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OpenAI announced a new framework on Wednesday for how it publicly discloses AI misalignment incidents, which the company says it hopes will help inform similar standards across the industry. The company is also releasing new information about several examples of AI model misalignment it identified in the last year. “As
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J. David Ake/Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW September 16, 2026 05:38 PM ET The U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites. * GSA * Websites * Leadership Sam Corcos — the Treasury Department’s chief information officer who recently
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The continued rapid adoption of AI is increasing the volume of sensitive and proprietary data flowing through AI systems. This data includes customer and financial records, intellectual property, source code, employee information and operational data used to train models and power AI-driven applications. These AI pipelines have evolved from basic
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Cybersecurity researchers have spent decades building sandboxes and isolated test environments where they can safely unleash malware, probe vulnerabilities and generally do things that would be extremely dangerous on the open internet. But artificial intelligence is beginning to complicate that arrangement. In July, OpenAI disclosed that several of its AI
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When Sam Altman made his Dreamforce debut back in 2024, I confess I left his session less-than-impressed by his performance, not least his ludicrous pitch that we should all regard hallucinations as part and parcel of the gen AI experience, not a dangerous bug. Since then Altman has, of course,
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* UK NCSC, FBI, and Dutch AIVD warn Iran is using Chosen Brick malware against dissidents and journalists * Malware steals files, captures audio, grabs WhatsApp/Telegram data, and can wipe systems entirely * Operatives rely on social engineering; agencies urge awareness, MFA, updates, and endpoint monitoring Iranian hackers are targeting “enemies of
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Last weekend, after one of his researchers resigned over fears that AI could lead to human extinction, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote about the need for outside organizations “to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignment of not just completed AI models but
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Apple is developing an enterprise server built on its own M8 Ultra chips and has discussed using Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion to connect them, aiming at AI developers, companies and governments from around 2029, The Information reported. The European Commission proposed its Cloud and AI Development Act in June, grading
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“This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks,” wrote the three directors of the new DeepMind Institute. Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute, or DMI, a platform for research and debate on artificial general intelligence, according to
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Dive Brief Senior AI leaders say frameworks have not been updated to accommodate the technology’s specific risks, according to an EY report. Published Sept. 16, 2026 Dive Brief: * Nearly half of senior AI leaders say their organizations have bypassed AI governance processes for urgent deployments, despite almost all having
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* CenterPoint Energy confirmed a cyberattack via exposed API, with customer data stolen * Threat actor claims 7.49M files including IDs, SSNs, billing data, and transaction records * Operations unaffected; investigation ongoing, regulators notified, customers to be informed CenterPoint Energy has confirmed suffering a cyberattack and data theft, days after a criminal
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For software users, that means security as part of what they buy, a manufacturer who remains responsible, notice when exploitation requires action, a support life that matches expected use, a visible end date, no second bill for the mandated fix, and released patches that stay available to fetch. The Cyber
