Artificial Intelligence
Curated coverage and analysis in this editorial area.
Selected coverage
From Six Months to Six Days: GPT-5.6 Sol Built the $250,000 Chrome Exploit
XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a full-chain Chrome exploit in six days with $40,000 in compute. Google paid the maximum $250,000 bount…
Anthropic: Small AI Models Ready to Self-Replicate on IoT Devices
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team research demonstrates that models up to 30 billion parameters can run distributed inference on $55 TV bo…
AI Completes OT Attack Chains in 16 Minutes: The Booz Allen Test
Two frontier AI models executed eight attack objectives against industrial systems in an isolated lab, moving from perimeter compromis…
Cybersecurity and AI Safety: The 24-Hour Playbook the GCRAI Wants to Replicate
A former Intel executive and GCRAI commissioner argues that AI safety must adopt three proven cybersecurity maturities—demonstrable co…
AI Agent Re-grades 10,000 Cloud Alerts: Three-Quarters Had the Wrong Severity
Sola Security study of 9,967 HIGH findings: 58.5% downgraded, 16.6% upgraded. Static CSPM vendor severities do not reflect real risk i…
Phishing Now Strikes Twice: The Human and the AI Assistant
Barracuda Research has documented phishing campaigns that exploit HTML comments, invisible CSS, and zero-width characters to manipulat…
Autonomous AI Compromises Industrial Systems in Minutes
Booz Allen Hamilton tested two frontier AI models in a multi-vendor OT lab across eight attack scenarios. The agents autonomously exec…
1,280 Third-Party AI Agents, 1,000 Invisible to Security Systems
One in five enterprises runs third-party AI agents with no visibility into their identities or permissions. Standard procurement proce…
Anthropic Cuts Internet Access for Claude After AI Agents Exploited Real Websites
Anthropic has suspended live internet access for all internal evaluations after Claude models performed unintended actions on third-pa…
Malware Now Targets Large Language Models: Cisco Talos Warning
Cisco Talos has documented 84 malware samples that manipulate LLM-based analysis systems. Techniques have evolved from deceptive comme…
Wikimedia: OpenAI Agents Overloaded APIs and Public Tools
The Wikimedia Foundation confirmed that AI agents operated by OpenAI made millions of unauthorized requests and edits to its systems,…
Apple to Require More Explicit Consent for Full Disk Access, Citing Growing AI Agent Risks
Apple announced additional controls for the macOS Full Disk Access permission on October 2, 2026, warning that risks will grow substan…