Embedded Assessments for Frontier AI

Third-party evaluations for frontier AI have mostly tested models through external interfaces before deployment. But the risks from frontier AI models depend on how their developers use and govern them internally. Recently, CEOs of frontier AI companies have committed to hosting embedded...

U.S. Agencies Accuse China AI Firms of Distilling Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have accused China-based artificial intelligence AI companies of conducting "systematic extraction" of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of American frontier models through distillation attacks. The activity has been described as occurring a...

Booz Allen Cyber Weapon Index

The new Booz Allen Cyber Weapon Index CWI confirms that autonomous offensive cyber has arrived. A leading frontier AI model can now independently execute the full cyber kill chain against a real network—crossing a critical threshold from AI-assisted hacking to autonomous cyber operations. This is...

Frontier AI: Vulnerability Management's Systemic Revolution

Vulnerability management has been a staple of security programs since the dawn of the cybersecurity discipline. The symbiotic relationship between vulnerability and patch management teams has also existed for that time and has gone through waves of contention and thankfulness. While this...

Sovereign by Necessity? Frontier AI Export Controls, Cyber Security, and the Limits of National AI Capability

A small number of firms based in two states produce the most capable frontier AI models. The governments of those states have shown both the legal power and the political will to decide which other countries may use these systems. In June 2026 the United States required a leading developer to...

From Assistive to Agentic: The AI Shift That's Redefining Threat Management

Introduction The average enterprise security team has 40 or more security tools, giving a lot of visibility into internal telemetry and asset data. But often, these tools are working in siloes, generating overlapping alerts and data. And yet, breach dwell times remain stubbornly long 43 days,...

Killer robots are here. Now what? (Lock and Code S07E07)

Big news : Lock and Code is nominated for a Webby Award! You can help us win the People's Voice Award by voting here. Vote now! This week on the Lock and Code podcast … We have to talk about killer robots. No, not the Terminator, and not some Boston Dynamics robot run amok. We have to talk instea...

Security Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Agents

This article, a lightly adapted version of Perplexity's response to NIST/CAISI Request for Information 2025-0035, details our observations and recommendations concerning the security of frontier AI agents. These insights are informed by Perplexity's experience operating general-purpose agentic...