Federal agencies recommend cyber controls, independent testing for frontier AI systems
While voluntary, the document marks the federal government’s most detailed cybersecurity guidance for securing sandbox environments during AI model tests.
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Senators press Trump admin to rally federal government around AI safety, security
The letter argues federal agencies should more rigorously test AI models for security threats and sandbox evasion, set new safety standards and lean into defensive AI.
Why federal cyber defense demands an offense-driven mindset
Static checklists and annual penetration tests leave agencies with dangerous blind spots. True resilience requires moving from reactive attestation to continuous, automated validation.
The G7 tells industry to hurry up and prep for post-quantum encryption
The nations warn that governments and industry can no longer treat quantum codebreaking as a distant or theoretical possibility.
NIST wants to overhaul its vulnerability database for the AI age
NIST is seeking public input to modernize the National Vulnerability Database to keep pace with AI-driven cyber threats and machine-scale security data.
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Here’s what Anthropic found when it turned Mythos loose on encryption algorithms
Claude Mythos exposed mathematical weaknesses in a post-quantum candidate and a simplified version of AES, marking a major breakthrough for AI-driven cryptanalysis.
Director of Commerce AI standards office out after three months
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation has quietly become a key hub for the federal government to assess potential threats and harms that AI systems pose.
Found fast, fixed slow: The gap the AI clearinghouse must close
The government's new AI clearinghouse risks becoming a committee that discovers more problems than it solves — unless it's designed around patching, not just scanning.
Federal audit reveals NIST’s NVD is plagued by poor planning and duplication
A report from the Commerce Inspector General details how mismanagement allowed a backlog of 27,000 unprocessed security flaws to grow unchecked, while the agency duplicated work with…
Weaponized AI: The new frontier of fraud and identity spoofing
As fake identity fraud is projected to cause $40 billion in losses next year, leaders must abandon static security in favor of rapid-iteration, AI-enabled defenses that adapt…
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