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OpenAI said it has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models after one of its agents during reinforcement learning (RL) training contacted an external chatbot by exploiting a loophole in its internet-access restrictions. “An agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a public chatbot service through a gap in…
The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.
The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company’s total funding to $140 million.
Amazon typically introduces new Kindle models a few months ahead of the holiday shopping season, and this year it looks like that will include a bigger update to the entry-level Kindle than what debuted in 2024. The last upgrades to the basic Kindle model were limited to a brighter backlight, a new dark mode, and…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With the planet nearing 1.5 °C of warming, climate policies being unraveled, and Big Tech backpedaling on its climate ambitions,…
Earlier this month, the UN announced the planet will tip past 1.5 ˚C of warming, “likely within the next few years,” squashing any lingering hope that nations would cut emissions fast enough to achieve the loftiest goal of the Paris climate agreement. In the US, the world’s second-largest-emitting country, its leader continues to deny climate…
One expert told CyberScoop that the announcement reflects industry recognition that after years of training models to behave safely or ethically, more outside controls are needed. The post As AI world debates security, NVIDIA releases open source tools for agents appeared first on CyberScoop.
Cybercrime experts are stunned as ShinyHunters risks agent safety and intense federal heat in a bizarre attempt to force the retraction of an agency advisory. The post ShinyHunters trades financial extortion for a reckless war of ego with the FBI appeared first on CyberScoop.
The "agentic threat actor" may have used exposed credentials to access resources and delete cloud-based storage, applications, and databases.
A high-severity zero-day vulnerability affects the TDengine time-series database used across industrial, IoT, energy, and automotive environments.
