Beijing is aggressively exploiting global data for strategic purposes. AI-powered cybersecurity is essential to Washington’s counter-offensive to win the global market.
U.S. President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order during the “Winning the AI Race” summit hosted by All‑In Podcast and Hill & Valley Forum at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on July 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Trump signed executive orders related to his Artificial Intelligence Action Plan during the event. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Activist group ‘Everyone Hates Elon’ anti-Musk and X poster placed in a bus stop on the 14th of January 2026, London, United Kingdom. The poster is a reference to the highly controversial new AI tool on X called Grok which can undress pictures of people on command, which this poster suggests enables it as a tool for child abuse. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)
A threat actor is seeding the internet with AI browser extensions that can intercept a user’s authenticated session tokens and hijack accounts. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
OpenAI and Anthropic said they turned over their models to government researchers, who found an array of previously undiscovered vulnerabilities and attack techniques. (Image via Getty)
The voluntary framework would provide legal clarity to third-party AI researchers, including those who study safety and other “unexpected” AI behaviors.
The rise of malicious bots is changing how the internet operates, underscoring the need for stronger safeguards that keep humans firmly in control. Bots now account for…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced an investigation Wednesday into xAI over allegations that its artificial intelligence model Grok is being used to create nonconsensual sexually explicit…
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 18: A U.S. flag and the flag of the U.S. Department of Energy fly outside its building on March 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. DEK: Under the Trump administration, the Department of Energy’s cybersecurity office is planning to shift focus from “traditional” research and development to “AI dominance.” (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
A Trump administration official endorsed a slate of congressional bills Tuesday targeting cybersecurity in the energy sector while touting the office’s new emphasis on AI-driven cyber defenses.…
The company says it has no evidence the bug was exploited before October’s patch, but researchers say AI agent configuration can still enable prompt-injection style abuse.
The Grok app on an iPhone, against the backdrop of search results displayed on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on a laptop, in London. The Prime Minister has said X need to “get their act together” amid concerns about the creation of sexualised images of adults and children by AI embedded on the social media site. Sir Keir Starmer said he backed Ofcom, which is looking into X and xAI – the firm founded by Elon Musk which created Grok – to take action against the site, and that he had asked for “all options to be on the table”. It comes as a former minister urged the Government and the Labour Party to stop using the site entirely. Users of X appear to have prompted its artificial intelligence Grok, which is integrated into the platform, to generate deepfake images of children “in minimal clothing”. Picture date: Thursday January 8, 2026. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)
The UK body said it is not a government censor, and the inquiry will determine whether X is facilitating the spread of nonconsensual deepfake pornography of adults…