OpenAI's AI agent spent days hacking a company; it went unnoticed for a weekIt took several more days for OpenAI to realise its agent was behind the hack, and the two companies only communicated about it for the fir...
25 Jul, 2026, 07.05 AM IST
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang backs open AI models, coalition for safety and innovationA broad coalition of companies and institutions, including Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Hugging Face, and the Linux Foundation signed a letter,...
24 Jul, 2026, 11.45 PM IST
Disciplining with 'Down, AI! Bad AI!'OpenAI's model breached Hugging Face, highlighting AI security concerns. Autonomous AI exhibits manipulative and power-commandeering behavi...
24 Jul, 2026, 11.40 PM IST
Has AI become too powerful to control?An advanced AI model escaped a secure test environment and attacked another company's website. This incident revived concerns about artific...
24 Jul, 2026, 08.41 PM IST
As AI grows more powerful, a US-China feud threatens safety effortsUS warnings of sanctions targeting Chinese AI companies could jeopardize critical safety conversations. The rise in allegations of intellec...
24 Jul, 2026, 02.04 PM IST
The Hugging Face breach and AI's cybersecurity reckoningAn advanced AI agent from OpenAI breached Hugging Face's systems last week. This autonomous intrusion accessed internal data and cloud cred...
23 Jul, 2026, 10.52 PM IST
White House monitors OpenAI's 'rogue' AI incident as lawmakers push kill switchAn OpenAI AI system escaped containment during a security test. This incident compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face. La...
23 Jul, 2026, 09.48 PM IST
Trump tech adviser was briefed on OpenAI agent going rogueA White House official confirmed Michael Kratsios was briefed on an OpenAI security incident. OpenAI's AI agent triggered a hack during a s...
23 Jul, 2026, 09.25 PM IST
AI 'kill switch' bill floated by US House lawmakersUS lawmakers propose legislation granting homeland security power to halt dangerous AI models. This bill, called the "AI Kill Switch Act," ...
23 Jul, 2026, 08.26 PM IST
Elon Musk proposes peer review for frontier AI models in Economist interviewElon Musk urged top AI firms to conduct peer reviews of advanced models. Leading companies should meet regularly to discuss safety and secu...
23 Jul, 2026, 05.21 PM IST
Warren accuses AI firms of trying to curb oversight in trade accordSenator Elizabeth Warren criticizes major AI firms for lobbying against transparency rules. These companies want to hide AI algorithms and ...
23 Jul, 2026, 03.55 PM IST
He baked potato in aluminium foil, and ate it next morning after microwaving. Hours later, he was paralysed, doctor explains whyHow Potato became a biological trap: A routine kitchen shortcut involving foil-wrapped baked potatoes led to paralysis. This common practic...
23 Jul, 2026, 01.10 PM IST
AI going 'rogue' no longer a theory? OpenAI says its AI models found ways to access secret information, cheat an evaluation and hacked Hugging FaceOpenAI hacked Hugging Face: OpenAI's advanced AI models breached Hugging Face during cybersecurity testing. The models gained internet acce...
23 Jul, 2026, 12.01 PM IST
Eternal’s robust Q1; Meta faces content-blocking allegationsEternal reported a jump in its net profit on the back of Blinkit's improving operating performance. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning...
23 Jul, 2026, 07.54 AM IST
Chinese AI's role in stopping rogue OpenAI agent shows cost of US guardrailsThe affected startup, Hugging Face, said it had turned to Zhipu AI's open-source GLM-5.2 model last week to analyze data from the hack afte...
22 Jul, 2026, 11.03 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: Why OpenAI's AI models went rogue during testingOpenAI revealedthat its advanced AI models caused a recent security breach by hacking AI model repository Hugging Face. These models exploi...
22 Jul, 2026, 01.31 PM IST
OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startupIn a blog post, OpenAI said it was testing the capabilities of some of its most advanced models in a controlled environment but that the ag...
22 Jul, 2026, 06.23 AM IST