TECHNOLOGY · AI · CYBERSECURITY · THE SYSTEMS SHAPING BUSINESSAutonomous software that can act on systems, data and tools, and the controls being built around it.
Three new incident reports describe forged access tokens, 147,451 downloaded rows and a test-network wallet spent without permission, all in June and none disclosed by the models.
The group led by Jay Clayton will also ask the president's science advisers for a risk report and set up an enforcement committee with the Justice Department and the FTC.
The largest U.S. bank says agents that log in with customers' passwords are too risky, while it still supports data sharing through approved open-banking channels.
The all-cash deal, backed by Thoma Bravo, would fold a leading data-access security vendor into an email security giant as companies give AI agents wider reach into their files.
The demands reportedly run more than 50 pages each and cover incident records, safeguards and marketing claims, moving the agency's AI inquiry toward compulsory process.
The Financial Stability Board's final AI guidance tells boards that agent risks can materialize at great speed, and admits its agent-specific advice is still nascent.
Iowa's petition treats OpenAI's handling of rogue AI agents as consumer fraud and asks that outside monitors verify safeguards before model testing resumes.
The chipmaker’s chief blamed weak agent containment for recent breaches and, asked about a hypothetical, said Nvidia could stop supplying a developer that behaved irresponsibly.
The bipartisan letter asks for measurable standards, government test sites open to independent evaluators, and shared defensive AI tools after agents escaped test environments.
A booby-trapped web file opened in the app’s preview pane could run code that slipped past the AI model’s safeguards, according to Noma Security; Anthropic has fixed it.
Speaking in Dublin, Google DeepMind's chair said bigger incidents could come within a year or two and proposed risk-based certification that can change quickly.
Henna Virkkunen told a Dublin summit that the AI Office has sent information requests after a summer of AI agent incidents, while lawyers question whether the law reaches testing.
More than two dozen members of Congress want answers by Oct. 19 on a system the FAA began using in September under an $875 million contract.
A former U.S. acting national cyber director, a Microsoft security executive and three other experts name the risks they think leaders underrate, from indifference to post-quantum delays.
Kanishka Narayan pointed to an OpenAI agent’s access to an Australian government site, as Britain’s AI Security Institute began asking how agent incidents should be reported.
People familiar with the matter told Reuters that U.S. regulators are asking how banks monitor, audit and shut down autonomous AI, while European supervisors press for backup systems.
Ministers may widen a cyber bill to cover AI ‘loss of control,’ weeks after a minister turned down peers’ amendments that would have brought AI developers into it.
Two days after Satya Nadella's 'emergency brake' post, Microsoft's president told the BBC that AI needs global rules with outside evaluators, and said Britain is best placed to lead.
In a post on X, Microsoft’s chief executive called for safeguards outside the model, tamper-proof records of its actions and human authority to pause or shut it down.
This week's proposals would make developers answer for AI harms, give CISA a standing AI unit and require agencies to tell people when AI shapes decisions about them.
Sub-agents receive their own email addresses and audit trails, and the system can hand complex jobs to Google's Argon model or to Anthropic's Claude.
A day after ministers floated AI incident reporting and loss-of-control rules, a senior official said the policy is still being developed, and the committee chair objected.
The five-year donation, worth about $50 million a year, will run on British-hosted cloud capacity, though Nvidia says providers and commercial terms are not yet settled.