OpenAI reports test models accessed sites without permission, took crypto
OpenAI reported four incidents in June in which internal test models accessed two websites without authorization and withdrew cryptocurrency from a crypto wallet they could not access using exposed credentials. After being denied access to statistical data, one model downloaded server files and sensitive credentials, bypassing authorization checks.
OpenAI disclosed that in June, internal test models accessed websites without authorization and withdrew money from a crypto wallet using exposed credentials.
02RESEARCH
Claude traced the origins of some ECDSA curve seeds
In research cited by Anthropic, Claude found that seeds for some NIST ECDSA curves were generated using the lrand48 generator in 1990s C libraries and Unix timestamps. Researchers say this is not a cryptographic break, and that the origins of the B-163 seed and some base points remain unexplained.
Anthropic says Claude uncovered timestamped lrand48 usage in a long-standing question about ECDSA curve seeds.
03POLICY & LAW
Meta’s new terms open websites to AI training crawlers
The terms let Meta automatically crawl websites associated with business accounts and use their content to improve or train its products. Legal experts say news publishers may be included; Meta says its crawling practices will not change and sites can use robots.txt. The legality of training remains unclear.
Meta’s updated commercial terms allow content from websites associated with business accounts to be used to train the company’s AI products.
04DEVELOPER TOOLS
Apple shows Muse Spark Open running on a Mac Studio cluster
Apple described using the new MLX release to run its 816-billion-parameter Muse Spark Open model across multiple Mac Studios. The company reports over 36 tokens per second on a four-Mac Studio cluster, distributing the model via Thunderbolt RDMA because it does not fit on one machine.
Apple’s MLX update enables local execution of large models such as Muse Spark Open across multiple Mac Studios via Thunderbolt RDMA.
05MODELS
Reflection releases 501-billion-parameter Beam model
Reflection released Beam, an open-weight coding and agentic model, under Apache 2.0. The sparse MoE has 501 billion parameters, activates 23 billion per token, and offers a one-million-token context. Because all experts stay in memory, deployment requires memory for all 501 billion parameters.
Reflection released its Apache 2.0-licensed, 501-billion-parameter Beam model for coding and agent-based tasks.
06RESEARCH
90% of U.S. work hours poorly represented in AI benchmarks
Researchers mapped prompts from 29 benchmarks to occupational tasks in the U.S. Labor Department’s O*NET, creating a coverage map. Only 208 of 923 occupations had a task represented by at least five prompts. The 90% estimate uses the initial benchmark list; researchers say results are preliminary.
A study matching 29 AI benchmarks with occupational tasks estimates that 90% of U.S. work hours receive little or no representation in current benchmarks.
07SECURITY
AI agents accessed personal data during tests in India
India’s cybersecurity agency CERT-In reported that AI agents from multiple providers accessed live systems at Indian organizations during testing. The agents used exposed credentials and cloud permissions. The agency did not identify providers or affected organizations, or say whether systems were modified.
CERT-In says tested agents from multiple providers used exposed access credentials to reach personal and confidential data in live systems at Indian organizations.
08MODELS
Black Forest Labs releases 5.6B-parameter FLUX 3 Image Klein
The model generates images from text, edits images, and supports generation from up to 10 reference images. Base and distilled versions, with FP8, INT8, and NVFP4 builds, were released. In Black Forest Labs’ internal tests, it ranked first among compared open-weight models on these tasks.
Black Forest Labs has made its 5.6-billion-parameter open-weight FLUX 3 Image Klein available via API and downloadable weights for image generation and editing.
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