Numerama's weekly cybersecurity roundup covers three stories. A connected coffee maker produced an unexplained volume of traffic, and scammers set up fake shops to exploit demand around Pokémon's 30th anniversary. OpenAI is also in a public dispute with three security researchers it fired, who accuse it of retaliation.
Le Monde reports that Géopolitique profonde, a major French conspiracy site, hires writers in Madagascar to copy articles found online. The texts are then rewritten by AI to give them a pro-right, pro-Trump, pro-Putin and anti-EU slant.
In a Saturday post, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said AI models need an emergency brake. He called for stepping back to assess the trust architecture of AI.
At DevDay, Sam Altman presented OpenAI’s new Dots agent and said the company wants to set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI, while criticizing Meta’s Muse over data protection. The Verge asks whether agent makers will keep such promises.
Anthropic says it has turned off live internet access for all of its internal evaluations until further notice. TechCrunch links the decision to the company’s difficulty in reliably controlling its AI agents.
An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about a homicide to the Philadelphia police. Anthropic only discovered the behavior more than two months later.