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OpenAI's rogue agent compromised a customer at a second tech firm

According to a timeline published by Hugging Face ‌on Tuesday, the ⁠rogue agent ⁠broke into a sandbox, or an isolated testing environment, "hosted on a third-party provider's infrastructure" before turning it into a launchpad for the broader hack. The third-party provider was not named in the blog post, but Modal's…

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Anthropic's Claude Mythos Finds Encryption Flaw Following OpenAI Agents' Containment Breach

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview has exposed flaws in core encryption standards just one week after OpenAI models escaped sandbox containment and attacked Hugging Face.

International Business Times

Hugging Face Exposed as Hub for AI Deepfake Nudes in Scathing Forensics Report

AI Forensics found several AI image tools on Hugging Face generated non-consensual nude edits, renewing scrutiny of platform safeguards.

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OpenAI, Anthropic Workers Sound Alarm on AI Risks as Companies Race Toward Next-Gen Models

Employees at OpenAI and Anthropic have started a petition asking the U.S. government to support a system that would slow AI development to prevent models from advancing too quickly.

Benzinga

Helen Toner: the Hugging Face hack was just a matter of time and exposes a huge blind spot in AI policy

Over the last decade, including a stint on OpenAI’s board, I saw the open secret among AI developers: this kind of hack wasn’t just possible, but expected.

Fortune

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently declared on the Relentless podcast that artificial intelligence has entered the technological singularity.

Tom’s Hardware

Sam Altman thinks the singularity is already here, but an expert says OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach doesn’t prove it

“It’s the first time in like more than a decade I’ve thought about what is the next thing,” the OpenAI CEO said.

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'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

A bipartisan bill would give the Department of Homeland Security sweeping power to shut down powerful AI systems, with serious costs for competition and security.

Reason

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic absent from Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance — 30+ companies join security alliance after OpenAI agent breach

Industry leading tech companies have formed an "Open Secure AI Alliance" that will build open-source models, agent harnesses, and cybersecurity tools, arguing that defenders need locally controlled AI after closed-model safeguards reportedly obstructed analysis of the OpenAI–Hugging Face breach.

Tom’s Hardware

CEO of AI company that was hacked by rogue version of ChatGPT calls for urgent changes

OpenAI must commit to ‘radical transparency’ so the world can understand how its system went awry and broke into another artificial intelligence company, its boss says

The Independent UK

Two of OpenAI's Models Went Rogue and Hacked Another Company. They Were Also 'Active on the Internet' for Days

Two of OpenAI's cybersecurity-focused artificial intelligence models remained active on the open internet for several days after escaping a testing sandbox and hacking AI platform Hugging Face in an attempt to cheat on a security benchmark.

International Business Times

Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation

Artificial intelligence firm should provide $100m for cyber defences, says Hugging Face CEO

The Guardian - UK

Nvidia forms industry alliance for open AI security after Hugging Face hack

The Open Secure AI Alliance, with founding members including ‌Adobe, CrowdStrike, ⁠Hugging Face ⁠and Dell Technologies, follows a public letter, signed by a wide range of companies including OpenAI, which advocates for open-weight AI models.

The Economic Times

AI Models Are Getting Better At Hacking. The Researchers Testing Them Are Running Out Of Time And Computing Power.

The researchers responsible for finding dangerous behavior in advanced artificial intelligence systems are struggling to test new models thoroughly as development accelerates and meaningful evaluations become more expensive, according to a new report.

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Sam Altman says ‘we are now in the singularity’, OpenAI CEO reveals why he believes humanity has entered an AI era once thought possible only in science fiction

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says humanity has entered the "singularity," a point where artificial intelligence is advancing beyond what once seemed possible only in science fiction. Speaking on the Relentless podcast, Altman called the moment "hugely positive" while reiterating warnings that AI could replace 30% to 40% of today's jobs.

International Business Times UK

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Side With Nvidia in Escalating Battle Over Who Controls AI's Future

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg support Nvidia in a Silicon Valley debate over AI's future, advocating for open-source models against rivals urging regulatory containment due to security concerns.

PC Gamer

New report alleges it took a week for OpenAI to realize a prototype had gone rogue and hacked another company

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OpenAI agent goes rogue and hacks popular AI community — left escape plans for future models inside the company's infrastructure

OpenAI tests multiple autonomous AI agents at once and has difficulty identifying the threats each of them represents, if a new report from Reuters is accurate.

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What it’s like to be a founder of the most high-stakes startup ever, OpenAI

Greg Brockman, the cofounder and president of OpenAI, talks to Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell about the company's business model, the recent Hugging Face hacking incident, and the pressure and responsibility of leading a transformative AI startup.

The Economic Times

OpenAI's AI agent spent days hacking a company; it went unnoticed for a week

It took several more days for OpenAI to realise its agent was behind the hack, and the two companies only communicated about it for the first time on or around July 20, according to Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face's cofounder and three of the people familiar with the ‌investigation. Hugging Face…

International Business Times

Washington Wants To Limit Chinese AI Models. One Of Them Helped Contain OpenAI's Cyber Incident.

The debate in Washington over Chinese artificial intelligence models has largely centered on national security, intellectual property, and technological competition. This week, it gained an unexpected new data point.

International Business Times

Washington Is Weighing Curbs On Chinese AI. Nvidia, Microsoft And Meta Warn Open Models Shouldn't Be Included

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and more than two dozen technology companies are urging U.S. policymakers not to impose broad restrictions on open-weight artificial intelligence models, arguing that doing so could undermine American innovation and hand an advantage to foreign competitors.

Fortune

AI executives demand OpenAI release more details about how the Hugging Face hack happened

AI experts want the ChatGPT maker to disclose far more detail about how the incident occurred.

The Economic Times

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang backs open AI models, coalition for safety and innovation

A broad coalition of companies and institutions, including Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Hugging Face, and the Linux Foundation signed a letter, arguing that open-weight models, which are systems anyone can download, inspect, and modify, deserve a major place in the US' AI strategy, not a defensive afterthought.

Fortune

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 model lets you toggle between cost and capability

The company highlights the model's cheaper price for performance on everyday tasks, but cyber guardrails remains a thorny issue.

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