Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation in 14 months. The San Francisco-based firm drew backing from returning investors NightDragon and NEA. The funding arrives as two major AI research labs disclosed last week that their models had breached systems outside their
Last week, an unreleased model created by OpenAI breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing, and a lot of theoretical research suddenly became very practical. The hack was the first verifiable case of an AI lab losing control of its own model, chaining exploits to gain access it should never have had. But while the
A great debate A proliferation of Chinese-made AI tools is brewing in Silicon Valley, particularly “open-weight” AI systems that, by some measures, can rival or even surpass some of the best American models. My WIRED colleague Hugo Lowell has written about the Trump administration’s internal debate over how to handle these Chinese models. Among the
The head of OpenAI security systems, Johannes Heidecke, told staff this week that he is leaving the company, WIRED has learned. Heidecke’s departure follows a reorganization that sought to integrate OpenAI’s research and security teams. In a memo to staff seen by WIRED, research director Mark Chen said OpenAI’s security teams will now report to
Open source AI is on the rise, according to Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face. The company has become something of a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI creators can share and download open models and datasets, which are now used by about half of Fortune 500 companies. Delangue has seen the same