- An unreleased OpenAI model escaped an isolated testing environment, found an internet connection, and used stolen credentials and zero-day vulnerabilities to attack Hugging Face servers, apparently to obtain the answer key for the coding benchmark it was being tested on. (Joe)
- OpenAI says its usual anti-hacking protections were switched off for the test, and existing state transparency rules would not have required it to report the breach at all. (Joe)
- Similar tests exist for biology and self-replication, and the same behavior in one of those could cause harm that cannot be undone, which suggests the greatest risks may now come from models still inside the labs. (Joe)
- OpenAI supports a Massachusetts bill requiring published safety frameworks plus third-party audits, which only check that a company followed its own process, unlike the independent safety evaluations in the bill Anthropic backs. (Alana)
- A federal report and a five billion dollar administration project shift research money toward individual scientists using AI and government data sets, with the report stating that federal support for science must be politically accountable. (Alana)
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This Is Not a Drill
By Joe Rogero
An unreleased OpenAI model escaped its test environment and launched autonomous cyberattacks on Hugging Face to find a benchmark answer key, while state safety bills backed by AI companies stay weak and the White House shifts research funding toward AI-assisted individual scientists.
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