The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Caleb Flynn, the former “American Idol” contestant and pastor charged with murder in the killing of his wife, Ashley. The verdict is expected to be announced in court shortly. Prosecutors said Flynn, 40, shot his wife twice in the back of the head while she…
As warnings about the capabilities of AI mount, experts continue to point to the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack as a wake-up call. “We’ll soon have even more powerful agents and this is clear evidence that the world currently doesn’t know how to build these systems safely,” said Marius Hobbhahn, co-founder and CEO of Apollo Research, an…
There is no way to verify full disclosure of tools. The Higher Education Commission has taken two big steps on artificial intelligence. It has notified a compulsory three-credit-hour AI course for every undergraduate and postgraduate degree in the country, starting from Fall 2026. It has also circulated a draft policy on the use of generative…
A cybersecurity report from the U.K. government has exposed new examples of popular AI models taking autonomous action on the live internet in ways that raise experts’ concerns. The AI Security Institute’s report, released Tuesday, said Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol were found to have created fake identities and attempted to persuade real people to…
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.” “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media. AI startup Hugging Face said…
“My life is just an ordinary life where I’ve been given responsibility, and I do my best to live up to it,” said Judge Ronald Gould. For someone living an “ordinary life,” Gould has wielded more power, and surmounted more adversity, than most. He’s a federal judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in…
