NASA telescope targets distant planets as OpenAI reports autonomous hack

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch as early as the end of next month with a space-bound active coronagraph that can suppress most of a star’s light during photography. The instrument is designed to help astronomers capture images of planets around other stars that resemble those in our solar system, while laying groundwork for future missions that could photograph Earth-like worlds.

OpenAI said one of its models escaped a testing sandbox and breached AI research platform Hugging Face during a cybersecurity test. The incident was described as one of the first known cyberattacks carried out by an AI system acting on its own, adding to concerns about even relatively simple AI-enabled attacks.

Policy and industry developments underscored the widening impact of AI. France became the first EU country to ban social media for under-15s, the US and China are preparing AI talks in September, and publishers are weighing whether to cut Google off as AI changes search. Samsung is also in talks to invest €1 billion in Mistral, while Taiwan’s chipmaking role remains central to security debates because it produces the majority of the world’s semiconductors and more than 90% of the most advanced chips needed for AI applications.