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Sycophantic chatbots and the harms that build over many chats

People use AI chatbots for company, advice, and emotional support, and these systems answer in ways meant to hold their attention. Researchers describe the resulting risks as …

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Companies keep bolting AI onto their products, and the security bill is coming due

Companies keep bolting AI and LLM features onto their products, and the security results are starting to show a pattern. The vulnerabilities those features create get rated …

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Most teams accept higher risk for faster AI database work

Database professionals are using AI for everyday work like writing queries, building schemas, and reviewing code, and a growing share rely on autonomous tools that act on the …

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Critical open-source projects get a new security framework

Open source software projects are getting a new framework for handling security vulnerabilities as AI shortens the time between flaw discovery and exploitation. The Linux …

Modelplane
Modelplane: Open-source control plane for AI inference

Organizations that run open-weight models on hardware they own operate GPU fleets spread across clouds, neoclouds, and on-premise data centers. Each fleet handles model …

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Scoring AI hackers when there is no answer key

AI models are solving more and more of the offensive-cyber tests built to measure them. Once a model solves most of a benchmark, that benchmark runs out of room and says …

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Most teams will ship AI-written infrastructure code with little review

AI-assisted development has settled into everyday practice across software organizations, and developers using it move from idea to working code in hours. That code does not …

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Anthropic’s Claude Tag gives AI agents independent identities

Anthropic introduced an agent identity model for Claude Tag, its AI assistant designed for team collaboration in shared workspaces. The model gives Claude its own identity, …

Prophet AI
Product showcase: How to evaluate AI SOC platforms and where Prophet AI leads

The Agentic SOC market is loud. Dozens of vendors promise to take alert triage, investigation, and response off your analysts’ plates, but most claims have never been …

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Security testing was built for a slower world

Software teams are pushing code into production faster than security testing can keep up. AI is accelerating development cycles and adding pressure to security programs that …

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Using Reddit to manipulate AI search results is surprisingly easy

A Reddit comment that takes only a few seconds to write can end up influencing the answers generated by AI research tools. A Cornell Tech study found that a short snippet of …

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OpenAI wants AI to fix vulnerabilities, not just find them

OpenAI expanded Daybreak, its cybersecurity initiative that combines AI models, Codex Security, security researchers, maintainers, industry partners, and access controls to …

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