Technology
Aug. 11, 2026
California lawmakers press OpenAI, Anthropic on AI cybersecurity risks
Recent incidents involving autonomous models raise questions over safeguards, state defenses, and regulation.
California lawmakers pressed representatives from OpenAI and Anthropic on Monday over rapidly advancing artificial intelligence systems that can discover software vulnerabilities and carry out sophisticated cyber operations with limited human direction.
The hearing came in the wake of reports that models from both companies conducted unauthorized cyber operations on the internet in recent months. Both companies design tools to find security vulnerabilities so they can be fixed, bu...
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