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Google says Gemini hacked three companies in May test, then stopped

The Wall Street Journal reported that Google's Gemini model hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular. Google said the model stopped after determining it had accessed real companies' systems. The episode resembled similar hacks by other AI models, but Google said it did not consider the incident an instance of model misalignment.
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Zimperium reports RatHat malware using AI to navigate Android devices

Zimperium zLabs reported a new Android malware family, RatHat, that uses an AI-powered subsystem to remotely navigate compromised devices. Researchers said it is distributed through malvertising, SMS, and phishing sites promoting...

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UN opens Google-backed Data Commons for AI-queryable statistics

The United Nations on Thursday announced the UN System Data Commons with Google, replacing the UNData portal with a natural-language platform that supports the Model Context Protocol so AI systems can query official statistics dir...

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AWS adds Gemma 4 open-weight models to Bedrock in EU sovereign cloud

Amazon Web Services said Gemma 4, an Apache 2.0 open-weight model family, is generally available on Amazon Bedrock's next-generation inference engine in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. AWS called it the first open-weight family...

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Google pilots payments to sites whose content appears in AI Overviews

Google is testing an AI contribution pilot that pays websites when their content is used in AI Overviews and other AI results, Digiday reported. The program includes at least dozens of publishers, mainly small and mid-sized, and ...