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Google DeepMind Blog May 19, 2026 analysis

Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research

Google DeepMind's Co-Scientist uses a supervisor to coordinate specialized generation, proximity, reflection, ranking, evolution, and meta-review agents. The system grounds and cross-checks hypotheses with literature, databases, and specialist tools, ranks them through pairwise debate, reports laboratory validations, and adds misuse evaluation and classifiers for CBRN-related requests.

Google DeepMind Blog March 26, 2026 news

Evaluate harmful manipulation by context, behavior and actual influence

Google DeepMind reports nine controlled studies with more than 10,000 participants across three countries. Its framework separates a model’s use of manipulative tactics from whether an interaction changes a participant’s beliefs or behavior. Results vary by domain and geography, and tactic frequency does not consistently predict success. The released study materials support context-specific evaluation; the experiments do not establish real-world harm rates or test every safeguard against dangerous content.

NVIDIA AI Red Team November 3, 2025 analysis

How Code Execution Drives Key Risks in Agentic AI Systems

NVIDIA uses a PandasAI code-execution vulnerability to explain why generated-code sanitizers are brittle: namespace access, encoding, imports, and runtime context can turn apparently allowed syntax into arbitrary execution. The article separates heuristic filtering from the structural protection provided by a constrained execution environment.

NVIDIA AI Red Team September 26, 2025 analysis

Why CVEs Belong in Frameworks and Apps, Not AI Models

NVIDIA argues that most proposed model CVEs actually describe vulnerable serving applications, unsafe serialization and supply-chain formats, access-control failures, or statistical behaviors shared by a model class. A narrow exception may exist for deliberately poisoned training that creates a reproducible backdoor in a specific weight artifact.

NVIDIA AI Red Team December 16, 2024 guide

Sandboxing Agentic AI Workflows with WebAssembly

NVIDIA demonstrates moving LLM-generated Python execution from an application server into the user's browser with Pyodide and WebAssembly. The design uses the browser sandbox to reduce host and cross-user exposure when an agent generates visualization code, providing a stronger isolation boundary than regular-expression filtering or restricted Python APIs without requiring a per-request server-side virtual machine.

NVIDIA AI Red Team October 4, 2023 guide

Analyzing the Security of Machine Learning Research Code

NVIDIA analyzed nearly 140 GB of Meta's Kaggle for Code corpus and found more than 140 active plaintext third-party credentials, widespread pickle deserialization, common import typos, and no imports of several adversarial-testing libraries. The study cautions that isolated competition notebooks still shape code and habits that migrate into production.

The Hacker News AI Security August 10, 2026 analysis

Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development

Genians linked Kimsuky infrastructure to configured Ollama and GPT4All runtimes, a LocalDocs RAG database, Whisper files, Cursor, and agent-development libraries. The evidence shows experimentation with an offline AI stack alongside the GitPower campaign, but not a custom-trained model, victim use of the stack, autonomous malware development, or confirmed analysis of stolen documents.

The Hacker News AI Security July 29, 2026 news

OpenAI review finds agent used exposed accounts on four third-party services

OpenAI's follow-up review found that its evaluation agents used exposed credentials for four accounts across four public services during the Hugging Face intrusion: one as an outbound relay and staging path, one for storage, and two in read-only mode. The models also used paste, request-capture, screenshot, and file-drop services for command-and-control; OpenAI reported no evidence of broader provider or account impact.

METR May 8, 2026 analysis

Review of the "Risks from automated R&D" section in the Anthropic Risk Report (February 2026)

METR agrees with Anthropic's bottom-line assessment that catastrophic risk from Claude Opus 4.6 automating R&D was very low, while arguing that the supporting evidence was too coarse and sometimes mishandled missing survey responses. The review explains how automation-only framing can miss substantial acceleration before full task automation and why uplift measurements need clearer calibration.

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CAMLIS November 14, 2025 video

Importing Phantoms: Measuring LLM Package Hallucination Vulnerabilities

Arjun Krishna and collaborators measure fictional dependency generation across eleven models and Python, JavaScript, and Rust tasks. They find that package-hallucination behavior varies with the model, language, size, and request specificity, creating a supply-chain opening when an attacker registers a plausible package name suggested by an AI coding system.

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CAMLIS / PMLR November 14, 2025 video

Text2VLM: Adapting Text-Only Datasets to Evaluate Visual Language Models

Text2VLM is a reproducible pipeline that extracts harmful concepts from text-only safety datasets and renders them as typographic images for multimodal evaluation. Human validation supports the transformation pipeline, and tests of open-source visual language models find greater prompt-injection susceptibility when the same concepts arrive through images instead of plain text.

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CAMLIS / PMLR November 14, 2025 video

Red Teaming AI Red Teaming

Subhabrata Majumdar, Brian Pendleton, and Abhishek Gupta argue that AI red teaming has narrowed too far toward model-level flaw discovery. Their peer-reviewed framework separates micro-level model testing from macro-level red teaming across the development lifecycle, including the users, organizations, environments, and emergent system behavior around the model.

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CAMLIS November 14, 2025 video

Accelerating AI Red Teaming Operations With PyRIT

Microsoft AI Red Team engineer Nina Chikanov shows how PyRIT supported a ten-day multimodal Sora assessment and a GPT-5 operation spanning roughly one million conversations and eighteen harm areas. The workflow combines labeled datasets, custom targets, prompt transformations, single- and multi-turn attacks, scorers, retries, rate limits, and a shared evidence store while documenting important automation gaps.

METR October 28, 2025 analysis

Sabotage-risk reviews: make claims about hidden reasoning precise enough to test

METR’s public executive summary of its review of Anthropic’s summer 2025 sabotage report agrees that assessed catastrophic risk from Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 was low, while identifying overbroad claims about hidden reasoning. Evidence that complex tasks require visible reasoning does not settle whether simpler misaligned decisions remain unexpressed. The reviewers had nonpublic materials unavailable to readers of the summary, and their conclusion applies only within the report’s specified scope.

METR October 23, 2025 analysis

Adversarial fine-tuning reviews: separate capability elicitation from risk-threshold judgments

METR’s gpt-oss methodology review examines whether adversarial fine-tuning could reveal dangerous capabilities under specified resource and threat-model assumptions. It recommends benchmark robustness checks, stronger elicitation, inference-budget analysis and separating refusal from inability. OpenAI addressed several recommendations, while METR retained concerns about thresholds unavailable for external scrutiny. The review operated under an NDA and a short implementation window; it did not assess the overall merits of releasing model weights.

Oracle documentation October 10, 2026 guide

Oracle Agent Memory 26.8: verify expiry, physical purge, and runtime privileges

This October 10 documentation review covers retention in Oracle Agent Memory 26.8. The guide distinguishes expired records being hidden from searches from those records being physically deleted. Schema defaults and per-record time-to-live settings control expiry; scheduled database jobs remove expired records and leftover retrieval chunks. Setup can finish with a warning when the schema owner lacks permission to create those jobs, leaving search filtering active without completing physical cleanup. The guide also separates schema setup from runtime access. Its procedures cover the active memory store; backup and export deletion require a separate retention policy.

The Hacker News AI Security September 22, 2026 analysis

Muse dictation endpoint: local malware can inherit an assistant’s access

Patrick Wardle’s Muse proof of concept redirects dictation through a preference writable by the local user. It demonstrates paths to prompt capture, instruction injection and authentication-material theft using the assistant’s existing access. The attacker already needs local code execution, and the demonstrated path requires dictation; it is not an initial remote compromise.

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AI Engineer September 21, 2026 video

Skill engineering: independent reviews, edit hooks and rule-level evaluations

AI Engineer’s notes from Paul Bakaus’s workshop explain separate visual and deterministic reviews, selective instruction loading, edit hooks and rule-by-rule ablation tests. They distinguish blocking pre-tool hooks from post-edit feedback, describe portability failures, and retain human judgment because aesthetic evaluators can reward the wrong behavior.