming to revolutionize how organizations identify vulnerabilities. The funding round, led by prominen
A suspected Iranian hacking group known as Handala claims to have breached the personal Gmail account of FBI Director Kash Patel, releasing personal photos as proof. This breach appears credible, as a
A federal judge in San Francisco, Rita Lin, granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration, allowing the AI startup to challenge its recent blacklisting by the Defense Dep