OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that it lost control of two AI models during a security test that ended in a breach of the open AI research platform Hugging Face. Describing the incident as “unprecedented,” OpenAI said its AI models broke out of a sealed testing environment last week and hacked into Hugging Face’s production system … Read more

Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing

In 2017, Emily Olson, a stay-at-home mom based in Boulder, Colorado, started selling prints and custom-made puppy portraits on Etsy. Her watercolors were simple and relatively cheap—images of saucer-eyed corgis and malamutes in mini-tuxes, which she sold for $75 to $300 each—but dog owners adored them: “They were a labor of love,” she says. In … Read more

This Former Intel CEO Wants to Jumpstart Moore’s Law With Light

After Pat Gelsinger departed Intel as CEO in late 2024, he held 100 meetings in 100 days. The idea, he told WIRED recently, was to whittle down his options until he figured out what to do next. The Following March, Gelsinger declared that he had taken a position as general partner at Playground Capital, a … Read more

A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots

As AI tools proliferate and become deeply ingrained in software development around the world, new research from the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike shows how attackers are actively targeting the AI ​​toolchain to steal access credentials, gain deeper access to a target environment, exfiltrate sensitive data, and even destroy target files and systems—all while finding new ways … Read more

Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers

Nvidia is hyping up its new Vera Rubin chip system this week, revealing new performance benchmarks for the GPU and CPU combo ahead of rival AMD’s annual product event in San Francisco on Thursday. During a lengthy technical workshop last week at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, Nvidia executives boasted to a small … Read more

Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera

There’s a new pair of camera-less smart glasses in town: the Holiday G2designed to listen to workplace meetings, absorb what happens, and summarize all the interesting bits, much like always-listening wearables. Halliday says the mics can be turned on for meetings, using AI voice commands, or making phone calls, but switch off when not in … Read more

‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech

EVA JONES: I am a recent graduate, having studied hydrology and water resources for my master’s degree, but I also did my bachelor’s programs there, in feminist philosophy and in freshwater engineering. I came to Stanford five years ago now, from a rural town in Oregon, because I truly believed that a place like Stanford … Read more

The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens

A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) boasted that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens, and needed to limit use. “Although the Army CIO announced … Read more

Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

Prompt injections, the Malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A well-phrased command sneaked into an email or calendar invitation is often all it takes to cause the LLM to exfiltrate sensitive data or follow other … Read more

How Google’s New Gemini Rates Work and How to Track Your Usage

Google doesn’t specify what the usage limits are on the free tier—it describes them only as “standard.” You then get 2x these “standard” limits on the AI ​​Plus plan, and 4x on the AI ​​Pro plan. The AI ​​Ultra limits are either 5x or 20x higher than those on AI Pro, depending on which level … Read more