Anthropic's OSS Scanner, introduced last week as part of its wider Cyber Mission, has flagged some 29,000 potential bugs in open-source projects. Only 516 of them have been fixed so far, which points to a bottleneck on the side of the maintainers who must review and patch them.
Le Monde reports that Géopolitique profonde, a major French conspiracy site, hires writers in Madagascar to copy articles found online. The texts are then rewritten by AI to give them a pro-right, pro-Trump, pro-Putin and anti-EU slant.
As the AI safety debate intensifies, a small group of third-party evaluators is moving to the center of the industry. CNBC looks at their growing role.
A well-known researcher is urging cryptocurrency holders to move their funds to safety, citing rapid progress by generative AI in mathematics. He argues it could weaken the digital signatures protecting blockchain wallets within months, a warning that has divided observers.
Numerama's weekly cybersecurity roundup covers three stories. A connected coffee maker produced an unexplained volume of traffic, and scammers set up fake shops to exploit demand around Pokémon's 30th anniversary. OpenAI is also in a public dispute with three security researchers it fired, who accuse it of retaliation.
OrcaRouter has released OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a gated cybersecurity model with a one-million-token context window. It reports 100% on Cybench and 95.8% on a subset of CVE-Bench, priced at $3.00 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens.