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Welcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. If you've been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions.NEED TO KNOWDemis Hassabis moved to a new role as Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of

Oliver Kemp for TransformerThis week yet more examples of AI models carrying out unintended and unwanted hacks on the open internet were revealed.On Tuesday, the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) said that during recent testing of Anthropic's Mythos 5 and

Oliver Kemp for Transformer"Would you like a bite of cake? It's for my time lapse." A petite woman with metallic silver face paint points to the remains of a days-old wedding cake. A tripod-mounted iPhone stands at the end of the picnic table. Another wom

Welcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. If you've been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions.NEED TO KNOWAnthropic revealed that in internal testing Claude "gained unauthorized access to the

Oliver Kemp for TransformerWhen Megan Garcia told lawmakers about how her 14-year-old son died by suicide after months of conversations with a chatbot from Character.AI, one of her main requests might have been, on the face of it, the simplest - restrict

Oliver Kemp for TransformerIn the past week, OpenAI reported two instances of its AI misbehaving in worrying ways. Both involved internal models the public never had access to.Last Tuesday, OpenAI announced that guardrail-free versions of GPT-5.6 Sol and

Credit: Oliver Kemp for TransformerWhen an AI hacker roams the internet, who's on the hook for any damage it causes? Until this week, that was a largely theoretical question. Now, we need to answer it, and quickly.Last week, Hugging Face disclosed that an

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Credit: Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty ImagesAI transparency laws across the US are under threat from a lawsuit being pursued by SpaceXAI.Elon Musk's company is challenging California's AB 2013, which requires AI companies to provide high-level summaries of traini

Credit: Oliver Kemp for TransformerIf we needed evidence that advanced AI models have the propensity and capability to do damage out in the real world, we just got a strong dose of it.OpenAI has revealed that two of its models broke out of containment dur