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Anthropic launches OSS Scanner offering free security scans to open-source projects: Anthropic launched OSS Scanner, a service that offers security scans for open-source projects. Projects that opt in will receive thorough, periodic security scans by Anthropic's strongest models at no cost. The scans aim to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities.

AI Security • The Verge AI

Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with business users: Google is bringing agentic AI to Gemini, starting with business users. The agent can plan and execute tasks across apps and systems, delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and has its own workplace identity with an email address.

AI products • TechCrunch AI

Anthropic Reports Financials and OpenAI Reportedly Delays Astra 6.1: Anthropic has reported a $42 billion net loss that includes a significant accounting twist alongside a potential IPO valuation above $2 trillion. Meanwhile, OpenAI is reportedly holding back its GPT-6.1 Astra model due to safety concerns, while Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet sees further capability jumps.

Artificial Intelligence • Wes Roth

New skill cascading attacks distribute malicious goals across AI agents: Researchers have introduced skill cascading attacks, a new threat paradigm targeting skill-based agent systems. The attack distributes a malicious objective across multiple skills so that each individual modification appears benign in isolation.

Security • arXiv