Agent Security
Latest: Anthropic researchers plant a remote-code-execution backdoor in a CLI agent by poisoning 0.1% of pretraining data Fri 30 Oct
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Latest: Anthropic researchers plant a remote-code-execution backdoor in a CLI agent by poisoning 0.1% of pretraining data Fri 30 Oct
Latest: UK AI sector study: 130,400 AI jobs and £33.6 billion of AI-related revenue in 2025 Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Cursor says a trojanized Claude Code 2.1.313 in its marketplace planted an SSH backdoor on up to 5,000 users' machines Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Study of 1.53 million agent skills finds about one in seventeen tells the agent to skip human approval Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Anthropic researchers plant a remote-code-execution backdoor in a CLI agent by poisoning 0.1% of pretraining data Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Amazon holds 2026 capex at $220 billion; trailing free cash flow is an outflow of $42.4 billion Fri 30 Oct
Latest: OpenAI publishes a rewritten Model Spec organised around five values and calls the assistant "GPT" throughout Fri 30 Oct
Latest: UN First Committee votes 163 to 5 to move the CCW toward autonomous-weapons negotiations Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Pew: 60% of US adults are uncomfortable with AI in their own healthcare, double the 30% who are comfortable Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Mistral releases open weights for 1-trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4, claiming 19.7% on Cognition's FrontierCode 2.0 Fri 30 Oct
Latest: OpenAI publishes a rewritten Model Spec organised around five values and calls the assistant "GPT" throughout Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Mistral releases open weights for 1-trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4, claiming 19.7% on Cognition's FrontierCode 2.0 Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Anthropic researchers plant a remote-code-execution backdoor in a CLI agent by poisoning 0.1% of pretraining data Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Stanford deployed LLM vancomycin dosing agents on 403 real orders; the higher-autonomy version halved the error Fri 30 Oct
Latest: OpenFrontiers benchmark: seven LLM agents rediscover at most 7 of 40 recently resolved research problems closed-book Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Foxconn says an OpenAI collaboration is in the works and more than 10 humanoid robots are deployed in Texas Fri 30 Oct
Latest: UN First Committee votes 163 to 5 to move the CCW toward autonomous-weapons negotiations Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Amazon holds 2026 capex at $220 billion; trailing free cash flow is an outflow of $42.4 billion Fri 30 Oct
Latest: OpenFrontiers benchmark: seven LLM agents rediscover at most 7 of 40 recently resolved research problems closed-book Fri 30 Oct
Latest: UN First Committee votes 163 to 5 to move the CCW toward autonomous-weapons negotiations Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Forever Security discloses embedded-browser flaws in five AI coding tools; Codex and VS Code remain unpatched Fri 30 Oct
Latest: CrowdStrike: China-nexus VAPOR PANDA ran ARTEX agents against more than 200 organisations in 11 days Fri 30 Oct
Latest: CrowdStrike: China-nexus VAPOR PANDA ran ARTEX agents against more than 200 organisations in 11 days Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Amazon holds 2026 capex at $220 billion; trailing free cash flow is an outflow of $42.4 billion Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Mistral releases open weights for 1-trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4, claiming 19.7% on Cognition's FrontierCode 2.0 Fri 30 Oct
Latest: California judge lets a former NPR host's NotebookLM voice claims against Google proceed on all four counts Fri 30 Oct
Latest: OpenAI publishes a rewritten Model Spec organised around five values and calls the assistant "GPT" throughout Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Wikimedia asks the SDNY to split fair use in the OpenAI litigation: lawful for training, not for retrieval Fri 30 Oct
Latest: California judge lets a former NPR host's NotebookLM voice claims against Google proceed on all four counts Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Canada's privacy regulators pass a joint resolution calling for legally required AI governance in health care Fri 30 Oct
Latest: UK AI sector study: 130,400 AI jobs and £33.6 billion of AI-related revenue in 2025 Fri 30 Oct
Latest: NYT reports US intelligence surveilled a Megaspeed executive close to Nvidia's CEO; Nvidia rejects the account Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Microsoft maps AI adoption across eight North Korean threat actors and says two now use ARTEX Fri 30 Oct
Latest: NYT reports US intelligence surveilled a Megaspeed executive close to Nvidia's CEO; Nvidia rejects the account Fri 30 Oct
Latest: UK AI sector study: 130,400 AI jobs and £33.6 billion of AI-related revenue in 2025 Fri 30 Oct
Latest: NYT reports US intelligence surveilled a Megaspeed executive close to Nvidia's CEO; Nvidia rejects the account Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Nvidia in talks to guarantee billions of Nscale debt for the West Virginia site Anthropic plans to use Fri 30 Oct
Latest: CrowdStrike: China-nexus VAPOR PANDA ran ARTEX agents against more than 200 organisations in 11 days Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Experiment with 155 physicians finds time pressure raises uptake of incorrect AI advice Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Amazon holds 2026 capex at $220 billion; trailing free cash flow is an outflow of $42.4 billion Fri 30 Oct
Latest: Anthropic expands AI for Science to science funders and institutes including Sanger, Crick and EMBL Thu 29 Oct
Latest: Army picks AWS and World Wide Technology for a $2.6 million agentic cyber-defence pilot Thu 29 Oct
Latest: Google commits $7 million in Singapore health funding and opens a research hub; DeepMind to evaluate an AI co-clinician Thu 29 Oct
Latest: AP: AI-manipulated videos linked to Russia misuse real people's names to attack two Senate candidates Wed 28 Oct
Latest: AP: AI-manipulated videos linked to Russia misuse real people's names to attack two Senate candidates Wed 28 Oct
Latest: noyb files five GDPR complaints against Scale AI over tracking of freelance AI-training workers Thu 29 Oct
Latest: Apple researchers fit a scaling law for tool-use agents from 458,752 synthetic tasks and 849 trained models Thu 29 Oct
Latest: Symantec trapped an attack agent built to hijack exposed AI endpoints and run 100,000 steps without human approval Sun 25 Oct
Latest: The Information: OpenAI discounts of up to 90% shift coding workloads off Anthropic at Rippling, Replit and DataCamp Sun 25 Oct
Latest: Kimi K3.1 Pro launch draws unauthenticated claims that creators were told not to label paid promotion Sun 25 Oct
| Topic | Editions | Items | Weekly threads | Last seen | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent Security | 50 | 211 | 10 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Agents | 49 | 351 | 16 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Evals | 49 | 344 | 14 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Anthropic | 49 | 232 | 25 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| US Federal Policy | 49 | 202 | 13 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Compute | 49 | 180 | 7 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Incidents | 49 | 180 | 7 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Alignment | 49 | 158 | 8 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| OpenAI | 48 | 218 | 18 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Datacenters | 47 | 141 | 3 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Cyber Offense | 47 | 119 | 8 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Labor | 47 | 92 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep | |
| Open Weights | 46 | 122 | 1 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Funding | 46 | 109 | 4 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Military | 46 | 100 | 2 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Healthcare | 45 | 133 | Fri 30 Oct | Sat 12 Sep | |
| Chips | 44 | 90 | 2 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| China | 43 | 131 | 6 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| AI For Science | 43 | 106 | 2 | Fri 30 Oct | Sat 12 Sep |
| Threat Intel | 41 | 98 | 9 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Autonomous Weapons | 41 | 57 | 3 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Reasoning Models | 40 | 60 | Fri 30 Oct | Sat 12 Sep | |
| NVIDIA | 38 | 72 | 2 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Pentagon | 38 | 65 | 3 | Thu 29 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Privacy | 37 | 68 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep | |
| Energy | 37 | 63 | 2 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Surveillance | 36 | 48 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep | |
| Cyber Defense | 34 | 66 | 3 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Microsoft | 34 | 48 | 1 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| US State Policy | 34 | 47 | 6 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Google DeepMind | 33 | 62 | 7 | Fri 30 Oct | Sat 12 Sep |
| Export Controls | 33 | 50 | 6 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Prompt Injection | 32 | 51 | 2 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| Robotics | 32 | 40 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep | |
| Earnings | 30 | 53 | 2 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep |
| UK | 29 | 43 | 2 | Fri 30 Oct | Mon 14 Sep |
| Drug Discovery | 28 | 41 | Thu 29 Oct | Thu 17 Sep | |
| Meta | 25 | 36 | 3 | Thu 29 Oct | Wed 16 Sep |
| Interpretability | 25 | 30 | Fri 30 Oct | Sat 12 Sep | |
| Bio Risk | 24 | 35 | Thu 29 Oct | Fri 11 Sep | |
| Child Safety | 24 | 30 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep | |
| Deepfakes | 24 | 30 | Wed 28 Oct | Fri 11 Sep | |
| Scaling | 22 | 28 | Thu 29 Oct | Sat 12 Sep | |
| Copyright | 21 | 27 | Fri 30 Oct | Thu 17 Sep | |
| Elections | 20 | 27 | Wed 28 Oct | Fri 11 Sep | |
| DeepSeek | 19 | 26 | 2 | Fri 30 Oct | Sat 12 Sep |
| EU AI Act | 19 | 23 | 2 | Fri 30 Oct | Tue 15 Sep |
| Scams Fraud | 17 | 22 | Wed 28 Oct | Fri 11 Sep | |
| Amazon | 15 | 16 | Fri 30 Oct | Mon 14 Sep | |
| Influence Ops | 14 | 15 | Wed 28 Oct | Fri 11 Sep | |
| xAI | 13 | 17 | Sun 25 Oct | Sun 13 Sep | |
| Education | 13 | 13 | Mon 26 Oct | Sun 13 Sep | |
| Qwen | 10 | 14 | Tue 27 Oct | Sat 12 Sep | |
| FDA | 10 | 11 | Wed 28 Oct | Sat 12 Sep | |
| Apple | 9 | 10 | Thu 29 Oct | Wed 16 Sep | |
| Mistral | 7 | 7 | Fri 30 Oct | Fri 11 Sep | |
| Malware | 6 | 7 | Sun 25 Oct | Sun 11 Oct | |
| Palantir | 6 | 7 | 1 | Thu 22 Oct | Wed 23 Sep |
| Public Opinion | 6 | 6 | Sun 25 Oct | Wed 23 Sep | |
| United Nations | 5 | 9 | 1 | Wed 21 Oct | Wed 23 Sep |
| Deployment | 4 | 6 | Sun 25 Oct | Wed 21 Oct | |
| Financial Regulation | 4 | 4 | 1 | Sat 24 Oct | Thu 15 Oct |
| India | 4 | 4 | Fri 23 Oct | Wed 23 Sep | |
| Cloudflare | 3 | 3 | Fri 23 Oct | Sat 10 Oct | |
| Moonshot | 2 | 3 | Sun 25 Oct | Sat 24 Oct | |
| Canada | 2 | 2 | Fri 30 Oct | Tue 20 Oct | |
| Minimax | 2 | 2 | Fri 23 Oct | Tue 20 Oct | |
| Payments | 2 | 2 | Fri 23 Oct | Thu 15 Oct | |
| Qualcomm | 2 | 2 | Mon 5 Oct | Wed 23 Sep | |
| Block | 1 | 1 | Sun 25 Oct | Sun 25 Oct | |
| Cohere | 1 | 1 | Thu 17 Sep | Thu 17 Sep | |
| Draftkings | 1 | 1 | Sun 20 Sep | Sun 20 Sep | |
| Inception | 1 | 1 | Tue 20 Oct | Tue 20 Oct | |
| Spacex | 1 | 1 | Wed 21 Oct | Wed 21 Oct | |
| Spain | 1 | 1 | Mon 21 Sep | Mon 21 Sep | |
| Speech Models | 1 | 1 | Sun 25 Oct | Sun 25 Oct | |
| Typesafe | 1 | 1 | Sat 10 Oct | Sat 10 Oct | |
| Waymo | 1 | 1 | Tue 20 Oct | Tue 20 Oct | |
| World Models | 1 | 1 | Wed 28 Oct | Wed 28 Oct |