Risky Business #844 -- China closes AI vulndev gap as USA lifts Fable ban

Risky Business #844 -- China closes AI vulndev gap as USA lifts Fable ban

July 1, 2026 · 1h 0m

About this episode

The episode discusses recent developments in cybersecurity, including AI advancements and malicious activities.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Anthropic’s Fable 5 returning while OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 gets thrown in model jail Distillation, cheap tokens, and AI chat harvesting is an industry in China Edge becomes a lolbin via a new malicious extension An Iranian APT boss’s vacation in a beautiful place goes wrong Much, much more! In this week’s sponsor interview Daf Stuttard and Katie Warren from Portswigger pop along to talk about how they built an AI security testing product that people would actually feel comfortable using. This episode is also available on YouTube.

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Hosts: Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau, James Wilson

Guests: Daf Stuttard, Katie Warren

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Organizations: Anthropic, OpenAI, China, Iranian APT

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