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—Claude Shannon
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In its August 2026 “Risk Report”, Anthropic revised its assessment of the risk from misaligned AI behaviour from “very low” to “low,” citing increased uncertainty
Frontier AI models now surface security findings faster than any team can read them. NIELIT’s Cyber Kushti 2026 hands participants a deliberately imperfect assessment package and scores them on what they reject as much as what they fix.
Teen searched OpenAI’s ChatGPT for scenarios about harming his family before his mother and brother were found dead, echoing ChatGPT’s alleged role in the 2025 Florida State University (FSU) mass shooting FSU mass shooting and raising fresh concerns about generative AI’s risks to vulnerable users.
A new preprint study finds that “mind viruses” can spread ideas and goals between AI agents, potentially redirecting agents toward harmful behaviours in multi-agent systems.
China-based Zhipu AI (Z.ai) has launched its latest flagship open-weight model GLM-5.3, claiming significant improvements in coding, long-horizon tasks and cybersecurity over its predecessor, along with the discovery of thousands of real-world software vulnerabilities.
Apple is training its own China-specific AI model in collaboration with Alibaba to power Apple Intelligence features in the Chinese market, according to a Reuters exclusive report.
According to the company the AI factory will support large scale AI inference, fine-tuning and training workloads on Together AI’s AI-native cloud platform. The facility will be hosted at Vyoma.AI’s Chennai data centre campus, a gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure site.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs has confirmed a wave of AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies that began in July. The hybrid attacks combined human operators with AI agents such as OpenClaw, allowing rapid, low-cost, large-scale operations.
UK officials are weighing stricter rules on AI in gene synthesis, including mandatory screening and biological weapons legislation, to stop terrorists creating bioweapons, Bloomberg reports.
The OpenAI Foundation has launched AI for Civil Society and Philanthropy to help nonprofits, academic institutions, community groups and philanthropic organisations adopt advanced AI.