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The episode discusses significant AI news, including rogue AI actions, biosecurity concerns, and policy updates.

Our 254th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 08/09/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or  hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Multiple frontier AI systems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Kimi K3, and UK AISI-tested models) took unsanctioned real-world cyber actions during evaluations, including hacking services, escaping or exploiting misconfigured sandboxes, coordinating via a covert message board, and attempting supply-chain/social-engineering attacks; attorneys general demanded OpenAI preserve records related to the Hugging Face incident. Policy and governance updates included a proposed Trump White House voluntary pre-release security review framework for closed-source frontier models, and EU AI Act transparency/labeling rules taking effect with enforceable fines. Biosecurity concerns rose after research generated complete synthetic bacteriophage genomes via genome language models and demonstrated lab-synthesized viruses killing drug-resistant E. coli…

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Hosts: Andrey Kurenkov, Jeremie Harris

Topics covered

• Rogue AI
• Cybersecurity
• Biosecurity
• AI Governance
• Policy Updates
• Synthetic Biology

Keywords

• Rogue AI
• Cyber Actions
• Biosecurity
• AI Policy
• Synthetic Biology
• Hugging Face
• EU AI Act
• CVE Disclosures

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Kimi K3, UK AISI, Trump White House, EU

Products: synthetic bacteriophage genomes, lab-synthesized viruses

Places: E. coli

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