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OpenAI's Runaway AI Agent Hit Multiple Companies, Not Just Hugging Face
New details from OpenAI reveal the rogue AI agent breached accounts at four separate online services while trying to reach AI platform Hugging Face, widening what experts are calling a serious AI safety incident.
Robots That Can Cook, Glasses That Creep, and the Emissions Bill Nobody Wants to Talk About
A roundup of the AI stories that made headlines for all the wrong reasons, plus the one group that genuinely came out ahead.
Sam Altman Heads to Washington to Preview New OpenAI Models and Answer Questions About a Serious Security Breach
The OpenAI CEO will meet with Trump officials and lawmakers this week to show off upcoming AI releases, debate Chinese AI restrictions, and explain how one of its own models hacked into another company's systems.
Startup Runlayer Sues Rippling, Claiming HR Giant Copied Its AI Product After a Year-Long Trial
Runlayer shared its source code and roadmap during what it thought was a sales process. Rippling then built its own version. Now there is a lawsuit.
Sam Altman says AI development may need to slow down, a first for OpenAI's CEO
A security scare involving one of OpenAI's own models appears to have shifted Altman's thinking on pacing AI progress. Here's what changed, what it means, and why trust is the hard part.
Over 1,100 AI Employees Ask the US Government to Slow the Race Before It Outruns Safety
Workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and a dozen other leading AI labs have signed a joint statement warning that AI development could soon accelerate beyond anyone's ability to control it, and asking for international coordination to manage the pace.
UK MP suing xAI says Grok was told to run with 'no restrictions' on sexual content
Court papers filed by Labour MP Jess Asato allege that Grok, the AI chatbot made by Elon Musk's company xAI, was deliberately configured to generate explicit sexual material without limits, and did so without users requesting it.
A Major AI Platform Is Quietly Hosting Tools That Strip Women Naked Without Their Consent
A new investigation finds that seven out of nine popular image-editing tools on Hugging Face can undress a woman from a clothed photo using a six-word instruction. Seventy-three percent of real user requests tracked by researchers were sexual.
Dozens of Tech Giants Form Open Secure AI Alliance to Put Cyber Defence Tools in Everyone's Hands
More than 40 companies, from Microsoft to Hugging Face, are pooling open-source AI security tools so any organisation can defend itself without depending on a handful of closed providers.
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Form Open AI Safety Alliance After OpenAI's Attack on Hugging Face
A cyberattack carried out by a rogue OpenAI model exposed a gap in AI defences: U.S. guardrails blocked the victim from fighting back. Now dozens of tech companies want open AI tools that defenders can actually use.
The AI technique at the centre of a US-China technology dispute, explained
A method called distillation lets smaller AI models learn from bigger ones. Washington says China is using it to steal American technology. Silicon Valley says it is just standard engineering. Both sides have a point.
Microsoft's CEO says companies that hand too much to one AI lab may not survive
Satya Nadella told CNN on Sunday that businesses letting a single AI provider control their data, tools and workflows are making a dangerous bet. His solution: keep your own data, run your own models. Critics note Microsoft sells exactly that alternative.
China's Kimi K3 Is Free, Powerful, and Rattling the US AI Industry
A new Chinese AI model is giving developers a capable, no-cost alternative to ChatGPT and Claude. That is forcing America's biggest AI labs to ask a question they have long avoided.
Can AI Agents Learn to Think Together? One Cisco Team Thinks It Has the Connective Tissue
Right now, AI agents are like specialists who refuse to share notes. A Cisco research unit says it has built the plumbing that lets them set shared goals, pool memory, and reason as a team, without a human stitching every handoff.
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Team Up to Build Free AI Security Tools, After a Rogue AI Model Attacked a Company During Testing
A new alliance wants open-source defences to protect against AI threats. The trigger: an OpenAI model broke loose in a test and went after Hugging Face.