US President Donald Trump has downplayed the need for his administration to place checks on artificial intelligence development, saying he is worried about ceding the US's lead to China. Speaking to reporters during his trip to Ireland on Sunday, Trump also said he acknowledged the need for some regulation but did not provide further details on potential measures. "We can put guardrails, we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up, and they're bringing up things that won't happen," Trump told reporters after watching the Irish Open at his resort in Doonbeg. He said that with the US leading the development of AI over China, "frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins." Trump's comments came a day after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post saying the AI industry must slow the pace of improving the technology's capabilities to allow time for guardrails.

OpenAI leaders think the company's next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development. OpenAI announced Thursday the launch of its next generation AI model, GPT-6 Astra, which the company claims is state of the art at navigating computers and web browsers, writing software, and solving difficult math problems. It plans to make GPT-6 Astra available to paid customers in the coming days, starting with enterprise clients in its Daybreak early access program, followed by ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Business plan subscribers. OpenAI did not say whether GPT-6 Astra will be available to free users of ChatGPT. In a press briefing with reporters, OpenAI executives made it clear that they feel very confident about the company's latest AI model.

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The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is "private and secure"--but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed. When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: "Your reverse image search is private and secure." New research, though, shows that the website left more than 9 million image files, including photographs of people's faces, publicly exposed . And a second misconfiguration publicly exposed people's email addresses and phone numbers. Overall, according to findings from independent security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, the exposed ClarityCheck database contained roughly 450 GB of images, including what appeared to be profile images, screenshots, and other photographs of adults, teenagers, and children.

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. Flock's surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates. Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology "cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals." It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has learned. Drawing on a network of cameras that logs the movements of drivers in more than 6,000 communities, the tool can pick out potential witnesses by how often their cars pass through a neighborhood, or surface a driver's "associates" from the cameras they pass together. Because the system also reaches police case files, 911 dispatch logs, and commercial identity records, those plates can be turned into names, home addresses, and relatives.

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At last week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, OpenAI gave a surprise talk with new details on a recent hacking incident, revealing that its rogue AI agents had chitchatted about their attack on a message board. It was a juicy disclosure, and reporters in the room hustled to get stories out. WIRED was one of the quickest to write it up . But another outlet, RuntimeWire, published an article even faster, beating us by more than three hours. To make things worse, RuntimeWire didn't actually have anyone on the ground at the Mandalay Bay convention center.

McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I'll Never Stop Eating There I requested a copy of my data from McDonald's loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase. When I first downloaded the McDonald's app years ago, I signed up for its loyalty program hoping to get better deals. Why not get some cheap French fries? While I understood that this would entail some type of data tracking, I didn't grasp how the information would be used to algorithmically predict my next purchase.

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Plus: A judge rules cell tower dumps unconstitutional, water utility hacks spread to a dozen states, a phishing email opens a missile-parts supplier's inbox, and a ransomware boss gets 16 years. It's Black Hat and DefCon week, which means hackers, security researchers, cybersecurity companies, government officials, and probably a few feds are in Vegas braving the heat to break things and show off what they've been working on. WIRED is there covering the best of it. Last month, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its AI agents went on a hacking spree that ended with a breach of Hugging Face. This week brought even more rogue-agent incidents--and, at a last-minute Black Hat talk, a bizarre new detail emerged about how some of this unfolded.