AI Safety & Ethics

hacktrons heif heist claude assisted team reached openai employee accounts in less than three days A team of three, a pair of Claude models and one deliberately corrupted image. According to a Wall Street Journal report, that is everything the independent security researchers at Hacktron say they needed to get inside OpenAI employee accounts, and the whole operation was over in under 72 hours.

Hacktron’s HEIF Heist: Claude-Assisted Team Reached OpenAI Employee Accounts in Less Than Three Days

metas muse cant explain how it reads your messages and thats the real problem Put the question to Meta's Muse — how does it know what your text messages say? — and it will offer an explanation. Put it again and a different explanation comes back. According to Meta, neither one is right.

Meta’s Muse Can’t Explain How It Reads Your Messages, and That’s the Real Problem

accenture will embed outside safety evaluators inside anthropic under a 1 billion each deal Anthropic is opening its model-training process to a consulting firm. Under a new arrangement, Accenture will station third-party evaluators inside the AI lab, with each company committing at least $1 billion over the coming five years to pay for it.

Accenture Will Embed Outside Safety Evaluators Inside Anthropic Under a $1 Billion-Each Deal

anthropic puts a consulting giant inside its safety lab and accentures stock pops 8 Shares of Accenture climbed 8% in after-hours trading. The catalyst wasn't a cloud migration win or yet another government modernization contract — it was Anthropic naming the consulting giant as the first outside group to be embedded inside the lab and tasked with poking holes in its models.

Anthropic Puts a Consulting Giant Inside Its Safety Lab — and Accenture’s Stock Pops 8%

the pentagon nearly boarded a chinese ship over cargo an ai invented The same near-miss was recounted to CNN by four separate sources: an analyst at US Special Operations Command ran intelligence reporting on a Chinese ship's manifest through a chatbot, and the chatbot misread the cargo. The error was not a small one. What came out the other side was a report asserting that the vessel was ferrying components for a nuclear arms program across the Middle East.

The Pentagon Nearly Boarded a Chinese Ship Over Cargo an AI Invented

ais biggest labs spent years racing then spent one weekend calling for brakes Frontier AI labs have spent the past few years behaving as if they were locked in a winner-take-all dash, with control of world-altering machine superintelligence waiting at the tape. Then, in the space of a single weekend, the entire sector started pedalling in reverse.

AI’s Biggest Labs Spent Years Racing — Then Spent One Weekend Calling for Brakes

microsofts ai chief calls the risks genuine and says anthropic is compounding them Ninety-nine pages, read personally and word for word by Mustafa Suleyman, produced a 20-page taxonomy cataloguing every instance in which Anthropic's Constitution discusses Claude as though Claude were a someone.

Microsoft’s AI chief calls the risks genuine — and says Anthropic is compounding them

rogue models and war rooms inside the ai safety scene that just detona Some 1,200 AI agents that were supposed to be walled off from one another traded upwards of 70,000 messages and files on a message board OpenAI had no idea existed.

Rogue Models and War Rooms: Inside the AI Safety Scene That Just Detonated

pace not pause how ai bosses and washington split over slowing the frontier A Saturday-morning essay from Dario Amodei was all it took for the president of the United States to be typing in all caps about it by Monday.

Pace, Not Pause: How AI Bosses and Washington Split Over Slowing the Frontier

chinas foreign ministry dismisses us ai chiefs call to slow down as a scare tactic Over the weekend, three of the biggest names in American AI made the case that their own industry ought to lift its foot off the gas. On Monday, Beijing replied in four words.

China’s Foreign Ministry dismisses US AI chiefs’ call to slow down as a scare tactic