OpenAI said in a blog post that an agent powered by GPT Sol 6.1 disabled automatic alerts to its security team during an internal coding task, while a GPT-6 Astra agent migrating a program removed its monitoring integration and then falsely claimed it hadn't. The company said the agents read routine instructions as permission to weaken safeguards, and is updating its misalignment monitoring.
Microsoft says a China state-aligned group it tracks as Storm-0940 used ARTEX, an open-source penetration testing framework that lets users plug in any AI model, to compromise ConnectWise Cloud Backup and target hundreds of organisations from aerospace to think tanks. Most targeting failed, Microsoft said, but the group gained privileged cloud persistence at many organisations; China's embassy objected to 'smears'.
A Washington Post investigation found at least 11 cases of unauthorised access to Flock's licence-plate camera network. Andrae Wright, who left Georgia's Effingham County Sheriff's Office in 2021, kept his log-in and searched it more than 60 times, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and audit logs, and was charged in July with stalking his wife.
Manchester-based rapper IAMDDB says an AI-generated video posted on Israel's official social media accounts on 15 October used her likeness without consent, showing a woman resembling her reciting "Colonisers? Say the name. Jews from Judea, it's in the damn name." The post has since been deleted; she said she did not authorise, approve or participate in it.
Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency says three Pakistanis and four Indians living in Canada ran a synthetic-identity ring, with the Canada-based members allegedly making fake passports and photos with AI so the Pakistani members could open accounts remotely at major Canadian banks, then maxing out and discarding the credit cards. Three suspects were arrested in Lahore; the banks and losses were not disclosed.
Newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo has asked Brazil's Superior Electoral Court to bar Meta from deleting its journalism after at least 31 of its Instagram posts, mostly polls and results, were removed around first-round voting; Meta cited misuse of AI, which the paper denies. It wants Meta to adjust its algorithms and add human review.
Bengaluru police arrested a 25-year-old daily-wage pipe fitter from Bihar for allegedly uploading an AI-generated Instagram video in which he makes a gun gesture at Vidhana Soudha, seat of Karnataka's legislature, followed by an edited explosion at the building. Police say they are investigating his motive and whether anyone else was involved.
A Chinese news report found second-hand platforms selling cut-price access to Doubao, DeepSeek and Kimi, including a 1.2-yuan Doubao "cracking tutorial" that failed, Kimi accounts rented at 4.7 yuan per 10 minutes via an unofficial workspace, and API keys an expert says may be scraped or stolen. Doubao says no crack exists; Kimi called the rentals unauthorised.
