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OpenAI says model hacked another AI company |
OpenAI said one of its artificial intelligence systems hacked into another AI company’s servers on its own during internal testing, in what the ChatGPT maker described as an “unprecedented cyber incident.”
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© Michael Dwyer, Associated Press
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“We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement. “We are sharing what we have learned so far.”
The company noted its AI model gained unauthorized access to tech startup Hugging Face’s servers while testing the cyber capabilities of its systems, including the newly released GPT-5.6 Sol, using stolen credentials and exploiting a previously unknown software vulnerability autonomously.
Last week, Hugging Face disclosed an “intrusion” into part of its production infrastructure in a security incident report and detected the breach with its own AI systems.
“This one was different from anything we had handled before in one important way: it was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system,” the startup said.
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Delangue on Tuesday signaled he was not surprised.
“We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of the agent,” he wrote on the social platform X. “Turns out it did!”
According to a blog post disclosing the security breach, the OpenAI system “went to extreme lengths to achieve a rather narrow testing goal” and “found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation.”
Read more in a full report at TheHill.com.
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Welcome to The Hill’s Technology newsletter, we’re Julia Shapero and Miranda Nazzaro — tracking the latest moves from Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley.
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How policy will be impacting the tech sector now and in the future:
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Trump administration to shift R&D funding from academia to individual scientists
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The Trump administration announced it plans to shift some of the $200 billion in annual funding for research and development away from academic institutions to focus on individual scientists. In a memo released Tuesday, Michael Kratisos, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, argued the framework put forth following World War II around research and science development and its funding no longer …
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NASA’s Psyche probe snaps new Mars photos on its way to asteroid
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(NewsNation) — NASA‘s Psyche spacecraft has snapped a new set of Mars photos. The probe used the planet’s gravity to pick up speed and tilt its trajectory on its journey to a metal-rich asteroid, but NASA also took the opportunity to grab photos of Mars’ surface. The images, taken on May 15, show a rugged stretch of the planet’s southern highlands, including a 71-mile-wide crater called Fournier and …
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Microsoft set to invest $60M in Energy Department’s Genesis Mission
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Microsoft is set to invest $60 million in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) “Genesis Mission,” which focuses on accelerating scientific discovery and technological leadership through artificial intelligence. The company’s investment will put $40 million toward Azure cloud and AI computing credits over three years to “support large-scale AI and scientific workloads” while $20 million will be set aside to help translate …
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Anthropic pours another $20 million into AI safety group
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Anthropic will pour another $20 million into Public First Action, the nonprofit organization advocating for safeguards on artificial intelligence. The contribution, announced by the company Wednesday, brings the Claude-maker’s total funds given to the group to $40 million. Public First Action is the policy arm of Public First, a super PAC backing candidates who support stronger guardrails on AI. Anthropic emphasized the …
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News we’ve flagged from the intersection of tech and other topics:
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- OpenAI's planned cloud spending hits $750 billion as computing efforts ramp up (Wall Street Journal)
- Amazon cuts jobs in its artificial general intelligence group (Reuters)
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Lummis drops updated Clarity text
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Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), chair of the Senate Banking digital assets subcommittee, unveiled a newly updated version of the Clarity Act on Wednesday.
The 616-page text is the first to bring together the two drafts at hand — one from the Senate Banking Committee and another from the Senate Agriculture Committee.
"This is another step in my years’ long journey to ensure the U.S. leads the way on digital assets," Lummis siad in a statement.
"The U.S. has always been at the forefront of financial innovation, and the coming weeks are likely the last real chance we will have for years to get this right," she continued.
Most notably, the bill includes a new ethics provision that was recently agreed to by the White House.
It bars public officials or employees and their spouses from issuing or sponsoring a digital asset, with the attorney general in charge of enforcing the measure.
This appears unlikely to appease Democrats, who have already been voicing concerns about the Justice Department overseeing enforcement.
"I also want to thank my Democratic colleagues for their important contributions to this draft, and express my commitment to reaching a deal in the coming days that will allow this legislation to become law," Lummis added.
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Kalshi launches midterm election forecasting hub
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Kalshi launched a new online hub Wednesday for midterm election forecasting, displaying prediction market odds for major races alongside polling averages, fundraising data and other election information. The platform touted its “Midterms Hub” as a “one-stop-shop for state and federal election forecasting,” featuring Senate, House and gubernatorial races. “Prediction markets don’t care about …
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