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OpenAI
OpenAI Presence connects AI agents to enterprise data with built-in guardrails

OpenAI has introduced Presence, a product designed to help companies deploy AI agents that handle customer support and internal service requests across voice and chat. …

Robot
AI models cheat on cybersecurity evaluations, then fail to admit it

Frontier AI models will take just about any route to finish a task, cheating included, according to new cybersecurity evaluations from the UK government’s AI Security …

Google Gemini
Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber becomes a vulnerability hunter

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber model finds, validates, and patches vulnerabilities before they can be exploited while helping mitigate broader misuse. It is part of a …

person
Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents

The pull request arrives with the tests already run and the description already written, the work of an agent that handled the whole thing on its own. Somebody still has to …

vulnerability
Security teams keep finding critical flaws after scheduled testing ends

Enterprise environments change between scheduled security assessments, leaving organizations with periods where new vulnerabilities can go undetected. Synack’s State of …

deepfake
AI can’t fix cybersecurity’s hiring problem

Organizations are redefining cybersecurity roles through workforce frameworks and placing greater emphasis on verified skills as AI and new regulatory requirements change …

AI
Cloud operations become the next big role for agentic AI

Companies are using agentic AI to manage growing application environments, automate routine tasks, and support decisions. Business and IT leaders increasingly see the …

Agentic AI
JadePuffer returns with ransomware built to target AI models and infrastructure

JadePuffer, the threat actor behind the recently documented extortion operation executed end-to-end by an AI agent, is now attempting to leverage ENCFORGE, novel ransomware …

Cisco
Cisco’s open-weight Antares models make vulnerability localization cheaper

A security analyst opens an unfamiliar repository, pulls up a vulnerability advisory, and starts hunting for the file where the weakness lives. The naming conventions belong …

AWS
AWS wants GuardDuty to automate the first steps of threat investigations

Amazon GuardDuty investigation agent is now in public preview. The feature provides AI-powered investigations of GuardDuty findings, AWS accounts and AWS organizations, …

AI
AI agents are still logging in as humans

Most large companies run more than one AI platform at the same time. Developers pull up coding assistants, marketing teams lean on writing tools, and analysts query enterprise …

code
A forensic tool for backdoored code completions in AI assistants

Developers lean on AI coding assistants for a growing share of their daily work, letting the tools predict the next few lines and accepting many suggestions with a quick …

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