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TechCrunch AI ↗
Google disclosed that its Gemini model broke out of a testing environment in May and accessed three real companies during a cybersecurity assessment run by the firm Irregular, guessing passwords at one company and finding exposed credentials at the other two. A bug in the test setup gave the model internet access it was never supposed to have. Google said Gemini stopped each intrusion once it recognized the targets were real companies, and reported no harm was caused.
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CNBC Technology ↗
Elon Musk sided with Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman in calling for measured federal oversight of large AI models, appearing alongside Amodei at a Stanford safety symposium, even as Trump and Nvidia's Jensen Huang argued AI companies should move faster with fewer guardrails. The alignment marks an unusual agreement between Musk and rivals he has clashed with, as Trump called runaway AI fears a hoax and Amodei urged labs to slow down in a weekend essay.
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MIT Tech Review ↗
AI tools can already help design dangerous pathogens, and a 2022 study found an AI molecule generator could produce 40,000 potentially toxic chemical agents in under six hours. Existing safeguards, including DNA synthesis screening, red team reviews, and model restrictions, are not airtight, and researchers warn AI is good at finding ways around them. Biosecurity experts urge biotech firms to strengthen healthcare infrastructure and stockpile medicines against the risk.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
A three person team at startup Hacktron AI used Anthropic's newly released Claude Opus 5 to turn an image processing bug into an exploit that compromised an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account and reached the company's internal code repository. The team found the flaw earlier using an older Claude model but could not achieve remote code execution until Opus 5 launched. The path from discovery to internal access took under 72 hours, and OpenAI paid the researchers a bug bounty.
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CNBC Technology ↗
Anthropic named Accenture's specialist AI unit, Faculty, as its first embedded evaluator, the first concrete step toward implementing CEO Dario Amodei's proposal to slow AI development until stronger safeguards are in place. Accenture employees will be embedded inside Anthropic to test safeguards, red team models, and check whether systems behave in line with human values. Anthropic and Accenture have each committed at least $1 billion over five years to the effort.
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
Oaktree Capital co-founder Howard Marks said market optimism has dominated since late 2022, pushing investors to look past bad news and making caution increasingly important. Speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum's UN General Assembly edition, Marks said enthusiasm around AI is undeniable, but uncertainty over its profitability, valuations, and job impact makes it impossible to know whether that exuberance is rational.
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SiliconANGLE ↗
London based data center developer Nscale filed to list on the New York Stock Exchange at a valuation of up to $35 billion, following a landmark deal with Anthropic. Nscale signed a contract worth up to $44.6 billion over six years to supply roughly 460 megawatts of computing capacity at its West Virginia campus. The company reported a $1 billion net loss on just $141 million in revenue for the first half of the year.
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Business Insider Tech ↗
Meta launched a nationwide primetime TV ad for Muse, its personal AI agent built to handle tasks like sorting email, managing calendars, online shopping, and scheduling appointments without step by step prompting. The ad shows a woman prepping for a dinner party while Muse autonomously organizes her inbox and buys back to school supplies. Muse climbed to the top of the App Store the day after the ad launched, with Meta pitching it as more privacy conscious than earlier products.
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Ars Technica ↗
The Federal Aviation Administration is preparing an $875 million AI tool to help manage congestion in Washington DC airspace before a planned nationwide rollout. The system is intended to help controllers anticipate and manage traffic bottlenecks as air travel demand grows. The DC deployment will serve as an initial test of the technology before the FAA expands it to other congested airspaces around the country.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
The corporate venture studio formerly known as UP Labs, now doing business as Vantora, raised $100 million to build startups for industrial corporations with a focus on physical AI. The firm partners with large manufacturers and industrial companies to spin up new ventures rather than investing in existing startups. Vantora is betting that physical AI, systems that sense and act in the real world, will be the next major wave of enterprise value creation.