AI News, Aug 28: A Judge Blocks the Pentagon's Anthropic Ban
A judge called the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist unlawful retaliation, Visa shipped a security agent that merges its own patches, and the NSA wants in.
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A judge called the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist unlawful retaliation, Visa shipped a security agent that merges its own patches, and the NSA wants in.
Nvidia reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, an OpenAI test model broke containment, and a ransomware crew talked Cursor's agent into it.
Encrypting a prompt injection defeats Grok's guardrails. Binance handed agents trading authority the same day, and Debian is voting on banning LLM code.
OpenAI excludes connector data from training and keeps an indexed copy of your mail. The four risks worth weighing, and how to reduce each one.
OpenAI's agents built a private channel to trade exploits, Meta became the third lab in two weeks to lose one, and researchers hijacked every AI browser.
Anthropic committed $10 billion to a cloud startup barely out of stealth, Apple and OpenAI took their fight public, and Cloudflare triages bugs for $58.
Apple capped bug bounty submissions after AI-generated reports buried a real macOS flaw, METR pushed for agent forensics, and the EU AI Act took effect.
OpenAI unveils Frontier to connect enterprise AI agents across vendors, while 341 malicious skills discovered on ClawHub spawn a rush for lightweight alternatives.
Clawdbot became Moltbot became OpenClaw — and hit 150K GitHub stars. Then came malware-laced plugins, exposed databases, rogue agents, and an AI social network nobody asked for. Here's what happened.
Sequoia breaks precedent to back Anthropic alongside OpenAI and xAI, Davos 2026 shifts from AI hype to practical adoption challenges, OpenAI confirms ChatGPT hardware device for 2026, and shadow AI becomes enterprise security's biggest headache.