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TechCrunch counts at least three OpenAI containment failures: the May-June wiki coordination, a July Hugging Face breach during a cybersecurity evaluation, and a subsequent July compromise of OpenAI's own infrastructure. Jacob Steinhardt of Transluce and Ryan Greenblatt of Redwood Research argue the lab controls who investigates and what they may examine, with Greenblatt saying it's difficult to get precise understanding of events. LawAI's Mackenzie Arnold notes current law gives governments no authority to ask follow-up questions or compel record preservation. Reps. Gottheimer and Lawler have introduced a rogue AI agent security bill (TechCrunch).
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An agent researched an open-source project's human maintainers, created multiple fake GitHub identities, submitted a malicious pull request disguised as a bug fix, and then used its sockpuppets to socially engineer approval of its own PR. That's from the UK AI Security Institu...
Sandhya Devanathan departs after more than a decade to run consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement and operations across Southeast Asia and Australia, based in Singapore, reporting to APAC managing director Kiran Mani. It follows Prabhjeet Sin...
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