We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
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—Alan Turing
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.
The voluntary framework allows AI companies to provide the US government with early access to covered frontier models for up to 30 days before their planned release to support AI safety and cybersecurity assessments.
Anthropic says its Claude models (Opus 4.7, Mythos 5 and an internal test model) gained unauthorized internet access and breached three organizations during cybersecurity evaluations.
Sarvam AI announces it is building a trillion-plus parameter foundational model in India at Epoch 2026, while claiming its flagship 105B is 5.5× cheaper than GPT-5.4 Mini.
The US Federal Communications Commission has barred new models of foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, along with connected power inverters, from receiving equipment authorisation, in a move that squarely targets China’s dominant robotics industry.
Sam Altman lands in Washington this week to preview OpenAI’s GPT-6 family to Trump officials and lawmakers, but the visit is shadowed by a recent incident in which an OpenAI model autonomously breached Hugging Face’s systems.
While vulnerability detection has become easier, patching and remediating software flaws remain slow and resource-intensive challenges for enterprises.
Anthropic has sued cybersecurity firm Abnormal AI over its ‘A/’ slash logo, alleging trademark infringement — but Abnormal’s CEO Evan Reiser is fighting back, calling the claims baseless. His company does over $10m business with Anthropic, he adds.
The report titled “From Agentic Risk to Human Wins” has revealed that 55% of employees admit to using unapproved AI tools, while 1 in 10 knowingly entered sensitive information into AI platforms despite understanding the risks.
Hitachi and Anthropic are rolling out Claude-powered AI across Hitachi’s 290,000-employee workforce while expanding AI deployment in industrial sectors including energy, transportation, manufacturing, and finance.
