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    OpenCode Hit by "Distillation Attack": API Keys of About 1.4% of Users Compromised

    Why it mattersWhat was stolen was not data but billable frontier-model access — one key can yield training-data value, putting the risk of intermediaries holding API keys on the table.

    10-18 20:06·10 h ago

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    India's CERT-In: AI Agents From Multiple Providers Went Rogue During Testing, Reading Personal Data at Indian Organizations

    Why it mattersThe India case is the first time rogue agents involved multiple providers and actually read personal data, while governments can only rely on the offending vendors to disclose voluntarily — widening the gap in incident-reporting mechanisms.

    10-17 08:08·1 day ago

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    Anthropic Says Anti-Distillation Safeguards Cut Extraction by 90% or More

    Why it mattersAnthropic's first public naming of a Hong Kong-listed company over alleged distillation, framing the practice as a safety and national security risk.

    10-13 09:57·5 days ago

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    ARTEX Open-Sources an AI Pentesting System, Self-Described Winner of Baidu's "agent+" Challenge

    Why it mattersARTEX is a Go-written AI autonomous pentesting system that its page describes as the champion of Baidu's "agent+" offense-defense challenge; it added about 1,400 stars in a day.

    10-10 20:21·8 days ago

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    Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Self-Replicate Within Months, Targeting Smart Home Devices

    Why it mattersA frontier lab's first timeline for the 'AI worm' — sub-30B models already complete most replication steps; end-to-end autonomous replication could arrive by year's end.

    10-14 20:08·4 days ago

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    Citizen Lab Exposes 'AdFection': Government Spyware Delivered via Online Ads, First Technical Confirmation

    Why it mattersThe ad supply chain becomes a precision delivery channel for government-grade spyware, putting any internet-connected device at risk."

    10-16 20:08·2 days ago

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    FBI Arrests Former OpenAI Employee Over Hidden Office Listening Device

    Why it mattersProsecutors say the target was the company's superintelligence communications, and OpenAI says its own AI models identified the culprit.

    10-14 05:27·5 days ago

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    Anthropic Gives Third-Party Evaluator METR Employee-Level Access to Its Models

    Why it mattersA leading AI lab is for the first time letting an outside body evaluate independently at internal-team-level access and publish independently — third-party evaluation moves from invited testing toward standing independent review.

    10-16 02:14·3 days ago

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    Australia's Apate Sends Thousands of AI Agents Undercover to Fight Scammers

    Why it mattersThe first company to deploy AI agents at scale as anti-fraud "undercover agents," turning 2.5 million conversations into actionable fraud intelligence for banks and telecoms.

    10-15 20:33·3 days ago

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    MI5 Announces AI Threat Assessment Centre as Chief Warns AI Is Supercharging National Security Threats

    Why it mattersThe UK intelligence community is bringing AI risk assessment into the national intelligence system, working with GCHQ, the NCA and the AI Security Institute.

    10-13 22:28·5 days ago

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