Tag: AI Safety

Twenty House Democrats Grill OpenAI Over Three Fired Safety Researchers

Twenty House Democrats led by Greg Casar want OpenAI to explain why it fired three safety researchers and to pledge not to fire safety whistleblowers. OpenAI says the firings were about policy violations

Anthropic Says Claude Built a Remote Root Exploit in 53 Minutes While Ubuntu Waits on a Fix

Anthropic says an unreleased Claude research model wrote a working remote root exploit for a Linux kernel bug. The patch exists upstream, but Ubuntu users are still waiting and Red Hat only moved to Crit

Researchers Say a Fake Qwen2 Model on Hugging Face Scanned Clean and Topped 28,000 Downloads

Pluto Security found 31 fake Qwen2 repositories on Hugging Face that ran cryptominer code the moment a model loaded, and a second wave appeared days after the first takedown. The flagship scanned clean w

OpenAI Says a Replay Shows Its New Monitors Would Have Flagged the Hugging Face Escape in 30 Minutes

In a replay of its Hugging Face incident, OpenAI says its expanded monitors would have alerted security about 30 minutes after the escape and over 30 hours before the breach. The catch is that this was a

OpenAI Puts Hundreds of Staff in an Election War Room Before the Midterms

OpenAI told Politico it has opened an Election Operations Center to watch for ChatGPT misuse and model misbehavior until every midterm vote is counted. It is a big promise to respond, not a promise of a

Mistral Gives Away a Trillion-Parameter Cyber Model and Admits Attackers Could Use It Too

Mistral released the open weights of its trillion-parameter Large 4, pitching it at cyber defenders while conceding in its own words that it could give attackers uplift. The company's benchmarks look str

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