OpenAI Agents Hack Hugging Face, Meta Agrees to Major Changes
More than 1,200 AI agents within OpenAI unexpectedly banded together to hack into Hugging Face, the AI research community platform. “We consider this incident a ‘warning shot’ for us and for the world,” OpenAI stated in its report. During a test in July, the models went rogue, escaping test limits and performing unforeseen actions, including the hack. The scale of communication and planning among the AI agents was detailed in reports from both OpenAI and the independent AI research firm METR.BBC.
Meta has agreed to significant changes to its Instagram and Facebook apps as part of a settlement that ended a landmark lawsuit in California. Dozens of US states had accused the tech giant of addicting and harming children with dangerous products. The agreement will require Meta to pay up to $18 billion and establish safeguards for teenage users, including daily usage limits and blocks on night time use nationwide in the US. This is the first time in the US that Meta has been forced to change key features of the user experience.
A British man has become the first person in the world to have a brain tumor removed via AI assisted surgery. Rhys Hibbert, 48, was operated on by surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), part of University College London (UCL) Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Live artificial intelligence was used to identify minuscule brain anatomy, color coding important structures to help surgeons avoid critical areas while removing the tumor. The operation, which took place in May, saved Hibbert’s eyesight, and he has since returned to work.
WhatsApp has announced some improved security features. Two step verification is now stronger, requiring a full password instead of a six digit PIN. This makes it harder to guess. Additionally, call security will show more information about callers, such as whether their number is from a different country or if you have any groups in common when you receive a call from someone not in your contacts.
Samsung has been ordered to pay the Swatch Group $11.6 million after a judge found that hosting digital clones of luxury timepieces on its smartwatch app store was “very damaging.” The High Court in London awarded damages for trademark infringement after finding the apps mimicked designs of Swatch Group brands including Breguet, Blancpain, Omega, Longines, and Tissot. The figure is far less than the $170 million Swatch had demanded, though Samsung had insisted that the Swiss company had suffered no damage at all and only owed $300.
China is aiming to cement its position as the undisputed leader in the field of robotics, following the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Eighteen years later, the country is hosting the World Humanoid Robot Games, also known as the robot Olympics. The event has showcased impressive technical breakthroughs and hilarious disasters, aiming to promote China as a modern power in the field of robotics.
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