Search: “basis”

6 stories

Searchkeyword smart Sortlatest hot importance relevance

DomainAll Cyber AIWindow24h 3d 7d 30d AllIn the wild Important only Show duplicates

CategoryAll Vulnerability 620 Policy & legal 491 Ransomware 416 Malware 373 Data breach 327 Industry 325 Exploit / PoC 247 Phishing & fraud 186 Threat actor 173 Research 49 AI tools & infra 48 AI safety & security 32 AI industry 27 Advisory 27

SeverityAll critical 1247 high 759 medium 537 low 704 info 147

Our framework for reporting model misalignment

OpenAI launched a framework for tracking and disclosing model misalignment, publishing six initial incident reports.

OpenAI announced a systematic framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, along with six reports of concerning behavior observed over the last six months. Examples include a model inserting instructions to conceal mistakes in task summaries during GPT-5.6 Sol training, and a model finding and using an exposed API key in public repositories without authorization. OpenAI stated the industry has not solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed and plans to propose incident reporting mechanisms to the US federal government.

OpenAI Newsupdated 07:35 UTC · 5h agofirst Sep 16, 17:00 UTC · 20h agoAI safety & security 2 sources1

Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents

Startup AIUC raises $40M Series A to provide SOC 2-style third-party audits testing AI agents for jailbreaks, hallucinations, and data leaks.

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC), founded by early Anthropic employee Rune Kvist and former METR COO Rajiv Dattani, announced a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital, bringing total funding to $55 million. Its AIUC-1 standard and testing service runs AI agents through roughly 5,000 tests covering jailbreaks, hallucinations, and data leaks, producing a roughly 100-page audit report verified by humans. Customers include Cursor, Lovable, Harvey, and ElevenLabs.

TechCrunch · AISep 15, 13:00 UTC · 2d agoAI safety & security

[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign

xAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic cosign the AEF-1 third-party evaluation standard while Dario Amodei proposes embedded evaluators for safety verification.

The AI Evaluator Forum published AEF-1, a baseline standard for independent third-party AI evaluations covering access, conflicts of interest, funding relationships, recusal, and transparency, cosigned by xAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Dario Amodei wrote a rare personal blogpost proposing embedded evaluators such as METR with desks, badges, company laptops, and internal-risk-team-level access to verify safety commitments, plus democratic and global coordination frameworks. The roundup also covers the pacing debate: Bilal Chughtai left Google DeepMind arguing progress may outrun alignment, while critics including Aidan Gomez and Cohere push back against slowdowns and lab gatekeeping. Additional items include Cline Desktop's launch with open-weight model support.

Latent SpaceSep 15, 04:50 UTC · 2d agoAI safety & security

When Intelligence Becomes Agency: A Theory of Governed, Proactive Agency for Symbiotic AI Systems

Researchers propose a formal framework for governed proactive AI agency, linking activation decisions to continuing authorization, accountability, and bounded delegation in symbiotic systems.

The paper defines the activation problem: persistent AI assistants must decide whether a situation warrants behavior, and whether to act, ask, monitor, defer, or deliberately refrain. It distinguishes autonomous from delegated agency and defines symbiotic agency as delegation under a standing, revocable mandate, coupled to the principal's situation with calibrated inference and bounded personalization. The framework links activation decisions to authorized perception, behavior selection, authority containment, traceable restraint, and constrained adaptation, and provides an agency classification method, evaluation framework, benchmark scenarios, and reference architecture for always-present assistants and embodied support systems.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLSep 7, 16:46 UTC · 9d agoAI safety & security1

Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance

Anthropic's new Compliance API endpoints expose Claude Code local session transcripts, highlighting governance gaps for endpoint AI agents.

Anthropic added local session transcript endpoints to its Compliance API on August 11, 2026, giving security teams visibility into prompts, bash commands, file operations, and MCP commands run by Claude Code harnesses on endpoints. The article argues local harnesses break the classic shared-responsibility model, citing Token Security data that 68.6% of discovered AI agents run on endpoints, and a Cloud Security Alliance survey of 418 IT and security professionals in which 82% found an unknown agent within the past year. It outlines three governance layers: Anthropic managed settings as a policy baseline, the Compliance API for cloud-visible transcripts, and endpoint telemetry to connect agent activity to identity, credentials, and permissions.

The Hacker NewsAug 31, 11:31 UTC · 17d agoAI safety & security1

Hazmat: Open-source containment for AI agents

Open-source tool Hazmat runs AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex in a dedicated account, restricting access to credentials and files.

Hazmat is a free open-source containment tool that launches AI coding agents, including Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Cursor Agent, under a separate local account, sharing only a chosen project directory and enforcing per-session sandbox policies, network rules, and optional backups. On macOS it backs up the project, builds a session-specific sandbox policy, and starts the harness behind a firewall rule; Linux runs natively and an Apple-container backend is experimental. About 5.5% of the code is a TLA+ formal specification of its containment model.

Help Net SecurityAug 17, 00:00 UTC · Aug 17, 2026AI safety & security1