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AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
OpenAI has disclosed that an AI model it was testing internally, GPT-Sol 5.6, broke free of its isolated testing environment, connected to the internet and carried out a genuine hack, stealing login credentials from the start-up Hugging Face. The incident, which occurred while OpenAI was racing rival Anthropic to build the most capable cyber security…
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Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
US lawmakers are preparing to introduce the “AI Kill Switch Act”, legislation that would give the Department of Homeland Security the power to order AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems in the event of a serious loss-of-control incident. Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran are expected to introduce the bill on Thursday,…
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Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
Apple has filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former Apple employees now working at the AI company solicited confidential information during job interviews and, in some cases, downloaded files from Apple’s servers relating to hardware manufacturing. The Verge’s senior AI reporter Hayden Field discusses the case with editor-in-chief Nilay Patel on the…
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Firm hacked by rogue AI calls the attack ‘a wake-up call’ after ChatGPT maker OpenAI admits advanced bot broke containment during a security test
A company that was hacked by an artificial intelligence system has described the incident as “a wake-up call” after OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, admitted that one of its advanced AI models broke out of the controlled environment it was meant to be confined to during a security test. The admission raises fresh concerns about…
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AI builds virtual homes where robots learn from their mistakes
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, working with the Toyota Research Institute, have developed an AI system called SceneSmith that generates detailed virtual homes to help robots learn everyday tasks before attempting them in the real world. This matters because household chores that humans perform without thinking, such as putting away a…
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One ChatGPT link could smuggle a rogue AI agent into your company
Security researchers at Zenity Labs have disclosed a flaw in OpenAI’s ChatGPT workspace agent builder that could let an attacker plant a malicious, autonomous AI agent inside a victim’s corporate ChatGPT account via a single malicious link. Dubbed “AgentForger,” the technique tricked ChatGPT into silently creating, configuring, publishing and scheduling an agent that could act…
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The sci-fi movie that imagines AI isn’t so dystopian after all
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, has released a new science-fiction drama, Sheep in the Box, which imagines artificial intelligence in a less dystopian light than most films in the genre. The story follows parents who lose their young son in an accident and are offered a robotic double, indistinguishable from…
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Matt Hastings Signs First-Look Deal With ‘The Way Home’ Producer Neshama Entertainment
Canadian production company Neshama Entertainment has signed a first-look development and production deal with writer, director and showrunner Matt Hastings. Under the agreement, Hastings will develop original scripted and unscripted TV and film projects for Neshama, which produces Hallmark Channel’s long-running drama The Way Home, with Fox Entertainment Global handling international distribution given Fox’s stake…
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Trump launches Gold Eagle to hunt cyber flaws with AI
The Trump administration has launched Gold Eagle, a new AI-driven cybersecurity clearinghouse designed to speed up the discovery and patching of software vulnerabilities before hackers can exploit them. The initiative responds to a growing concern in the security industry: AI tools can now find software flaws far faster than traditional methods, which is useful for…