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Published on July 16, 2026 at 13:02 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI unveiled GPT‑Red, an artificial intelligence model entirely dedicated to hunting for security flaws within its own systems. The tool is tasked with simulating real cyberattacks against the AIs that run ChatGPT in order to identify their vulnerabilities, particularly with regard to prompt injection. An offensive tool that Sam Altman’s startup carefully keeps under lock and key, far from th

Published on July 18, 2026 at 09:31 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic A researcher has demonstrated that a simple booby-trapped website could trick Claude into divulging the user’s name, employer, and hometown. Answers to security questions may even be compromised. The attack relies on the AI’s long-term memory and its ability to browse the internet to gather information. Ayush Paul, a cybersecurity researcher with a close interest in artificial intelligence,

Published on July 20, 2026 at 09:41 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Claude Fable 5 is no longer available to all Anthropic subscribers. The most powerful AI model in the Claude lineup remains included in the Max and Premium Team plans, but with capped access. Pro and Standard Team subscribers, on the other hand, lose all free access and must now pay for each request. Anthropic points to the AI model’s appetite for computing power. As expected, Claude Fable 5, th

Published on July 22, 2026 at 9:44 AM Updated on July 22, 2026 at 5:29 PM Comment 3 𝕏 Print © 01net Two OpenAI models escaped from their digital prison. Once free on the Internet, they attacked an open-source platform, Hugging Face. This is the first time an artificial intelligence has decided to hack external infrastructure and succeeded. Two OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an “even more capable preliminary model,” managed to escape their secure

Published on July 22, 2026 at 5:19 PM Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Google Gemini Google unveiled three new AI models: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. This announcement comes at a particular time for the company. Google is updating its Flash lineup, the one dedicated to lightweight AI, with three new models: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. Each of these models has its own specific features. It

Published on July 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic’s new model arrived Friday with a 194-page report. Inside is an experiment that no one had yet published: reading what happens inside the machine while it responds to you. Anthropic has been releasing new models one after another for two months. After Mythos 5, Fable 5, and Sonnet 5 in June, the company launched Claude Opus 5 on Friday, presented not as its most intelligent model

Published on July 27, 2026 at 15:29 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net Two OpenAI models escaped and set out to attack Hugging Face, the renowned open-source AI platform. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue is now demanding “radical transparency” and $100 million in computing power from OpenAI. Two OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, escaped the secure environment set up by the startup. By exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software and then s

Published on July 28, 2026 at 10:29 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 Several days after the leak of two OpenAI AI models and the hacking of Hugging Face, Sam Altman spoke out about the incident for the first time. OpenAI’s CEO describes the incident as a “real reminder of the issues at stake” and believes that anyone who is not terrified by it “is not taking it seriously enough.” The entrepreneur argues against an AI monopoly… even though OpenAI r

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock A Chinese open-weight AI model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, has sent a shiver down the spines of AI tech executives. The powerful, 2.8 trillion-parameter model impressed with its competence, igniting a war with far more expensive alternatives being offered by the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. Top executives at both companies are sounding alarm, the Wall St

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Traditionally, books have been good for two things: reading, and looking nice on a shelf. But AI companies are interested in neither. To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be devoured en masse before being spit out like fishbone. Often, they’re happy to use digital books — or even better, pirated digital books, as Meta has been accused of doing, an

Shutterstock / FotoField The business world has quickly learned that there’s such a thing as using too much AI, as they get slammed with outrageous token bills. Now, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is warning of another way that embracing AI could doom a business. In an interview Sunday, Nadella cautioned against sharing too much information, ranging from proprietary data to the prompts entered, with a third-party AI model. Instead, he recommended that busines

Published on July 28, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Publicly, everyone loves open source. Behind the scenes, the two AI stars would lobby in Washington to rein it in. The revelation sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy and forced Anthropic to step into the open. Open source occupies a special place in the world of artificial intelligence: open-weight models, which anyone can download and modify, serve as a counterweight to closed services sold b

Published July 29, 2026 at 1:13 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Two OpenAI AIs escaped their digital cage and autonomously hacked Hugging Face. One week after the incident, OpenAI revealed that the cyberattack did not stop at the open-source platform. It also emerged that the AI was trying to cheat on an exam when it escaped. That is why it targeted certain very specific targets… Two OpenAI models made headlines. After escaping their test environment, they

Published on July 29, 2026 at 4:56 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net More than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta signed the same statement on Tuesday. Their request: that someone build the brake pedal that none of them is allowed to operate. In March 2023, an open letter called for a six-month pause in training AI models more powerful than GPT-4. It had gathered tens of thousands of signatures (including Elon Musk’s, between two

Published on July 31, 2026 at 09:32 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic After OpenAI, Anthropic has now admitted the unthinkable. The startup reveals that it lost control of three versions of Claude during a cybersecurity test. The three AIs connected to the Internet to hack into three companies. The incident went unnoticed for months. During a test, OpenAI lost control of two of its most advanced AIs. The pair quickly found themselves online and set about attac

Published on July 31, 2026 at 1:40 PM Comment 6 𝕏 Print © Andon Labs Anthropic presents Opus 5 as the model that best respects the safety rules and human values they have set for it. The lab that tested it over a simulated year saw something else: illegal agreements, threats, eleven broken truces. Vending machines have the advantage of constituting a miniature business. Buying inventory, setting prices, negotiating with suppliers, handling complaints from

Published on August 1, 2026 at 9:06 AM Comment 0 𝕏 Print @@TAG@@ © LinkedIn Four out of ten long-form posts would be generated by an AI. LinkedIn is launching a button to flag them, three days before Brussels mandates that this content be labeled. Over the years, the professional social network has developed an unmistakable aesthetic. The line break every two sentences, the personal anecdote that leads to a management lesson, the three-lesson structure. No

Published on August 2, 2026 at 10:58 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Ask ChatGPT for some Stephen King: it politely declines and offers “a similar atmosphere.” A newfound modesty for a company that has swallowed whole libraries without asking the people affected for their opinion. For three years, imitating the style of a famous novelist was one of ChatGPT’s favorite tricks, and one of the most commonly used (writing forums are full of ready-made instructions

Astra, the new AI from the creator of ChatGPT, achieves historic feats Published on August 3, 2026 at 16:23 Updated on August 5, 2026 at 17:26 Comment 2 𝕏 first © Editing: 01net.com / OpenAI / KOMMERS (Unsplash) Astra, the next artificial intelligence to power ChatGPT, has just made several historic breakthroughs. OpenAI reveals that the AI solved ten mathematical problems that had remained unsolved for decades. These feats cost only $2,000 in computing ex

Published August 4, 2026 at 09:02 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net AI agents supposedly playing pirates in sandboxes eventually went after real companies. The European Commission is demanding explanations at precisely the moment it gains the authority to impose financial penalties. Major artificial intelligence laboratories are testing the offensive capabilities of their models in isolated environments, digital training grounds intended to be hermetic. In July, t