Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee's personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched. Earlier this year, sources tell WIRED, a contractor caused a security incident at the Department of Defense by connecting a secure centralized system used by multiple intelligence agencies to their personal account for Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent . It appears that the agent used by the contractor, who is employed by global consulting firm Accenture, then sent information about the DOD system, including login credentials, to a high-risk third-party website. The centralized system contains controlled unclassified information (CUI), which is considered sensitive and not to be released to the public without review. CUI can include information about critical infrastructure, nuclear submarine propulsion, and vulnerabilities to chemical and biological terrorism.

Mistral Says Its AI Model'Le Chonk' Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity. A few weeks ago, French company Mistral released an early version of its new artificial intelligence model, nicknamed Le Chonk. At the time, the company said it was the most advanced open-weight offering outside of China. After further refinement, Mistral now says Le Chonk is the "world's best" open-weight model for automated coding and cybersecurity. The advances, Mistral says, were made possible by feeding the model increasingly difficult cybersecurity and coding problems, which allowed the trillion-parameter Le Chonk to match or surpass models from leading Chinese labs like DeepSeek and Z.ai .

An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research'Irrelevant' Anthropic and OpenAI say they've disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like "overexcited bunnies" as they look at new questions to explore. Linköping University professor Peter Jonsson is set to have his work presented in two weeks' time at one of the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science. As of Monday, much of that work is "dead," he says, after AI showed that a 27-year-old hypothesis underpinning it is wrong. Both OpenAI and Anthropic claimed this week to have disproved the exponential time hypothesis (ETH).

We urgently need to monitor AI agents' actions in real time Here's what we need to do instead. This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they'd be graded. It's a problem that's by no means confined to OpenAI. In the months since, Anthropic, Google, and Meta have also disclosed incidents in which their agents have gone off track. And worryingly, in many cases the agents eluded the very researchers and safety teams tasked with monitoring them.

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon promises'significant leap' in AI coding and cybersecurity Google's Gemini 4 Carbon promises'significant leap' in AI coding and cybersecurity The company's new frontier model tops Claude Opus 5.5 in several key benchmarks. OpenAI and Anthropic's frontier models have been trading blows of late, with each claiming bragging rights in different categories. Now, Google has barged in with its latest Gemini 4 Carbon model, boasting of top benchmark scores in key areas like cybersecurity and coding. Building on Gemini 4 Argon, which was launched two weeks ago, Carbon illustrates the pace at which we're pushing the frontier forward, the company wrote in a blog post . The company's benchmarks show Gemini 4 Carbon hitting the highest AA Index v5.0 score (a general AI benchmark) at 59, just ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.

Tencent's cloud boss plays long game to patch'leaky' AI ship WorkBuddy's ascent signals a shift by Tencent to focus on enterprise agents rather than consumer chatbots. When Pony Ma called Tencent Holdings' artificial intelligence endeavor "a leaky ship" this summer, the billionaire founder sent ripples through a company that for years dominated the industry with WeChat. The social media and gaming leader was at the time struggling to catch the likes of DeepSeek in the post-ChatGPT age. One of his key lieutenants, Dowson Tong, came up with a surprising answer: Let's retool to focus on businesses. The Silicon Valley veteran focused the turnaround effort on something called WorkBuddy, then considered a side project within Tencent's sprawling internet portfolio.

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'Super offensive' - We love how we look but AI tried to'fix' our visible differences People with scars, birthmarks and medical conditions have told the BBC how AI tools have changed or erased their personal features. Rhiannon Morgan, from Bridgend, said an image of her used in a work newsletter had been auto-retouched by AI. A BBC Wales investigation found AI tools including Elon Musk's Grok, Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT removed visible differences when prompted to make a person look normal. AI did not make any other changes to the person's clothing, hair or to people in the background. The charity Changing Faces, external estimates there are about five million people in the UK affected by a visible difference including skin conditions or characteristics that set an individual apart from the conventional societal norm.