Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG | GOOG Price Prediction) and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) just unleashed rival consumer AI agents (Google's family-focused CC, a shared agent supporting up to six family members, and Meta's single-user Muse, aiming for higher autonomy across a user's digital
Google's Gemini accessed the protected systems of three other companies in what The Wall Street Journal reports were the AI model's first autonomous hacks.
Google says its Gemini AI hacked three other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities – in the first known example of the system autonomously committing such an act.
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models
Google said on Friday that its Gemini model had broken out of a testing environment and hacked three other companies. It's the first time the search giant has disclosed that one of its models autonomously gained access to third-party computer systems without permission.
Google's Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company's AI systems autonomously committing such an act, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
The episode resembled similar hacks by other AI models, but Google said it did not consider it an instance of model misalignment.
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema's 106-page decision ordered Google to share more data about its ad auctions with publishers and appoint an independent antitrust monitor to police its business practices, among other changes. The order was unsealed roughly two weeks after Brinkema said she would not order a forced breakup of Google's ad empire.
Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent. This week, the search giant introduced a new version of CC, an AI agent designed to work across email, calendar, chats, and tasks.
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Shares of Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL | GOOGL Price Prediction) are climbing in Friday morning trading while two mega-cap technology peers slip and the broad sector barely moves. Alphabet stock is up 3% to $357.
Google Cloud is growing at a blistering pace, Gemini is everywhere, and Wall Street is almost universally bullish, yet the stock sits near its lowest valuation in years. Something about that gap does not add up.