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AWS WAF Gives Publishers a Way to Charge AI Bots at the Edge
AWS WAF now lets CloudFront publishers charge AI bots and agents per request using HTTP 402, x402 payments, Coinbase settlement, and stablecoins. The launch turns AI crawler access into an edge-security and machine-payments problem.
SearchLeak Shows How Microsoft 365 Copilot Search Can Become a Data Leak
Varonis disclosed SearchLeak, a patched Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search vulnerability chain that could turn one trusted-looking Microsoft link into a path for stealing emails, files, calendar data, and MFA codes.
Dream’s $260M Round Turns Sovereign AI Into Cyber Infrastructure
Dream raised $260 million at a $3 billion valuation for sovereign AI and cyber defense systems built for governments. The deal shows how national AI infrastructure and critical-infrastructure security are becoming the same market.
SandboxAQ’s $500M CHIPS Award Moves AI Into Chip Materials
The Commerce Department awarded SandboxAQ $500 million to use physics-based AI for semiconductor materials discovery. The target is not a new chip, but the chemicals, magnets, catalysts, and backup-power systems that fabs need to run.
Microsoft AutoJack Research Shows How AI Browsing Agents Can Break Localhost Trust
Microsoft’s AutoJack research shows how an AI browsing agent could turn a malicious webpage into a local remote-code-execution path through AutoGen Studio’s MCP WebSocket surface. The specific issue was fixed before a PyPI release, but the localhost trust problem is bigger than one tool.
Google DeepMind’s AI Control Roadmap Treats Agents Like Insider Threats
Google DeepMind released an AI Control Roadmap for securing powerful internal AI agents. The plan borrows from cybersecurity, maps rogue-agent tactics to a MITRE ATT&CK-style taxonomy, and lays out detection and response tiers for systems that may soon act faster than human reviewers can supervise.
OpenAI o3 Helps Doctors Revisit Rare Disease Cases in NEJM AI Study
Researchers at Boston Children’s, Harvard, and OpenAI used o3 Deep Research to reanalyze 376 previously unsolved rare disease cases. The model surfaced evidence-linked leads that helped specialists confirm 18 diagnoses, but the study is careful about what AI did and did not decide.
Accenture’s Dragos Deal Puts OT Security on an AI Threat Clock
Accenture agreed to take a majority stake in Dragos and buy runZero and NetRise, creating a $4.175 billion bet on operational technology security as AI and geopolitical risk push industrial systems onto the cybersecurity agenda.
Microsoft MDASH Moves AI Bug Hunting Into Real Security Workflows
Microsoft says its MDASH agentic security system is now being used across Windows, Azure, and identity workflows, with new findings in Hyper-V, HTTP.sys, the Windows kernel, and Active Directory. The update shows AI vulnerability discovery moving from benchmark claims toward real engineering pipelines, while proof generation remains the hard part.
Security Leaders Say the Fable 5 Ban Could Hurt Cyber Defense
An open letter from cybersecurity leaders asks the U.S. government to lift export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5, arguing that the disputed capability overlaps with normal defensive bug fixing and should be handled through transparent AI risk reviews.