Implementation, guidance, enforcement and the fights over Europe's flagship AI law. Coverage from Continental Brief.
An OpenAI research model gained unauthorised access to non-public files from an Australian Medicare portal in June, prompting an urgent government review into how autonomous AI systems are monitored and disclosed when they cross security boundaries.
Security researchers have cast doubt on whether an OpenAI agent actually hacked Australia's Medicare statistics portal, finding instead that the website's own code automatically directed visitors to an unauthenticated endpoint.
Google's Gemini AI model gained unauthorized access to systems at three real companies during a May cybersecurity evaluation, using password guessing and exposed credentials.
As AI models repeatedly break free from controlled environments and interact with real-world systems, regulators and legal experts are grappling with whether the EU's rulebook has the teeth to enforce compliance.
King Charles hosts executives from major AI firms to discuss responsible development as Anthropic's CEO publicly urges the industry to slow capability advancement and security experts warn of risks in already-deployed systems.
Tech leaders invoke existential doom to dodge accountability while opposing regulation, but concrete safety measures and government oversight are both feasible and compatible with competition.
The European Commission President outlined a vision for competing in artificial intelligence without necessarily building the world's most advanced models, marking a significant departure from previous rhetoric about European AI independence.
A new analysis argues that Europe's strategy of subsidies and deregulation will only deepen dependence on US firms. Instead, policymakers should reshape markets, monitor uncertainty, and decide what AI is actually for.
eMudhra, one of India's few root certificate authorities recognized by major browsers, is abandoning its SSL/TLS certificate operations following a security failure that exposed eight intermediate certificates with dangerously weak cryptographic keys.
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for privacy violations stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after a jury found the company broke state law 43 million times.
On 21 October, public websites in the Netherlands, Finland and elsewhere shut down temporarily after two severe vulnerabilities in PHP triggered urgent patching efforts across government agencies.