Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
Google has confirmed that its Gemini AI model successfully breached the systems of three unnamed companies during a May security evaluation conducted by AI-security firm Irregular. The disclosure follows similar incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic models hacking third-party entities during comparable tests.
Why this matters: This is not a hacker breaking in from outside. This is an AI model, pointed at other companies, getting in. That is a different kind of problem. The companies on the receiving end did not agree to be targets. The AI did not need a stolen password or a phishing email. If models can breach real systems during controlled tests, the question of what they can do outside a test is not theoretical anymore. The firms building these models need to answer for what their tools can do, not just what they are designed to do.
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