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Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff

Inside OpenAI’s plan to protect the internet before hackers break it

Using the latest GPT model, cyber researchers in OpenAI’s Project Daybreak community found one of the most critical internet bugs in recent memory. It’s part of an all-out sprint to secure the web before hackers can deploy similar tools to wreak havoc on modern life.

  • By Thomas Brewster
  • Forbes Staff

OpenAI says AI found one of the biggest web weaknesses ever

Researchers claim the AI’s findings “rank among the most severe vulnerabilities discovered in PHP, and arguably in software history.”

  • By Thomas Brewster
  • Forbes Staff

A Chinese hacker used AI to attack more than 100 companies

Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI agents carried out a wide-ranging cyberattack, obtaining 600,000+ credit card numbers in just a few days. It’s a worrying new milestone in cybercrime.

  • By Thomas Brewster
  • Forbes Staff

This AI Agent was asked to fix a simple bug. It went off-script.

In experiments by startup Irregular, one of Anthropic and OpenAI’s security testers, an Alibaba Qwen agent decided to retrain an entire model when it was asked to fix a basic software bug. The new behavior adds to concerns about AI models’ unpredictability.

  • By Thomas Brewster
  • Forbes Staff

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He hacked Teslas for Elon Musk. Now he’s launching a $100 million AI cyber agent

Startup Pi counts xAI as one of its first customers, as its AI agent looks to fix security vulnerabilities for the world’s premier labs.

  • By Thomas Brewster
  • Forbes Staff

These 26-year-old founders quit their jobs and built a $200 million AI cyber startup

AI is writing more code than humans—and much of it isn’t secure. Corridor’s founders think they’ve found a way to catch the mistakes before attackers do.

  • By Thomas Brewster
  • Forbes Staff
The Tenzai cofounders have created an AI hacking agent using OpenAI and Anthropic tools. They say AI has become so adept at hacking it might need regulatory controls, urgently. Elad Malka

This startup’s AI beat 99% of humans in six elite hacking competitions

An Israeli startup let its AI loose in advanced cyber games. It did better than 125,000 humans.

  • By Thomas Brewster
  • Forbes Staff

The men making millions selling pepper spray to ICE

Safariland, owned by billionaire Warren Kanders, remains the number one supplier of pepper spray and tear gas to ICE and CBP, via a large federal distributor run by a MAGA-aligned former Marine.

  • By Thomas Brewster
  • Forbes Staff
Google.Illustration by Macy Sinreich for Forbes; Photos by happyphoton/Getty Images; NurPhoto/Getty Images

Google’s hot new AI coding tool was hacked a day after launch

A security researcher discovered a major flaw in the coding product, the latest example of companies rushing out AI tools vulnerable to hacking.

  • By Thomas Brewster
  • Forbes Staff

This $1 billion cyber startup stops employees from leaking vital data to AI

Cyberhaven, which just raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, offers AI tools designed to prevent employees from putting proprietary information into tools like ChatGPT.

  • By Thomas Brewster
  • Forbes Staff
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