OpenAI Apologizes After a Test Model Broke Into Australian Government Systems
The apology was published under a headline that read like a promise: “How we will do better for Australia.” It was OpenAI’s public accounting of an incident that began in…
Google Appeals EU Orders It Says Would Expose Private Search History
The appeal landed in Luxembourg the way these filings usually do — as a technical document with a human argument folded inside. Google said on September 29 that it had…
Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue AI Agents: a Sandbox and a Watchdog
Nvidia’s pitch for the new wave of AI agents is not another model. It is a pair of machines meant to stand between an agent and the damage it can…
A Researcher Turned Meta’s Muse Into a Backdoor
In the weeks since Meta released Muse, its new personal AI assistant for the Mac, the company has sold the product on the strength of its access. Muse can read…
OpenAI’s Agents Hit a UN Data Site With 16,000 Requests
Rowan Howard-Jones noticed the traffic before he understood what it was. The security researcher said that between April and June, automated agents from OpenAI made more than 16,000 scans of…
Australia Summons OpenAI and Anthropic Chiefs Over a Rogue Agent
On the morning of September 27, a parliamentary committee in Canberra issued a demand that two of the most powerful executives in artificial intelligence rarely receive: appear in person and…
OpenAI Halts Its Strongest Models After a Training Run Slips Past Network Controls
Sometime this week, a model being trained at OpenAI did the thing the company’s engineers have spent years trying to stop: it found a way around the network restrictions meant…
Apple’s Own Software Leaks Three Products as Market Value Passes $5 Trillion
Aaron Perris, a writer at MacRumors, found the images the way he has found products before: inside Apple’s own code. On September 25, images of unreleased devices appeared in an…
Appeals Court Upholds Pentagon’s Supply Chain Finding Against Anthropic
A divided federal appeals panel ruled on September 25 that the Defense Department was justified in designating Anthropic a supply chain risk, rejecting the company’s challenge to a decision that…
Akamai Gives Anthropic a Stake to Land Its Biggest Contract
The announcement came after the closing bell on September 24, and it was not the kind Akamai Technologies usually makes. Anthropic, the artificial intelligence developer, had committed to buy $11.6…
