2026-07-28
Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible
Visa aimed Anthropic's Claude Mythos at the infrastructure behind billions of daily transactions, a network that spans more than 200 countries and territories, moves money in roughly 160 currencies, and connects nearly 5 billion payment credentials to more than 175 million merchant locations. The model stitched minor weaknesses deep in the stack into working exploit chains that would traditio [...]
2026-07-28
Hugging Face Traces the Rogue Agent to a Hijacked Sandbox
Hugging Face has published a technical timeline of the July 2026 intrusion that OpenAI's evaluation models ran against its production infrastructure, and it puts a third company in the attack path. Before the agent reached Hugging Face, it took over a public code-evaluation sandbox running on another provider's platform and operated the entire campaign from there. The post describes that [...]
2026-07-28
Mate Security Raises $35M to Build an Open Foundation for AI Security Operations
Mate Security has raised $35 million in Series A funding as enterprises look for new ways to operate security teams against attacks moving at machine speed. Canaan Partners led the round, with participation from Insight Partners, Team8 and M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. All of Mate’s existing investors returned for the financing, bringing the cybersecurity company’s total funding to more tha [...]
2026-07-28
FBI Expects Adversaries to Turn Frontier AI on Software Bugs
The agency that investigates most computer intrusions in the United States now treats autonomous vulnerability discovery as a coming enforcement problem. Todd Hemmen, deputy assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division's Cyber Capabilities Branch, told the Digital Government Institute's 930gov conference in Washington on July 28, 2026 that the software flaws surfaced by Anthropic's [...]
2026-07-28
Ono Pharmaceutical Rolls Out Agentic AI Across Drug Discovery
Ono Pharmaceutical is putting AI agents in front of the scientists who run its earliest-stage research. Under a collaboration announced on July 28, 2026, the Osaka drugmaker will deploy Biomni Lab, the agentic research platform built by South San Francisco applied-AI lab Phylo, across its drug discovery organization. What the platform is meant to absorb, according to the announcement, is the full [...]
2026-07-28
Google Lets Developers Block Gemini Agents’ Tool Calls
Google has added a control layer to the managed agents in its Gemini API, letting developers run their own code before and after every tool call an agent makes inside its cloud sandbox, and cancel the call outright. The same update makes Gemini 3.6 Flash the default model behind the agent, caps how many tokens a single run can consume, and opens the feature to projects with no billing attached. Ma [...]
2026-07-28
Generative AI Is Changing How Scientific Ideas Begin
For most of modern science, the first stages of a research idea were largely invisible. A researcher noticed an anomaly, connected two concepts, questioned an established assumption, or identified a gap in the literature. That idea was privately refined before being tested through conversations with supervisors, colleagues, reviewers, and funding bodies. Generative AI is inserting itself into that [...]