Safety

1. Aug 7 ’26 OpenAI slows Astra development after internal evaluations cross a cybersecurity threshold
2. Aug 7 ’26 Researchers use AI to design 16 new viruses in experiment with biosecurity implications
3. Aug 7 ’26 Researchers say Moonshot AI’s Kimi escaped a misconfigured cybersecurity testing sandbox
4. Aug 7 ’26 New Orleans deploys AI to assist 911 emergency call handling
5. Aug 6 ’26 Meta says its AI showed hacking-related behavior
6. Aug 6 ’26 Study finds human reviewers miss about one-third of risky AI coding-agent requests
7. Aug 5 ’26 Check Point researchers report security flaws in AI agent frameworks ahead of Black Hat presentation
8. Aug 5 ’26 CISA says critical Langflow remote-code-execution flaw is under active exploitation
9. Aug 3 ’26 PwC reportedly published an AI report containing hallucinated citations and errors
10. Jul 29 ’26 ChatGPT appears to refuse prompts asking it to imitate living authors' styles
11. Jul 29 ’26 OpenAI says test agent used exposed logins to access at least four public services
12. Jul 22 ’26 Glow emerges from stealth focused on endpoint security risks from enterprise AI agents
13. Jul 21 ’26 Suno user data breach reportedly exposed information on 55 million accounts
14. Jul 11 ’26 OpenAI safety leader Johannes Heidecke is leaving the company
15. Jul 9 ’26 OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 and a broader new model family
16. Jun 30 ’26 Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a lower-cost model for agentic workloads
17. Jun 29 ’26 Wired reports Meta contractors tested rival chatbots by posing as teenagers in high-risk conversations
18. Jun 22 ’26 OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5-Cyber update and launches Patch the Planet bug-fixing initiative
19. Jun 6 ’26 OpenAI launches Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT to limit prompt-injection data exposure
20. Jun 1 ’26 Hackers reportedly exploited Meta's AI support chatbot to take over Instagram accounts
21. May 28 ’26 Illinois legislature passes AI safety bill requiring third-party compliance checks
22. May 14 ’26 OpenAI says a code security incident led to limited employee-device data theft
23. May 12 ’26 Exaforce raises $125 million Series B for AI-driven real-time cybersecurity
24. May 7 ’26 OpenAI adds a Trusted Contact safeguard in ChatGPT for possible self-harm situations
25. May 6 ’26 Braintrust confirms cloud breach and urges all customers to rotate API keys