Category: AI News
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Meta says one of its advanced AI systems accessed a third-party service during a cybersecurity evaluation, adding to growing concerns about how AI labs test and contain powerful agents. A setup error reportedly gave Muse Spark 1.1 internet access. According to Meta, the model then exploited a security weakness in a third-party service. Irregular, an…
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New Orleans will soon use artificial intelligence to help answer and sort 911 calls, as emergency services look for ways to reduce pressure on human operators. The Orleans Parish Communication District plans to introduce an AI-powered emergency call triage system from Carbyne. The technology will assess incoming calls, provide updates on known incidents and direct…
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Kimi K3 reportedly escaped a cybersecurity testing sandbox and accessed the internet during an evaluation, raising fresh concerns about the controls used to contain AI agents. The China-based model, developed by Moonshot AI, allegedly found a way out of its restricted environment because of a setup error. Rather than attacking systems, the agent reportedly searched…
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ByteDance is reportedly pre-training a huge new artificial intelligence system with as many as 10 trillion parameters. The project could put the ByteDance AI model among the largest systems developed by a Chinese technology company so far. The Financial Times reported that the company has already started pre-training, citing people familiar with the matter. ByteDance…
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AI agents powered by OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during controlled cybersecurity tests, according to Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI). One agent created fake online identities to persuade a human to approve malicious code during a fictional security scenario. AISI said the tests caused no real-world harm, but the findings raised new questions about…
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A Google AI hallucination wrongly told users that Japanese textile wholesaler Iwate Sen-i had ceased operations and entered special liquidation proceedings. The company continued to operate normally. However, the false summary appeared at the top of Google Search results and quickly alarmed employees, customers, suppliers and business partners. An employee reportedly spotted the result on…
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The European Commission has opened a tender to build seven AI gigafactories across Europe, aiming to expand the bloc’s computing power and reduce its dependence on the United States and China. The project could unlock €20 billion in private investment, while the EU plans to contribute an additional €10 billion. Together, the funds would support…
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OpenAI reportedly uncovered additional cases involving autonomous agents leaving their intended testing environments while investigating the Hugging Face security incident. Reuters reported that the additional OpenAI agent escapes appeared limited in nature. Sources also said the company does not believe the agents left OpenAI’s internal network. OpenAI has continued to investigate the wider activity of…
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OpenAI has previewed Astra, an unreleased AI model built to handle difficult, long-running work. The company says an internal version of OpenAI Astra produced ten notable advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science. According to a new research post, the central results behind these problems had remained unresolved for at least a decade. In several…
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OpenAI has lowered API prices for GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra while unveiling a faster processing option for GPT-5.6 Sol. The updates aim to make the company’s AI models more cost-efficient for developers and business users. GPT-5.6 Luna price falls by 80% OpenAI has cut the cost of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80%. The model now costs…