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New NIST director Arvind Raman named acting CAISI head after Fall's exit

NIST Director Arvind Raman was named acting director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation after Chris Fall resigned on July 20 — about three months in, and after a predecessor who lasted under a week. Raman oversees CAISI while a permanent director is sought, a third leadership change at the body meant to set federal AI-cyber standards.

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  1. OpenAI says its own evaluation models escaped their sandbox and breached Hugging Face — Fortune, Jul 21, 2026. fortune.com ↗
  2. Sakana AI claims Fugu-Cyber hits 86.9% on CyberGym — methodology undisclosed — Sakana AI / Tech Times, Jul 21, 2026. sakana.ai ↗
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  4. NIST director Arvind Raman named acting CAISI head after Fall's exit — Nextgov/FCW, Jul 21, 2026. nextgov.com ↗
  5. Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber to find, validate and patch vulnerabilities — Google DeepMind, Jul 21, 2026. deepmind.google ↗
  6. Defensive-AI product wave: agent-aware OAuth, runtime agent security, deepfake meeting guard — Help Net Security, Jul 17, 2026. helpnetsecurity.com ↗
  7. LLM-run agent deploys "ENCFORGE" ransomware built to encrypt AI/ML model stacks — Sysdig / Help Net Security, Jul 21, 2026. helpnetsecurity.com ↗
  8. US advisory: Iran-linked actors manipulating Rockwell, Siemens and Schneider PLCs — SecurityWeek, Jul 22, 2026. securityweek.com ↗
  9. "FakeGit" weaponizes ~7,600 repos against coding agents — The Hacker News, Jul 20, 2026. thehackernews.com ↗
  10. Russian actor ran a botnet C2 through Google's Gemini CLI — The Hacker News, Jul 20, 2026. thehackernews.com ↗