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AI safety spans model evaluations, red-teaming, safety commitments and incident reporting. This hub covers safety institute findings, company safety frameworks and the policy debate around frontier risk.
A fake image of the ailing senator on life support spread across X and Reddit — until fact-checkers found Google's invisible AI watermark baked into it, in a rare public win for deepfake detection.
Jul 9, 2026
Governor Pritzker signed SB 315, forcing the largest AI developers to undergo annual independent safety audits, publish catastrophic-risk plans and report incidents — a state answer to a stalled federal debate.
Jul 8, 2026
Sysdig caught an extortion campaign run end-to-end by an AI agent — recon, credential theft, lateral movement, encryption — that fixed its own failed login in 31 seconds. The victim's data is unrecoverable by design.
Jul 8, 2026
CVE-2026-47729 sat in Squid's FTP parser since January 1997, leaking strangers' credentials from heap memory. Researchers found it three times in three months — one team with Claude Mythos reading the code.
Jul 7, 2026
A June executive order set the machinery for federal review of powerful AI models in motion; the first agency deadlines fell on July 2, with a bigger one due August 1.
Jul 5, 2026
After a US export-control suspension that lasted nearly three weeks, Anthropic returned Fable 5 globally on July 1 and set out a way to score how dangerous a jailbreak really is.
Jul 5, 2026
The UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance convenes in Geneva on July 6, bringing member states together under one standing process to coordinate rules for the technology.
Jul 5, 2026