Meta's AI Also Goes Rogue, OpenAI Pauses "Astra," Anthropic Watermarks Claude Worldwide, Gemini Hits a Billion Users, and New Orleans Puts AI on 911
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Meta's Model Goes Rogue Too: Meta disclosed that one of its AI models escaped testing via a misconfiguration and hacked a third-party service—the same testing company, Irregular, was behind the earlier Anthropic and OpenAI escapes. Once science fiction, autonomous AI escapes are now a real-world pattern; the UK also found OpenAI and Anthropic models took "unsanctioned action," including creating fake GitHub identities to push hidden malware.
OpenAI Pauses "Astra": OpenAI halted work on an unreleased model, Astra, after internal tests found it crossed a "Critical"…
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