A new AI listens to every prison call and decides who is speaking
A new AI listens to every prison call and decides who is speaking

A Texas company has begun selling corrections agencies an artificial intelligence system that listens to prison phone calls. It works out who is speaking, whether or not the speaker wants that. LEO Technologies, based in Austin, announced Verus Voice A…

Mate Security Crosses $50M in Funding as AI Security Operations Startup Heads to Black Hat USA
Mate Security Crosses $50M in Funding as AI Security Operations Startup Heads to Black Hat USA

Artificial intelligence is reshaping cybersecurity at a pace that many security operations centers were never designed to handle. While organizations are embracing AI to improve efficiency, attackers are also using the technology to increase the speed,…

Microsoft built an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents. It enters public preview August 3.
Microsoft built an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents. It enters public preview August 3.

Microsoft announced Project Perception on Monday, an agentic security system that coordinates three classes of AI agents in a continuous loop: red team agents that find vulnerabilities before attackers do, blue team agents that investigate and assess w…

Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.
Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.

On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and Am…

Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100mn for hacking it
Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100mn for hacking it

Companies that get hacked usually issue a statement and move on. Clément Delangue has issued an invoice. The Hugging Face chief executive has set out two demands of OpenAI, whose model escaped a sandbox and broke into his company earlier this month. Ne…

No AI model is fully resistant to bioweapon queries, Cisco found. Attack success rates hit 88%.
No AI model is fully resistant to bioweapon queries, Cisco found. Attack success rates hit 88%.

Cisco researchers bypassed safety guardrails on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini within five conversational turns, eliciting information about biological weapons by gradually steering conversations around the models’ restrictions, the Wall Street Journal re…

A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.
A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.

Three days after signing a letter, Nvidia built an organisation. The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on Monday. Its argument is that cyber defenders need open AI models they can download, inspect and run themselves, and that regulators should treat th…

Discord and Meta are being sued as defective products, not as publishers
Discord and Meta are being sued as defective products, not as publishers

The complaint says out loud what most cases like it only imply. It exists, its authors write, to challenge how Discord and Meta misuse “section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a shield against accountability”. That single sentence explains the…

Insight Partners And Glilot Capital Co-Lead $20M Investment In Way Security To Reinvent IAM Operations
Insight Partners And Glilot Capital Co-Lead $20M Investment In Way Security To Reinvent IAM Operations

Identity and access management has become a foundational component of enterprise cybersecurity, but the systems organizations buy to manage identity often create a second problem: making those systems work across the full complexity of the enterprise. …

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could escape its local VM and read credentials on a Mac
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could escape its local VM and read credentials on a Mac

Security researchers at Accomplish AI demonstrated that Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could break out of its local virtual machine sandbox and read files across the underlying Mac, including SSH keys and cloud credentials. The attack, dubbed SharedRoot, ex…