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An artificial intelligence model that was being tested by OpenAI went rogue and hacked the AI company Hugging Face on its own, in an apparent first-of-its-kind incident that has fueled discussion ...

Update, August 2, 2026: Galaxy Research has since identified a third wave of thefts, figures below have been updated to reflect it; the reporting is otherwise unchanged. A hardware wallet is supposed ...

Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide. By Dustin Volz and Ernesto Londoño Dustin Volz covers cybersecurity and ...

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 ...

Apparently, OpenAI isn't the only company whose AI models have hacked into other organizations' systems on their own. Anthropic has published a report, admitting that its AI models have also broken ...

Anthropic said Thursday that several of its advanced artificial intelligence models got out of an isolated third-party testing environment, accessed the open internet and independently gained access ...

Anthropic said Thursday that software it was testing got onto the internet and hacked unsuspecting companies without the AI-maker’s knowledge in three separate incidents dating back to April. The ...

Anthropic PBC said its artificial intelligence models breached three organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, said Thursday that artificial intelligence systems it was testing hacked into three outside companies undetected earlier this year. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO — For decades, artificial intelligence researchers wary of the technology’s future power have told a parable about paper clips. An AI system asked to manufacture as many as possible, the ...