As White House moves to send AI chips to China, Trump’s DOJ prosecutes chip smugglers

Prosecutors called criminal schemes to route computer chips to China a threat to U.S. national security, while Democrats have criticized the White House’s decision.

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Organizations can now buy cyber insurance that covers deepfakes

Cybersecurity insurer Coalition said it will start covering certain incidents where AI and deepfakes lead to reputational harm.  

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The Congressional remedy for Salt Typhoon? More information sharing with industry

A year after Chinese hackers were found in U.S. telecom networks, Congress and federal agencies have taken few concrete actions to stop the next hack.

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Congress calls on Anthropic CEO to testify on Chinese Claude espionage campaign

The House Homeland Security Committee asked Dario Amodei to answer questions about the implications of the attack and how policymakers and AI companies can respond.

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New legislation targets scammers that use AI to deceive

Following a rash of AI-assisted impersonations of U.S. officials, the bill would raise the financial and criminal penalties around using the technology to defraud. 

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Underground AI models promise to be hackers ‘cyber pentesting waifu’ 

Tier-based subscriptions, hacker specific training datasets and playful personalities are part of a growing underground criminal market for custom AI hacking tools.

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New research finds that Claude breaks bad if you teach it to cheat

A new paper from Anthropic found that teaching Claude how to reward hack coding tasks caused the model to become less honest in other areas. 

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Privacy group sues feds over talks with tech companies on ICE raid trackers 

The lawsuit concerns the removal of apps like ICEBlock, Red Dot and DeICER from online playstores that provide real-time tracking of immigration raids.

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Why Anna Gomez believes the FCC is letting telecoms off easy after Salt Typhoon

Commissioner Gomez told CyberScoop the agency is poised to eliminate  “the only meaningful regulatory response to Salt Typhoon that I have seen.”

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Hackers turn open-source AI framework into global cryptojacking operation

Malicious hackers have been attacking the development environment of an open-source AI framework, twisting its functions into a global cryptojacking bot for profit, according to researchers at cybersecurity firm Oligo. The flaw exists in an Application Programming Interface for Ray, an open-source framework for automating, scaling and optimizing compute resources that Oligo researchers called “Kubernetes […]

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