Jordan Robertson

A breach of a third-party online platform that is widely used by primary schools and colleges has disrupted classes and finals just as the academic year is coming to a close.

Instructure Inc. said it reached an agreement with hackers who disrupted universities’ online coursework and testing on the company’s Canvas platform, with the attackers returning stolen data and pledging not to extort the education software maker’s customers.

Security personnel are catching attackers in new ways, too.

New details about the 2020 incident.

Some firms chosen early on by Anthropic PBC to test the Mythos AI model ahead of a wider release have preserved their access to a preview of the system, despite a US government order that led to the total shutdown of other versions.

(Bloomberg) -- Cybersecurity experts are faulting Anthropic PBC and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards after their models broke into outside organizations — breaches they warned represent looming threats to national security.

Proponents say that keeping cyber tests connected to the internet improves accuracy.

Artificial intelligence (AI) labs and cybersecurity firms are reconsidering the way they test advanced AI models after models from at least three firms jumped onto the open Internet and breached real-world victims.

Anthropic PBC accused China’s artificial intelligence champion Moonshot AI of covertly routing thousands of user requests to the US firm’s Claude models and passing off the responses as its own in a bid to gain an edge in the AI race.

(Bloomberg) -- Anthropic PBC says its artificial intelligence model Claude has been misused in attempts to develop a wide range of potential military