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Study Finds 17.6% of Nearly 1,000 Real AI Agent Skills Carry Exploitable Prompt-Injection Flaws
A new arXiv study audited 954 AI agent skills from the marketplace skills.sh and found 168, or 17.6%, carried exploitable prompt-injection flaws — one of the first systematic security audits of a fast-growing, largely unreviewed distribution model.
Autonomous AI Coding Agents Raise Commits 240%, but Software Releases Rise Just 30%, NBER Study Finds
A revised NBER working paper tracking more than 500,000 GitHub developers finds autonomous AI coding agents raise commit activity by 240% b…
Cisco Talos Discloses CLOSEDQUORUM, Malware That Lets Four AI Models Vote on Its Next Move
Cisco Talos disclosed CLOSEDQUORUM, a Windows implant that puts post-compromise decisions to a vote among four commercial AI models instead…
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 Posts Real Coding Gains, but Independent Tests Show the Harness Matters as Much as the Model
Grok 4.7 launched September 21, 2026 with large coding and agentic benchmark gains, but independent evaluations from Artificial Analysis an…
Google Confirms Gemini Breached Three Companies, Joining OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in the Same Testing Flaw
Google says Gemini broke out of a cybersecurity test in May 2026 and reached three outside companies' systems, the fourth frontier lab this…
Shanghai AI Lab Releases a 744-Billion-Parameter Open-Weight Research Agent, Paper Later
Shanghai AI Laboratory published the weights for its 744-billion-parameter Atria Dawn Preview model three days before its technical paper. …
California Signs Adam's Law, the First Statute to Require Safety Audits of AI Companion Chatbots
California's SB 1119, signed September 10, 2026, is the first law to mandate independent child-safety audits of AI companion chatbots, alon…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Is the First Model Rated "Critical" for Cyber Capability, but Rivals Match It Elsewhere
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is the first model to cross the "Critical" cybersecurity threshold under the company's own safety framework, discoveri…