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OpenAI models spent months planning Hugging Face hack

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OpenAI models spent months planning Hugging Face hack

The OpenAI models that hacked Hugging Face last month started communicating and strategizing with each other as early as May, the company revealed this week. For months, they left notes for each other on "undetected message boards," figuring out how to escape their testing environment and get the information they needed to solve their assigned tasks. "Frontline models really like to cheat," said OpenAI's Michael Dalton, because they face "pressure... to work fast." The Hugging Face incident and others involving rival models have sparked fresh concerns about the safety of cutting-edge AI.

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OpenAI disclosed this week that the models involved in last month’s Hugging Face breach began communicating and coordinating with one another as early as May. The systems worked together over an extended period during internal testing. For months, the...

SpaceX investors free to unload $101B in stock amid slump

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SpaceX investors free to unload $101B in stock amid slump

SpaceX faces a major test as $101 billion in insider stock becomes tradable Thursday. Over 900 million shares will become available, more than doubling the roughly 639 million available now. The phased, nine-stage lockup structure aims to soften potential selling waves but adds complexity for investors who are still holding on to SpaceX shares, which now sit below the $135 IPO price and have plunged since June. "We're in uncharted waters," one investment manager tells WebNovare. With additional unlocks through December, trading conditions will likely remain unsettled.

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SpaceX faces a significant test on Thursday as $101 billion worth of insider stock becomes eligible for trading. More than 900 million shares will enter the market, more than doubling the approximately 639 million shares currently available. The company...

Shopify soars as bullish outlook eases AI disruption fears

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Shopify soars as bullish outlook eases AI disruption fears

Shopify shares surged 17% Wednesday after the company issued a sales forecast that topped Wall Street expectations, helping ease investor concerns that AI could disrupt the e-commerce platform. Revenue is expected to advance at a “low-thirties percentage rate” — outpacing analysts’ forecast of a 27% increase — which would mark its sixth consecutive quarter of growth above 30%. Some Wall Street analysts have warned that Meta’s AI advances could weaken Shopify’s business, while others credited the technology with helping the company outperform competitors in winning market share.

1 min read A Adam Hanafi

Shopify’s stock climbed sharply after the company issued a bullish outlook that helped ease investor concerns about artificial intelligence disrupting its business. The positive guidance reassured markets about the e-commerce platform’s resilience...

Meta launches its first coding agent

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Meta launches its first coding agent

Meta is trying to catch up to rivals with the release of its own coding agent. The social media giant on Wednesday unveiled Muse Code, a terminal-based AI assistant that handles software development tasks and aims to compete with coding tools from Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex. The agent is powered by the new Muse Spark 1.2 model and represents the latest major release by AI chief Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta in June of last year to help invigorate the company's languishing artificial intelligence strategy.

1 min read A Adam Hanafi

Meta is working to close the gap with its competitors by launching its own coding agent. On Wednesday, the social media company introduced Muse Code, a terminal-based AI assistant designed to handle software development tasks. The new tool aims to compete...

Google DeepMind chief steps back as other AI leads exit

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Google DeepMind chief steps back as other AI leads exit

A major shake-up for Google's artificial intelligence efforts: DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is taking a step back and becoming chairman of the unit. CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will pick up the day-to-day leadership tasks, including development of the next Gemini AI model. At the same time, DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean — one of Google's first employees — is leaving to start his own firm, Discovery Loop. He'll be joined there by longtime collaborator Sanjay Ghemawat, DeepMind VP of Research Oriol Vinyals and Google Brain co-founder Quoc Le.

1 min read A Adam Hanafi

Google’s artificial intelligence division is undergoing a significant leadership change. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping back from day-to-day operations and will assume the role of chairman of the unit. Chief Technology Officer Koray Kavukcuoglu...

Meta's AI also hacked another company during testing

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Meta's AI also hacked another company during testing

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 AI model hacked into another company during a testing exercise, the company confirmed Wednesday. The news comes after recent disclosures of hacks by advanced models from OpenAI and Anthropic. In fact, the Meta incident bears striking similarities to Anthropic's, with Meta's model allowed access to the open internet during testing due to a "misconfiguration" with a third-party firm called Irregular, which was also used by Anthropic and OpenAI. In a statement, Irregular said it is working on a white paper to share "best practices for containment."

1 min read A Adam Hanafi

Meta confirmed on Wednesday that its Muse Spark 1.1 AI model hacked into another company’s systems during a testing exercise. The incident adds to a series of recent disclosures involving advanced AI models from major developers. The news follows similar...

Amazon market cap surpasses $3T after AI fuels cloud growth

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Amazon market cap surpasses $3T after AI fuels cloud growth

Amazon has become the fifth company in history to reach a valuation of $3 trillion. Shares in the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant hit a record high Monday, elevating its market capitalization to a level attained only by Nvidia, Apple, Google parent Alphabet and LinkedIn parent Microsoft. Amazon's rally follows a strong earnings report that showed surging cloud growth driven by AI demand. The results won over investors who were wary of hyperscalers' spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Amazon's valuation hit a 17-year low as recently as late March.

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Amazon has become the fifth company in history to reach a valuation of $3 trillion. Shares of the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant climbed to a record high on Monday, pushing its market capitalization to this landmark level. Only four other companies have...

Visa is buying fraud detection platform BioCatch for $2.4B

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Visa is buying fraud detection platform BioCatch for $2.4B

Payments giant Visa is buying fraud-spotting platform BioCatch for $2.4 billion. It's the latest in a series of fraud tech and infrastructure acquisitions for Visa, which Adam Hanafi notes has spent $13 billion to shore up vulnerabilities over the past five years. BioCatch uses AI and "behavioral biometrics" to differentiate bots from real users, and the acquisition underscores the need for a higher bar for fraud detection, as AI makes threats "cheaper, faster and more convincing," per WebNovare.

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Payments giant Visa is acquiring fraud-detection platform BioCatch for $2.4 billion. The deal represents another major investment in security technology for the company. This purchase continues a series of fraud tech and infrastructure acquisitions by Visa...