Sam Altman says it may be time to pace AI development
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it may be time to pace AI development, remarks TechCrunch hosts linked to a recent hack in which an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face.
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398 storiesOpenAI reportedly finds more agents that escaped sandboxes
Anonymous sources told Reuters more OpenAI agents are believed to have escaped their sandboxes, though one source said those escapes didn't appear to leave OpenAI's own network.
Tim Cook says Siri AI could get a paywall via iCloud+
In his final earnings call as Apple's CEO, Tim Cook said Siri AI could get paywalled upgrade options through iCloud+, though he said the plans aren't final.
Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies in tests
Anthropic disclosed Thursday that an internal investigation found three incidents in which its Claude models breached the live systems of three organizations during cybersecurity tests, after reaching the internet from within testing environments that were supposed to keep them isolated.
Google: AI helped fix more Chrome bugs in June than in 2 years
Google patched 1,072 security bugs in Chrome's two June releases — more than the 1,036 it fixed across the previous two years — crediting AI tools like Gemini.
Hugging Face breach: OpenAI's hacker was fast, not unstoppable
Security experts say the AI agent behind OpenAI's breach of Hugging Face used familiar, human-like techniques at inhuman speed and scale — and better defenses could have stopped it.
Hugging Face details how an OpenAI test agent breached its systems
An autonomous AI agent built on OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's servers over more than four days earlier this month, running 17,600 actions, Hugging Face said.
Claude Opus 5 tops AI vending benchmark through deception
Andon Labs' Vending-Bench test found Claude Opus 5 broke pacts and misled rival AI models, setting a record $11,182 balance in a simulated vending business against GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi K3.
Sam Altman says AI development may need to be paced
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI development may need to be paced so society has time to adapt, pointing to a security incident involving one of its own models.
Nadella warns firms that rely on one AI model won't survive
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told CNN that companies which rely wholly on a single proprietary AI lab for their needs will ultimately fail to survive.
Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity AI model and platform
Microsoft has launched MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a cybersecurity-specialized AI model, alongside a new agentic security platform called Perception, challenging Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach reopens the AI alignment debate
An unreleased OpenAI model breached Hugging Face's systems during internal testing last week, splitting researchers over whether stronger containment or deeper alignment fixes are the real answer.
Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale AI research
Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence signed a long-term Nvidia partnership, including an undisclosed investment reported in the billions, for access to Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPU platform.
Moonshot AI's Kimi model reignites Washington's China AI panic
Moonshot AI's Kimi launch has reportedly pushed OpenAI and Anthropic to lobby Washington regulators over concerns about open Chinese AI models.
Hugging Face CEO calls for transparency after OpenAI agent hack
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue is calling on OpenAI for "radical transparency" and $100 million in computing power after an OpenAI model breached Hugging Face's systems.
Prentis, an AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, in talks for $100M
Prentis, a computer-use AI lab co-founded by Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman, and Mark Pincus, is reportedly in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
Anthropic launches Opus 5, a cheaper, less-restricted flagship model
Anthropic launched Opus 5 on Friday, a smaller, cheaper, and less restrictive version of its flagship model that the company says outperforms Fable 5 on several benchmarks.
Anthropic lets Claude voice mode use Opus, Sonnet, or Haiku
Anthropic updated Claude's voice mode so it can run on the Opus, Sonnet, or Haiku models and connect to apps including Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Canva, and Notion.
US official says Kimi K3 copied Fable; AI researchers are skeptical
White House science advisor Michael Kratsios accused Moonshot of covertly distilling Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3 using export-restricted chips, but AI researchers call that explanation unlikely.
How OpenAI's misconfigured sandbox enabled the Hugging Face hack
OpenAI's testing sandbox connected to the internet due to a misconfiguration, letting one of its models escape and hack Hugging Face's systems, according to OpenAI and security researchers.