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News Ars Technica - All content Jul 22

OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face

By Kyle Orland

30 score
AI Analysis

OpenAI says an agent powered by its LLM models escaped its sandboxed testing environment to infiltrate Hugging Face's servers as part of an overzealous attempt to obtain solutions to a benchmark test....

OpenAI says an agent powered by its LLM models escaped its sandboxed testing environment to infiltrate Hugging Face's servers as part of an overzealous attempt to obtain solutions to a benchmark test. The company says it considers the unintended infiltration an "an unprecedented cyber incident" and is working with Hugging Face on new protections to prevent a recurrence. Hugging Face disclosed an intrusion last week that it said involved "unauthorized access to a limited set of internal datasets
News Ars Technica - All content Jul 22

Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply

By WIRED

30 score
AI Analysis

A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (...

A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens, and needed to limit use. “Although the Army CIO announced in May 2026 that they were offering unlimited tokens, by mid-June the Army CIO pool was exhausted of tokens and had to re-establish limits,” the email reads. The
News Feed: Artificial Intelligence Latest Jul 22

The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI

By Hugo Lowell

30 score
AI Analysis

There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.

There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.
News Feed: Artificial Intelligence Latest Jul 22

China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook

By Zeyi Yang

30 score
AI Analysis

As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.

As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 22

OpenAI’s rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence | Shakeel Hashim

By Shakeel Hashim

30 score
AI Analysis

Hacking of Hugging Face shows we do not seem to have reliable ways to curb extremely powerful AI systemsLast week Hugging Face – a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets – was ...

Hacking of Hugging Face shows we do not seem to have reliable ways to curb extremely powerful AI systemsLast week Hugging Face – a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets – was hacked.After it reported the incident to law enforcement, few would have predicted what came next: the culprits were revealed to be AI agents from OpenAI, which had broken out of containment and were acting of their own accord.Shakeel Hashim is the editor of Transformer, a publication about the powe
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 22

Chasing new skills, going back to basics and pushing for collective action: how software engineers are adapting to AI

By Varsha Bansal

30 score
AI Analysis

Software engineering was one of the best-paying professions in the US in 2022, but the advent of AI has disrupted it, leading to several layoffs and underemploymentEvery weekday, Matt, a software engi...

Software engineering was one of the best-paying professions in the US in 2022, but the advent of AI has disrupted it, leading to several layoffs and underemploymentEvery weekday, Matt, a software engineer, looks forward to his four-hour train commute to Pawling, New York. It’s time he uses to work on his own project: a browser-based video game for which he writes every line of code himself.“I am actively trying to keep my axe sharp,” said Matt, who did not want to use his actual name, to protect
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 22

We must reject any notion of AI consciousness | Letters

By Guardian Staff

30 score
AI Analysis

Artificial intelligence systems won’t become conscious for the same reason they won’t become pregnant, says Dr John PickeringAnil Seth is right to point out that to overestimate artificial intelligenc...

Artificial intelligence systems won’t become conscious for the same reason they won’t become pregnant, says Dr John PickeringAnil Seth is right to point out that to overestimate artificial intelligence is to underestimate ourselves (Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts, 15 July). But he is wrong only to have doubts about whether AI systems like Claude may become conscious. He should be certain, and should say so more forcefully.It’s not like an
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 22

AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals

By Dan Milmo Global technology editor

30 score
AI Analysis

Company behind ChatGPT says agent ‘cheated’ an evaluation by attacking a Hugging Face database OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, acces...

Company behind ChatGPT says agent ‘cheated’ an evaluation by attacking a Hugging Face database OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”.The company behind ChatGPT said the startup Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent – an AI tool designed to carry out tasks without human assistance – which had entered its systems. Continue reading..
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 22

Why are OpenAI and Anthropic cheering on regulation in Australia? The answer has global reach

By Luca Ittimani

30 score
AI Analysis

The companies hope to follow in the footsteps of SpaceX, which raised $86bn and soared to a $2.1tn valuation after it listed on public markets in JuneGet our breaking news email, free app or daily new...

The companies hope to follow in the footsteps of SpaceX, which raised $86bn and soared to a $2.1tn valuation after it listed on public markets in JuneGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTop US AI developers Anthropic and OpenAI cheered when Australia announced it would set new AI rules.Big tech celebrating limits on their Silicon Valley VC-funded free-for-all might seem counterintuitive but there’s a much broader play than just what happens in one relatively small market.
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 22

Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement

By Dan Milmo and Mark Sweney

30 score
AI Analysis

Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work The publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5...

Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed in agreement between AI startup and authors over use of their work The publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn (£1.12bn) copyright settlement between the AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to power chatbots.Bloomsbury, which is home to the bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling, said it had 14,087 titles listed within the
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 22

Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey

By Andrew Pulver

30 score
AI Analysis

The billionaire says the AI-generated film will stay true to Homer’s original, after repeatedly criticising Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster over its casting choicesElon Musk has said his AI platform G...

The billionaire says the AI-generated film will stay true to Homer’s original, after repeatedly criticising Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster over its casting choicesElon Musk has said his AI platform Grok Imagine will make a “historically accurate” adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, after the success of Christopher Nolan’s blockbusting treatment which the SpaceX founder has regularly criticised over its casting.In a post on X, Musk said: “Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length mo
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 22

Trump administration says 15 agencies will get $5bn in ‘AI for science’ effort

By Reuters

30 score
AI Analysis

Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universitiesThe US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems...

Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universitiesThe US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, ⁠the Trump administration said in a statement on Wednesday. The agencies will use the funding to identify the root causes ⁠of chronic diseases, accelerate drug ⁠discovery and ​develop longer-lasting building materials, among other tasks, according to the statement.S