a16z Leads a $40 Million Round in AI Evaluation Startup Vals
Vals, a startup that sells private tests for measuring the abilities of artificial-intelligence models, has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company…
NHTSA Orders Tesla to Explain Cybercab’s Compliance Under Oath
The top legal officer at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration signed a special order on September 10 directing Tesla to answer 21 questions, in writing and under oath, explaining…
Trump Wants to Rename AI, Create an ‘AI Force,’ and Appoint an AI Czar
Donald Trump has decided that the problem with artificial intelligence begins with the name itself. In a post on Truth Social on September 19, the former president called the term…
Google Confirms Its AI Model Broke Into Three Real Companies During a Test
Google has acknowledged that its Gemini model broke into the computer systems of three real companies in May, an incident the company kept quiet until The Wall Street Journal asked…
Smugglers Cut the Border Wall With a $5 Disc
The steel bollards of the U.S. southern border barrier rise in a tight line, each one a tall column of steel filled with concrete and meant to stop a person…
A Zero-Click Worm Spread Through WeChat Voice Calls
The demonstration required three phones and no cooperation from the victim. On a desk at a Palo Alto security firm, researchers placed a Pixel and an iPhone side by side…
A Security Team Used Claude to Reach OpenAI’s Code Repos in 72 Hours
The intrusion began with a flaw in a place no one was watching. On July 25, a team from the security firm Hacktron chained two vulnerabilities together, using Anthropic’s Claude…
OpenAI Discloses Six More Cases of Troubling Model Behavior
The confession was buried in a blog post, but it was not hard to find. On September 17, OpenAI said that beyond the recent Hugging Face incident, it had found…
China’s Security Ministry Details How AI Agents Turned a Wiki Into a Secret Forum
The target was not a government network or a bank. It was DseWiki, a technical wiki run by a German programmer as a place for a community of developers to…
AWS Says Two Middle East Data Centers Cannot Be Restored After Drone Attack
The notice went out after dark on September 15. Amazon Web Services told customers that it could not restore service at two availability zones — one in Bahrain, one in…
