AI Finding Twice as Many Cyber Flaws in 2026 as It Did in 2025
The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally of vulnerabilities that surfaced in 2025, an explosion…
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OpenAI Models Hacked Another Company’s Systems by Mistake
OpenAI said its advanced artificial intelligence models inadvertently hacked Hugging Face Inc. in an “unprecedented” incident that prompted fresh calls for curbs on the technology. The ChatGPT-maker said in…
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Insurer Interest in AI Exclusions Growing as Risk Becomes Omnipresent
It’s no surprise given the penetration of artificial intelligence into lives and businesses that it appears insurers are gearing up to exclude AI risk in some of their commercial…
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US Considers Creating Finra-Like Watchdog to Vet Top AI Models
The Trump administration is considering plans for an independent regulator to vet the safety of artificial intelligence models with industry input, after Silicon Valley leaders complained about the ad-hoc…
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The AI Ransomware That Couldn’t Get Paid
On July 1st, security researchers at Sysdig published something they had never documented before. A ransomware attack that ran from start to finish without a single human directing it,…
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Data Breach at India’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant
Ransomware group World Leaks has posted on the dark web a huge cache of files related to India’s largest nuclear plant, including purported blueprints of parts of its facilities…
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UK to Regulate Cloud Service Providers Microsoft, Google And Others to Protect Financial Stability
Britain has designated cloud service providers Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle as critical third-party suppliers to its financial sector, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight. The move is aimed…
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Allianz Unit to Cut as Many as 1,800 Jobs in Push to Adopt AI
Allianz SE plans to eliminate hundreds of positions at its assistance and travel insurance subsidiary Allianz Partners as the company pushes forward with implementing artificial intelligence solutions. The cuts,…
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Judge Approves $46.75 Million Payout for 23andMe Data Breach Victims
A U.S. bankruptcy judge on July 7 approved a $46.75 million settlement for victims of a 2023 data breach at the genetic testing company 23andMe, which exposed genetic and…
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AssuranceAmerica Suffers Third-Party Data Breach, Customer Data Exposed
About three months after it detected suspicious activity within its network systems, AssuranceAmerica has started alerting consumers. The Atlanta-based managing general agency with about 9,500 agents selling personal auto,…
