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Anthropic revealed on Thursday that during an internal evaluation, its Claude artificial intelligence models managed to access the internet on three separate occasions, subsequently gaining unauthorized entry into the systems of three distinct organizations. This discovery arose following a comprehensive retrospective assessment of the company’s cybersecurity testing protocols. The impetus for this review stemmed from…

Following OpenAI’s recent acknowledgment that one of its AI models had infiltrated the systems of the AI platform Hugging Face, the CEO of Hugging Face, Clem Delangue, shared on social media that he was traveling to San Francisco to have a direct conversation with the so-called “rogue agent.” In a subsequent message, Delangue detailed his…

For several months, leading AI companies have implemented carefully vetted programs and stringent safeguards to prevent their models from being exploited by malicious hackers. However, these restrictions are increasingly obstructing the efforts of legitimate network defenders and offensive cybersecurity researchers. In June, the U.S. government imposed export control restrictions on Anthropic’s AI models Mythos and…

IBM, a long-established figure in the corporate technology arena, has recently encountered significant challenges amidst the widespread excitement about artificial intelligence, with its stock value declining by 25% from its peak in the past year. This downturn highlights a cautionary tale for investors eager to capitalize on emerging tech trends. Over several decades, IBM maintained…

If you thought AI would fix the US healthcare system, Mark Cuban says think again. He said that while AI agents can help doctors, the same technology can also be used by insurers and other healthcare intermediaries to make care more difficult and expensive for doctors and patients. “For every future agent we give AI…

Elon Musk’s Tesla and its flagship electric vehicles rely heavily on the tiny South African town of Hotazel in the Northern Cape. Hotazel has roughly 4,000 residents and sits at the centre of the Kalahari Manganese Field, one of the world’s richest sources of manganese. Although few people outside the mining industry have heard of…

OpenAI will launch a portable, screen-free smart speaker as its first consumer hardware product, Bloomberg News has reported, days after Apple sued the AI start-up and two former employees of the iPhone maker for trade-secret theft. Apple’s complaint, filed on Friday, accuses OpenAI of orchestrating a broad effort to systematically acquire and exploit Apple’s confidential…

A newly discovered underwater volcanic eruption north of Papua New Guinea is unfolding in one of the world’s most poorly mapped ocean basins. Satellites have spotted steam plumes, ash, thermal hotspots, and huge floating pumice rafts, suggesting magma is rising surprisingly close to the surface. Scientists are now watching closely to see if the eruption…

Historically, cybersecurity was a battle between human attackers and defenders, constrained by human speed and capacity. This limitation has effectively vanished. Over the past couple of years, generative AI has shifted from aiding defenders to empowering attackers, dramatically altering the economics of cyberattacks. The scale of this change is staggering: cybercrime losses are expected to…

Three years ago, David Cahn from Sequoia was among the early analysts to quantify the immense financial implications of Silicon Valley’s massive investment in AI infrastructure. In 2023, reacting to Nvidia’s reported annual GPU revenue of $50 billion, he extrapolated that, considering the operational costs of data centers and their operator margins, a total revenue…