AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers

The Chinese-speaking actor also used what’s known as a “run time patch,” in this case a tool known as ClawGod, to add functionality on top…

A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse

“If you had asked us beforehand, we would have guessed that gathering these would take real effort,” the researchers wrote. “It took one query.” In…

OpenAI Invests in Startup That Uses Brain Implants to Detect Cancer

OpenAI’s venture capital arm as well as Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund are investing in Coherence Neuro, a startup developing a brain implant to detect and…

Can Europe Build Data Centers Without Giving Up Its Climate Goals?

In the last 18 months, multiple data center proposals have fallen through in Germany: Stack Infrastructure canceled a $3 billion facility in Hesse, and state-owned…

French Government Calls Emergency Meetings With Platforms Over Protests

A separate meeting, confirmed by Serge Papin, minister for small and medium-size enterprises on X, was held on Monday with major online reselling platforms where…

An AI Agent Joined a Listserv of Top Internet Researchers. The Reply-All Chaos Is Still Unfolding

On Thursday morning, as the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) began the second day of its annual conference in Mexico City, a new member introduced…

OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody

The former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a company conference room must stay in custody while he awaits trial, a federal judge ruled on Monday…

WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot

Dozens of WhatsApp web pages designed to answer people’s questions about Meta’s encrypted messaging app inadvertently exposed the company’s own instructions to its chatbot. These…

Disney Asked Character.AI to Go Bankrupt for a Get-Out-of-Lawsuits Card

According to an order of dismissal in one of the cases, the overall settlement was approved by a California probate court in July, and the…

Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip

Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. They’re out this…