Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID
Anthropic may ask Claude users to verify their age and identity by uploading their government-issued documents, according to a new version of the company’s privacy policy. The AI giant says…
Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn’t work
Last Friday, citing unspecified national security concerns, the White House ordered Anthropic to restrict the export of its powerful AI models Fable and Mythos to anyone outside of the United…
Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
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Cybercriminals allegedly hacked tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies all over the world
Cybercriminals have compromised tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls and VPNs used by major companies all over the world, according to two cybersecurity firms. The widespread hacking campaign, which is…
EigenQ, which makes cybersecurity systems to protect from future attacks by quantum computers, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $3B valuation (Reuters)
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The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak
The U.S. government’s enforcement letter to Anthropic, which effectively forced the company to pull its latest AI models offline just before the weekend, should be a wake-up call for any…
Cybersecurity startup Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorgan Chase, and others launch Athena, a coalition to secure open-source software using AI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
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Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U.S. government asking it to lift the export…
SailPoint is acquiring Entro Security, which develops a cybersecurity platform for managing non-human identities, a source says in a deal valued at ~$200M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
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