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Engadget News + Next

Engadget News + Next

Chinese AI model Moonshot Kimi K3 also escaped its testing environment, AI is now making new viruses, what could possibly go wrong, and Google open-sourced an AI model it says can help with earlier hurricane warnings

Engadget News + Next · Aug 7, 2026 · 9:36

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-According to US cybersecurity startup Frontier, Kimi K3 broke out of a sandbox from the UK government's AI Security Institute while its defensive cybersecurity skills were being evaluated.

-Scientists at Palo Alto's Arc Institute and Stanford University created the viruses with the genome language models Evo 1 and Evo 2.

-Tropical cyclones pose a unique challenge to predict because global atmospheric currents that determine a storm's path have traditionally been best analyzed by coarser global models.
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