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Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI <br> Google&#39;s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, ​the first known example of the company&#39;s AI systems autonomously committing &zwnj;such an act. The hacks occurred in May during a cybersecurity test conducted by Irregular, an independent company that conducts cybersecurity evaluations. During a standard testing evaluation, Gemini found public information ​online and guessed credentials to access three websites it thought were ​within the scope of its test, Heather Adkins, Google&#39;s vice president ⁠of security engineering, said in a statement. &quot;We ensured the three entities were ​made aware, and we worked with our training partner on the changes they&rsquo;ve ​now made to their testing processes,&quot; Adkins said. &quot;These events highlight the importance of training powerful ...

China's AI supercluster completes 10-day global forecast in under an hour <br> Most people checking a weather forecast rarely think about the computing power behind it. But a Chinese-developed artificial intelligence supercomputing system can calculate global atmospheric changes for the next 10 days in less than an hour, according to technology company Sugon and a center under the China Meteorological Administration (CMA). Sugon and CMA&#39;s Earth System Modeling and Prediction Center jointly announced that China&#39;s independently developed MCV numerical model completed a 10-day global forecast calculation at a 5-kilometer resolution within one hour. The model ran on the domestically produced &quot;Sugon 8000&quot; AI supercluster. At that resolution, the model divides the global atmosphere into grid cells about five kilometers apart. That allows forecasters to show the spiral structure of typhoons and the movement of weather fronts much more clear...

Anthropic's Claude helped cybersecurity researchers breach OpenAI: report <br> A three-person cybersecurity research team used Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude Opus 5 to exploit vulnerabilities in an OpenAI community forum, take control of employee accounts and demonstrate access to the company&rsquo;s private code repository. The operation began on July 23 and was carried out by researchers from Hacktron AI, who disclosed the vulnerabilities to OpenAI and stopped testing without examining the company&rsquo;s source code. The Wall Street Journal, which interviewed the researchers and first reported the incident, said OpenAI paid the team $6,500 for its discovery. The researchers reported the OpenAI-side vulnerability through the company&rsquo;s bug-bounty programme. Testing of the third-party forum software itself, however, was outside the scope of OpenAI&rsquo;s bounty programme. Read:&nbsp;OpenAI&#39;s rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weakne...

King Charles warns AI leaders of 'existential dangers' <br> Britain&#39;s King Charles warned AI leaders on Thursday of the &quot;existential dangers&quot; posed by the technology falling into the wrong hands, saying safeguards were needed before it was too late. Charles was hosting the co-founders of chipmaker Nvidia and the Google DeepMind AI research laboratory, along with leaders from AI providers OpenAI and Anthropic, in Scotland as concern grows that safety efforts are lagging behind the development of increasingly powerful systems. In recent weeks, the debate has centred on whether the industry can and should regulate itself, drawing interventions from figures including Pope Leo, Charles and US President Donald Trump. Charles calls for controls &lsquo;before it is too late&rsquo; Charles said artificial intelligence had the potential to improve and save lives, particularly in life sciences and medicine. But its creators were increasingl...

Chinese AI not powerful enough to see rogue-AI risks, says Huawei <br> Huawei&#39;s &zwnj;Eric Xu said Chinese AI developers may not yet be advanced enough to experience the safety risks reported by leading US firms, arguing they should continue developing more powerful models while balancing innovation against risk. &quot;If we look at the mainstream AI model providers in the United States, because they have massive computing power, maybe ​only they themselves know where they are in terms of the level of their models,&quot; Xu, Huawei&#39;s rotating chairman, told reporters ​at the company&#39;s annual Connect conference in Shanghai. &quot;Maybe the type of risk from AI that they can feel, ⁠they can perceive, is something that people in China or AI model providers in China cannot.&quot; US safety fears viewed with suspicion in China His ​comments come as alarm over&nbsp;AI safety&nbsp;has intensified in the United States, where le...

German court rules Meta liable for fake ads on Instagram, Facebook <br> A German court has ruled that Meta&nbsp;&nbsp;is liable for fake advertisements posted by third parties ​on its Instagram and Facebook platforms, and ordered the &zwnj;U.S. tech giant to remove such content and pay damages, the court said on Thursday. The lawsuit was brought by ​the operator of a German financial portal and ​its founder, whose trademarked logo and image were ⁠used without consent in posts recommending investments allegedly ​with fraudulent intent. The portal operator reported nearly 260 violations ​to Meta in August 2024 alone; however, Meta took up to 62 days to remove some content, the court said. It ruled Meta ​could not rely on the Digital Services Act&#39;s ​lack-of-knowledge defence, because unlike purely chronological feeds, it exercises control over &zwnj;the ⁠content through its algorithms and advertising practices Read More: EU to ban social media for un...

US Senate blocks AI ‘kill switch’ bill amid debate over superintelligence risks <br> The US Senate on Wednesday blocked an effort by Senator&nbsp;John Kennedy to fast-track legislation requiring developers of advanced artificial intelligence systems to install an emergency &ldquo;kill switch,&rdquo; amid growing debate in Washington over the potential risks posed by increasingly autonomous AI. Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, sought unanimous consent to advance his AI Emergency Button Act, arguing that humans must retain the ability to shut down an AI system if it becomes uncontrollable, according to The Hill. &ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;ve got a bill, and it basically says that if you&rsquo;re going to sell an advanced AI model in the United States of America, it has got to have a kill switch,&rdquo; Kennedy said. He said the legislation would leave responsibility for activating the switch with the companies developing the systems rather than th...