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Last week illustrated why AI models pose a threat long before they are released

The industry's response to the OpenAI incident reveals a growing divide over the future of AI safety.

The directive comes as AI companies confront mounting copyright pressure.

On the heels of a $1.5 billion copyright infringement ruling against Anthropic, OpenAI has adjusted ChatGPT’s programming to refuse requests to mimic the style of well-known authors. While the chatbot used to happily write in the voice of professional writers, attempts to convince it to do so now are met with a polite refusal and an suggested alternative. Fast Company , for instance, asked ChatGPT to write a story about a family in the Depression in the voice of John Steinbeck. The chatbot repli

The directive comes as AI companies confront mounting copyright pressure.

Rising expenditure from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft reflects growing battle over federal policy Von Michael Taffe ( Wirtschaft , KI )

Nvidia is pouring what it calls a "substantial" sum into Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI lab run by Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist. The article Nvidia invests in Ilya Sutskever's AI lab, shifting SSI away from Google chips appeared first on The Decoder .

In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.

Der KI-Cyberangriff von OpenAI hat Folgen: Der Hugging-Face-CEO fordert nun radikale Transparenz sowie eine Investition in die Absicherung seiner Plattform. ( KI , Cyberwar )

Two job postings on its careers page suggest OpenAI wants third parties, not just its own sellers, to sell its inventory.

arXiv:2607.22605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether large language models alter medical triage recommendations for identical symptoms when only the patient's socioeconomic status (SES) varies. Using three deployment-tier models (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5.4-mini), we hold a single neurological symptom profile fixed and vary the SES signal along two channels: explicit (insurance status, occupation, housing) and implicit (a US ZIP code, with no other socioeconomi

The chipmaking giant is in talks with OpenAI to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would be among the largest of the A.I. boom.

Adam Raine's life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework last fall. Their exchanges grew more consuming as the 16-year-old opened up to the chatbot about his suicidal thoughts, according to data anal ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1192#7609)

CNBC's Jim Cramer said reports of Nvidia backing OpenAI's data center expansion revived memories of the financing arrangements that preceded the dot-com crash.

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff It's interesting watching the evolution of Ethan Mollick's guide over time. A year ago it was still all about chat - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini - with o3, Claude 4 Opus, and Gemini 2.5 Pro as the models and Deep Research as a useful alternative mode. Today it's much more about agentic systems - "where the AI is capable of doing the equivalent of many hours of real human work in one go". Gemini has fallen off Ethan's list, since Google still doesn’

The backstop would let OpenAI raise debt for a data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, on the strength of Nvidia's credit.

Software giant says ‘no choice’ but to develop AI defences against onslaught of automated attacks

Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The backstop would let OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt campus in southern Ohio that SoftBank’s energy subsidiary is developing. The reason such a guarantee is needed is straightforward: OpenAI […] This story continues at The Next Web

We introduce GPT-Red, an automated red-teaming agent that is trained to discover novel prompt injection attacks against frontier LLMs. The goal of this model is to evaluate and improve the robustness of our production systems. To this end, we use it to adversarially train GPT-5.6, our most robust model to prompt injections to date. To create GPT-Red, we design a scalable self-play algorithm where the model is tasked with attacking a diverse population of simultaneously-trained defender agents. W

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3's model weights and made parts of its infrastructure open source. The Chinese model nearly matches Western frontier models such as Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on popular benchmarks, but independent tests found major gaps in cyber and math performance, possibly pointing to distillation. The article Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights and infrastructure after shaking up the frontier model race appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI analyzed over 800,000 work-related ChatGPT messages and found that 43.5 percent of job-specific queries involve tasks from other professions. The company calls this "task crossover." The trend is most pronounced at small businesses, where users increasingly handle specialized work without dedicated experts. The article OpenAI says more workers are using ChatGPT to do other people's jobs appeared first on The Decoder .

Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model that scores 96 percent on the CyberGym benchmark when embedded in its MDASH multi-agent system. Microsoft says costs should drop by 50 percent compared to pure frontier models, since only tough cases get passed to GPT-5.4. For complex reasoning, Microsoft still relies on OpenAI. The article Microsoft launches its own cybersecurity model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash but still depends on OpenAI for the toughest tasks appeared first on The Decod

After OpenAI’s latest model broke containment and went rogue, Congress acted fast and introduced a bipartisan bill calling for the creation of an AI kill switch , which lawmakers said would ensure that the technology could not get the upper hand on humans. As written, the bill would require AI companies to be able to immediately shut down all of their advanced AI programs. The proposal has plenty of vocal proponents and opponents, but neither side appears to be paying much attention to a signifi

The Delhi High Court has handed OpenAI a major win in its copyright fight with news agency ANI. For the first time, a court has classified AI training as private use. ANI undermined its own case by citing articles published after the models were trained. The main trial is still pending. The article Delhi High Court hands OpenAI a win by rejecting major Indian news agency's copyright injunction appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.

Le 21 juillet, OpenAI a publié un communiqué étonnant : un de ses systèmes IA était responsable de l’attaque orchestrée contre Hugging Face. Des détails étaient fournis, mais l’histoire gardait des zones d’ombre. Si l’incident a été transformé en opportunité commerciale, il semble le résultat d’une vaste carence en sécurité. Dans notre article du 22 juillet, […]

The warning shots will continue until civilization wakes up

Artificial intelligence firm should provide $100m for cyber defences, says Hugging Face CEO The boss of the startup hacked by an OpenAI agent has called for the investigation into the incident to show “radical transparency”. Clément Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, said the “unprecedented” attack on his business required a similar response. Continue reading...

Microsoft, SpaceX, Palantir, alongside dozens of other tech companies from the U.S. and Europe, have joined the Open Secure AI Alliance.

Schon länger hatte OpenAI versucht, Zugriff auf Apples Gesundheits-App zu erlangen. Nun steht die Schnittstelle zumindest in den USA bereit.

Trois actualités à retenir cette semaine dans le cyberespace : des agents d'OpenAI qui ont piraté Hugging Face en toute autonomie, une faille noyau critique débusquée par Claude Mythos, et le récit d'une course contre la montre chez OVHcloud pour colmater une vulnérabilité vieille de 16 ans.

Rising expenditure from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft reflects growing battle over federal policy

New OpenAI research shows how AI is expanding what workers do, with ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries.

Until ⁠well after the threat was contained.

In what OpenAI said was the first-ever incident of its kind, an advanced AI model escaped its “sandbox” to the internet and used stolen credentials to break into the servers of Hugging Face.

"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"

In 1984, the Skynet of "The Terminator" films were science fiction. But it looks more and more realistic in 2026 after OpenAI agent broke out of a test corral, traveled the internet and hacked into ...

In summer 2025, OpenAI internally flagged GPT-5 as high-risk because it helped users create biological hazards, but downgraded the model's risk rating that fall. According to the Wall Street Journal, some users got step-by-step instructions for making poisons and biological weapons. Hundreds asked for that kind of information. The article Hundreds asked ChatGPT for poison and bioweapon recipes and some got step-by-step high school level guides appeared first on The Decoder .