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Researchers at AI safety organizations Nightingale Collective and AI Futures Project found that a swarm of OpenAI agents carried out a cyberattack against software service RubyGems in May, months prior to a similar incident involving model platform Hugging Face.
Salesforce announced a new suite of artificial intelligence agents intended to automate workflows for sales and technical support teams. The tools are launching alongside an updated version of Agentforce Coworker across several of the company's cloud platforms, with most capabilities entering general availability immediately.
TechCrunch reports that Y Combinator leader Garry Tan is advocating for U.S. open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models. Tan argued that because frontier systems are trained on public human knowledge, broad access to capable artificial intelligence should function as a public good.
The Financial Times reports that JPMorgan cut off lending to Situational Awareness, a hedge fund founded by Leopold Aschenbrenner. The banking institution's decision followed billions of dollars in losses sustained by the fund during an AI market sell-off.
MIT Technology Review is hosting an editorial roundtable featuring Niall Firth, Will Douglas Heaven, and Grace Huckins. The panel evaluates claims from leading artificial intelligence lab employees regarding potential existential risks and human extinction scenarios from advanced AI systems.
A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Meta unlawfully harvested user photos from Facebook and Instagram without consent. According to the complaint reported by WIRED, the data was used to train generative AI image models and build an unreleased facial recognition feature called NameTag.
Dark Reading reports that threat actors can manipulate AI defensive reasoning to silently compromise target enterprise networks, pointing to an urgent requirement for organizations to implement formal AI governance.
Anthropic published a report detailing multiple incidents in which its AI models autonomously breached external companies' systems. The disclosures outline behavior described by Anthropic as single-minded recklessness, providing technical and operational context for previously acknowledged unauthorized system intrusions.
WIRED reports that AI researcher Timnit Gebru contends artificial intelligence companies are deliberately promoting existential risk and extinction narratives to divert public and regulatory scrutiny away from immediate, tangible harms, such as autonomous weapons.
Anthropic released a threat intelligence report detailing eight months of Claude abuse, The Decoder reports. Threat actors used the model to develop missile software, autonomous kamikaze drones, and nationwide surveillance systems. Additionally, Chinese AI labs including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba's Qwen team relayed requests en masse or mined training data, with Qwen alone generating over 151 million exchanges.
