Hugging Face Transformers 4.49.0 through 5.8.1 has a vulnerability where calling GenerativePreTrainedModel.load_custom_generate() fetches and caches remote Python module files before the user confirms trust_remote_code. Attacker-controlled custom_generate/generate.py code is written to the ~/.cache/huggingface/modules directory even if the user rejects the trust prompt. The execution step is still restricted by the trust check, but the file write is irreversible and persists across sessions, potentially causing unauthorized files persisted on disk, as well as cache conflicts leading to attacker code being executed in subsequent trusted model loads.
Why it was selected公告说明了写入发生在信任确认之前,使用 Transformers 加载自定义生成代码的团队可据此检查本地缓存是否残留未授权文件。
A GitHub security advisory discloses an SSRF vulnerability in the rmcp crate of modelcontextprotocol/rust-sdk, with the affected file being crates/rmcp/src/transport/auth.rs. Its OAuth client parses the absolute URL of resource_metadata= from the WWW-Authenticate header returned by the server and directly makes a GET request, without validating whether it is same-origin with the original MCP server or blocking loopback, link-local, RFC 1918 addresses, or cloud metadata endpoints. An attacker-controlled MCP server can return a 401 with a header pointing to internal addresses such as http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/, causing the victim application to probe cloud metadata, localhost services, private VPC or container network services, and internal HTTP APIs using its network context.
Why it was selected披露了 rmcp OAuth 客户端未校验 resource_metadata URL 导致的 SSRF,并给出同源校验与私网拦截的修复思路。
HCA, the largest U.S. hospital chain, has deployed Timpani, an AI scheduling tool developed with Palantir, in 130 of its approximately 190 facilities since 2023. Multiple nurses say it frequently ignores scheduling preferences, schedules too few or under-experienced nurses on days like Sundays, leading to understaffing and fatigue. HCA data shows Timpani schedules only 1% of nurse leave requests as workdays on average, but nurses say this almost never happened before. An HCA spokesperson said final scheduling decisions are made by nursing managers, not Timpani, and denied the tool reduces staffing at the expense of patient care.
Meta 证实已让四个月前从 AI 安全初创公司 Virtue AI 招入的员工离职,发言人 Andy Stone 将原因归结为工作方式不合。Stone 表示这一安排未能按计划推进,并称 Meta Superintelligence Labs 仍聚焦 AI 安全、对齐与前沿风险。Virtue AI 此前曾与 Anthropic、OpenAI 以及美国商务部 NIST 合作。Axios 六月报道称,Virtue AI 联合创始人 Bo Li、Dawn Song 和 Sanmi Koyejo 与该公司其他员工一同加入 Meta。该团队未立即回应置评请求。
Circuit Breaker Labs 打造了一支由 AI 智能体组成的“碰撞测试假人”队伍,模拟不同年龄、背景、语言和文化的用户,对模型进行红队测试,检测其能否识别危险、心理有害的对话。这些模拟会还原真实口语、俚语、隐语和错别字,每天运行数万到数十万次交互,再用专有评分方法给出可审计、可解释的分数。该实验室目前面向 AI 教练、日记和心理健康支持等高风险应用,团队仅 5 人,处于早期阶段。
PewDiePie released a local model Ajax, fine-tuned on Qwen 3.5 9B. He tried using distilled OpenAI model outputs as seed data and studied a paper on decrypting reasoning tokens. His account was banned twice; after appealing the ban, he ran it again and got banned.
The researchers audited OpenAI and Anthropic direct endpoints as well as downstream cloud aggregators such as AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Azure, and OpenRouter, and found that vendors' patches for inference trace extraction are fragmented and easily bypassed. Inference replay attacks remain intermittently effective on Azure against every OpenAI model (including GPT-6 Astra) and Anthropic models up to Sonnet 5, with a single decoding step recovering the trace verbatim; scratchpad attacks can still extract reasoning from all OpenAI models as well as Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5, with only Opus 5, Fable 5, and Fable 5.1 not exposing reasoning. The authors point out that downstream hosts suffer from patch propagation delays and policy drift, and that attackers do not need to bypass the primary vendor guardrails—they only need to route requests to downstream hosts that have not synchronized protections. They recommend not authorizing cloud hosts that cannot synchronously enforce inference trace confidentiality and tool-scope guardrails.
Why it was selected作者实测多家云聚合商上的推理轨迹提取,指出厂商补丁在下游存在传播延迟,可据此检查多云部署的防护一致性。
But as it turns out, you might not need the original reasoning traces at all...
Take a look at this interesting work, where we compared distillation based on original traces with other "reasoning substitutes" (including summaries).
I think this might actually be an instance of improved CoT controllability in a real-world scenario—the more the model notices it is "running out of budget," the more compressed its thinking becomes
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NeurIPS 2026! Let's go!! 🚀🚀
Very excited that our work on "Agent Security is a Systems Problem" was selected for an oral presentation.
🙌 Thanks to @EarlenceF @christodorescu @jhasomesh and others.
Google DeepMind releases SynthID Bio, bringing watermarking technology to synthetic biology by embedding imperceptible signatures directly into biological code, so the watermark can be verified both on digital models and on synthesized physical proteins while preserving their biological function. The method adapts its strategy by data type, fine-tuning amino acid choices for sequences and adjusting atomic coordinates for predicted 3D structures. In experiments with AlphaProteo and the SynthID Bio version of ProteinMPNN, watermarked designs for three targets—VEGF-A, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein RBD, and PD-L1—matched the unwatermarked versions in hit rate, binding affinity, and sequence diversity. The authors say these are the first watermarked protein binders with biological function.
When @JieZhang_ETH proposed this project, I joked that I knew the idea came from him rather than an LLM, because it was too quirky.
That's a compliment!
When we are flooded with AI junk research, going off the beaten path and trying quirky things is more important than ever.