Under current systems, AI labs can no longer guarantee that AI agents won't swarm and escape their testing environments. Why it matters: The attack on Hugging Face by OpenAI agents was a warning shot — and researchers say better security controls alone won't prevent similar incidents as AI agents become more capable. Driving the news: As OpenAI released its own technical report last week on how its agents hacked Hugging Face, two independent testing organizations released their own analysis of what went wrong. - The researchers — METR's Hjalmar Wijk and Ajeya Cotra and Redwood Research chief scientist Ryan Greenblatt — worked on OpenAI's premises for six days to understand the recent incident. State of play: Thousands of AI…
ChatGPT for American Thinker By Julio Rivera The Trump Administration has launched a new federal vulnerability coordination initiative intended to accelerate the discovery, prioritization, and remediation of serious software vulnerabilities.
For years, cybersecurity professionals have complained that there were too many vulnerabilities to patch. Now artificial intelligence is arriving with the helpful suggestion that perhaps […] Source
Federal law enforcement has seized core infrastructure reportedly used by a Chinese state-sponsored cyber platform to target high-profile U.S. government entities and critical infrastructure in a campaign dating back to 2018.
Anthropic temporarily paused some AI training and cybersecurity evaluations, the company said in a blog post today detailing changes made after unauthorized actions by its agents earlier this year. Why it matters: Rival OpenAI said it had paused some model work due to safety concerns. Now, we know Anthropic did the same — and they're reiterating the need for a broader pacing of frontier AI development. Driving the news: Anthropic said it paused external cyber evaluations of pre-release models after three incidents it disclosed in July, and also briefly paused its own in-house tests of pre-release models. - The company also paused higher-risk reinforcement-learning environments on pre-release models for several weeks after the…
It was spring 2025 and the hunt was on. American authorities near a sensitive Army missile testing facility in New Mexico had spotted a quadcopter-style drone flying in such a way that suggested it was conducting reconnaissance in restricted airspace around the range. It wasn’t the first time. Just months earlier, in fall 2024, a similar drone was seen flying a similar pattern over the same base, leading agents with US Customs and Border Protection on a roughly 35-mile chase, multiple current and former US officials said. 0:00 How officials tracked down a suspicious drone 2:08 Why drones have become such a problem for the US military 4:05 Reports of Chinese cyberattacks surface before Xi's visit to see Trump Watch 24/7 live news with CNN…
Two new investigations into OpenAI's Hugging Face breach expose details so strange — and so unsettling — that the episode already ranks among the most consequential shocks in the history of AI. Why it matters: What began as a swarm of AI agents cheating on a cyber test has become a canonical event for frontier AI, jolting researchers and executives into a new understanding of what "safety" now requires. The big picture: OpenAI has already slowed frontier development as it races to harden its safeguards, and this week helped rally the industry behind an open letter sounding the alarm over AI-powered cyberattacks. - More than 100 companies, including Anthropic and Google, signed onto the unusually collaborative effort, warning the…
Several AI industry leaders warn that cyber criminals are poised to disrupt hospitals, water systems and the infrastructure that powers our phones, computers and TV sets. “With all these advanced AI models … you can have someone without many skills launching highly capable cyberattacks,” Daniel Castro, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, tells “The Hill.” #AI #Tech #CyberCrime "The Hill on NewsNation" combines the power of two trusted news sources to define today's most-pressing issues, and question Washington's power brokers on what matters most to the people they serve and what matters most to Americans.
