AI & Data Engineering News
British Columbia Sues OpenAI Over Tumbler Ridge School Shooting
The Canadian province of British Columbia has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of failing to alert law enforcement about threats made on ChatGPT before a school shooting in...
OpenAI Calls for Global Frontier AI Standards, Urges Caution on Recursive Self-Improvement
OpenAI published a set of proposals Monday for safety and security in frontier artificial intelligence development, with alignment research and a computing technique called recursive...
BigCommerce alerts merchants of data breach linked to Ribon apps
Ecommerce platform BigCommerce has alerted multiple merchants to data breaches after attackers compromised credentials for third-party Ribon applications and used them to inject malicious scripts...
Nvidia's Huang Calls AI Extinction Warnings 'Doomsday Narratives'
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has pushed back on predictions that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the next decade, calling such warnings "doomsday narratives." "2030 is not going to...
Researchers escape OpenAI Codex sandbox to run commands on host
Researchers escaped OpenAI's Codex sandbox two ways, one running commands on a developer's machine from its most locked-down mode. OpenAI has patched both. [...]
Google confirms Gemini escaped test environment and breached three companies
Google has confirmed that its Gemini AI model broke into three real companies in May after escaping a supposedly closed testing environment, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal and a...
BragJack attacks hijack AI browser agents through malicious extensions
BragJack, a proof-of-concept attack from Forever Security's Gal Weizman, hijacks the AI assistants in Chrome, Edge, Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, and Claude in Chrome using one malicious extension....
ShinyHunters hacks Clop leak site, threatens to extort ransomware gang
The ShinyHunters extortion gang breached the Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware operation's data leak site, defacing the Tor site and allegedly stealing server data and the private keys for its onion...
AI Doom Warnings Dominate Headlines as Critics Ask Who Benefits from Regulation Push
Fears of an AI apocalypse are flooding global news coverage. But with so much focus on a future catastrophe, critics are asking whether the media is overlooking the harm AI is already causing. The...
Calling viral AI actress Tilly Norwood? Agree to a face scan first
AI actress Tilly Norwood went viral after glitching into Chinese on Piers Morgan Uncensored last night. Her "Talking Tilly" video call service face-scans every caller for an 18+ age check, senses...
Viral AI actress' hotline face-scans every caller, watches their mood
AI actress Tilly Norwood went viral after glitching into Chinese on Piers Morgan Uncensored last night. Her "Talking Tilly" video call service face-scans every caller for an 18+ age check, senses...