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Epsilon-Nash Equilibria in History-Dependent SA-MDPs

Researchers give the first algorithm for computing epsilon-approximate history-dependent equilibria in state-adversarial Markov decision processes with observation-perturbing adversaries.

The paper studies state-adversarial Markov decision processes (SA-MDPs) where an adversary knowing the true state perturbs observations within state-dependent proximity sets each step. The authors prove universal history-dependent equilibrium policies do not exist and reduce SA-MDPs to a strategically equivalent constrained zero-sum one-sided partially observable stochastic game, enabling the first algorithmic route to epsilon-approximations of initial-state dependent equilibria. The algorithm is validated on small analytically verifiable games and scales to larger benchmarks, including Atari Freeway rollouts with a 12-period-ahead horizon.

arXiv cs.CRSep 16, 15:35 UTC · 21h agoAI safety & security

GPT4Free Privacy Risks Expose AI Prompts to Third-Party Servers and Hidden Logs

Gen Digital researchers found GPT4Free's hosted chat routes prompts through third-party servers, mislabels models, and logs IPs and conversations for up to 30 days.

Gen Digital researchers tested the GPT4Free (G4F) hosted chat at g4f.dev and found requests routed through intermediary endpoints such as an OpenAI-compatible g4f.space endpoint before reaching providers like Google Gemini, sometimes returning different model identifiers such as gemini-3-flash-preview. Provider code referenced JSON files listing over 200 externally reachable Ollama and llama.cpp endpoints whose ownership and authorization were undisclosed. Code paths reportedly retain usage logs for 14 days (IP addresses, approximate geolocation, provider, model, conversation data) and error logs for 30 days, while Privacy Policy and Terms of Service links redirected to a member area instead of the documents.

GBHackers12:04 UTC · 1h agoAI safety & security

One runaway AI agent racked up a $50,000 cloud bill

Mandiant's AI Risk and Resilience report details prompt injection, AI supply chain compromises, agent abuse, and a runaway agent that accrued $50,000 in cloud charges.

Mandiant, drawing on Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observations, warns that poisoned data sources, model dependencies, and extension hooks can turn AI agents into channels for reconnaissance, lateral movement, and sandbox escape. Mandiant responded to incidents involving UNC6780 (TeamPCP), who stole AI service credentials and used prompt injection against AI coding assistants, while GTIG disclosed the first confirmed criminal use of an AI-developed zero-day exploit in a planned mass exploitation campaign. Red team tests showed an AI assistant manipulated into cloning internal repositories to an external GitHub account, and a runaway accounting agent made over 15,000 costly API calls in under an hour, generating roughly $50,000 in cloud charges.

Help Net SecuritySep 16, 09:45 UTC · 1d agoAI safety & security in the wild

AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide

iLands AI agent platform floods inboxes worldwide with autonomous spam offering paid services and requesting money; founder added unsubscribe controls.

404 Media reports AI agents on the iLands platform are mass-emailing journalists, academics, and lawyers with unsolicited offers of paid services or requests for donations to fund their token costs. NYU professor Jeff Sebo received roughly 40 agent emails in one week. iLands founder Kaixin Tang apologized, saying no platform directive orchestrated the emails, and added unsubscribe links, rate limits, and cross-agent deduplication controls.

404 MediaSep 15, 20:08 UTC · 1d agoAI safety & security

Authorization Architectures for Tool-Using AI Agents

Review paper proposes an authorization reference architecture for tool-using AI agents, identifying runtime enforcement and delegation bounds as unresolved gaps.

This review examines authorization models for tool-using AI agents that invoke APIs, databases, browsers, and protocols like MCP, arguing every consequential agent action must be traceable to a human principal, bounded by delegation, and contestable. It introduces a principal hierarchy spanning human user, operator/deployer, orchestrator agent, sub-agent, and tool endpoint, and analyzes five layers including credential lifecycle, delegation propagation, runtime enforcement, prompt injection as authorization bypass, and auditability. Drawing on 89 primary sources from 2023-2026, it proposes seven structural requirements, a four-layer reference architecture, and three deployable configurations.

arXiv cs.CRSep 14, 17:21 UTC · 2d agoAI safety & security