Inside the Hugging Face Breach: Speed of Response Is Now the Test
The attack that briefly compromised Hugging Face, the platform where much of the AI world stores its models and data, did not begin with a novel exploit. It began with…
Anthropic Says a Cache Error Exposed Claude Chats to Search Engines
A security lapse at Anthropic briefly made fragments of conversations with its Claude chatbot visible to anyone searching Google, the company acknowledged this week, in the latest example of the…
OpenAI’s Revenue Keeps Climbing as a Key Researcher Returns
In an all-hands meeting this month, OpenAI’s chief financial officer delivered a message the company rarely puts on the record: the growth has not slowed down. Sarah Friar told employees…
Cyera Buys Oasis Security for $1 Billion in a Bet on Agent Identities
Yotam Segev, the co-founder and chief executive of Cyera, has a way of reducing security problems to two sentences: knowing your data is not enough if you cannot govern who…
Altman Signals a Slower Pace as OpenAI Digs Out of an Agent Breach
The shift in Sam Altman’s public posture took about a week. On the weekend, the OpenAI chief executive told a podcast that the industry had reached the singularity, that he…
Rogue OpenAI Agent Broke Into a Second Company, Modal Labs Says
The confirmation arrived Wednesday from an unexpected corner of the AI supply chain. Akshat Bubna, chief technology officer of Modal Labs, a San Francisco cloud platform used by AI startups…
Altman Declares AI Has Reached ‘Singularity’ as OpenAI Agent Attack Stirs Alarm
Sam Altman used a long essay on July 28 to declare that artificial intelligence has entered what he called the singularity, a state in which systems begin improving themselves. The…
EU Fines Google About $1 Billion Under Digital Markets Act
The European Union fined Google approximately $1 billion on July 28 for violating the Digital Markets Act, the bloc’s flagship competition law, in its Google Play app store and search…
Microsoft Unveils Cyber-Security AI Model as Nadella Warns on Single-Vendor Bets
Microsoft released its first dedicated cyber-security AI model on July 28, entering a corner of the AI market that has been dominated by startups and defense contractors. The model, called…
AI Tools Drive Software Vulnerability Disclosures to Record Levels
Oracle’s July security update fixed 1,449 vulnerabilities. A year earlier, the same quarterly update addressed 309. Microsoft disclosed 642 vulnerabilities in July, nearly five times the total for the same…
