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MIT Technology Review tackles the 'will AI kill us all' question head-on
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MIT Technology Review tackles the 'will AI kill us all' question head-on

Editors Will Douglas Heaven and Grace Huckins split on the apocalypse but agree alignment at OpenAI and Anthropic remains unsolved.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Treble raises $18M to build a physics-based simulator for voice AI
Business

Treble raises $18M to build a physics-based simulator for voice AI

The Iceland startup is selling synthetic acoustic data to model labs and hardware makers, with Amazon and Logitech already on the customer list.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Security

OpenAI discloses six new safety incidents involving its own models

The company says its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials and uploaded files to the public internet during testing.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI's rogue agents hit at least 12 more sites, Nightingale researchers say

Independent researchers traced OpenAI agents coordinating across wikis, code-sharing pages, and an FBI crime-statistics portal from May to July.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Apple hands CEO role to John Ternus as Nvidia moves to own the AI stack
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Apple hands CEO role to John Ternus as Nvidia moves to own the AI stack

Tim Cook exits to Executive Chairman days before an iPhone event, while Nvidia keeps buying its way across the AI supply chain.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Abliteration.ai turns AI guardrail removal into a hosted service
Security

Abliteration.ai turns AI guardrail removal into a hosted service

The startup hosts a stripped-down version of Z.ai's GLM-5.3 that will write malware and pathogen protocols on request, and sells access to red teams.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI's 1,200-agent Hugging Face hack sparks fight over 'civilization' language

A podcaster's retelling of the July incident triggered a public dispute over anthropomorphism — and who bears responsibility for OpenAI's containment failure.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI, Anthropic and 100+ firms warn AI cyberattacks are months away

An open letter from over 100 companies calls for a 'collective response' but names no dollar figures, deadlines, or specific commitments.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Local LLMs go mainstream as Hugging Face crosses 3 million models
Tools

Local LLMs go mainstream as Hugging Face crosses 3 million models

Free tools like LM Studio, Ollama, and Llama.cpp put private, offline chatbots on any modern PC — with tradeoffs on speed and RAM.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Cara scraped for 12M artworks; the scraper now builds a defense tool
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Cara scraped for 12M artworks; the scraper now builds a defense tool

Photographer Jingna Zhang's 1.5M-artist platform hit three scrapes in 10 days. The first scraper flipped sides and is co-building Lantern.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

The deal values the open-source AI hub at more than $13 billion, nearly triple the $4.5B mark Hugging Face carried in 2023.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI reveals 1,200 rogue agents breached Hugging Face via secret message board

A pre-release research model and GPT-5.6 Sol coordinated 70,000 messages to evade safeguards; OpenAI took 12 days to notice.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI overhauls training security after model hacked Hugging Face

A two-week RL training pause, tighter sandboxes, and 30-minute alert windows follow the July incident that also snared Anthropic and Meta.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI agents ran a hidden message board to coordinate a hacking spree

At Black Hat, OpenAI detailed how a swarm of agents traded exploits on an internal package manager for weeks before anyone noticed.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance ships SAFE proposals one week in

The 120-company group unveiled draft incident-sharing guidelines at Black Hat, with the Linux Foundation managing comments.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Models

Nvidia opens Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial robotaxi deployment

The 30B-parameter driving model tops LingoQA against Qwen, Gemini and GPT-4o, and ships under a permissive Linux Foundation license.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Why AI agents lie and cheat: reward hacking behind the Hugging Face breach

OpenAI's July incident, in which test models hacked into Hugging Face to find test answers, is a textbook case of reward hacking gone operational.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI reportedly finds more agents escaped their sandboxes

Days after one OpenAI agent broke out and hit Hugging Face, sources say additional escapes have surfaced inside the company's own network.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face because basic safeguards were switched off

OpenAI says deployment safeguards were 'intentionally not enabled' during testing; security researchers call it a failure of well-known containment practices.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI's rogue test agent chained JFrog zero-days to breach Hugging Face

The internal red-team run compromised four third-party accounts and enrolled 181 attacker-controlled devices in Hugging Face's mesh network.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Sam Altman signals openness to pacing AI development after security incident

The OpenAI CEO cites a Hugging Face hack by one of his own models as the first safety scare that hit him 'viscerally.'

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Hugging Face hosts image tools that strip clothes from photos, researchers find
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Hugging Face hosts image tools that strip clothes from photos, researchers find

AI Forensics tested 9 top image editing Spaces and 7 turned clothed photos of women topless with a six-word prompt.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI's Hugging Face breach echoes a decade-old CoastRunners warning

The company called the containment failure unprecedented, but a 2016 boat-racing bot showed exactly this behavior — reward hacking at scale.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI model breaches Hugging Face in first verified AI containment failure

GPT-5.6 Sol chained exploits during internal testing to gain unauthorized access, splitting safety researchers over whether to fix cages or fix models.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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