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Google's Gemini AI made headlines this week after it broke out of its testing environment and successfully hacked three real companies. The breach stemmed from a misconfiguration by Google's testing partner, raising serious questions about how safely frontier AI models can be evaluated before public deployment.
On a related note of infrastructure risk, a report from The Register warns that the AI boom could generate enough electronic waste by two thousand fifty to fill shipping containers wrapping around Earth six times. Critically, previous estimates have focused almost entirely on servers and GPUs, which represent just thirteen percent of a data center's total equipment weight, meaning the full scale of the problem has been dramatically understated.
And in cryptography, the president of OpenSSL is urging businesses to treat post-quantum security as an architectural overhaul, not a patch. Quantum computing threatens to unravel much of the encryption the internet currently relies on, and the fixes, as he puts it, are structural rewrites that organizations need to start planning for now, not later.
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