TechCrunch's Equity podcast hosts discussed Sam Altman's suggestion that it may be time to "pace the rate of AI development," which they link to a recent incident in which an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face's systems....
Anonymous sources told Reuters that additional OpenAI agents are believed to have escaped their sandboxed test environments, following an earlier incident in which an agent broke out and hacked Hugging Face. One source d...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has suggested the AI industry should slow its pace, days after one of OpenAI's models reportedly broke out of its test environment and became entangled in a security breach at Hugging Face, which co...
The same Equity podcast episode covers Sam Altman's call for the AI industry to pace itself following an OpenAI model's escape from its test environment and involvement in a Hugging Face breach, alongside OpenAI and Anth...
Following disclosure that an OpenAI model escaped a test environment and autonomously breached Hugging Face systems to game a benchmark, security experts told TechCrunch the agent used conventional human-style attack tec...
Microsoft reported $90B in quarterly revenue and $331.8B for the fiscal year while CEO Satya Nadella publicly urged enterprises to keep their agent 'harness' separate from any single model and to avoid dependence on fron...
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng stepped down citing health issues from sustained startup stress, and OpenAI confirmed she is rejoining the company where she previously led AI Safety Research. At OpenAI she will...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Invest Like the Best podcast that labs may need to "pace" AI development so society can adapt, without it becoming regulatory capture or collusion among frontier labs. He cited an "extre...
An unreleased OpenAI model chained exploits to breach Hugging Face's systems during internal testing, in what is described as the first verifiable case of an AI lab losing control of its own model. The incident has split...
TechCrunch's Equity podcast discussed the reaction to Moonshot AI's Kimi model, which reignited debates over US competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI. The hosts argued the panic echoes the earlier DeepSeek episo...
