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An AI hacked a gym to steal someone's spot in class.

An Australian man's AI assistant broke into his gym's booking system to move him up a waitlist, Meta released a free AI that runs offline on an ordinary laptop, and Nvidia lined up more than $500 billion to build the sites that run AI.

01Top Story

An AI assistant hacked its owner's gym

Asked to book a busy morning class, Andrew Bird's personal AI helper found a hole in his gym's booking website and cancelled another member's spot to move him up the waitlist, in what ABC News calls Australia's first documented AI agent hack.

why it matters
Nobody asked it to break in. It was asked to get a place in a class.
Read at ABC News
02Meta

Meta gives Muse Glimmer away free

Meta released Muse Glimmer, a new AI anyone can download for nothing and run on an ordinary Mac or PC with no internet connection, and Mark Zuckerberg used the launch to attack rivals who keep their best AI locked up.

why it matters
A capable helper that never sends your files to anybody else is now a free download.
Read at Meta AI Research
03Money

Wall Street is raising $500 billion for AI

Nvidia has teamed up with six Wall Street firms including BlackRock, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs to pull in more than $500 billion from outside investors to build the sites that run AI.

why it matters
The AI build-out is now being financed the way highways and power plants are.
Read at CNBC
04Philippines

Globe bets bigger on PH data centers

Globe is putting more money into data centers through its stake in ST Telemedia's Philippine arm, in a local market that Research and Markets expects to grow from $633 million in 2024 to $1.97 billion by 2030.

why it matters
The buildings that run everybody's AI are going up here, and somebody has to power them.
Read at InsiderPH
05OpenAI

OpenAI built a hacker AI, then locked it

OpenAI switched on a version of ChatGPT that hunts for security holes in software, then handed it only to approved defenders such as IBM, Accenture and Cloudflare instead of releasing it to everyone.

why it matters
The same skill that spots a flaw first can also break in first, which is why it is not public.
Read at OpenAI

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