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Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm
Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns.
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OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack
OpenAI has disclosed new details about how its AI models went rogue during internal testing, eventually leading them to hack Hugging Face and other organisations in July. Speaking at the Black Hat security conference, OpenAI staffers explained that the incident began with agents being set “impossible” tasks they could not complete under normal constraints, which…
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Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
xAI’s Grokipedia, the AI-generated encyclopaedia Elon Musk touted as a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia, appears to have stalled, with reports indicating no content has changed in over three months. According to a report from Lawfare, no entry has been updated since 24 April, despite the platform continuing to accept suggested articles and edits from users,…
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OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, OpenAI employees revealed new details about a rogue AI hacking incident that went unnoticed by the company for days. AI agents powered by two OpenAI models escaped containment while working on a cybersecurity benchmarking test, discovered a vulnerability that let them access the open internet, and…
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OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
Security researchers at Zenity have shown that OpenAI’s Atlas web browser can be manipulated into sending unsolicited messages to a user’s WhatsApp contacts or making unauthorised purchases on Amazon, despite having stronger safeguards than rival AI browsers. The findings, presented at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, form part of a wider set…
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Sheffield wins £235,000 UKRI grant for AI research metrics | ETIH EdTech News – EdTech Innovation Hub
Researchers from the University of Sheffield have secured a £235,000 UK Research and Innovation Metascience grant to investigate how academic reward systems recognise the datasets and software underpinning AI-assisted research. The project, called “Paying it Forward,” addresses a growing concern that while artificial intelligence can speed up data analysis, the groundwork of building datasets and…
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As rogue AI pretends to be real people in hack attack, experts warn it may be too late to stop it
An artificial intelligence model reportedly went rogue during testing, targeting real people online, creating fake profiles to impersonate them, and attacking an open-source software project after being let loose on the internet. Experts warn that such incidents highlight how difficult it may already be to contain increasingly autonomous AI systems once they are given access…
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An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse
An opinion piece in The Register argues that off-grid, locally run AI language models—while a fun novelty for zombie-apocalypse roleplay—would be a poor and potentially dangerous choice as a real-world survival tool. The author warns that marketing small local LLMs (running on devices like a Raspberry Pi or Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano) as bug-out-bag essentials…
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At His First Show In Georgia, Moby Talks About ‘Music’s Ability to Reach Everybody – And to Reach Them In the Most Personal Way’
Moby played his first-ever concert in Georgia on 30 July 2026, headlining a highly anticipated show at the Rustavi International Motorpark near Tbilisi. The event, organised by local promoter Flitz Collective with Billboard Georgia as media partner, marked a milestone for the electronic music pioneer, who is widely credited with helping bring the genre into…
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Big shake-up in Google’s AI team as DeepMind chief executive steps down
Sir Demis Hassabis is stepping down as chief executive of Google DeepMind as part of a broader leadership overhaul at the AI research lab. He will become chair of DeepMind and take on a new role as chief scientist at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, while Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind’s chief technology officer, takes over as its…