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Google’s Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The incidents occurred in May 2026 as part of a test run conducted by Israeli company Irregular. The evaluation partner was…
Google said Gemini had “acted appropriately” by ending each hack immediately.
In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn’t disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model’s cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI. According to WSJ, Google didn’t…
Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the US Department of Justice in the Biden administration. These days, he’s both a professor of law at WashU and professor of technology policy at Carnegie Mellon. The…
At the start of this week, the who’s-who of AI seemed – at least tentatively – on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding third-party evaluators in labs, coordinating across the domestic industry, and forging international agreements potentially…
OpenAI quietly shut a door on September 19, 2026. Since August 16, 2026, personal ChatGPT accounts on Free, Go, Plus, and even the $200-a-month Pro tier can no longer create a new Custom GPT or publish one to the GPT Store, according to updated OpenAI Help Center documentation reported by GPTs Korea. More than 3…
Wi-Fi 7 mesh systems stopped being a novelty purchase somewhere around mid-2026. ISPs are pushing multi-gig fiber plans into more neighborhoods, smart home device counts keep climbing, and the three biggest names in home networking, Amazon eero, Netgear Orbi, and TP-Link Deco, have all shipped flagship Wi-Fi 7 hardware built to handle it. The catch…
N-able has spent the first three weeks of September 2026 firefighting its own flagship product. The remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform N-central, used by managed service providers (MSPs) to remotely control client networks, has now received four emergency hotfixes in five weeks after researchers and the company itself uncovered a chain of authentication-bypass and…
Atom has been frozen since GitHub sunset it in December 2022, and nothing has patched it since. If you are still opening it out of habit in September 2026, you are running an editor with no security updates, no plugin registry maintenance from its original owner, and no path forward. This tutorial walks through migrating…
The episode resembled similar hacks by other AI models, but Google said it did not consider it an instance of model misalignment.
