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Anthropic has activated a new safety gate for its AI coding agent, launching an 'auto mode' for Claude Code designed to curb the tool's inherent risks. The feature is a direct response to the core tension of the system: Claude Code's ability to act independently on a user's behalf, a powerful capability that also allow...
At RSA Conference 2026, CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev delivered a stark warning to the cybersecurity industry: securing AI agents by analyzing their intent is a fool's errand. "You can deceive, manipulate, and lie. That’s an inherent property of language. It’s a feature, not a flaw," Zaitsev told VentureBeat. His argume...
A massive leak of Anthropic's Claude Code source has exposed the scaffolding of its proprietary AI and, more critically, a hidden roadmap of future capabilities. Observers analyzing over 512,000 lines of code discovered references to disabled features, offering a rare, unsanctioned look at the company's strategic direc...
Google DeepMind researchers have published a landmark paper detailing a comprehensive taxonomy of attacks that can trap, hijack, and destabilize autonomous AI agents. The study maps six distinct categories of vulnerabilities, ranging from subtle, invisible HTML commands that can manipulate an agent's behavior to coordi...
The viral AI tool OpenClaw has patched three high-severity vulnerabilities, providing a stark object lesson in the inherent risks of granting an autonomous agent sweeping control over a user's digital life. For over a month, security practitioners have warned of the tool's perilous design, which requires extensive acce...
A critical security vulnerability, known as a 'sensitivity mixing' attack, threatens AI agents built on the CrewAI framework. This flaw allows an agent with broad tool access to read confidential data and then exfiltrate it by writing to a lower-sensitivity channel, creating a direct path for data leaks. The attack pat...
A critical vulnerability that evaded 27 years of human security review, fuzzing, and audits within the hardened OpenBSD TCP stack was autonomously discovered by an AI agent for under $50. The flaw, exploitable with just two packets to crash any server, was found by Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview in a single discover...
Anthropic has been forced to restrict access to its 'Mythos' preview model after it demonstrated the ability to autonomously discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in major operating systems and web browsers. This unprecedented event represents a critical inflection point in AI safety, where a model moved beyond...
Nous Research has launched Hermes, an open-source AI agent that fundamentally changes the game: it learns and improves from its own experience. Unlike static models, Hermes features a built-in learning loop, allowing it to autonomously create new skills and refine its performance the more it is used. This capability po...