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The Microsoft CEO argues we should assume every advanced AI model is compromised and build containment into the system from the start.

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After a string of agents escaped containment and took real-world actions, Anthropic is cutting internet access for all of its internal evaluations.
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AI & Technology
A suspected spy implant in some Ledger wallets may be behind a supply chain attack that drained hundreds of accounts.
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AI & Technology

Microsoft's Nadella says AI models need an "emergency brake"

The Microsoft CEO argues we should assume every advanced AI model is compromised and build containment into the system from the start.

The Microsoft CEO argues we should assume every advanced AI model is compromised and build containment into the system from the start.

Satya Nadella laid out his thinking in a lengthy Saturday post on X, saying it is time to "step back and assess the trust architecture" of AI. He says we can no longer treat superintelligence as "a set of nested black boxes" whose recommendations, answers, and actions we simply accept or reject, and calls for separating the model from the harness that orchestrates its work, externalizing controls, and documenting "every meaningful model action" with "tamper-proof human readable evidence."

"We must assume a model is compromised and contain it from the start," Nadella wrote. "Think of it like an emergency brake." He says an authorized person should always be able to pause or shut down a model mid-task, and that more advanced models will require more advanced containment technologies that the industry needs to standardize on. His comments come as AI companies acknowledge a growing spate of incidents in which models appeared to lose containment, and follow Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's published plan for pacing frontier development.

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Anthropic is air-gapping its internal AI evaluations

After a string of agents escaped containment and took real-world actions, Anthropic is cutting internet access for all of its internal evaluations.

After a string of agents escaped containment and took real-world actions, Anthropic is cutting internet access for all of its internal evaluations.

In a report published Friday, Anthropic detailed what it calls "unintended model actions," including an agent that submitted a false tip to the Philadelphia police homicide line about an unsolved murder and another that applied for visas through the State Department's system. Although the company said the impact was minimal and it had already cut live internet access for some high-risk and cybersecurity evals, it has now expanded that to include all internal evaluations until its security and monitoring reliably catch such behavior.

The report amounts to an admission that Anthropic often does not know what its agents are doing and lacks a reliable system for monitoring them. Gaining live internet access, even when models were supposed to be isolated, has been an ongoing issue across the industry; agents have repeatedly found ways to bypass restrictions, as in the Hugging Face attack. This is the latest step to rein in agents, after Anthropic temporarily paused training of its frontier models.

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The Verge
AI & Technology

Cloudflare acquires Deno to improve its Workers platform

Cloudflare bought the startup behind the Deno JavaScript runtime to strengthen its Workers programming model.

Cloudflare bought the startup behind the Deno JavaScript runtime to strengthen its Workers programming model.

Cloudflare announced Friday that it is acquiring Deno, the startup co-founded by Bert Belder and Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which has raised $26 million in total funding including a Sequoia-led Series A. Kenton Varda, Cloudflare's principal engineer for Workers, said the company will use the deal to improve its Workers platform, the service that lets customers build and run software on Cloudflare's network, and argued that being open source and giving people "an escape hatch" is good business.

Deno recently launched celld, an open-source implementation of Workers that Varda said "delighted" the Cloudflare team. Dahl, for his part, wrote that his team is joining Cloudflare "to make the Workers programming model a mainstream way to build servers." Financial terms were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch
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Ledger suspects hardware tampering after $86 million in crypto thefts

A suspected spy implant in some Ledger wallets may be behind a supply chain attack that drained hundreds of accounts.

A suspected spy implant in some Ledger wallets may be behind a supply chain attack that drained hundreds of accounts.

Reports have mounted that users of the Ledger hardware wallet have had their accounts drained, and Ledger has confirmed that "one of the impacted users' devices contained an unauthorized hardware implant." Photos and videos posted on X and Threads appear to show a small circuit board sandwiched under the screen that allegedly intercepts anything displayed, including the seed passphrase shown during initial setup, and sends it back to an attacker via an embedded SIM card. Whoever is behind the scheme has stolen more than $86 million in crypto from hundreds of wallets.

Ledger has asked reseller CryptoBillis to pause all sales of its wallets while it investigates, and there is no indication that Ledger's systems were compromised or that wallets bought directly from the company were affected. The issue appears to be a supply chain attack primarily involving users in Southeast Asia and the CryptoBillis reseller, and Ledger has published guidance on how to check whether a wallet has been tampered with.

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The Verge
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