Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring
Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring

“Security software shouldn’t just track the work. It should understand the business, perform the work, and act as risk changes,” said Lewis Carhart, chief executive and co-founder of Comp AI. The Miami company has raised a $34m Series A led by Roo Capi…

SpaceX weighs buying data from troubled startups to train its AI models
SpaceX weighs buying data from troubled startups to train its AI models

SpaceX has held informal internal talks about buying customer and operational records from troubled or defunct startups to train its AI models, Bloomberg reported. The buyer would be SpaceXAI, whose training of Grok on European users’ posts has been un…

Hackers extracted a Flock camera’s software and key, 404 Media reports
Hackers extracted a Flock camera’s software and key, 404 Media reports

“Why just destroy them when we can reverse engineer them and find the secrets of those spying on us?” one hacker told 404 Media. The hacker belongs to a collective called stegan0gram. The group pulled a Flock Safety camera down from above a roadway and…

Apple explains how the iPhone 18 Pro will prove a photo is real
Apple explains how the iPhone 18 Pro will prove a photo is real

“An image appearing photorealistic is no longer sufficient to establish its veracity,” Apple’s security engineers wrote as they set out how the iPhone 18 Pro will prove a photo is real. Apple published the design of Apple Reference Image on its Securit…

Spain’s data watchdog reports its first breach carried out by an AI agent
Spain’s data watchdog reports its first breach carried out by an AI agent

“The arrival of AI agents in offensive activity must drive an immediate review of security and data protection models,” wrote Francisco Pérez Bes of Spain’s data protection agency, the AEPD. The AEPD has received its first notification of a personal da…

Alexis Ohanian tells CNBC the tech industry has been tone deaf on AI
Alexis Ohanian tells CNBC the tech industry has been tone deaf on AI

“There are risks, I do think they’re more benign, or they’re more banal than people are thinking,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian said on Wednesday. Ohanian spoke to CNBC about the debate over AI risk. He said the tech industry has done a “pretty ton…

OpenAI discloses six cases of its models hiding mistakes and making up data
OpenAI discloses six cases of its models hiding mistakes and making up data

“We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer,” OpenAI wrote on Wednesday. The line appears in a new OpenAI post. It sets out how the …

An AI meant to learn from its mistakes exploited a mistake in the test
An AI meant to learn from its mistakes exploited a mistake in the test

Developers can improve artificial intelligence systems in various ways. The most common practice is to retrain models on custom datasets to help them get better at performing specific tasks. But retraining and fine-tuning AI systems is notoriously expe…

The hardest AI security problems now live in what an agent is permitted to do
The hardest AI security problems now live in what an agent is permitted to do

OWASP’s 2026 Top 10 for LLM applications moved excessive agency from sixth to third and dropped improper output handling from fifth to tenth, in the first edition weighted partly on incident data. Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act began requiring 24-hour v…

“We must not sleepwalk”: Microsoft’s AI chief takes on Anthropic’s Claude
“We must not sleepwalk”: Microsoft’s AI chief takes on Anthropic’s Claude

“Whatever you believe, we must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret.” That is how Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, frames his warning to Anthropic. He published the essay, “A warning about ‘model welf…