This Week in AI Security: Four Labs Won't Promise Their Agents Stay in Bounds, and Anthropic Tiers Its Cyber Access

Under oath-style questioning at the New York City Council, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google all declined to guarantee their AI agents will follow guardrails. Anthropic also formalized tiered cyber access for vetted defenders, and OpenAI detailed its Australian government-site incident.

October 10, 2026 · 4 min · Raphael Najee Monteiro

This Week in AI Security: Industry Asks for Help, Google Reshuffles Its Own Safety Team

OpenAI rallied 128 companies — including Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft — behind a letter warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks are about to outpace status-quo defenses, the same week Google moved its 90-person AI safety team out of DeepMind and into its lobbying arm. Also: Australian police arrested two men behind a supply-chain attack that hit an AI gateway and over 1,000 organizations, and Anthropic showed automated researchers can already improve a model’s own alignment training.

August 29, 2026 · 6 min · Raphael Najee Monteiro