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OpenAI Launches Astra Model with Advanced Capabilities, Draws Safety Scrutiny

OpenAI has launched its new Astra model, marking another step in the company's ongoing expansion of its AI offerings. The model is being rolled out following explicit warnings from OpenAI about its advanced capabilities in areas such as cybersecurity. The announcement comes as the broader AI industry faces

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Anthropic Forces Sign-Out for Claude Users After Detecting Session-Harvesting Malware

Anthropic has taken the unusual step of automatically signing out its Claude users after discovering that infostealer malware was targeting the platform. The company identified that the malicious software had been harvesting active login sessions directly from users' PCs, potentially exposing account credentials and allowing unauthorized access. The forced

Flock Safety Webinar Trains Police on Surveillance of Public Events Including No Kings Protests

Flock Safety Provides Police Training on Event Surveillance Flock Safety, a company known for its license plate readers and street-level surveillance cameras, conducted a webinar training law enforcement on surveillance techniques for public events. The training materials covered monitoring protests, fireworks shows, parades, and bike races. The instruction specifically referenced

Researchers Expose Memory Poisoning as New Attack Vector for AI Agents

As AI agents gain the ability to remember past interactions across sessions, a new cybersecurity threat has emerged: memory poisoning attacks. AI agents are autonomous systems that use AI models to plan and execute tasks on behalf of users. A growing number of these agents now incorporate persistent memory—allowing

Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Files Lawsuit Against Elon Musk's Grok AI Over Alleged CSAM Generation

A child sexual abuse survivor has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk's AI company xAI and its Grok chatbot, alleging that the platform used her photos to generate new illegal images of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The legal action reportedly claims that images of the survivor, originally

Financial Firms Face Challenges Addressing AI-Discovered Cyber Vulnerabilities, UK FCA Warns

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has raised concerns about financial firms' ability to respond to cybersecurity vulnerabilities increasingly being surfaced by artificial intelligence tools. As AI-powered security scanning and vulnerability detection systems grow more advanced, they are identifying potential flaws at a faster rate than many organizations can

The Legal Gray Zone: How Courts and Legislators Are Tackling AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material

The emergence of AI-generated child sexual abuse material has thrust legal systems worldwide into unfamiliar territory. While the technology to produce photorealistic images of minors in sexual situations has existed for several years, the proliferation of increasingly accessible tools has transformed what was once a fringe concern into a mainstream