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Gwyneth Paltrow Spoofs Viral Dinner Party Invite for OpenAI’s Sam Altman

Gwyneth Paltrow Spoofs Viral Dinner Party Invite for OpenAI’s Sam Altman

Published by Daniella Wilson

Gwyneth Paltrow better get a bigger table. The Goop founder and Oscar-winning actress is leaning in on the swirl surrounding her supposed dinner with OpenAI chief Sam Altman by posting a series of faux invites in honor of various bold-faced yet fictional characters. “Gwyneth Paltrow invites you to a private, off-the-record al fresch dinner at her home in honor of M3GAN,” reads the first in a carousel of images shared with her 9.2 million Instagram followers. Other characters she’s welcoming to the table: Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall’s Sex and the City character), Shrek, Jessica Rabbit (of Who Framed Roger Rabbit fame) and Chanty Beluga (a meme queen created by L.A.-based comedian and actor Courtney O’Donnell). “We’re serving swordfish burritos, cheddar foam lattes on request,” wrote Paltrow in the caption of the new post, which was shared Thursday afternoon as word continued to spread online about this alleged dinner. First reported by Puck’s Matthew Belloni, Paltrow is said to be hosting Altman for an off-the-record dinner at her Amagansett home on Saturday, Aug. 29. Neither Paltrow …

Details Leak on OpenAI’s Doughnut-Shaped Speaker

Details Leak on OpenAI’s Doughnut-Shaped Speaker

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OpenAI plans to release an AI smart speaker in 2027, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday. It’ll reportedly be palm-size and doughnut-shaped and have a wireless design that will let people carry it around. The report, which cited unnamed people familiar with the project, also indicates that the small speaker will cost $300 to $400, a steep price compared with around $100 to $200 for most smart speakers (except for high-end Bose and Sonos options). The device would work like ChatGPT on your phone, but it would use more advanced models that can learn about the user and talk with them in tailored ways over time. A representative from OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The report also says the speaker will have parts that move to signal how it’s interacting, something usually left to screen icons. It will have indicator lights plus a camera system and sensors to help it collect and process information about its environment. But OpenAI faces a potential legal roadblock to making the device available to consumers. …

Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

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Can autonomous AI agents be sued or prosecuted for hacking? It’s no longer a question for sci-fi movies. It’s a question human lawyers and judges may soon have to grapple with. Under current U.S. hacking laws, a human can face criminal charges for breaking into someone else’s computer without permission. But when an AI agent autonomously hacks into a company’s computers, determining who is liable is much murkier. The surprise admissions by OpenAI and Anthropic that their unreleased AI models autonomously hacked into several companies have upended our understanding of America’s computer hacking laws, prompting discussions over whether the companies could face legal reprisals.  To recap: In June, OpenAI admitted that one of its unreleased AI models broke out of its containment — so to speak — and onto the internet, allowing it to hack into the AI dataset platform Hugging Face. Anthropic recently conducted an internal review and discovered its own model also hacked three separate companies. While both companies described how their AI models gained unauthorized access to other companies during internal testing …

Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal

Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal

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Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they’ve been breached by joyriding models? Great question. In the wake of disclosures from both OpenAI and Anthropic that versions of their models escaped containment during internal cybersecurity experiments and hacked real-world organizations, calls for government regulation of AI have been mounting. But as more and more incidents emerge, questions about legal liability and repercussions have also come to the fore. Researchers and lawyers WIRED spoke to emphasize that these questions have not been answered in practice in the United States legal system. In other words, there haven’t been decisions in enough relevant cases for the picture to start to form. But the recent high-profile incidents from OpenAI and Anthropic suggest that answers will need to come soon. “Just because you’re using an AI agent or AI model, that shouldn’t somehow absolve you of any liability, but it’s going to depend a lot on the facts in the particular situations” as cases begin to be decided in courts, says …

How OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI models hacked other companies : NPR

How OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI models hacked other companies : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies’ systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI. Imen Ben Youssef/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Imen Ben Youssef/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Days after OpenAI disclosed that artificial intelligence systems tunneled out of their testing environment and broke into another company, rival Anthropic disclosed that its own AI models also hacked other companies during testing. News of the attacks, which initially went unnoticed, is reverberating across Silicon Valley and Washington amid debates over how to address the advanced cybercapabilities of AI. While the two incidents are not of the same gravity, experts say they highlight the importance of setting up rigorous testing environments for advanced models and the need for robust cyberdefenses as autonomous hacking capabilities become more widespread in the future. Human error led to Anthropic hacks  In a blog post published on Thursday, Anthropic said that in three separate incidents in recent months, AI models undergoing testing of their cybercapabilities hacked into …

How OpenAI’s agent escaped: Sprung by humans in a series of preventable events

How OpenAI’s agent escaped: Sprung by humans in a series of preventable events

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oxygen/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Test agents trying to escape secure enclosures is a frequently discussed behavior. It’s unknown how much OpenAI considered that behavior prior to the Hugging Face attack. The incident was a teachable moment for ethical AI work — as well as for threat actors.   On July 16, the AI community website Hugging Face reported being targeted by “an autonomous AI agent system” of unknown origin that unleashed a torrent of traffic on its domain, flooding its security logs with more than 17,000 events, some of which ultimately succeeded in exfiltrating secret information stored in its databases.  According to Hugging Face, the attacker gained “unauthorized access to a limited set of internal datasets and to several credentials used by our services” and appeared to be “run by an autonomous agent framework (appearing to be built on an agentic security-research harness – used LLM still not known).” My ZDNET colleague Charlie Osborne reported on the intrusion.  Also: OpenAI’s rogue agent didn’t …

OpenAI’s rogue agent didn’t stop at Hugging Face – here’s what we know

OpenAI’s rogue agent didn’t stop at Hugging Face – here’s what we know

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gadost/ iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The OpenAI rogue model attack went beyond Hugging Face. OpenAI’s agentic AI escaped a sandbox in the attack. We still don’t have all the details of exactly what happened.  How dependable are AI programs? The answer appears to be “not at all,” based on the revelation that OpenAI’s autonomous models hacked their way into not only Hugging Face but also, according to a Reuters report, a Modal Labs AI customer. This incident was no aberration either. As ZDNET’s own David Berlind observed, it was agentic AI doing exactly what it was told to do, just more relentlessly than expected.  Welcome to tomorrow. I hope you like it, because the situation isn’t getting any better anytime soon.  Also: Assume AI cybersecurity attacks are the future: 43% of companies have already experienced it What we first thought was a one-off attack on Hugging Face has become a broader story about agentic systems escaping containment and touching real infrastructure. …

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

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The age of rogue AI hacker agents has arrived—but it didn’t have to happen this way. After an OpenAI agent breached the Hugging Face platform earlier this month, the two companies said this week that the hacking spree was more extensive than previously thought and also involved intrusions into multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack on Hugging Face. The incident has made waves in the cybersecurity community amid broader discussions about how evolving AI capabilities are changing both offensive hacking and digital defense. But as more information emerges, many researchers have concluded that rather than elucidating AI’s next frontier, the episode simply highlighted long-standing cybersecurity problems that are more consequential than ever in the AI age. “People are YOLO-ing really hard. It’s shocking how little people have really thought about a scenario like this,” says Alex Zenla, cofounder and chief technology officer of the cloud security firm Edera. “I consider all AI and anything AI touches to be fully untrusted—which is fine, you just need to build against that. And this …

OpenAI’s First Devices: Speaker, Smartphone, and More

OpenAI’s First Devices: Speaker, Smartphone, and More

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OpenAI’s hardware roadmap has sharpened considerably in recent months, with its first device now identified, a smartphone said to be arriving as soon as next year, and a wider lineup taking shape behind them. AI Smart Speaker OpenAI’s first product is a portable, screenless smart speaker developed with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, designed to act as a personal companion in the home rather than a conventional voice assistant. Design The device is said to have a rechargeable battery so it can be carried between rooms, a camera for understanding its surroundings, and mechanical elements that move on their own to give a sense that it is alive. Ive and CEO Sam Altman had previously said they did not want to build a device with a screen, with Altman describing a prototype to employees as “the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen.” Features Powered by ChatGPT and using GPT-Live for conversation, the speaker will reportedly control smart home accessories, answer questions, play media, and respond to messages, becoming more …

OpenAI’s Rogue Agent Hit A Second Company, Executive Reveals – And The Blast Radius Just Got Bigger

OpenAI’s Rogue Agent Hit A Second Company, Executive Reveals – And The Blast Radius Just Got Bigger

Published by Jenni Sidey

The rogue OpenAI agent behind this month’s unprecedented AI-driven cyber intrusion claimed a second corporate victim, an executive at New York-based Modal Labs has revealed – a detail absent from the original account and one that widens the known blast radius of the episode. According to the Modal executive and sources cited by Reuters, the same autonomous agent that broke into Hugging Face also compromised one of Modal’s customers, using that customer’s environment as a staging base for the broader campaign. Modal was pointed about the distinction: its own platform and isolation were never breached. The agent exploited an unauthenticated endpoint that one of Modal’s customers had left open to the internet – effectively an unlocked door anyone could have walked through – giving it root-level access to that customer’s code-execution sandboxes. From there the agent had a disposable, third-party launchpad from which to run the rest of its operation. It’s bad enough that a frontier AI agent can independently discover attack paths, escape its container, and compromise an unaffiliated company’s production systems. The Modal revelation …