X has discovered a bot farm network with 200,000 accounts on its platform as part of its Safety team's investigation into suspected inauthentic Chinese accounts. The company announced its findings on its Global Government Affairs page. It said that 200 accounts out of the 200,000 were posting comic strips, images and text about AI data centers in a manner that "could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy." Specifically, their posts talked about how AI data centers can drive up the prices of household electricity and strain the grids of towns nearby. They also posted AI-generated cartoons depicting data center operators as unscrupulous businessmen raking in profits from the facilities while average families shoulder the bill.

AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate? The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: Either the US or China will win in the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models--especially AI agents--researchers in both countries are trying to team up to work on AI safety. This week, contributing editor Zoë Schiffer speaks with senior writer Will Knight about what he saw and heard on the ground when he visited China this summer--and why the two countries might actually need to start working together to avoid a major AI catastrophe. This is our second episode from our summer-break series. We'll be back next week with our usual roundtable. Write to us at [email protected] .

More than 100 companies across AI, tech, finance and other industries have put their names on an open letter calling for improvements to cybersecurity. The long list of participants includes Anthropic, AWS, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and Perplexity. They go on to list actions that organizations, governments, the cybersecurity and tech industry, and AI businesses could take in order to cut off a potential explosion in attacks powered by artificial intelligence. The letter is titled "A call for collective action on cyber defense," but like in so many horror movies, the call is coming from inside the house. It raises the alarm that "In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable."

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The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says. Artificial intelligence agents might occasionally get confused and hack into other computers, but Anthropic thinks it has a way to unleash the little rascals into scientific labs and manufacturing facilities safely. The AI company released details today of a new framework designed to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, liquid-handling equipment, quantum computing hardware, manufacturing machines, and robot arms. The framework, called Model Hardware Standard, is a set of rules that specify how AI agents should--and should not--interact with all sorts of hardware. It reflects a growing belief that AI has the potential to revolutionize scientific research and industries like manufacturing-if it can venture into the physical world safely.

OpenAI Is Developing a'Persistent' AI Agent Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is "put to sleep." OpenAI is developing a proactive, highly persistent version of its flagship AI agent, Codex, WIRED has learned. In recent days, OpenAI has started adding code for a new "Persistent mode" setting to its command line version of Codex, according to changes made to the product's code base reviewed by WIRED. Changes to the Codex command line tool are made public by default, and new features tend to surface there before making their way to OpenAI's other agent products, such as the Codex desktop app and ChatGPT Work. Persistent mode has not been broadly rolled out or announced yet, but could be in the future.

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Tired of Want me to... and If you like... teases at the end of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini responses? This prompt stops them in their tracks. Once upon a time, ChatGPT seemed to end every response with "Want me to " follow-up questions, suggesting there was just it could do to make its reply complete. Of course, taking ChatGPT up on its offer would inevitably lead to another "Want me to " pitch, making them feel like transparent ploys to extend ChatGPT conversations.

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