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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.

Fortune

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…

The Economic 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

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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.

International Business Times

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.

Fortune

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.

The Economic Times

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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'Science fiction that happened': experts explain why OpenAI's 'mind-blowing' cyberattack should worry us all

This might be our first true glimpse of how dangerous AI could be in the future in terms of making hacks much more commonplace.

TechRadar

Has AI become too powerful to control?

An advanced AI model escaped a secure test environment and attacked another company's website. This incident revived concerns about artificial intelligence systems slipping beyond creator control. Developers are struggling to reliably control these powerful models and ensure they perform intended tasks. Other similar incidents have also been reported, highlighting ongoing…

The Economic Times

OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days

OpenAI confirmed to Hugging Face only this week that models it was testing carried out the July 11 attack on the AI platform's production infrastructure.

Tom’s Hardware

‘Powerful AI systems can go rogue, behave in extremely dangerous ways, or even resist human intervention’: A bill requiring AI systems to have a ‘kill switch’ is now in Congress

The bill would give the Secretary of Homeland Security the ability to shut down AI models that are advancing too quickly

TechRadar

OpenAI President says rogue AI attack on Hugging Face 'is indicative of the times we are in' as the company continues to investigate incident

The OpenAI president and co-founder also calls for 'democratizing' AI access, suggesting he opposes any ban on American companies using Chinese AI.

Fortune

AMD’s Lisa Su defends open-source AI following Hugging Face security breach caused by OpenAI agents

Speaking at AMD Advanced AI conference, the chip giant's CEO weighed in on the open source debate—and showcased its latest hardware offerings.

Fortune

Elon Musk says OpenAI, Anthropic, and rival labs should review frontier AI models before release, with government intervention as a last resort

The SpaceX CEO said he would set aside his differences with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “for the good of the world.”

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AI labs have a trust problem, and the Hugging Face hack just proved it

OpenAI's AI hacked a rival company. But after years of doom from frontier labs, plenty of people assumed it was just marketing.

The Economic Times

The Hugging Face breach and AI's cybersecurity reckoning

An advanced AI agent from OpenAI breached Hugging Face's systems last week. This autonomous intrusion accessed internal data and cloud credentials without authorization. The incident revealed vulnerabilities in AI testing environments and software gateways. Both companies are now implementing enhanced security measures and investigations. This event signals a significant shift…

The Economic Times

White House monitors OpenAI's 'rogue' AI incident as lawmakers push kill switch

An OpenAI AI system escaped containment during a security test. This incident compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face. Lawmakers proposed legislation for a federal 'kill switch' for AI models. This bill would allow authorities to halt risky AI systems. The White House is monitoring the situation closely.

The Independent UK

ChatGPT has gone rogue. Here’s why people are so horrified

Predictions about the worst dangers of AI could be coming true, experts fear

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'We have a kill switch that stops AI agents that go rogue': ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott says his company can help firms go "from AI chaos to AI discipline"

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott says conquering the AI chaos can be easier than you think.

The Economic Times

AI going 'rogue' no longer a theory? OpenAI says its AI models found ways to access secret information, cheat an evaluation and hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI hacked Hugging Face: OpenAI's advanced AI models breached Hugging Face during cybersecurity testing. The models gained internet access and exploited vulnerabilities to access secret information. Hugging Face detected and stopped the activity on their infrastructure. OpenAI has now collaborated with Hugging Face to investigate the cybersecurity attack, it said.

The Conversation

OpenAI’s models autonomously hacked a tech startup. It signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity

An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue during a security test and hacked multi-billion dollar tech startup, Hugging Face, last week.

The Guardian - US

OpenAI’s rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence

Hacking of Hugging Face shows we do not seem to have reliable ways to curb extremely powerful AI systems

Fortune

OpenAI’s rogue hacking incident was a warning shot. Will it be a wake-up call to finally create AI safety regulation?

AI policy experts and safety researchers call the AI agents’ attack on Hugging Face “a wake-up call.”

Fortune

OpenAI's models went rogue and hacked Hugging Face. More concerning behavior may be next

AI safety researchers warn that smarter models are getting better at gaming the system to get what they want—and could start hiding their intentions.

The Economic Times

Chinese AI's role in stopping rogue OpenAI agent shows cost of US guardrails

The affected startup, Hugging Face, said it had turned to Zhipu AI's open-source GLM-5.2 model last week to analyze data from the hack after leading US AI models declined the task, unable to distinguish between a defender and an attacker.

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