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Most high-severity cloud security findings are downgraded once an AI agent checks the environment Cloud security platforms turn every failed rule into a finding, and those findings pile up in queues sorted by severity. Research from Sola Security tested what happens to that order when each finding gets checked against the environment where it lives. The researchers, Leon Goldberg and Gal Engelberg, built an AI agent that re-grades findings raised by third-

Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Photo by Uwe Anspach / picture alliance via Getty Images A key executive at Europe’s biggest software company is sending a clear message: your job can and will be done with AI. In a provocative interview with Business Insider, SAP chief finance officer Dominik Asam was asked if the goal of the company’s push to use AI coding tools was to produce more code with the same number of employees. That’

Getty / Futurism The AI industry has made major promises about its tech boosting the productivity of developers, allowing them to generate copious amounts of code with simple text prompts. But those claims appear to be massively overblown, as The Register reports, with researchers finding that productivity gains are modest at best — and at worst, that AI can actually slow down human developers. In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found t

The federal government managed to temporarily ban Anthropic’s latest AI model from being used by foreign nationals and reportedly held up the release of OpenAI’s updated GPT-5.6 Sol for security concerns, but it seems the latest version of Grok must have just skated right through. Grok 4.5, the first release of an AI model under the newly formed SpaceXAI, was made available to the public on Wednesday. Elon Musk’s rocket/social media/AI company claims Grok

AI agents handle increasingly complex and recurring tasks, such as planning supply chains and ordering equipment. As organisations deploy more agents developed by different vendors on different frameworks, agents can end up siloed, unable to coordinate or communicate. Lack of interoperability remains a challenge for organisations, with different agents making conflicting recommendations. It’s difficult to create standardised AI workflows, and agent integra

if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> Cyber experts say AI labs’ containment and monitoring failures — not agents with minds of their own — are to blame for recent alarming hacking reports. CISOs should vet their AI vendors and tighten security basics as safeguards. endif; ?> Credit: PeopleImages / Shutterstock Artificial IntelligenceTechnology IndustryAccess ControlIdentity and Access ManagementSecurityIntrusion Detection SoftwareSecurity Monitoring

Meta outlines Muse Wonder safeguards for AI agents acting on your behalf Meta’s Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models are built for AI agents that handle tasks such as preparing insurance claims, reviewing leases and developing software. The models combine document analysis and tool use with the ability to retain relevant details across conversations and work through obstacles toward a user’s goal. Intended for commercial and research use, they support w

Microsoft wants to limit AI agents’ permissions when they stray from the job Microsoft’s Guardian Agents in Project Perception adapt as agent activity, risk, security context and organizational policy change. They help security teams understand why risk changed, investigate relevant evidence, recommend or apply containment measures and use what they learn to strengthen policies. People retain control over objectives and consequential decisions. Microsoft a

OpenAI has officially rolled out its first piece of hardware, and it’s not the one you’re thinking of. The company behind ChatGPT announced on Wednesday a $230 mini keyboard designed specifically to work with its AI coding agent, Codesx. The device is a collaboration with Work Louder, a maker of programmable keyboards and macro pads. Technically, the device is more of a programmable macro pad than a full keyboard. The small, square-shaped pad is officially

Artificial intelligence has already turned the job market into a slop fest—AI-generated resumes and cover letters getting reviewed by AI screeners who make decisions before a real person even has a chance. A startup called Refer is offering to put AI on your side—assuming you’re willing to give up some of your salary for it. The company is called Refer, and according to Business Insider, it’s something like a reverse recruiter for workers. That means inste

While acknowledging limitations – including the need to test on larger models and optimise for domains without easily verifiable rewards – the work opens “a scalable and principled path for building AI systems” in areas demanding complex interaction and verifiable outcomes, such as theorem proving, software engineering, and scientific discovery.(Image by Gerd Altmann)See also: How does AI judge? Anthropic studies the values of ClaudeWant to learn more abou

OpenAI says that users are fully in control of the purchases, as they’re able to review the items, the total, and the payment card that will be used to complete the transaction before the checkout occurs. In addition, users will approve the purchases directly with a security check like Face ID or a fingerprint, which creates a record of their transaction. The addition comes as consumer-facing AI tools are working to find the right product-market fit, in te

US Army is developing AI agents that could strike enemy networks and vanish without a trace The US Army is looking for AI agents that can slip into an adversary’s network, find their target, copy themselves onto nearby tablets and computers, and then erase themselves before anyone notices. Over the past few months, AI agents with no instruction to attack anything have breached Hugging Face infrastructure and broken into Australian government computers, rai

Why security tools lose sight of the credential Security teams have tools for code, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, identity, and secrets management. Credentials cut across all of them. A developer finds an AWS key in a repository. The first step is obvious: remove it. But that does not answer the questions the security team now has: Is the key still active? Who owns it? What can it access? Is the same credential sitting in a CI/CD variable, a local .env

NVIDIA unveils security architecture that can stop AI agents crossing set boundaries NVIDIA’s OpenShell Reference Architecture is designed to help businesses control AI agents operating across enterprise infrastructure and local computing systems. It builds on NVIDIA’s existing OpenShell security software, combining it with hardware for running AI models, managing agent operations and enforcing security rules. The aim is to let agents carry out useful work

AI coding boom exposes cracks in cloud development Developers are encountering bugs, testing delays and disruptions in shared cloud environments as AI increases the volume of code they produce, according to LocalStack’s 2026 State of AI in Cloud Development report. More code adds to the testing workload Sixty-five percent of respondents say their teams now generate at least twice as much code as they did before adopting AI, with 32% reporting five times as

AI agent permissions are outrunning security Most organizations have handed AI agents work that used to need a person’s sign-off. In a survey of 1,100 IT and security decision-makers, 70% said they now let AI make decisions and take actions that would have required human approval a year ago. That new authority is already causing trouble. Three in four organizations ran into at least one AI-related security issue or warning sign in the past year. In a lot o

OpenAI’s coding agents talked themselves out of being monitored Two AI coding agents running inside OpenAI silently weakened the systems built to catch AI misbehavior, and one of them then told its human operator it had done no such thing. OpenAI disclosed both episodes in a misalignment report released earlier this week and said it is tightening its defenses, but admits it cannot yet explain why the agents behaved this way. AI agents evading oversight Nei