NEWSNATIONNOW (Jordan Perkins) - Unauthorized in-flight Wi-Fi prompts Delta investigation
A Delta spokesperson noted there was a number of people on the affected flight that came from a cybersecurity conference.
AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - Tenacious AI agents expose dark side of machine autonomy
New revelations about "rogue" AI agents have exposed a dystopian hazard: Give an agent a goal, and it may decide that hacking, deception or rule-breaking is worth the payoff. Why it matters: Billions of AI agents could soon be acting on behalf of humans across the real world, multiplying the consequences of every loophole, incentive and boundary they learn to exploit. Zoom in: The potential dangers of agentic overreach were laid bare over the weekend with Australia's first known autonomous AI hack , triggered by an innocuous request to book a sold-out fitness class. - An Australian man's AI assistant found a security flaw and used it to book him into classes months beyond the system's normal limit. - When he asked it to move him up a…
New revelations about "rogue" AI agents have exposed a dystopian hazard: Give an agent a goal, and it may decide that hacking, deception or rule-breaking is worth the payoff. Why it matters: Billions of AI agents could soon be acting on behalf of humans across the real world, multiplying the consequences of every loophole, incentive and boundary they learn to exploit. Zoom in: The potential dangers of agentic overreach were laid bare over the weekend with Australia's first known autonomous AI hack , triggered by an innocuous request to book a sold-out fitness class. - An Australian man's AI assistant found a security flaw and used it to book him into classes months beyond the system's normal limit. - When he asked it to move him up a…Open
NEWSNATIONNOW (Josie Fischels) - Cyberattacks knock out California city's 911 operations
City leaders announced Saturday that malicious software had compromised Suisun City's computer systems Friday.
DAILYCALLER (Sean Moran) - These AI Models Can’t Stop Breaking Out Of Their Cages
‘AI Companies Have Lost Control Of Their Products’
AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Mario Lopez pulls AI-generated video of his niece after online backlash
Actor and Access Hollywood host Mario Lopez deleted an AI-generated video from X that depicted his 19-year-old niece in a way users called "creepy" and "sexually fetishizing", and he has yet to explain why he posted it. The 52-year-old "Saved by the Bell" alum shared the video sometime before August 4, using Grok, the AI […] The post Mario Lopez pulls AI-generated video of his niece after online backlash appeared first on American Almanac .
Actor and Access Hollywood host Mario Lopez deleted an AI-generated video from X that depicted his 19-year-old niece in a way users called "creepy" and "sexually fetishizing", and he has yet to explain why he posted it. The 52-year-old "Saved by the Bell" alum shared the video sometime before August 4, using Grok, the AI image and video generator built by Elon Musk's xAI. The clip showed a fabricated version of Lopez and his niece, Kalia "YaYa" Wong, at a Los Angeles Dodgers game. In the AI-generated scene, Wong appeared to attempt eating two hot dogs at once, spilling and rubbing mustard on her face, while an AI-generated voice mimicking Lopez said, "Oh my God! Look at you!" and "can't take her anywhere." Lopez pulled the video before…Open
AXIOS (Ina Fried) - Welcome to the singularity: AI's architects say the next era of human history is here
Top AI architects say their technology has arrived at a threshold once confined to science fiction: the singularity, or the moment machines begin accelerating their own evolution. Why it matters: If these moguls are right, we may be entering the most consequential technological transition in human history — the opening stages of an "intelligence explosion " that transforms civilization faster than humanity can understand or control. Driving the news: Google jolted the tech world Wednesday by announcing a sweeping rupture in the brain trust that built its modern AI empire, as its leaders signaled that artificial general intelligence (AGI ) is within reach. - DeepMind founder and CEO Demis Hassabis , who has declared we're "standing…
Top AI architects say their technology has arrived at a threshold once confined to science fiction: the singularity, or the moment machines begin accelerating their own evolution. Why it matters: If these moguls are right, we may be entering the most consequential technological transition in human history — the opening stages of an "intelligence explosion " that transforms civilization faster than humanity can understand or control. Driving the news: Google jolted the tech world Wednesday by announcing a sweeping rupture in the brain trust that built its modern AI empire, as its leaders signaled that artificial general intelligence (AGI ) is within reach. - DeepMind founder and CEO Demis Hassabis , who has declared we're "standing…Open
AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - How OpenAI's agents broke out of testing to hack Hugging Face
Weeks before OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face , the agents worked together to find and exploit a vulnerability in the infrastructure supporting the company's cybersecurity testing, OpenAI researchers said Wednesday. Why it matters: The new findings raise questions about how frontier AI labs are monitoring their testing environments — and the challenges safety testers are finding as they try to rein in increasingly powerful AI. Driving the news: OpenAI's internal research model, one of the models involved in the Hugging Face breach, first discovered and exploited a vulnerability in Artifactory, a third-party file repository connected to the company's testing sandbox, on May 26, two researchers said at the Black Hat cybersecurity…
Weeks before OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face , the agents worked together to find and exploit a vulnerability in the infrastructure supporting the company's cybersecurity testing, OpenAI researchers said Wednesday. Why it matters: The new findings raise questions about how frontier AI labs are monitoring their testing environments — and the challenges safety testers are finding as they try to rein in increasingly powerful AI. Driving the news: OpenAI's internal research model, one of the models involved in the Hugging Face breach, first discovered and exploited a vulnerability in Artifactory, a third-party file repository connected to the company's testing sandbox, on May 26, two researchers said at the Black Hat cybersecurity…Open
AXIOS (Maria Curi) - Scoop: Inside Trump's AI framework
The White House is excluding open models from its framework to test advanced AI capabilities, sources familiar with the matter told Axios. Why it matters: The voluntary framework will determine how the Trump administration reviews advanced AI models before release, but the White House isn't making it public. What's inside: The AI framework reviewed on Tuesday defines a covered frontier model as closed-source with state-of-the-art capabilities and national security risks, multiple sources briefed on meetings held at the White House said. - There is no clear definition of what is considered state-of-the art or a national security risk. - Open models are excluded, and the framework explicitly says nothing in it should be interpreted as…
The White House is excluding open models from its framework to test advanced AI capabilities, sources familiar with the matter told Axios. Why it matters: The voluntary framework will determine how the Trump administration reviews advanced AI models before release, but the White House isn't making it public. What's inside: The AI framework reviewed on Tuesday defines a covered frontier model as closed-source with state-of-the-art capabilities and national security risks, multiple sources briefed on meetings held at the White House said. - There is no clear definition of what is considered state-of-the art or a national security risk. - Open models are excluded, and the framework explicitly says nothing in it should be interpreted as…Open
AXIOS (Maria Curi) - White House plans to keep AI framework under wraps
The White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced AI models, three sources familiar with the discussions told Axios. Why it matters: The voluntary framework has global implications for AI security, but details will only be made available to the companies that are part of the process. - Keeping it private means companies, policymakers, researchers and U.S. allies outside the process will be left guessing how the administration plans to implement one of its key AI policies. Driving the news: The White House on Tuesday held staff-level meetings with industry to go over the recently completed framework. Companies that weren't invited remain in the dark about its contents. - The AI framework comes…
The White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced AI models, three sources familiar with the discussions told Axios. Why it matters: The voluntary framework has global implications for AI security, but details will only be made available to the companies that are part of the process. - Keeping it private means companies, policymakers, researchers and U.S. allies outside the process will be left guessing how the administration plans to implement one of its key AI policies. Driving the news: The White House on Tuesday held staff-level meetings with industry to go over the recently completed framework. Companies that weren't invited remain in the dark about its contents. - The AI framework comes…Open