A coalition of more than 120 organizations, including Nvidia, Cisco and CrowdStrike, is proposing a new incident-reporting framework for AI agents that would require participating companies to disclose certain agent mishaps and preserve detailed records of what went wrong. Why it matters: As AI agents gain more autonomy to act across computer systems, the industry lacks a standard way to report security failures and learn from them. Driving the news: The Open Secure AI Alliance is developing guidelines for what it's calling the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE), a proposed framework for how organizations report cyber incidents involving AI agents. - The draft calls for participation from model deployers, AI developers, cloud and tool…
OpenAI is introducing a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol to vetted defenders as it prepares companies for autonomous cyberattacks . Why it matters: The move comes just days after OpenAI said it was delaying the release of its forthcoming model, Astra, after it reached critical hacking abilities during safety testing. The big picture: OpenAI is unveiling GPT-5.6-Cyber while also expanding Daybreak , its program that gives cybersecurity defenders access to the company's cyber models and other tools. - Many cyber defenders have been experiencing high refusal rates across frontier AI models as the labs try to balance giving defenders the tools they need, while not accidentally leaking those abilities to malicious hackers. -…
The pace of AI development combined with soaring compute costs is squeezing the AI researchers responsible for evaluating frontier models — just as those models' capabilitie s are becoming harder to measure. Why it matters: When safety testing can't keep pace, models capable of hacking companies or aiding in the development of bioweapons could reach the public before anyone knows what they can do. - Last week's breach of Hugging Face, carried out autonomously by OpenAI's models in the middle of safety testing, shows that some of the highest-risk behaviors can emerge during pre-release testing itself. Several challenges are tying up AI safety and security researchers just as U.S. frontier AI companies race to get new models to market: …
Russian Government-Sponsored Activity Targets Poorly Configured and Vulnerable Devices Across Critical Sectors Executive summary Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16 cyber actors continue to exploit poorly configured and vulnerable networking devices worldwide, opportunistically compromising multiple critical infrastructure sector networks. This joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) builds on FBI’s Russian Government Cyber Actors Targeting Networking Devices, Critical Infrastructure Public Service Announcement of the decade-plus FSB Center 16 cyber activity by providing additional tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to enable defenders to more fully understand and counter the threat. [1 ] This CSA is being released…
Anthropic and OpenAI's cyber-capable AI models may still require significant human expertise to operate effectively, according to new findings from users testing the systems in real-world environments. Why it matters: The new phase of AI-powered cybersecurity may depend less on fully autonomous hacking and more on how effectively humans can direct, validate and operationalize increasingly powerful systems. The big picture: When Anthropic unveiled Mythos Preview to the world, it warned that the model was so powerful that it found tens of thousands of bugs spanning nearly every operating system. - Third-party testing suggests that OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber is just as powerful as Mythos at finding bugs and writing exploits. - Major…
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether members of the Falun Gong religious group can sue Cisco for its alleged role in a Chinese government crackdown.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Tuesday that it will begin targeting American-based technology companies operating in the Middle East, stating what it considers "legitimate targets are gradually expanding." Among the companies the IRGC listed as targets include Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, and Tesla—along with U.S. banking giant JPMorgan Chase. The post Are Apple Stores Less Safe Due to the Iran War? appeared first on The National Pulse .
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Tuesday that it will begin targeting American-based technology companies operating in the Middle East, stating what it considers “legitimate targets are gradually expanding.” WHO WAS INVOLVED: The IRGC, the Trump administration, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Tesla, and JPMorgan Chase. WHEN & WHERE: The announcement was made on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. KEY QUOTE: The IRGC contends that the United States has “ignored our repeated warnings about the need to stop terrorist operations, and today, a number of Iranian citizens were martyred in your and your Israeli allies’ terrorist attacks; Since the main element in designing and…Open