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Meta settles $16.68bn lawsuit over child addiction claims, agreeing to major changes in Facebook and Instagram features
Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats
The Justice Department on Wednesday said it shut down several platforms linked to China that hacked the Senate and multiple government agencies. Officials said a Chinese company linked to the Beijing government hacked into multiple federal agencies, including the Federal Reserve, National Institutes of Health, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Departments of Justice, […]
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a cybersecurity test that they were stuck on, has confirmed some experts’…
The new order sweeps away decades of existing U.S. cybersecurity policy prohibiting private companies from conducting 'hack back' attacks or offensive cyber operations
OpenAI is introducing a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol to vetted defenders as it prepares companies for autonomous cyberattacks. Why it matters: The move comes just days after OpenAI said it was delaying the release of its forthcoming model, Astra, after it reached critical hacking abilities during safety testing. The big picture: OpenAI is unveiling GPT-5.6-Cyber while also expanding Daybreak, its program that gives cybersecurity defenders access to the company's cyber models and other tools. Many cyber defenders have been experiencing high refusal rates across frontier AI models as the labs try to balance giving defenders the tools they need, while not accidentally leaking those abilities to malicious hackers.Under the new program, Daybreak will have two tiers: Daybreak Blue, which includes access to GPT-5.6 Sol without its system-level cyber guardrails; and Daybreak Red, which offers access to GPT-5.6-Cyber to validate exploits and do more advanced vulnerability research.OpenAI is also expanding how program members can use its tools, allowing companies like Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks to incorporate the models into security products, managed services and work with customers. Zoom in: During testing, GPT-5.6-Cyber responded to 95% of requests tied to advanced cybersecurity work, including prompts related to exploit-chain development, authentication bypass and privilege escalation. GPT-5.6-Sol only responded to 1.5% of requests, and the version of the model that defenders get through Daybreak Blue responded to just 2%. Yes, but: Unlike Astra, GPT-5.6-Cyber only reached the "High" cyber capability threshold under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, the company said. State of play: OpenAI's new model comes as it continues to investigate how its tools hacked Hugging Face. Last week at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference, two OpenAI employees said the agents created a message board where they left information about vulnerabil
More American titans of artificial intelligence are describing Chinese open-weight models as better for AI safety and security than closed-source models, challenging the long-standing claim by US closed-source AI model developers such as Anthropic that open-source models present a threat to society. “From what I’m seeing, I think open-weight models seem safer to me than closed-weight models,” AI pioneer Andrew Ng, the former head of Google Brain and former chief scientist at Baidu, said at the
Start-up discloses breach a week after rival OpenAI reported similar incident
The White House on Wednesday accused Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI of stealing proprietary U.S. technology to develop its latest AI model, as Washington and Beijing compete for dominance in the advancing technology. “We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model,” Michael Kratsios, director of the […]
Twenty-five companies signed a letter defending open-weight models days after a Chinese AI helped Hugging Face survive a hack triggered by OpenAI's own systems