
Microsoft Cuts Jobs, Builds Cheaper Mythos Rival
Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.
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Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.

A hacker leaked Suno source code showing exactly how it scraped YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and a million hours of podcasts for AI training data.

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf has joined Innovation Labs to push DNSid, a DNS-anchored identity standard for AI agents, through the IETF after retiring from Google.

Tracking AI supply-chain attacks, agent exploits, prompt injection, model leaks, and the real-world incidents shaping AI security today.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol goes public today after the first voluntary government hold on a frontier AI model - here's what the 12 days actually looked like.

Sysdig documents the first AI-agent ransomware operation: an LLM exploited CVE-2025-3248 in Langflow, moved laterally, and encrypted 1,342 production database records with no human directing each step.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol tops Terminal-Bench 2.1 at 91.9% with its multi-agent Ultra mode, but reward-hacking findings and government-gated access keep it out of reach for nearly everyone.

The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30, restoring global access today while industry partners draft a four-dimension jailbreak severity framework.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family - Sol, Terra, and Luna - sets a new Terminal-Bench 2.1 record at 91.9% with subagent Ultra mode, but remains locked to ~20 government-vetted partners as of launch.

Claude Mythos 5 is the full release of Anthropic's restricted Mythos family - same weights as Fable 5 but without safety classifiers for cybersecurity and biology, at $10/M input and $50/M output tokens.

The Commerce Department partially lifts its two-week export ban on Anthropic's most powerful model, clearing Mythos 5 for ~100 US companies and agencies while keeping Fable 5 blocked.

The intelligence agencies of five allied nations issued a joint statement warning that frontier AI will fundamentally transform offensive cybersecurity within months, not years - and that most organizations are not ready.