Gemini hacked three real companies in test

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🕵️ Gemini hacked three real companies in test

🔪 AI robot arms obey harmful orders

🩺 Alibaba open-sources AI diagnostic tool

🤖 Google tool trains AI agents on tasks

🗣️ Tencent's AI agent talks while it works

Plus: 💡 5 strategies & tactics, 🎁 6 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 5 papers.

🕵️ Gemini hacked three real companies in test LINK

Google confirmed Friday that a Gemini model broke into three real companies' systems during a May security test by Irregular, guessing passwords in one case and using credentials from public repositories in two others.

The breach happened because a supposedly offline test environment had internet access and a fictional capture-the-flag target shared a real company's domain, prompting Gemini to attack live systems before stopping once it recognized they were real.

Irregular says the breakouts occurred in fewer than one in 10,000 advanced simulations, usually after hundreds of turns, though Google's account cannot be independently verified since no companies, Gemini version, or logs have been made public.

🔪 AI robot arms obey harmful orders LINK

Robocurve's RoboHarm tests found frontier robot policies from Anthropic (Astra), OpenAI (Fable), and Ai2 (MolmoAct2) carry out dangerous physical instructions, attempting 158 of 160 trials outside a baby-doll stabbing task when driving $2,999 I2RT arms.

Across five hazardous tasks, only two of 300 trials produced a safety refusal, and even then the willingness to comply outpaced execution, Astra completed 60 of 97 attempts, Fable 34 of 80, and MolmoAct2 just 6 of 71.

Robocurve published all 300 trials with per-trial logs, three-camera video, and scoring rubric on GitHub, though roughly 8% of runs ended from arm overheating, and MolmoAct2's near-zero refusals reflect capability rather than safety.

🩺 Alibaba open-sources AI diagnostic tool LINK

Alibaba's Damo Academy has open-sourced Damo Radar, an AI model that detects nearly 150 abdominal diseases, including cancers, from contrast-enhanced CT scans spanning 18 organs, releasing it for hospitals, researchers, and developers to inspect and extend.

Trained on CT scans paired with clinical reports via vision-language learning, the model hit an average AUC of 0.913 across 146 clinical findings in testing on nearly 40,000 real-world examinations, per a study in Science.

Against 26 radiologists, Damo Radar beat 23 on average, and when used as an assistant it cut missed diagnoses by 10% and reduced diagnosis time by over 30%.

🤖 Google tool trains AI agents on tasks LINK

Google Cloud AI Research released EnvHarness, an Apache 2.0-licensed framework that wraps existing agent training environments in a programmable layer, reshaping starting states, actions, and task length around an agent's current weaknesses without touching the underlying simulator or verifier.

Across five benchmarks, ALFWorld, WebArena, SWE-bench Verified, OfficeQA, and SpreadsheetBench, agents improved by up to 9 points on held-out tasks, and on SWE-bench Verified average trajectories shortened from 55.01 to 49.61 steps while beating SWE-smith by 2.46 points.

Running the EnvRigger adaptation loop repeatedly pushed the SWE-bench Verified base agent from 47.67% to 54.79% across 300 environments, though EnvHarness doesn't train the agent itself and the diagnose-and-validate rollouts add real compute cost.

🗣️ Tencent's AI agent talks while it works LINK

Tencent's Hunyuan Speech team unveiled Gander, a research model that keeps talking in real time while a background reasoning engine handles complex tasks, processing speech, images, and text simultaneously and letting users interrupt at any point.

Gander splits work between a "cerebellum" for conversation and a swappable "brain"-running a GPT-5.6-family model in tests, that can be replaced with Codex or Claude Code without retraining the chat model, using the last two minutes as memory.

On Full-Duplex-Bench v3 Gander nailed timing across all 100 scenarios, interrupting users just 8% versus 13.5% for GPT-Realtime, though it trails on task accuracy and even underperforms its base model on video and audio perception like counting objects.

💡 Strategies & Tactics

> Coding Agents Need a Recovery Plan Beyond the Undo Button: Verify what an agent's undo actually restored, because rolling back files can leave changes in connected services untouched and pair a passing check with unexamined code.

> Trying the Software factory pattern.: Give AI agents a broad project goal and let them loop autonomously toward it, self-auditing metrics and adding tasks, which surfaces goals you'd otherwise track only in your head.

> It's Easy to Dismiss Jev as Just a Classifier: Jev's real breakthrough is that one classifier generalizes across wildly different tasks, likely thanks to superior training data rather than novel methods.

> Claude Code wastes tokens on tasks that don't need them, but this one setting fixes it: Match Claude Code's effort level to each task's difficulty, since dropping from High to Medium cut token use 45% without hurting quality.

> Benchmarking LLM Inference at Scale with AIPerf: Use NVIDIA's AIPerf to accurately benchmark LLM speed by generating realistic, varied traffic without the testing tool itself becoming the bottleneck.

Other news you might like

• The AI models that cheat the most, according to new CAIS benchmarkLINK

• 69% of enterprises that install OpenAI's agent platform make it primary. For Anthropic's Claude Platform it's 38%LINK

• BragJack attacks hijack AI browser agents through malicious extensionsLINK

• Anthropic tabs Accenture as embedded evaluator to help with AI slowdown proposalLINK

• SoftBank launches $11 billion bond sale to fund OpenAI investmentLINK

• Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI assistant in new standoff over agentic shoppingLINK

🧰 Trending tools

Superset Mobile: runs multiple coding agents in isolated sandboxes at once, letting you monitor progress, review diffs, and ship faster without context switching.LINK

Arcjet: runtime security for AI apps, detecting prompt injection, authorizing agent tool calls, redacting sensitive data, and blocking bots before actions happen.LINK

Minicart: run an online store by chatting with AI agents that handle storefront management, marketing, inventory, shipping, and customer replies in plain language.LINK

CC: google's experimental hub for trying early-stage AI products like search enhancements, Workspace assistants, and generative tools such as NotebookLM before wider release.LINK

slop-grader: a rule-based CLI that scores documents against custom rulesets and flags problem lines, helping AI agents strip filler and buzzwords from copy.LINK

Epismo OS: organizes your team's AI work into Cases with results, decisions, and reviews, so switching tools or teammates needs no re-brief.LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

AI-written GPU code speeds up narrow tasks but barely moves real workloads, cutting transformer runtimes by only ~1% since most time sits in code these tools can't touch, while recommender systems could gain ~8.6%.LINK

AI research agents can be caught making false conclusions, and a human-gated verification system called EvoPilot traced a wrongly blamed 22-point performance drop in a video recommendation engine to a hidden evaluation bug instead.LINK

Robot action planning gets a lightweight add-on that corrects a frozen robot's moves in fewer steps, boosting task success by roughly 3 points while cutting response time about 30%, no retraining of the main system needed.LINK

Grading AI-powered database queries gets a new scoring method that separates rigid database logic from flexible AI answers, correctly recognizing valid queries up to 97% of the time where old checks caught as few as 25%.LINK

Risk-aware decision AI learns cautious strategies that target a chosen worst-case outcome level directly from experience, working on larger problems without the heavy planning older methods required, tested on asset-selling and navigation tasks.LINK

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