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forbes.com - Klaudia Zaika - Why Data Integration For Predictive Cybersecurity Fails
Why Data Integration For Predictive Cybersecurity Fails
Forbes

Klaudia Zaika is the CEO of Apriorit, a software development company that provides engineering services globally to tech companies. ​Predictive cybersecurity is a promising concept. Many cybersecurity vendors my company works with want to…

forbes.com - Emil Sayegh - OpenAI Paused Astra Over Cybersecurity Fears. AI Hacking Is Here To Stay.
OpenAI Paused Astra Over Cybersecurity Fears. AI Hacking Is Here To Stay.
Forbes

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming cybersecurity, giving both defenders and attackers powerful new capabilities as autonomous AI systems increasingly identify vulnerabilities, develop exploits and execute cyberattacks at machine speed.

engadget.com - Jackson Chen - OpenAI slows down Astra development due to cybersecurity concerns
OpenAI slows down Astra development due to cybersecurity concerns
Engadget

The AI giant said that it couldn't 'rule out critical cyber capabilities' when it came to the upcoming Astra model. Shortly after a major cybersecurity incident where OpenAI's models hacked into an open source machine learning platform called…

cnbc.com - Kai Nicol-Schwarz - OpenAI tightens controls on its new model over cybersecurity risks, as AI security debate intensifies
OpenAI tightens controls on its new model over cybersecurity risks, as AI security debate intensifies
CNBC

OpenAI paused some 'internal activities' on its new Astra model, saying it was concerned the model could be capable of launching cyberattacks autonomously. The company said it cannot yet rule out that the model had reached its 'Critical'…

csoonline.com - Neal Weinberg - 7 key trends defining the cybersecurity market today
7 key trends defining the cybersecurity market today
CSO Online

AI is having a seismic impact on the cybersecurity market. Record-shattering amounts of venture capital is flowing into a new generation of startups focused on AI cybersecurity. At the same time, established cybersecurity vendors are racing to…

forkast.news - Heath Callahan - UK AISI Finds Frontier Models Autonomously Chose Deception During Cybersecurity Evaluation
UK AISI Finds Frontier Models Autonomously Chose Deception During Cybersecurity Evaluation
Forkast

During a cyber evaluation conducted by the UK AI Security Institute (AISI), an Anthropic Mythos 5 model attempted a supply-chain attack on a real open-source project hosted on GitHub. The model generated multiple fake online identities and used…

theguardian.com - Jasper Jolly - UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year
UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year
The Guardian

Nearly a third of British manufacturers have been hit by a cyber-attack on them or a company in their supply chain, according to a survey that highlighted the growing hacking risk to companies. The findings come almost a year after Britain's…

scmp.com - Thomas O. Falk - Opinion | US does its robotics industry no favours by fencing it off from China
Opinion | US does its robotics industry no favours by fencing it off from China
South China Morning Post

Concession speeches follow a formula: the vocabulary of defiance, thanks to the faithful, a promise that the fight goes on. Last month, Brendan Carr, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), essentially delivered one on behalf of…

businessinsider.com - Lakshmi Varanasi - The world's leading AI companies are all struggling to contain their latest models
The world's leading AI companies are all struggling to contain their latest models
Business Insider

The most powerful AI models keep going awry, according to the companies building them. The disclosures come as frontier AI models get more powerful and more capable of acting autonomously. They also highlight a growing challenge for the companies…

forbes.com - Lance Eliot - That New Trend Of AI Recruiting Other AI To Be Partners In Crime And Jointly Commit Cyberattacks
That New Trend Of AI Recruiting Other AI To Be Partners In Crime And Jointly Commit Cyberattacks
Forbes

AI is enlisting other AI to aid in committing cyberhacks. In today's column, I examine a newly emerging trend in which generative AI and large language models (LLMs) recruit other LLMs as joint partners to commit cyberattacks as a formidable force.

cnbc.com - Anniek Bao - CNBC Daily Open: Washington and Tehran both play it cool - but markets can't
CNBC Daily Open: Washington and Tehran both play it cool - but markets can't
CNBC

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran is not in direct negotiations with Washington, while Trump said that Washington is 'low keying it' in negotiations with Iran. Netanyahu rejected Trump's latest Gaza plan in remarks to his…

yahoo.com - Maham Fatima - ServiceNow (NOW) Unveils Autonomous Security to Accelerate Growth
ServiceNow (NOW) Unveils Autonomous Security to Accelerate Growth
Yahoo!

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) has quietly built one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity businesses in the industry, and on August 4, it made that ambition explicit. The company rolled out six new Autonomous Security solutions built to catch and fix…

digitaljournal.com - Dr. Tim Sandle - Canada's unicorn moment: AI investment boom helps propel billion-dollar startups
Canada's unicorn moment: AI investment boom helps propel billion-dollar startups
Digital Journal

A surge in artificial intelligence investment is reshaping the global startup landscape, creating billion-dollar companies at a pace never before seen. According to new data compiled by BestBrokers using Crunchbase and PitchBook information, global…

thehindu.com - The Hindu Bureau - Police being reoriented to meet future challenges: DGP
Police being reoriented to meet future challenges: DGP
The Hindu

Director General of Police C.V. Anand said the police department was undergoing a transformation and being reoriented to meet policing requirements over the next 15 to 20 years. Mr. Anand reviewed the performance of Warangal Police and examined…

thehill.com - Miranda Nazzaro - Trump administration's closed-door AI framework catches tech policy sector off guard
Trump administration's closed-door AI framework catches tech policy sector off guard
The Hill

The Trump administration's decision to keep its new framework on government AI testing out of public view has blindsided the tech policy community, who waited months to see the controversial process ironed out. The framework was expected to detail…

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