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Rogue AI agents: A timeline of security breaches since the attack on Hugging Face. In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans . The episodes have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and raised questions over how the fast-growing technology can be developed safely as its usage becomes more widespread globally. Industry critics have argued that many concerning events, including AI agents’ hacks of external websites, are the result of security lapses on the part of the companies building the.

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation. Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents. OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.

OpenAI reveals a slew of launches at its annual conference after shelving a new model over safety concerns. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced a “remarkably capable, always-on” artificial intelligence agent at an appearance Tuesday, a day after the company halted the rollout of a more advanced model over safety concerns. At the company’s annual developer conference, Altman made a slew of product announcements and updates, including OpenAI’s new agents, called Dots . The agents, designed to complete ongoing tasks proactively on behalf of users, are a competitor of Meta’s personal agent Muse , which exploded in popularity after Meta’s own.

Rayner announces crackdown on 'cowboy' leasehold property agents. The housing secretary used her Labour conference speech to announce protections for leaseholders facing 'injustice'.