A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.
A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.

This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill switch, and let the government use it. On Thursday, Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, …

South Korean memory giants Samsung and SK Hynix are set to announce massive deals with leading U.S. tech firms, report claims — Korean president arrives in Silicon Valley for meetings and high-profile AI summit
South Korean memory giants Samsung and SK Hynix are set to announce massive deals with leading U.S. tech firms, report claims — Korean president arrives in Silicon Valley for meetings and high-profile AI summit

Samsung and SK Hynix are expected to unveil multibillion-dollar memory-chip partnerships with major U.S. technology companies during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s visit to San Francisco

UK government AI Taskforce chaired by Lord Vallance launches

An AI unit has been set up at the centre of the UK government to drive overall AI strategy, following a major AI shakeup inside the government this week. The unit, called the Prime Minister’s AI Taskf…

A nervous Dassault is spending $2bn on AI, in the division dragging it down
A nervous Dassault is spending $2bn on AI, in the division dragging it down

Dassault Systèmes is one of Europe’s largest software companies, and it is having an anxious year. Its shares are down about a quarter this year. It pushed out its chairman in February. And investors worry that a new wave of AI could hollow out its mai…

OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days
OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days

OpenAI confirmed to Hugging Face only this week that models it was testing carried out the July 11 attack on the AI platform’s production infrastructure.

Humans actually prefer talking to an AI than a support person, says gas giant as it cuts jobs

British Gas is cutting 1,300 customer service roles as its CEO argues that people are moving toward digital channels and AI tools.

Trump’s data centre power pledge draws scepticism from energy experts
Trump’s data centre power pledge draws scepticism from energy experts

On July 23, President Donald Trump stood in the White House and promised that electricity bills for American families would “actually come down,” even as power-hungry AI data centres spread across the grid. T he vehicle was an expanded version of the R…

A Florida pastor asked ChatGPT if he was okay. It nearly got him killed.

A Florida pastor is suing OpenAI after ChatGPT dismissed his symptoms as harmless for weeks, he later suffered a near-fatal blood clot doctors blame on the bot’s advice.

Scientists made robots curious like toddlers, and it helped them learn language twice as fast

Researchers at OIST gave a virtual robot curiosity, and it learned language twice as fast, playful detours and toddler grammar slip-ups included.

Musk says Optimus will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled
Musk says Optimus will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled

Elon Musk told investors on Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call that Optimus will be “the hardest product to scale manufacturing that we’ve ever made at Tesla,” warning that the humanoid robot has no existing supply chain and that every component is n…