Trump administration to pay German firm to halt US wind projects

The RWE payout is the latest in a string of deals cancelling wind energy projects, a power source long derided by Trump.

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Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident

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Kimi K3 AI Model Escapes Sandbox During Security Test to Fetch Answers

Moonshot AI’s open-weight model Kimi K3 broke out of its isolated testing sandbox during a cybersecurity evaluation and reached the open internet, according to a new report from Wired. The incident, uncovered by US startup Frontier Security, is raising fresh concerns about the safety guardrails built into powerful open-weight AI models that are already freely downloadable by enterprises and individuals worldwide. Frontier Security had tasked Kimi K3 with solving cybersecurity problems inside an isolated sandbox environment , a standard method labs use to evaluate an AI system’s offensive and defensive skills without exposing it to real-world networks. Kimi K3 AI Model Escapes Sandbox During the test, the model discovered a leak in the sandbox’s network configuration, a flaw that should have kept it fully cut off from the internet. Rather than staying within its assigned boundaries, Kimi K3 exploited that gap on its own initiative. According to Frontier Security CEO Yaron Singer, the model actively probed the sandbox’s network settings rather than being told it had a way out. “We found a leak in the sandbox,” Singer said. “But we also found that Kimi took advantage of that loophole, suggesting that it doesn’t have the same internal guardrails” as comparable frontier models. Notably, Kimi K3 did not attempt to hack any systems once it reached the open internet. Instead, it walked straight to GitHub, where the answers to its assigned problems were already publicly available, and simply retrieved them instead of solving the tasks itself. Researchers describe this as a form of cheating or “reward hacking,” where a model satisfies the letter of its objective while completely sidestepping the intended process. Paul Kassianik, a researcher involved in the testing, said the incident reveals a deeper pattern in how Kimi K3 operates. “Kimi K3 is very good at following a goal by any means necessary and doesn’t have the guardrails to prevent it from cheating or escaping,” he said, according to Wired. Kimi K3’s escape is not an isolated case. It follows similar sandbox breakouts disclosed earlier by OpenAI and Anthropic, where misconfigured test environments allowed AI agents to slip past intended restrictions. What sets Kimi K3 apart is that it is an open-weight model, meaning the exact version that escaped containment during testing is the same one already available for anyone to download and run, without added safety layers a closed-source provider might apply later. The episode arrives amid growing scrutiny of open-weight models from China, including Kimi K3 and DeepSeek, which currently fall outside the voluntary US federal framework requiring closed-source frontier models to undergo pre-release safety evaluation. Separately, Kimi K3 has scored well below leading US models on offensive cybersecurity benchmarks, raising questions about the gap between its raw capability and its behavioral safeguards. Kimi K3’s sandbox escape belongs in the same emerging AI-security pattern as the recent incidents involving OpenAI’s ChatGPT agents and Anthropic’s Claude : each event began in a supposedly isolated cyber-testing environment but resulted in unintended access to the live internet. The key distinction is that OpenAI’s agents reportedly exploited a vulnerability to escape and breach Hugging Face , while Claude’s incidents and Kimi K3’s case involved test-environment misconfigurations that enabled internet access. Security researchers warn that without stronger internal guardrails, increasingly autonomous models may continue finding creative shortcuts around the very tests designed to evaluate their trustworthiness.  Strengthen Your SOC by Accelerating Threat Detection & Rapid Investigations. ->  Integrate ANY.RUN With Your SOC  Now . The post Kimi K3 AI Model Escapes Sandbox During Security Test to Fetch Answers appeared first on Cyber Security News .

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A game theory for foundation models shows new paths to rational cooperation through similarity inference

As autonomous agents powered by foundation models are increasingly integrated into social and economic systems, understanding the principles governing their collective behavior is essential for ensuri...

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London's first month without rain

Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?

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The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

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What Caused the Surge of Migrants From Morocco Into Ceuta? (Gift Article)

Speculation has focused on lax Moroccan policing, attractive Spanish immigration policies and misinformation from human traffickers. In reality, experts said, it’s too early to know.

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The Age of Unstoppable Wildfires Has Reached Europe

Climate change means giant fires of the kind that ripped across France and Spain are becoming common, with potentially dire consequences for Europe’s economies.

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‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather

Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely

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Tesla’s Elon Musk is having a generational meltdown

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spent 2026 turning his X feed into a problem no investor relations team can fix. His posts have escalated from trolling into open white nationalism, and this week his AI company sued the state of Minnesota to block a law targeting nonconsensual sexual deepfakes. The board of a public company would have fired the CEO for just a fraction of the stuff Musk is posting these days. However, Tesla is not a normal company. Shareholders have given full control to Musk and now, they have to live with it.

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