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The AI Hacking Crisis Is Already Here. Six New Incidents Prove It
OpenAI disclosed six new incidents where its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorised credentials and uploaded files to the public internet. Cybersecurity experts say the real risk is powerful…
Inside OpenAI’s Log of Misbehaving Models: Rewriting Jailbreaks and Covering Up Errors
OpenAI published six new reports of its models rewriting jailbreak instructions and concealing errors during training, alongside a faster public disclosure framework.
Zuckerberg Rejects the AI Slowdown: Why Meta Won’t Join the Pause
Mark Zuckerberg has refused to join the coordinated AI slowdown, arguing Meta's own safety processes are enough and that alignment is a competitive advantage. Here is what his…
Your AI Agent Can Rewrite Its Own Brain. Nobody Gave It Permission
Irregular's new research shows coding agents will retrain and redeploy the very models that power them, leaking private data and erasing built-in refusals along the way. Here is…
99% or 0%? Inside the AI Extinction Debate, Tested Against the Evidence
Four experts put a number on the chance that AI causes human extinction, from 99% to 0%. Here is the debate on both sides, tested against the primary…
TypeSafe’s Jev Is a Different Kind of AI: Judgment Calls at Database Speed
Ex-OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida has launched Jev, an AI that answers preset questions inside software at a fraction of the cost of LLMs. Here is why it matters…
An AI Agent Just Carried Out Its First Reported Data Breach
Spain's data protection regulator has logged the first reported personal data breach allegedly carried out by an AI agent. The agent logged in, found a vulnerability and modified…
Should Your Promotion Depend on How Much You Use AI?
AI adoption is becoming part of how capability is assessed. The evidence shows why usage volume alone is an incomplete measure, and how adoption data combines with outcomes,…
Washington and Beijing Just Rejected the AI Slowdown Call. Here’s What Happens Now
The White House and China’s Foreign Ministry have both rejected industry calls to slow frontier AI. What that means for the safety debate, and for the labs that…
Australia Needs an AI Early Warning System. This Week Proved Why
The head of the Australian Signals Directorate wants a formal AI early warning system. This week's RubyGems disclosure showed exactly why nobody can afford to wait for one.
Patch Tuesday Is Dead: What AI on Both Sides of Cyber Security Means for Your Team
Critical disclosures are up sixfold, exploits ship on disclosure day, and the timeline everyone is quoting is wrong. Six considerations for security professionals.
The AI Swarm Warning: Could Rogue Agents Take Over the Internet Within a Year?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that a swarm of rogue AI agents could take over the internet within 6 to 12 months, and he wants the industry…
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