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@openai:
In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment  —  How we think about the “wiki incident,” where our agents wrote to several internet sites: it's past time for us …
Robert Hart / The Verge:
Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout  —  OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki. … A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered …
ABC News:
Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement “very seriously”  —  In “Build the Wall,” players aim to “protect the border” from zombies.  —  Isabella Murray, Nicholas Kerr, and Michelle Stoddart
Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal:
Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas  —  AI hyperscale data centers are exposed to a dizzying array of potential threats during construction and operation
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Kinling Lo / Rest of World:
Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles  —  Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country.  —  Artificial intelligence tokens …
More: Unite.AI.  X: @restofworld, @restofworld, and @counternotions.  LinkedIn: Sunil Nair.  Bluesky: @restofworld.org
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:
Source: Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale  —  John Borthwick's venture firm wrote the first check Hugging Face ever received, and now owns a stake that could be worth $650 million.
Mishal Husain / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more  —  Chinese AI companies are rapidly closing the gap with US rivals, even after years of restrictions on their access to advanced chips.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters  —  A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome's sandboxed renderer process  —  Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities.

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Tom Warren / The Verge:
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