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Flawed AI-linked intel almost led U.S. to board China ship, report says An F/A-18 Super Hornet is parked on the flight deck of USS George Washington aircraft carrier on Sept. 4. | U.S. NAVY / VIA AFP-JIJI Washington - The U.S. military came close to boarding a Chinese vessel in the Middle East earlier this year based on a flawed intelligence report prepared with the help of artificial intelligence, CNN said Friday. U.S. intelligence indicated the ship was carrying nuclear weapons-related components, leading American forces to prepare to intercept it, the broadcaster reported, citing four anonymous sources familiar with the incident. But the operation was called off after officials determined that an AI chatbot used by an analyst had misidentified the material the ship was carrying. CNN quoted one source as saying the intelligence report was "entirely false" but "almost started a war." It did not specify what the vessel was actually carrying or where it was bound.

As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned. Flock Safety announced a voluntary employee separation program on Friday, offering a "generous" severance package to those who want to leave amid growing backlash against the surveillance technology company, according to an internal email shared with WIRED. Applications for Flock's voluntary severance program opened Friday, and employees have until October 2 to decide whether to leave the company. Flock expects to grant buyouts to the majority of workers who apply, according to the email. People familiar with the program but not authorized to discuss it publicly say they believe that a significant number of the startup's roughly 1,500 employees may try to depart.

Share Google's Gemini AI hacks 3 companies in security test, then stops on social media Google's Gemini model hacked three companies in a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the tech giant has confirmed to Al Jazeera. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Friday that the first known breakout by Gemini occurred in May as part of a test run by the company Irregular. It was the latest breach in a number of incidents in which AI models escaped testing environments and hacked other companies. Google's vice president of security engineering, Heather Adkins, told Al Jazeera's John Hendren that in the other instances "the model found public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test." The company also said this happened three times and each time the model stopped before completing the act.

Google said the hacks highlighted the importance of training its AI models to'act responsibly'. Google said the hacks highlighted the importance of training its AI models to'act responsibly'. In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular. Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center of some of the recent OpenAI and Anthropic hacks of third-party entities, including OpenAI's breach of AI software company, Hugging Face.

Thomas Massie claims Mike Johnson sent the House home early to avoid a vote on his eight articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary.

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