Tech giant added language to contract to say its AI wasn’t intended for domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.
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TGS Awards Hyperscale Cloud Migration Contract to Tape Ark
TGS, a global provider of subsurface data and energy intelligence, has awarded a contract to Tape Ark to migrate approximately 40 petabytes of seismic and subsurface data into a cloud environment. The program represents one of the largest cloud-migration initiatives of its kind within the energy sector.
Exploits, Global Security News
Maryland Man Charged Over $53m Uranium Finance Crypto Hack
Maryland man accused of $53m Uranium Finance hack, exploited smart contract flaws, laundered funds
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Smashing Security podcast #460: Never knock on the door of a nuclear submarine base and ask for a selfie
A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin – signing his extortion emails from a company called “Loot.” Meanwhile, two people drive up to the entrance of the UK’s nuclear submarine base at Faslane and politely…
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Never knock on the door of a nuclear submarine base and ask for a selfie
A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin – signing his extortion emails from a company called “Loot.” Meanwhile, two people drive up to the entrance of the UK’s nuclear submarine base at Faslane and politely…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Risk Management
OpenAI robotics chief quits over Pentagon deal
OpenAI’s head of robotics, Caitlin Kalinowski, has resigned over the company’s contract with the US Department of War, saying key safeguards around domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons were not adequately reviewed before the agreement was signed. “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than…
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OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
OpenAI claims it has accomplished what Anthropic couldn’t: securing a Pentagon contract that won’t cross professed red lines against dragnet domestic spying and the use of artificial intelligence to order lethal military strikes. Just don’t expect any proof. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, announced the company’s big win with the Defense Department in a post on…
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 doubles down on safety as competition heats up
In the midst of recent developments and controversies surrounding a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, OpenAI released the GPT-5.4 model. The release comes at a time when users are reportedly leaving ChatGPT for rival chatbots, particularly Anthropic’s Claude. GPT-5.4 is rolling out gradually across ChatGPT and Codex and is available through the API…
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Anthropic seeks to renegotiate its AI deal with US DoD, says report
Anthropic is attempting to renegotiate the terms of its AI contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD). CEO Dario Amodei has been in meetings with Emil Michael, the US under-secretary of defense for research and engineering, to iron out contractual disagreements that led the DoD to mark Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, the Financial…
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Firmus signs multi-year agreement with global hyperscale customer
Firmus Technologies (“Firmus”) has signed a long-term contract with aleading global technology company for dedicated AI infrastructure capacity at Project Southgate’s first deployment in Australia.
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Firmus signs multi-year agreement with global hyperscale customer
Firmus Technologies (“Firmus”) has signed a long-term contract with a leading global technology company for dedicated AI infrastructure capacity at Project Southgate’s first deployment in Australia.
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
Why Intelligent Contract Solutions Are Replacing Traditional CLM Systems
Intelligent contract solutions replace traditional CLM by adding AI analysis, benchmarking, and risk insights that speed reviews, reduce delays, and improve decisions.
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CredShields Leads OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026 as Governance and Access Failures Drive Onchain Risk
CredShields announces that the OWASP Smart Contract Security Project has officially released the OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026, a risk prioritization framework derived from structured analysis of 2025 smart contract incidents representing hundreds of millions in contract related losses. CredShields, supported by its exploit intelligence platforms including SolidityScan and Web3HackHub, led the structured incident…
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Open-source benchmark EVMbench tests how well AI agents handle smart contract exploits
Smart contract exploits continue to drain funds from blockchain projects, even as auditing tools and bug bounty programs grow. The problem is tied to how Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) contracts work: code is deployed permanently, runs autonomously, and often controls large pools of assets. That environment has created demand for better ways to measure whether…
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News alert: CredShields research informs OWASP’s 2026 ‘Smart Contract Security Priorities Project’
SINGAPORE, Feb. 17th, 2026, CyberNewswire — The OWASP Smart Contract Security Project has released the OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026, a risk prioritization framework developed from structured analysis of real world exploit data observed across blockchain ecosystems in 2025. Crypto protocols continued to experience significant smart contract failures in 2025, with exploit patterns increasingly pointing…