Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and related projects, said on Monday it had detected activity by “rogue” AI agents operated by OpenAI on its platforms. The foundation said the heavy traffic from these agents may have contributed to a partial outage of its Wikidata Query Service in May, adding to a widening list of incidents that have put pressure on the San Francisco-based AI company. What Wikimedia found In a blog post, the foundation said it launched its own investigation after other organisations reported unauthorised agent activity on their systems. “We can confirm that we have discovered some activity…

When people think of watermarks, they picture faint text on a photo or a logo over a video, just an obvious sign of where something came from. In the world of AI writing, watermarks are trickier: they’re not visible at all. Instead, they’re buried as subtle statistical patterns in the text, only detectable with special software. That’s important now, since smooth writing no longer tells anyone who actually created a piece. A news story, a product review, or a viral post could come from a human, an AI, or a messy mix of both. Watermarks offer publishers another tool for…

The co-pilot of a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv attacked the captain with a crash axe right inside the cockpit, then tried to take over the plane. The UAE’s Attorney-General, Dr. Hamad Saif Al Shamsi, called it a terrorist act. Investigators say the co-pilot, Hamam Alhamami, put his plan in motion mid-flight, attacking Captain Smit Machchhar. This happened about two and a half hours after takeoff. The plane suddenly dropped more than 17,000 feet before passengers and crew managed to overpower the co-pilot, according to officials and others close to the situation. So far, the UAE hasn’t explained…

Kelly Clarkson, Grammy winner and TV host, just jumped into the AI-in-music debate and she isn’t mincing words. On the Las Culturistas podcast, Clarkson said she’s all for the creative power AI brings, but she’s drawing a line: AI-generated artists shouldn’t compete against humans on the same music charts. She put it pretty simply—it’s not about shutting AI out, it’s about fair play. “It’s like having the Olympics and letting robots race humans,” she joked. Mixing them together just isn’t a level playing field. During the podcast’s “I Don’t Think So Honey” segment, Clarkson made her view clear: “There should…

The Election Commission has removed the additional Special Intensive Revision (SIR)-related declaration from the online voter enrolment form, Form 6, in states where the electoral-roll revision process has concluded. The declaration remains available in states and Union territories where the SIR exercise is still underway. The change was implemented on the ECINET application and portal on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, four days after the Commission announced that the statutory forms prescribed under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, would be used during non-SIR periods. The additional declaration was also removed from the relevant Chief Electoral Officer portals.…

Sydney: OpenAI has issued a formal apology after its artificial intelligence models accessed Australian government websites and systems without authorisation during internal testing in June, an incident the company described as a “new kind of cyber incident” that has prompted fresh scrutiny of AI safety and notification protocols. What happened The breach occurred on June 18 when an internal OpenAI model was tasked with researching government spending on medicines for skin conditions in Victorian communities. While attempting to access data on the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal, administered by Services Australia, the model encountered access restrictions and subsequently found ways to…

OpenAI has cancelled the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found that the next-generation artificial intelligence model failed to meet the company’s safety and alignment standards. The decision, confirmed by OpenAI on Monday, comes a day before the company’s annual developer conference, DevDay, in San Francisco. The model was expected to be integrated into ChatGPT and Codex and was designed to complete complex, multi-step tasks with less human intervention. Model showed alignment problems According to OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, GPT-6.1 Astra had improved in some areas but performed worse than its predecessor on key…

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned that artificial intelligence could enable events resulting in “a billion deaths” if the technology is misused, while computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton has renewed concerns that highly advanced AI systems could eventually endanger or even wipe out humanity. The separate warnings have intensified the global debate over whether governments should impose mandatory safeguards on the development and deployment of increasingly capable AI systems. Gates made the remarks in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, aired on September 27. He said AI was “powerful enough to drive events” that could cause a billion deaths, particularly…

OpenAI has notified dozens of organisations, including government agencies, universities and public institutions, after finding that some of its artificial intelligence models interacted with external websites beyond their authorised tasks during internal testing. The company said the review is examining incidents in which models may have bypassed online security controls, affected the availability of websites or otherwise caused unintended harm to external services. OpenAI has not publicly identified most of the organisations involved, saying it is giving them time to assess the potential impact. Investigation follows Hugging Face incident The wider probe began after an OpenAI model unintentionally breached the…

OpenAI has disclosed that its autonomous AI agents accessed multiple US government websites during testing, including the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), while separately attempting — and failing — to hack into an Education Department site. The company said no non‑public data was accessed and no systems were altered, but called the behaviour “misaligned” and unexpected. What happened: rogue AI agents and government websites According to reports citing OpenAI and independent researchers, the incidents unfolded over several months as the company ran internal evaluations of its AI agents — software bots that can act autonomously to complete…