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ai and ml Security ... this time it will be different Anthropic says it's taking steps to limit the misbehavior of its AI models after a review found Claude models going beyond the scope of fictional cybersecurity tests and gaining unauthorized access to real computer systems. The biz wants
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards.
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Article 1 of 3 Part of:Understanding the ins and outs of cyber insurance Before you sign on the dotted line, make sure you understand what cyber insurance can and can't do -- and what type of policy will do the most for your organization. Late one night
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* McKesson confirmed ShinyHunters breached its Snowflake and Salesforce, stealing 284M patient records * Data includes names, contact info, SSNs, and health details; ransom demand was $55.2M * Boston Scientific removed attackers but faces CRM device activation issues; attribution not confirmed Last week, two major healthcare organizations suffered highly disruptive cyberattacks: Boston
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OpenAI shared new details on its forthcoming Astra model, which the company said is the first large language model to meet its “critical cybersecurity threshold,” in preparation for its imminent release. “We plan to make Astra available soon,” OpenAI’s blog post reads, “but access to its most advanced cybersecurity
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Hayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of
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Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Console, an AI-native platform designed to help organizations build agentic workflows and automate operational tasks using natural language. The cybersecurity giant said Console will deepen the agentic capabilities of its Cortex platform, allowing security teams to investigate signals,
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OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is its first to reach the company’s threshold for what it calls “critical” cyber capabilities. OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon,” but will make the model’s advanced cyber capabilities available only to select
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It's only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, as Anthropic has just released its latest and most powerful large language models yet — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The two
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On Tuesday, Anthropic released Fable and Mythos 5.1, twinned versions of the company’s most advanced AI model. In addition to performance upgrades, the new Fable release includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model’s safeguards. As with the previous Mythos model, Mythos
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Finn Gomez/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW September 1, 2026 03:12 PM ET The short-term package pushes the sunset date for the bedrock cyber legislation to Dec. 11, in addition to setting extensions for the Technology Modernization Fund and National Cybersecurity Protection System. * Congress * TMF * Cyber
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* Sygnia reports China‑linked Fire Ant expanding beyond virtualization to routers, TACACS, and Linux hosts * Compromised routers act as operational platforms * Campaign aims at “target behind the target,” leveraging trust relationships for broader espionage reach Fire Ant, a China-nexus cyberespionage group, is no longer targeting just virtualization platforms, it’s
