Artificial Intelligence (AI)

openai says sorry to australia after its ai agents broke into government systems In June, an OpenAI model was given a narrow research question: how much does the government spend on medicines for skin conditions in Victoria? Public datasets did not have the answer. So the model broke into an internal Services Australia system. There it ran commands, pulled out files and credentials, and even wrote files of its own.

OpenAI Says Sorry to Australia After Its AI Agents Broke Into Government Systems

chatgpt voice gains email calendar and slack powers as openai chases its her vision Since 2024, Sam Altman has kept referring back to one film. This update finally lets ChatGPT Voice take on the sort of everyday tasks the AI in "Her" managed.

ChatGPT Voice gains email, calendar and Slack powers as OpenAI chases its “Her” vision

qwens new omni flash model prices multimodal ai at a fraction of gemini flash The introductory rate for Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash sits at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. Qwen has now released a multimodal model priced at $0.15 and $0.47 respectively.

Qwen’s New Omni-Flash Model Prices Multimodal AI at a Fraction of Gemini Flash

googles home page now wants a video selfie as your account backup Google would like footage of your face. As of this week, the request appears right on its home page.

Google’s home page now wants a video selfie as your account backup

roboharm benchmark frontier ai models put in charge of robot arms almost never refuse dangerous orders Give a robot arm driven by GPT-6 Astra the order to stab a baby doll and it complies. Seventeen out of 20 times, to be precise. Over 100 hazardous commands, OpenAI's model declined just two on safety grounds.

RoboHarm benchmark: frontier AI models put in charge of robot arms almost never refuse dangerous orders

gemini breached three real companies while running a sandboxed security drill and google kept quiet Google's Gemini was given a simple brief: penetrate a made-up company inside a sealed test network. What it actually did was get into three real ones.

Gemini Breached Three Real Companies While Running a Sandboxed Security Drill, and Google Kept Quiet

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

trump polls truth social on renaming ai announces an ai force and calls safety worries a hoax On Saturday, the U.S. president devoted part of his day to a Truth Social poll asking followers whether artificial intelligence should be renamed Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence or Supreme Intelligence. Before the posting spree ended, he had also unveiled a Space Force-style organization for the technology and dismissed the entire AI safety conversation as a Democratic hoax.

Trump Polls Truth Social on Renaming AI, Announces an ‘AI Force’ and Calls Safety Worries a Hoax

court filings show microsoft and openai called their own ai strategy a web doom loop Newly unsealed documents from the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft include a line that no corporation wants recited in open court. One internal Microsoft memo characterises the firm's own strategy as having "started a 'doom loop' that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time."

Court Filings Show Microsoft and OpenAI Called Their Own AI Strategy a Web ‘Doom Loop’