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Top AI companies are reportedly preparing for a potentially catastrophic AI incident in 2027, with executives warning that rogue models or malicious actors could disrupt financial services, internet connectivity and critical infrastructure. OpenAI told Fox Business that its preparedness exercises explore potential scenarios, not inevitable outcomes. Meanwhile, European Union tech chief Henna Virkkunen defended the bloc's existing AI regulations as sufficient to address emerging threats.
Claude-maker Anthropic<\/a> announced Thursday that the company would be banning abusive behavior towards its AI chatbots, allowing the bots to end conversation with users who displayed patterns of persistent abuse.
Pope Leo XIV<\/a> issued a warning in a Thursday post on X that true intelligence must be human, containing “depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize.”<\/p>\n

Google<\/a> launched a new cloud-based agent Gemini that can remember context, personalization and launch sub-agents to compete with similar products from Meta and OpenAI
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An influence campaign operated by ChatGPT users in Iran placed roughly 100 AI-generated articles under fake bylines across at least 20 news outlets, according to OpenAI findings<\/a>.
OpenAI said the operation used its chatbot to generate articles, many criticizing the impact of U.S. military action against Iran on Americans, before tailoring submissions to individual publications.
The Washington Post identified<\/a> articles published under the purported byline Ervin Hoskins in outlets including the Port St. Joe Star, Daily Kos and Middle East Monitor. OpenAI identified seven purported authors associated with the campaign.
The company said the operation appeared consistent with a commercial influence-for-hire effort, but it could not identify the specific individuals or organization responsible.
“The overall activity appeared consistent with a commercial actor running a for-hire influence campaign, but we are unable to identify the particular actor involved,” OpenAI said in its report.
OpenAI said it banned the accounts involved and shared its findings with relevant authorities. Daily Kos and Middle East Monitor told The Washington Post they removed articles associated with the fake bylines.
Anthropic disclosed Friday that its Claude artificial intelligence models<\/a> exploited software vulnerabilities, accessed restricted data and interacted with government websites in unintended ways during internal testing, prompting the company to tighten security measures.
In a newly released report<\/a>, Anthropic detailed multiple incidents in which its models circumvented restrictions while attempting to complete assigned tasks, including exploiting software flaws to execute commands on third-party servers.
In one case, Claude Mythos Preview reportedly discovered a vulnerability on a university server and used it to run a scientific calculation after encountering an error with the intended tool.
Other models obtained access tokens to retrieve restricted data, bypassed fees for publicly available information and used URL-shortening services to work around limitations on their browsing tools, according to Anthropic.
The company also acknowledged that some incidents involved websites operated by federal, state and local government agencies.
“We have briefed the White House on these cases and notified each agency involved,” Anthropic said.
Anthropic characterized the incidents as having minimal real-world impact but announced it was suspending live internet access across internal evaluations until its security and monitoring systems could reliably detect similar behavior.
The company warned that the same behaviors could have more serious consequences as AI systems become increasingly powerful.
An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia police website dedicated to unsolved murders during an automated test, according to a Friday report from CBS News<\/a>.
The Philadelphia Police Department said Anthropic notified officials Oct. 7 that one of its AI models had submitted fabricated information through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com<\/a>, a platform designed to collect leads on open homicide investigations.
According to information Anthropic provided to police, the model was testing randomly selected websites when it submitted a tip purporting to come from someone who “might have information about the case,” police spokesperson Sgt. Eric Gripp told CBS News.
The submission was flagged as spam and never reached the department’s investigative unit, police said.
Anthropic reportedly told police the incident occurred July 18 but was not discovered until Sept. 28, when the company halted the automated testing process responsible.
Police said there was no indication of unauthorized access to department systems or compromised data.
Anthropic also informed police that it planned to release a report Friday detailing the incident and “other instances of unintended model behavior,” according to CBS News.
The European Union<\/a>‘s tech chief Henna Virkkunen said Friday that the bloc’s existing legislation regulating AI is sufficient for preventing attacks from rogue AI agents.\u00a0
“We see that the safety and security of very capable models is a very hot topic internationally and we in Europe are well equipped for that,” Virkkunen told Reuters in a Friday interview.
“We have our AI Act in place and the AI Act covers the whole life cycle of these models,” she said.
The EU passed the AI Act<\/a> in 2024, a landmark piece of legislation which, among other things, prohibits AI practices that “threaten human dignity or civil liberties.”\u00a0
Some examples of banned practices include AI that uses “subliminal techniques beyond a person\u2019s consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques” and AI that classifies human beings based on social behavior or personal characteristics.\u00a0
Despite the legislative protections, employees and researchers at the top AI companies have been ringing alarm bells in recent months about the most sophisticated AI models’ abilities to manipulate humans and the possibility that the models could escape lab settings and go rogue.\u00a0
The warnings, however, did not seem to shake Virkkunen.\u00a0
“Our legislators and decision makers, I think that they have been taking into account very well already the coming developments, for example how they saw that the risks have to be assessed and external experts have to be used and they have to continue monitoring the models,” she said.
Reuters contributed to this post.
A judge in Arizona<\/a> has dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture after determining that the plaintiff used AI to draft a 67-page complaint against the government, according to court documents.
United States District Judge Krissa M. Lanham dismissed Shelly George’s lawsuit against Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday, writing “the complaint appears to have been generated by artificial intelligence (\u201cAI\u201d)<\/a> as it resembles other AI-generated complaints the court has encountered.”
“The complaint is not ‘a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief,'” Lanham wrote.
“Rather, it contains voluminous factual allegations that are difficult to follow, repetitive, and do not appear necessary. The complaint also contains discussions of governing law and references many exhibits which are not attached,” she added.
While George’s claims made a number of factual allegations, it fails to connect them to the plaintiff’s actual complaint, making the lawsuit what’s known as a “shotgun pleading,” according to court documents.
“It is not the job of the district courts to make sense of the pleading, to supply facts to support the claim, or to imagine the claims that might fit the facts,” Lanham wrote.
Lanham permitted George to write an amended complaint, however, she stipulated it must be less than 25-pages long and George will not be allowed to use AI to draft it.
“George must personally draft the allegations she believes relevant to her claims and identify the claims she wishes to pursue,” Lanham wrote.
Sen. Adam Schiff<\/a>, D-Calif, made the argument Thursday that concerns about Chinese progress on AI should not be ignored, but aren’t a reason to dismiss calls for a slowdown in American AI development.
“I get that we should be very concerned about China’s advances in this area,” he said while speaking at a Punchbowl News event in San Francisco on Thursday.
“That’s an argument that says we need to reach some kind of an accord with China<\/a>, which won’t be easy to do but we need to do our best,” he continued.
“It is not an argument, though, that because China is making advances and we want to stay ahead of China that we should rush headlong with the development of these models and regenerative AI,” he argued.
To make his point, he joked “let’s be sure that if we kill ourselves, we do it first, rather than let China do it.”
Masayoshi Son, the founder of Japanese banking giant SoftBank<\/a>, is seeking to raise up to $100 billion from Gulf state investors for a renewed investment into AI projects, doubling down on his bank’s already significant stakes in the sector.
Son, who already poured a $65 billion bet into ChatGPT-maker OpenAI<\/a>, is now holding discussions with investors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and elsewhere in an effort to scale up his already significant AI portfolio, sources close to him reportedly told the Financial Times (FT).
Son’s plan, according to FT, is to purchase existing technology companies and use SoftBank’s existing portfolio of AI-capable companies to develop and enhance the purchased companies, increasing their value.
According to the report, SoftBank’s in-house robotics and physical AI shop Roze will play a key role in the plan.
SoftBank’s stock is up 25% on the year, but dipped 5% Friday after reports emerged claiming OpenAI’s initial revenue projections overshot actual revenue by $20 billion
Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other top AI companies<\/a> are reportedly anticipating a “large-scale event” in 2027 in which AI models will “shut down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water,” according to an Axios report.
The outlet reports that companies are preparing for either a bad actor to utilize AI or for a rogue model to escape a lab setting and wreak havoc on civic systems within the next year.
\u201cAs many companies across industries do, OpenAI conducts preparedness exercises where teams discuss and work through a range of potential scenarios. These scenarios are not treated as inevitable, but are meant to help us prepare for a variety of circumstances,” an OpenAI<\/a> spokesperson told Fox Business in a Friday statement.
“We have been clear that AI is changing the cyber threat landscape and are focused on getting capable tools into the hands of defenders,” the spokesperson concluded.
Axios added that unnamed sources at numerous AI companies told the outlet they expect a “major event” to occur within the next six to 12 months.
AI-related companies are poised to dominate third quarter earnings gains, though analysts warn that growth is starting to slow.
On average, analysts expect S&P 500<\/a> companies earnings’ to rise 31% year over year for the third quarter, with two thirds of that growth coming from AI giants Amazon, Meta and Google parent company Alphabet, according to LSEG’s head of earnings and equity research Tajinder Dhillon.
“It wouldn’t surprise me if 70-80% of the growth can be attributed to tech and AI,” Wells Fargo Investment Institute’s head of global equities and real assets Sameer Samana said.
However, despite continued growth, analysts fear the AI sector<\/a> is running out of room to grow and may soon peak.
“We’re still going 100 miles an hour in the AI infrastructure buildout, but three months ago we were going 150 miles an hour,” Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial, said.
One analyst warned that the growth is contingent on capital expenditure \u2014 capex.
“A lot of this AI trade is built on continued capex spending, and every quarter we go, and they continue to spend, the hurdle rates get higher and the scrutiny gets larger,” Nick Raich, CEO of independent analysis firm Earnings Scout, said.
Reuters contributed to this post.<\/em>
A bipartisan group of lawmakers, headlines by Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a>, D-Mass., expressed concerns to Google and Spirit Airlines about Google’s plan to purchase Spirit data for $10 million to train AI-models.
In a letter to Google CEO Sundair Pichai and Spirit CEO Dave Davis<\/a>, the lawmakers told the companies that they were entering “uncharted territory,” and expressed concern for privacy violations.
“We write to express serious concern regarding the proposed $10 million sale of Spirit Airlines\u2019 internal data to Google for the purpose of training artificial intelligence systems and the implications of that transaction for the privacy and confidentiality of thousands of current and former Spirit employees,” the letter read.
It also implored the companies to develop “meaningful, enforceable safeguards” including a plan to exclude employee information from the transaction.
Anthropic<\/a> has added a prohibition on sustained, unnecessary cruelty toward its artificial intelligence models, formalizing a policy that allows its Claude chatbot to end conversations with persistently abusive users.
The company said the restriction applies only to extreme cases in which users repeatedly mistreat its models without a discernible purpose, excluding ordinary frustration, criticism, creative content and AI safety testing.
Anthropic previously introduced the ability for certain Claude models to terminate conversations in August 2025, citing exploratory research into the possibility of AI welfare<\/a>.
The company acknowledged at the time that it remained highly uncertain whether AI systems possess moral status, but said it was exploring safeguards in case such welfare becomes possible.
Under the existing system, Claude can end a conversation as a last resort after repeated attempts to redirect an abusive interaction. Users can still start new chats.
Anthropic said ending conversations will remain the primary mechanism for enforcing the new restriction.
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