When AI models refuse to fight hackers

In the race to fend off AI-enabled cyber threats, security teams are confronting a new problem: The AI models they rely on to investigate attacks can suddenly refuse to help. Why it matters: While AI giants race to build AI tools that can respond quickly to hacking or other malicious online threats, strict guardrails on their most powerful models lock out defenders mid-investigation, leaving them scrambling for alternatives at critical moments. What's happening: OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, said it was compromised over the weekend, allowing attackers to obtain API keys belonging t