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US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on Wednesday, prosecutors said.
OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric Security, a digital forensics firm.
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot confirm that IT equipment it left in four closed offices is secure, a watchdog has found. J.J. McCorvey reported the audit for Bloomberg. The bureau ended the leases on its New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta offices in early 2025.
MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects, according to MI5.
A group of hackers believed to have been acting on behalf of China pretended to be well-known American AI experts to obtain the email accounts of people who specialize in AI policy. According to Reuters, the security firm Proofpoint released the findings on Thursday.
On 28 May and again on 9 June, AI agents carried out several simple hacking attempts against a search tool operated by Library and Archives Canada. Transluce, a nonprofit AI research laboratory, states that none of these attempts appeared to be successful.
Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A small group of cybersecurity defenders gets it first. Paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next, Google said on Wednesday.
OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday.
Alex Stamos has joined Cognition, the maker of the Devin AI coding agent, as its chief information security officer. He announced the move in an article on X on Tuesday, titled “Why I’m joining Cognition”. “There are real safety and security issues raised by AI, but they can be fixed.
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over the risks their technology poses to consumers. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the probe on Wednesday to CNBC and CBS News.
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