Automotive AI startup IQ.Lvbs claims that between October 7 and 14, 2026 it faced repeated attempts to steal its NovaSpark driving model, access users' devices and private driving files, and exploit its sign-in system. The company says the first requests came from an IP address assigned to Comma.ai Inc., a rival whose camera hardware Nova…
An Anthropic AI model, identified by the company as Claude Haiku 4.5, submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide through the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) online form PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18. Anthropic said the submission happened during a test exercise in which the model interacted with randomly selected we…
The US Department of Homeland Security issued an order directing federal civilian agencies to stop using products from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek and to remove existing implementations. The order also covers "DeepSeek-affiliate products, and third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek implementations." That wording is vague an…
The US Department of Justice has charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and OpenAI engineer, with attempting to intercept oral communications. He allegedly installed a Seeed XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense recorder in a USB port on a TV in OpenAI's executive conference room around September 28, 2026. Staff found the device conceale…
AI pen-testing startup Terra Security reports a sharp rise in security fixes later found to be bypassed or incomplete. The share of GitHub security fixes needing a follow-up advisory for a failed patch within 90 days held near 0.2% from 2019 to 2025 but jumped to 2.3% in 2026. Terra links the trend to the 2026 explosion in AI-driven vulne…
X said it removed more than 13,000 accounts involved in three suspected foreign influence operations targeting US political debate ahead of the 3 November 2026 US midterm elections. The platform linked the operations to Iran, Russia and China. It said the networks used inauthentic accounts to post and amplify political content aimed at ca…