Exclusive: bipartisan bill would develop federal guidance for distillation attacks, convene industry on defensive cyber

One of the bill’s sponsors told CyberScoop it’s “incredibly expensive” for U.S. AI companies to stay ahead and distillation attacks incentivize stealing over innovation.

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DOJ escalates fight for election supremacy with California raids

The arrests were paired with comments from DOJ and DHS officials, threatening to investigate, arrest or prosecute tens of thousands of California voters if they vote in November.

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DHS to ban DeepSeek from federal civilian agencies

The order cites national security concerns, including sending data to servers in China, the potential malware and the overall risk to federal IT systems.

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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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The next election influence campaign will target your AI chatbot

Someone is seeding the internet with hyperlocal content about political races. Researchers say it’s designed to train AI chatbots to favor candidates across a broad range of issues.

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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.

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FTC says ‘sextortion’ protection companies deceived customers about services 

A federal lawsuit claims that Dmitry Belkin and his companies routinely failed to deliver on services to protect customers, generated fake evidence and denied refunds to victims.

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Anthropic rolls out program for ‘long-term commitment’ to secure critical infrastructure, open source software

The critical infrastructure defense program will seek to pair Claude models, Anthropic engineers and threat research with the expertise of cybersecurity companies.

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OpenAI says Iran, Russia used AI journalists, think tanks to influence Western media

The two campaigns were rated 4 and 5 out of 6 for severity, the first time OpenAI has reported what it considers a high-impact influence campaigns.

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FBI, French authorities seize deepfake CSAM-for-sale websites 

Some of the material appeared to be recorded or stolen video of girls through interactions on social media sites like Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.

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