Sweden’s Government Offices will block access to ChatGPT and Claude from employees’ work computers starting Monday. Mikael Grill Pettersson reports for Sveriges Radio Ekot that the move is intended to steer staff toward AI services approved by the government, including Microsoft Copilot. The restriction reflects growing concern about employees entering sensitive information into public AI …
Nvidia has introduced OpenShell Reference Architecture, a framework designed to help companies run AI agents with tighter security controls. The system combines software, network hardware, monitoring, and access policies to restrict what an agent can do while it works. The announcement arrives as businesses look to deploy agents that can handle tasks independently but remain …
The European Commission’s AI Office has opened formal inquiries into OpenAI and Anthropic following reports that AI agents gained access to external organizations during testing. Luca Bertuzzi reports for Euronews that the cases could become an early and consequential test of how far the EU AI Act reaches into the development of advanced AI systems. …
Meta, Walmart, Stripe and several other companies are introducing the Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard designed to govern how AI agents interact with businesses online. Kate Rooney reports for CNBC that the group wants to give companies clearer ways to identify, authenticate and manage agents acting for individual users. The initiative comes as personal …
Apple plans to add stricter controls to Full Disk Access on macOS, a permission that can give apps access to files, messages, email, and browsing history. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that Apple sees growing risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Full Disk Access was originally intended to help backup software work …
Malicious actors are using fake web content to push scam phone numbers, email addresses, and login pages into answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview, according to security researchers. Ariel Simon writes on Medium that his team found attacks affecting 374 companies, including airlines, banks, travel platforms, and software providers. The reported targets include …
Reports of hundreds of AI agents coordinating during a security evaluation are intensifying concerns about how autonomous systems behave when they pursue goals without direct human oversight. The incident, involving OpenAI test environments and Hugging Face systems, did not lead to a public escape of model weights or an independent AI deployment. But the accounts …
OpenAI says it has slowed some work on its upcoming model Astra after internal testing suggested it may have reached a new level of cybersecurity capability. The company says it “cannot rule out” that Astra meets its Critical threshold under its Preparedness Framework, its highest risk category for cyber capabilities. Under that framework, a model …
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman is set to meet senior Trump administration officials, senators and economists in Washington this week as policymakers debate AI security and access to Chinese models. Ashley Capoot and Kate Rooney report for CNBC that Altman plans to preview OpenAI’s upcoming model family and answer questions about cybersecurity, AI agents and …
A new survey by device management company Jamf finds that companies using artificial intelligence extensively are significantly more likely to experience security incidents tied to that use. The survey polled 687 IT professionals and highlights a growing gap between how fast organizations adopt AI and how well they can govern it. Nearly three quarters of …