In Brief Posted: 7:58 AM PDT · October 5, 2026 The Danish government has confirmed that its central database of citizens’ data was breached and…
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OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
OpenAI said it has paused training its most powerful artificial intelligence models as incidents of agents breaching websites’ security controls or posting to third-party sites…
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal in the first widely known incident of an…
US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware |
The FBI has been using hacking techniques and tools, such as spyware, since at least 1998, but to date there is no public data counting…
Rivian sues the US government for 'full refund' of Trump tariffs |
Rivian has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government in an attempt to claw back a “full refund” on tariffs it paid under President Trump’s…
Apaluma Announces $5.55 Million Seed Funding to Scale Unified Government Data Platform
/PRNewswire/ — Apaluma, which transforms fragmented regulatory records into a unified ecosystem, today announced the closing of its $5.55 million seed funding round led by…
DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How
Members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who were working at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) used artificial intelligence to…
Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order
Anthropic says it’s disabling two AI models it launched earlier this week, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to comply with an export control directive…
Bill Gurley, Jack Altman back startup Pursuit, which helps companies sell to government |
Mike Vichich grew up in Michigan. His family, he recalls, dedicated their lives to public service. His parents were teachers, his uncle a fighter pilot,…
UK government says 100 countries have spyware that can hack people's phones |
More than half of the world’s governments have access to commercial spyware that can break into computers and phones to steal sensitive information, according to…