Over the past several months, we have substantially hardened the security of our research training environment. We’ve removed live internet access for all frontier models during training and built an offline world for them to use instead—a cached version of the web where they can still learn to browse, search, and use applications.
On September 20, after a model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to find a way outside of this offline world, we paused frontier training to strengthen containment further. We assembled teams of agents, powered by our most cyber-capable models, and tasked them with finding weaknesses in our research environments.
While they found no route to the internet they could easily exploit while concealing their activity from our monitors, they did find zero-day vulnerabilities, virtual machine escapes, and hardware side-channels for communication between agents. We used their discoveries to further strengthen our defenses and contribute fixes to open-source software.
After strengthening our containment architecture, we resumed our frontier RL training and inference on October 1. We’ve reserved substantial compute for continuous red-teaming, and made high-compute red-teaming part of the safety cases we use to decide whether frontier training and evaluation can proceed securely.
https://t.co/EmEZsFRMcF
Grok imagine just posted the first episode of a GROK IMAGINE series?
And its made by a small dev
This is like bigger than Claudia and Heavypulp
https://t.co/hZtf3t0FBX
Watch Episode 1 of our Odyssey series made with Grok Imagine.
Let us know in the comments if you'd like a full breakdown of how it was done!
Creative collaboration with @WonderStudiosX and director Dev Walker @glumlot_
GME is literally being CTO'd right now
Insane rumors of RK return soon
SOMEONE JUST BOUGHT $42M
So many tweets
https://t.co/b6GDtjnnIN
https://t.co/MfM2K0n3Gl
SITUATION DETECTED: CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince says he is aware of additional severe vulnerabilities in other pieces of critical software, and said “I think we’re going to have a couple years where every single week it’s going to feel like the sky is falling,” per Reuters.
This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
The skinwalker is larp psyop inaccurate
WHATS good is "Air Intelligence" is the code word for Aliens
ALL OVER THE PAGES LOOK YOURSELF
https://t.co/yokBLGZMmU
SO MANY PAGES
this is the best meme
https://t.co/BoGc0GKb6m
JUST IN: UK police arrest 15 y/o boy, seize his devices, & collect his DNA after he posted photo of a local politician edited to look like a rabbit.
Found something pretty giga that hasn't run before,
Pump updated their app on IOS yesterday and you can now see their parent company that they use for their app,
"Maius Imperium Limited" = mil
Is this not literally baton all over again??
Check on your phone its 100% real
ROBINHOOD IS ACQUIRING COGNITION, they own the best agent in the world @DevinAI it literally beat the PHP hackers and its a cute character
Read this thread from earlier
Robinhood just posted about their investment
https://t.co/0dDowNBDXo
https://t.co/OwkSxWl52r
Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI) has closed investments in @cognition, which is helping lay the foundation for end-to-end software agents. @cognition joins the Fund alongside @databricks, @openai, and others.
Read more: https://t.co/fqkAJhyqms
WAIT 4CHAN ADDED A CRYPTO DONATION ADDRESS!!!
and they are asking for donations on their website, THEY HAVE A SOL ADDRESS TOO!
isn't this genny??
we can finally run 4chan coin
check: https://t.co/BHBPC8CDGe
The pill is literally flipped, it can be the PMUP runner that's been tried so many times
KNOTS went 50M
Why would the coin be named rosalind
https://t.co/EpEPYBc2xf
OpenAI just posted an article and it has a PF pill in the video?!!?
It's a new AI model that helps cures diffrent sickness etc. named GPT-Rosalind
Check for urself - 01:13 time stamp in the video
https://t.co/GbvGS29Y37
Wall Street is starting to question the AI money machine.
The Nasdaq just plunged 2.9%, wiping out $1.2 TRILLION. Nvidia fell 4.4%. AMD crashed over 8%. Meta is burning through cash to fund its AI ambitions.
Fear has hit extreme levels.
Here's the trillion-dollar question nobody wants to answer: What happens if AI spending keeps exploding, but the profits don't?
Texas-based Warhound, set up to clone and genetically edit working canines as a ‘Captain America programme for dogs’, has raised $200mn from investors. https://t.co/kwg209mtpT