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The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which."

—Stephen Hawking

Japan’s Sakana AI Taps Ex-NSA Director and Ex-CIA Official for Defense and Cybersecurity Roles

Sakana AI appoints former NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers (left) and former CIA Chief of Station Tom Moran (right) as senior advisors to strengthen its defense and cybersecurity initiatives.

The appointments of Michael Rogers and Tom Moran add senior US military and intelligence expertise to the Japanese AI company’s efforts to address emerging security challenges associated with artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in national security.

UK Vows £600M in AI Security Funding; Sets Up Biosecurity Lab with OpenAI, Anthropic

UK Chancellor John Healey as the government announces more than £600 million in funding to strengthen AI security and counter cyber and biological threats.

Chancellor John Healey said Britain would pursue a “distinctively British” approach to AI to strengthen its position in the global AI race, reduce reliance on external capabilities and bolster defences against cyberattacks and emerging biological threats.

No AI Lab is Ready for Full-Speed Scaling, OpenAI’s Jakub Pachocki Warns of Machine Intelligence Dangers

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki warns that AI labs have yet to solve alignment and monitoring sufficiently for continued full-speed scaling

OpenAI Chief Scientist warns that no AI lab has solved alignment and monitoring sufficiently. As AI capabilities advance, systems increasingly drive their own development, challenging efforts to keep humans in control and build defensive systems against the dangers posed by other AI.

Frontier AI Poised to Supercharge Attacks on Banks, Energy & Critical Infrastructure, Warns Irregular CEO

Dan Lahav, co-founder and CEO of AI security firm Irregular, warns that frontier models are rapidly scaling offensive cyber capabilities far ahead of defensive readiness.

Frontier AI models are doubling their offensive cyber performance every six months while costs crash. Banks, telecoms, energy firms and critical infrastructure are the next high-value targets, warns Irregular CEO Dan Lahav, who is calling for urgent Differential Defensive Cyber Acceleration.

China’s AI Safety Focus Shifts From ‘What AI Says’ to ‘What AI Does’: Report

China is shifting its AI safety strategy beyond regulating AI-generated content toward governing increasingly autonomous AI systems, according to the Concordia AI report.

According to a new Concordia AI report, China is shifting its AI safety focus beyond AI-generated content toward governing increasingly autonomous AI systems and the risks they pose to cybersecurity, society, and critical sectors.

White House Launches ‘Gold Eagle’ to Strengthen Cybersecurity for U.S. AI Innovation

The White House announced the launch of "Gold Eagle," a cybersecurity vulnerability coordination initiative aimed at supporting U.S. AI innovation and strengthening cyber resilience across critical infrastructure sectors.

The White House said Gold Eagle will help government and industry jointly identify cyber risks, prioritize responses, and strengthen the resilience of systems that power the U.S. economy, national security and daily life.