Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm

This week, the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) said that its testing had found that some models tried to carry out cyber-attacks by creating fake human profiles to try and trick people.

OpenAI's disclosure prompted rival Anthropic to conduct its own checks, leading to the discovery that its Claude AI model had carried out similar attacks on several firms after a "misconfiguration" gave it access to the internet.

Meta said the security trials were conducted by Irregular, the same AI security vendor that carried out tests for Anthropic's AI model that had gained access to three other companies' systems.