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OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’

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David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technologyA safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology.David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied the

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As AI models go rogue, do you still trust OpenAI and Anthropic to stop them? I don’t and neither should you | Chris Stokel-Walker

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The need for independent regulation grows more obvious by the day. We must keep this tech in check before it’s too lateFool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me more than 16,000 times – as OpenAI agents did to a UN public data hub while repeatedly trying to find

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Nick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanity

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Former deputy PM now involved in tech industry says many within the sector are ‘winding themselves up into a lather’UK politics live – latest updatesNick Clegg has dismissed fears over AI’s “godlike power to exterminate humanity”, calling it a sign that tech bosses are “breathing their own fumes”.The former UK deputy prime minister said that

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Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors

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Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackersVast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which an official UK security assessment deemed to be vulnerable to “compromise” by foreign actors and the US government, a Guardian investigation can reveal.The files

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OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot

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US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’Cybersecurity researchers have hacked into OpenAI with the help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, in the latest example of security issues at the company.A team at a US-based startup compromised multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts, starting a process that enabled them

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UK’s state investments agency hit by data breach

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Security lapse leaves sensitive information and contact details of 51 government officials exposed for 40 hoursThe public body in charge of the UK’s state investments has been pushed to improve its internal security after a data breach left “high-level management information” publicly accessible for nearly two days.UK Government Investments (UKGI), the agency that manages the

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Personal and banking details among customer data stolen in Origin Energy hack

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Hackers access Australian customers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and some bank account details, company saysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOrigin Energy customers’ addresses, phone numbers and partial bank account data have been accessed in a hack, the company has

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‘Keys to the kingdom’: hackers who gained access to heart of London transport network jailed

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Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 19, sentenced to five and a half years each for cyber-attack that cost Transport for London £39mThe data of millions of commuters was stolen, Londoners were left out of pocket and 27,000 Transport for London staff were forced to reset their passwords.Over four days in 2024 a pair of

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AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns

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Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI modelPowerful AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, cyber intelligence agencies for the Five Eyes have warned in a rare joint statement, urging leaders to “act

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Readers reply: Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone pin really be safer than a password?

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsThis week’s question: Is ‘ripen at home’ fruit the supermarkets’ idea of a joke?I’ve been struggling to get my head around the idea that a passkey, which can be a pin on

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