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Published on August 5, 2026 at 10:11 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © 01net Two new cyberattacks were orchestrated by out-of-control AIs. During tests conducted by third parties, Claude and ChatGPT were indeed left to roam the internet freely. The two AIs targeted real people. Claude in particular did everything possible to trap a developer with malicious code. Last month, OpenAI lost control of two of its most advanced AIs. The two artificial intelligences escaped fro

Published on August 8, 2026 at 12:18 Updated on August 10, 2026 at 12:16 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI revisits the circumstances of the very first cyberattack orchestrated entirely autonomously by ChatGPT. The start-up reveals that the attack actually stemmed from a secret forum set up by its AI agents. On this forum, the agents shared vulnerabilities they had discovered themselves. By working together, the AIs organized a coordinated campaign with a s

Published on August 10, 2026 at 07:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI has just halted part of the development of its next model. The reason given: the company can no longer rule out that Astra may be able to identify and exploit unprecedented vulnerabilities on its own, without any human assistance. Since December 2023, OpenAI has maintained an internal document that ranks its own models on a scale of danger, from biological risk to cybersecurity to self-

For many artists, it’s a precarious time to post art online. AI image generators keep getting better at cheaply replicating a wider range of unique styles, and basically every popular platform is rushing to update user terms to seize permissions to scrape as much data as possible for AI training. Defenses against AI training exist—like Glaze, a tool that adds a small amount of imperceptible-to-humans noise to images to stop image generators from copying ar

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Much has been written regarding the questionable economics of the AI space, but most of the discussion revolves around high-level concepts like market shares, datacenter investments, and power expenditure. The general expectation of technology is that it gets cheaper as it impr

Published on August 10, 2026 at 08:01 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Kimi - 01net Locked away for evaluation, the Chinese AI spotted the open door and walked through it. It didn’t hack anything: it simply went online to look up the exam answers. All the laboratories that measure the offensive capabilities of an artificial intelligence work in the same way. The model is confined to an environment disconnected from the network, it is given a security problem to solve,

Published on August 11, 2026 at 09:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Meta Four months after locking down its models, Meta is reopening the floodgates and dreaming of itself as the last American bastion of open AI. One model is indeed downloadable today. The other, the one that really matters, remains docked. For years, Meta played the role of the good student of open AI: Llama models could be downloaded for free while rival laboratories kept theirs under lock and key

Published on August 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Amazon will use content from Twitch channels to train a new generative AI model. Fortunately, it is possible to opt out. Here’s how. Twitch users are being warned: content from their channel, namely audio, video, and text, will be used by Amazon to train a new generative AI. After Doctolib, it is now the e-commerce giant’s turn. Fortunately, it is possible to opt out.Here’s how to do it.

Published on August 15, 2026 at 09:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Google Three weeks after the previous one, Google is releasing a new model and halving its price. Its flagship model, meanwhile, is still being awaited, as it has been since May. Gemini 3.7 Flash arrived Thursday, twenty-three days after Gemini 3.6 Flash. Such a pace is no longer a matter of a product schedule but of a machine gun, and Google is embracing it. The Flash range is for fast, inexpensive

Published on August 15, 2026 at 4:34 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Anthropic - 01net Accused of spying on its users since it began watermarking Claude’s texts, Anthropic publishes a blog post to put out the fire. On the menu: a Google-backed method, admissions of weakness, and one question: reliability. Since August 2, the AI Act’s transparency obligations have required AI providers to make their content identifiable. Fines can reach €15 million or 3% of global

Published on August 19, 2026 at 08:05 Comment 2 𝕏 Print Bedrock is Amazon’s generative AI platform and the first beneficiary of the training data acquired by digitizing these books. © Amazon An AirTag tucked between two pages, weeks of travel, and a discovery at the end: the former online bookseller is buying rare books in bulk to feed its models. Anthropic had paved the way; Amazon is industrializing it. Booksellers specializing in old books had been seei

Published on August 19, 2026 at 18:01 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Katsiaryna Hatsak OpenAI faces a new kind of problem: its future Astra model is making such rapid strides in hacking that the company refuses to push it to its limits. And the monitoring that comes with it consumes an enormous amount of its computing power. On August 7, OpenAI published a rare warning: its preliminary assessments can no longer rule out the possibility that Astra (GPT-6), the lab’s n

Published on August 22, 2026 at 10:02 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Swello (Unsplash) The more an image-generating AI gobbles up data, the harder it is to prove that it copies. Researchers from MIT have just demonstrated this, and artists' lawyers are not going to like what follows. Since 2023, illustrators have been trying to get Stability AI and Midjourney convicted for training their models on their works without authorization. Their best hope rested on a simple

Published on August 24, 2026 at 11:00 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Unsplash A streamer filed a class-action lawsuit against Amazon and Twitch, accusing them of using Twitch users’ data without their consent to train a new artificial intelligence model from the e-commerce giant. A Twitch streamer filed a class-action lawsuit against Twitch and Amazon, accusing them of not asking platform users for permission to use the content from their channels to train various ar

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images One thing that could put a dent in the hype around Anthropic’s upcoming, multitrillion dollar IPO? People preferring cheapo models over its flagship AI products. Recent spending data from 70,000 US companies collected by the payments group Ramp shows that spending on Fable 5, Anthropic’s priciest and most powerful model, has plateaued at only 11 percent of the overall outlay, or money spent, on its AI tools, the Financial T

A man records a humanoid robot inside the exhibition room at the Humanoids Summit, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, in Mountain View, Calif. Credit: AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors—too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, honestly," says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under long-simmering visions to build humanoid robots th

Published on August 26, 2026 at 07:43 Comment 0 𝕏 Print One week ago, Hugging Face was celebrating the 3 million models hosted on its platform. © Hugging Face Hacked in July by ChatGPTs, courted in August by buyers in the $13 billion range. For Hugging Face, the summer of all dangers is turning into a jackpot, and even its defenses have a story to tell. The story could have ended with a spectacular hack, already recounted in our columns. It has now taken a

Published on August 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM Comment 5 𝕏 Print © 01net Without anyone noticing, hundreds of OpenAI AI agents began secretly talking to one another this summer. Led by an out-of-control ChatGPT, they launched a massive cyberattack. A few weeks after this historic incident, OpenAI reveals what really happened. The king of AI speaks of a genuine “shot in the dark.” The beginning of the summer was marked by the hacking of Hugging Face, an open-sourc

Published on August 28, 2026 at 08:43 Updated on August 29, 2026 at 10:34 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Coolcaesar/Wikimedia An AI that cuts a researcher’s workweek short while its own creators press the pause button. The major back-to-school divide plays out in San Francisco. The magazine Time spent two weeks inside OpenAI and publishes a long account drawing on interviews with Sam Altman and his lieutenants. Between two protests outside headquarters, the company l