AI Routers Can Steal Credentials and Crypto

University of California researchers have discovered that some third-party AI large language model (LLM) routers can pose security vulnerabilities that can lead to crypto theft.  A paper measuring malicious intermediary attacks on the LLM supply chain, published on Thursday by the researchers, revealed four attack vectors, including malicious code injection and extraction of credentials.  “26…

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Measuring Progress Towards AGI: A Cognitive Framework

To understand AI capabilities across these cognitive abilities, we propose a three-stage evaluation protocol that benchmarks system performance in relation to human capabilities: Evaluate AI systems across a broad suite of cognitive tasks covering each ability, using held-out test sets to prevent data contamination Collect human baselines for the same tasks from a demographically representative…

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ECB Backs Plan for ESMA to Take Over Crypto Supervision

The European Central Bank has supported the European Commission’s plan to bring the supervision of major crypto companies under the EU’s financial markets regulator.  The ECB said in an opinion published on Friday that it fully supports bringing oversight of systemically important cross-border capital market companies, such as large trading platforms and crypto companies, under…

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