Many security leaders at major companies, flush with expanded budgets to fend off AI-powered cyberattacks , are experiencing a level of decision fatigue that's freezing them in their tracks. Why it matters: Those leaders are still trying to size up how autonomous cyberattacks will affect their businesses at a time when they need to be taking bold action and mobilizing quickly, experts told Axios. The big picture: Companies have only a short window before AI models capable of end-to-end autonomous cyberattacks land in the hands of malicious attackers. - But four months after Anthropic released Mythos Preview to prepare for what's to come, many companies are still debating where to put their money and which controls to prioritize. State of…
Two House committees are pressing DoorDash for documents on its use of artificial intelligence built in China, part of a widening congressional probe into whether American companies are handing Beijing a backdoor into U.S. technology infrastructure. The chairmen of the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party […] The post Congress demands answers from DoorDash over its reliance on Chinese AI models appeared first on American Almanac .
Two House committees are pressing DoorDash for documents on its use of artificial intelligence built in China, part of a widening congressional probe into whether American companies are handing Beijing a backdoor into U.S. technology infrastructure. The chairmen of the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent a joint letter to the food-delivery giant requesting "information and documents" on how it evaluates and deploys AI systems developed by companies under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China, CNBC reported . The letter zeroed in on a social media post by DoorDash founder Andy Fang, who described on X how his company delegates lower-level AI work to Kimi K2.6,…Open
The OpenAI agent that accessed a third-party system during the Hugging Face incident reached infrastructure tied to CyberGym, the project behind the ExploitGym benchmark it had been assigned to solve, a source familiar with the matter told Axios. Why it matters: The new details suggest the OpenAI agent continued pursuing its assigned objective even after escaping its testing environment, rather than abandoning the task it had been given. Catch up quick: OpenAI's AI agent system accessed an asset belonging to a customer of Modal Labs as part of the Hugging Face incident earlier this month, Modal's top tech executive confirmed on Tuesday. - In an update published Tuesday, OpenAI said the models escaped the sandbox and gained internet…
One of the biggest unknowns in AI security is also one of the most consequential: China's progress toward frontier AI models. Why it matters: The world is only months away from AI models dramatically accelerating cyber threats, Five Eyes leaders warned Monday. - Yet preparations are being slowed by Washington infighting and industry-wide confusion over how to measure AI risk. Driving the news: A new Chinese open-source model , GLM-5.2, rocked the internet this weekend with its ability to match the agentic capabilities of models like Anthropic's Opus 4.8 — garnering praise from Silicon Valley elites and raising questions about just how quickly China will close the gap. - At the same time, the Trump administration is still debating…