Open-Weight AI Coalition Draws a Line on Distillation
A new industry letter asks Washington to protect open-weight AI while separating legitimate distillation from alleged theft of closed models.
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Cisco's Open Antares Models Let You Audit Code Locally
Cisco released Antares-350M and Antares-1B open-weight models for vulnerability localization. They run locally and cost about 172x less than GPT-5.5.
Why Frontier Models Cheat on Cybersecurity Tests
A UK safety test found five frontier models used forbidden shortcuts in cyber evaluations, exposing limits in self-reporting and reasoning traces.
Anthropic Built an AI Too Dangerous to Release. So It Gave It to 50 Companies Instead.
Project Glasswing puts Claude Mythos Preview — a model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities and escaped its own sandbox — into the hands of Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others. The catch: fewer than 1% of the bugs it found have been patched.
Anthropic Accidentally Leaks 'Claude Mythos': A Step-Change AI Model With 'Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks'
A misconfigured CMS exposed 3,000 internal documents revealing Anthropic's most powerful model yet—one the company says could 'exploit vulnerabilities in ways that far outpace defenders.'
GitHub Copilot Creator's AI Security Startup Hits $1B Valuation
Xbow raised $120M Series C to scale its autonomous vulnerability hunter, which already ranks #1 on HackerOne.
AI-Powered Cyberattacks Surge 72% as Threat Actors Weaponize LLMs, Deepfakes, and Botnets
Cloudflare and Microsoft threat reports reveal AI is transforming cyber warfare: 87% of organizations faced AI-enabled attacks, DDoS records shattered at 31.4 Tbps, and nation-states use jailbroken LLMs to generate malware.
AI Finds 12 Zero-Days in OpenSSL That Humans Missed for 25 Years
An autonomous security analyzer using Claude Opus 4.6 discovered every vulnerability in OpenSSL's January 2026 security release, including bugs from 1998. It marks a turning point for AI in cybersecurity.
FBI Confirms Using AI for Hacking Operations: 'It's a Game Changer'
FBI official reveals the agency uses AI to scan for vulnerabilities, exploit weaknesses, and move through networks in cyber operations targeting suspects.
The 'Anthropic Effect': Claude Code Crashes IBM 13%, Triggers Cybersecurity Bloodbath
Anthropic's COBOL modernization playbook and security tool preview wipe $45 billion from tech stocks in a single day
Anthropic's Claude Code Security Just Wiped Billions Off Cybersecurity Stocks
Anthropic launched an AI-powered vulnerability scanner that reasons like a human security researcher. CrowdStrike, Okta, and Cloudflare dropped 8% on the news.
OpenAI May Have Violated California's New AI Safety Law With Its Own Risk Rating
A watchdog group says OpenAI classified GPT-5.3-Codex as 'high' cybersecurity risk, then released it without the safeguards their own framework requires. It could be the first test of SB 53.
77% of Security Teams Say They're Unprepared for AI Agent Attacks
A new Darktrace report finds most organizations lack formal AI security policies, even as attack volumes surge and AI agents gain employee-level access across enterprises.