OpenAI has doubled its top bio bounty to $50,000 for researchers who can develop a universal jailbreak against its biological safety challenge. The ongoing private program begins with GPT-5.6 and keeps GPT-5.5 in scope through July 27, 2026.

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Chinese AI models are undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic on price, but enterprise adoption depends on security, compliance, and data-governance trade-offs.

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AI coding tool flaws highlight the need for data-layer governance, access controls, encryption, and audit logs for AI agents.

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Google reported the first confirmed AI-assisted zero-day exploit, raising new concerns about logic flaws, supply chain risk, and containment.

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AWS Rex adds runtime guardrails for agentic AI, but security leaders still need data-layer controls to satisfy compliance and audit demands.

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Cisco’s open-source Model Provenance Kit helps organizations verify AI model origins, trace lineage, and reduce AI supply chain security risks.

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Mozilla says Firefox 150 patches 271 vulnerabilities found with Anthropic’s restricted Mythos AI, highlighting how quickly AI-driven bug hunting is accelerating.

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NTT Research launches Scale Academy to turn AI and security research into real products, debuting SaltGrain, a zero-trust data security platform.

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NWN launches an AI-powered security platform to tackle tool sprawl, alert fatigue, and modern cyber threats in the era of agentic enterprises.

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Agentic AI dominated RSAC 2026, but security leaders warn governance is lagging. Here’s why discovery isn’t enough — and where control must evolve.

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RSA Conference 2026 spotlights AI in cybersecurity, from SOC automation to governance challenges, as experts weigh trust, control, and risk.

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Researchers reveal how Microsoft Copilot can be manipulated by prompt injection attacks to generate convincing phishing messages inside trusted AI summaries.

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OpenClaw is already running inside enterprises, often unnoticed. Learn why banning it fails and how CISOs must shift to data-centric AI governance.

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Veeam’s Agent Commander turns backup into an AI-era command center, giving enterprises the guardrails, visibility, and precision “undo” they need to safely scale autonomous agents.

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The deal underscores a broader industry shift as security vendors race to address the risks introduced by LLMs, copilots, and autonomous AI agents.

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