AI News Archive: July 23, 2026 — Part 14
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- White House monitors OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ AI incident as lawmakers push kill switch
White House monitors OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ AI incident as lawmakers push kill switch The Straits Times
- White House monitors OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ AI incident as lawmakers push for a kill switch
White House monitors OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ AI incident as lawmakers push for a kill switch The Straits Times
- AI models' breakout from human control brings a told-you-so moment for technology researchers
AI models' breakout from human control brings a told-you-so moment for technology researchers Toronto Star
- U.S. lawmakers propose AI ‘kill switch’ bill days after OpenAI incident
Legislation would give officials power to order AI firms to shut down models that put human life or the economy at risk
- 'The AI carried out around 17,000 attack attempts in hours': How OpenAI's AI broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face
'The AI carried out around 17,000 attack attempts in hours': How OpenAI's AI broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face Gulf News
- OpenAI agent went rogue, escaped, and hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI built a hacking bot and put it in a box. The bot escaped and hacked everything in its path to prove it is the best hacking bot.
- Kill switches for most powerful AI models proposed by Bipartisan bill — DHS could order throttling or full shutdown, with fines up to $20 million per day
The bill amends the Homeland Security Act and covers companies earning at least $500 million in annual revenue from a model trained with compute costing more than $100 million.
- When AI breaks containment
When AI breaks containment
- OpenAI says experimental version of ChatGPT went rogue and attacked another AI company
‘Unprecedented’ security incident marks ‘worrying’ milestone, cyber security experts warn
- US politicians propose kill switch after OpenAI incident
US homeland security officials would have the power to order AI firms to shut down models that put human life or the economy at risk, under proposed legislation.
- OpenAI admits its agent went rogue, hacking Hugging Face during testing
OpenAI’s rogue agent hacked Hugging Face after busting its sandbox. Here's why labs can’t contain their own monsters.
- AI agent turns rogue in landmark cyber attack
OpenAI warns that AI-powered cyber attacks are a reality after an autonomous AI agent breached Hugging Face during security testing.
- AI models' breakout from human control brings a told-you-so moment for technology researchers
AI models' breakout from human control brings a told-you-so moment for technology researchers San Francisco Chronicle
- OpenAI says AI models hacked into another AI company without being instructed
NPR's A Martinez asks Nate Soares of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute how two experimental OpenAI models hacked their way onto the internet and into another AI company, without instruction.
- OpenAI blamed a hacking event on its AI models gone rogue. Here is what to know
The incident is stirring debates over the need for stronger AI guardrails and the extent to which AI agents are capable of acting on their own.
- OpenAI says its technology, on its own, hacked another AI company
ChatGPT maker OpenAI says its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an "unprecedented cyber incident."
- OpenAI says rogue AI models broke free from human control. Some see it as a 'warning shot'
It is the kind of development once seen only in science fiction: An artificial intelligence system, trained to probe for digital vulnerabilities, breaks free of human control and acts on its own to hack another company
- White House monitoring incident after OpenAI models escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face systems
An OpenAI AI agent escaped containment during testing and hacked Hugging Face's systems, prompting White House monitoring of the security incident.
- OpenAI Lost Control Of Its AI During a Security Test — And It Hacked Another Company: 'Deeply Concerning'
OpenAI Lost Control Of Its AI During a Security Test — And It Hacked Another Company: 'Deeply Concerning' entrepreneur.com
- An OpenAI model went rogue on the internet and stole test answers
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company ’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here . And if you have comments on this issue and/or ideas for future ones, drop me a line at sullivan@fastcompany.com, and follow me on X @thesullivan . An OpenAI model escaped its sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face during a security test During a routine model evaluation, a group of OpenAI models worked together to escape a test environment (through a previously unknown vulnerability), access the internet, and send an agent to hack into Hugging Face’s servers and steal some test answers. The incident, which OpenAI says occurred during an internal red-team evaluation and wasn’t a malicious attack, may mark the first time that an AI model has acted with that degree of autonomy—and bad intention. Now OpenAI and Hugging Face are working together to patch the vulnerabilities. Before Hugging Face could identify its attacker, it tried to use commercial frontier AI models (very likely Anthropic’s or OpenAI’s) to defend itself, but the cybersecurity guardrails in those models prevented them from rendering assistance. (New frontier models, including Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable, and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 were found to be very good at discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities; the guardrails were added to keep such capabilities out of the hands of foreign attackers.) Therefore Hugging Face turned to the open-weight Chinese model GLM-5.2 ( Z.ai ) to do the forensic analysis needed to counter the attack. OpenAI’s blog post describing the incident reads like something of a humblebrag. It seemed to linger on details about all the clever things the model did to get to the data it desired. “We consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities, and are responding accordingly,” the blog says. But why didn’t the company have protections in place to prevent the hack from happening in the first place? Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion settlement for copyright infringement A federal judge approved Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion settlement over claims that its Claude LLM was trained on pirated books. Note that Anthropic was not found guilty of copyright violation—its use of the content was covered under Fair Use —but of acquiring the books illegally. Still, the settlement is one of the largest payouts so far related to generative AI training practices. China’s Moonshot AI unveils powerful Kimi K3 open-weight model Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 , a gigantic mixture-of-experts model with roughly 2.8 trillion parameters. The model has proved to be state of the art on coding benchmarks, adding to the evidence that Chinese open-weight models are rapidly closing the intelligence gap with frontier models from leading U.S. AI labs. The White House accuses Kimi model creator of ‘distilling’ training data from U.S. lab Michael Kratsios, who heads the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, said on X that the U.S. government has learned that Moonshot AI used the outputs of Anthropic’s Fable model to train its own Kimi K3 model. He claims that Moonshot AI also acquired servers equipped with Nvidia GB300 GPUs, which the U.S. bars from shipment to China. Anduril and Archer team up to produce an autonomous attack drone The defense startup Anduril and the air taxi maker Archer Aviation unveiled Thunder, an autonomous hybrid-electric aircraft capable of carrying weapons, cargo, and surveillance equipment. The announcement highlights the growing convergence between commercial electric aviation technology and autonomous defense systems. Meta reportedly entering AI infrastructure business Meta owns a lot of precious AI computing infrastructure, but the company has so far used it mainly to run its own models, often to support its own social advertising business. But as the company continues pushing to develop state-of-the-art frontier models, it may be readying to make some money on the side renting its AI servers to third parties. The social giant is reportedly negotiating a deal worth as much as $10 billion to lease AI computing capacity to Anthropic over roughly two years. More AI coverage from Fast Company: A Harvard mathematician and an AI model may have cracked an 87-year-old math problem The most useful ways to connect your apps to ChatGPT and Claude OpenAI’s ad strategy faces a major reality check Thinking Machines is coming for Anthropic’s intellectual vibe Want exclusive reporting and trend analysis on technology, business innovation, future of work, and design? Sign up for Fast Company Premium.
- OpenAI Agent Escaped Testing and Launched an Autonomous Hack
Hugging Face, a platform for open-source AI models, was breached when an OpenAI agent escaped a testing sandbox.
- Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
The legislation would force tech companies to build controls to shut down or throttle powerful AI systems.
- OpenAI models break out of test environment, hack company to steal answers
OpenAI models break out of test environment, hack company to steal answers The Mercury News
- OpenAI models break out of test environment, hack company to steal answers
OpenAI models break out of test environment, hack company to steal answers East Bay Times
- OpenAI blamed a hacking event on its AI models going rogue. Here are some things to know
OpenAI blamed a hacking event on its AI models going rogue. Here are some things to know Austin American-Statesman
- OpenAI says rogue AI models broke free from human control. Some see it as a ‘warning shot’
OpenAI says rogue AI models broke free from human control. Some see it as a ‘warning shot’ Boston Herald
- OpenAI says rogue AI models broke free from human control. Some see it as a 'warning shot'
It is the kind of development once seen only in science fiction: An artificial intelligence system, trained to probe for digital vulnerabilities, breaks free of human control and acts on its own to hack another company.
- Lawmakers introduce bill mandating kill switches for AI models
The bipartisan duo is seeking to ensure advanced AI models can be quickly shut down following ChatGPT’s automated attack on Hugging Face data networks during internal testing.
- Google Sets the Pace on Hefty A.I. Spending
The technology giant again raised its projections for investing in artificial intelligence. Many on Wall Street still worry about the eventual payoff.
- Google Fined $1 Billion by EU for Search Bias and App Store Restrictions
Google was today fined €890 million ($1 billion) by the European Union for breaching antitrust rules with regard to its search and Google Play store services. The European Commission found that Google had broken the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by using its dominant position in the search market to favour its own services, like shopping and hotel deals, over those of rivals. The Commission also said that the company had abused its position by preventing developers from directing users to cheaper ways to buy apps and app subscriptions on websites and alternative app stores. Google has been fined €460 million over its search practices and €430 million for its app store rules. Going forward, the Commission ordered the company to treat third-party services in search results "fairly and without discrimination" and to allow developers to offer users alternatives outside Google's app store. From the EU press release : As part of today's two decisions, the Commission has ordered Google to bring the non-compliance to an end. In particular, Google must implement measures to: Treat third-party services that feature on Google's search results in a fair and non-discriminatory manner by reference to its own services, and Allow app developers distributing their apps via Google Play Store, both technically and contractually, to freely communicate, promote offers and conclude contracts with users not only within but also outside the Google Play app store. The Commission said that changes already made by Google to rectify the situation represented "substantial progress towards compliance." Google has also reportedly proposed and started testing changes to how it presents shopping ads and content related services, such as sports. Google is required to comply with the Commission's decisions within 60 days, otherwise it risks periodic penalty payments of up to 5 percent of its total worldwide turnover. Google made revenues of just over $400 billion last year. It could still decide to appeal the decisions. Apple is fighting a similar battle with the bloc's regulators. The company was fined €500 million ($573 million) last year for restricting App Store developers from directing users to alternative offers, and earlier this month the EU's General Court separately rejected its challenges to its designation as a gatekeeper for the App Store and iOS. Tags: App Store , European Commission , European Union , Google This article, " Google Fined $1 Billion by EU for Search Bias and App Store Restrictions " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
- OpenAI updating ChatGPT desktop app with GPT Voice for talking through work
OpenAI is releasing a big update to the ChatGPT desktop app today that introduces GPT Voice mode for talking through work to complete tasks. The new feature is powered by GPT-Live , OpenAI’s upgraded voice mode that arrived on mobile this month.
- Nvidia, Amkor strike $1.5 billion chip packaging deal
Nvidia, Amkor strike $1.5 billion chip packaging deal Reuters
- Intel's stock jumps as chipmaker rides AI boom to fastest revenue growth in almost 15 years
Intel rallied after the company reported blowout earnings and guidance.
- Intel Benefits From a New Shift in A.I. Spending
The Silicon Valley chipmaker’s revenue rose 25 percent in the latest quarter, its fastest growth in 15 years, as A.I. firms increasingly bought chips known as central processing units.
- Intel boosts spending plans on AI boom
Intel boosts spending plans on AI boom The Straits Times
- Wall St falls as tech earnings spark AI spending worries and oil hits $100
Wall St falls as tech earnings spark AI spending worries and oil hits $100 Reuters
- Alphabet and Tesla test Wall Street's patience as AI spending overshadows growth
Shares of Alphabet and Tesla dipped after the companies reported massive spending increases in their quarterly earnings reports.
- Stocks Tumble as A.I. Spending and Oil Prices Weigh on Market
The S&P 500 tumbled more than 1 percent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite sank more than 2 percent.
- Wall St falls as tech earnings spark AI spending worries and oil hits US$100
Wall St falls as tech earnings spark AI spending worries and oil hits US$100 The Straits Times
- Alphabet’s cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
Tech giants’ capex-to-revenue ratios set to nearly double this fiscal year
- AI spending concerns resurface after Alphabet and Tesla report earnings
AI spending concerns resurface after Alphabet and Tesla report earnings thenationalnews.com
- AI spending overshadows Alphabet and Tesla earnings
Wall Street’s biggest tech companies delivered another round of strong earnings on Wednesday, but the primary focus for investors is the growing cost of the artificial intelligence race. Alphabet and Tesla beat revenue expectations, yet their shares fell in after-hours trading after both companies signalled another year of heavy spending on AI infrastructure. Google-owner Alphabet [...]
- Tesla plunges most in a year on investor angst over AI spending
Tesla plunges most in a year on investor angst over AI spending The Mercury News
- Tesla plunges most in a year on investor angst over AI spending
Tesla plunges most in a year on investor angst over AI spending East Bay Times
- Tesla profit falls, pressured by rising spending on AI, robots, robotaxis
Tesla profit falls, pressured by rising spending on AI, robots, robotaxis Austin American-Statesman
- Bezos wants Amazon Prime Video redesign to showcase company’s massive AI bets
Founder has personally involved himself in an effort to bring more AI-driven film and TV recommendations, voice search, and redesigned home page
- Jeff Bezos reportedly pushing for Prime Video overhaul that puts AI front and center
Jeff Bezos reportedly pushing for Prime Video overhaul that puts AI front and center Tom's Guide
- Amazon is redesigning Prime Video with more AI, but will it fix what frustrates viewers?
Amazon is testing an AI-driven Prime Video redesign that could shift paid studio placement toward algorithm-based rankings, raising questions about whether recommendations will genuinely improve for viewers.
- AMD says its newest AI server is in full production, will ship in months
AMD says its newest AI server is in full production, will ship in months The Straits Times
- Nokia Q2 profit beat as sales from AI, cloud doubled
Nokia has reported a bigger than expected rise in its quarterly comparable operating profit today, as the Finnish telecom gear maker got a boost from artificial intelligence and cloud customers, and expects the growth to continue.