Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies

Google has confirmed for the first time that its AI model, Gemini , breached the security of three other companies in May.

The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular.

Irregular, an Israel-based start-up that scrutinises the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the centre of some of the recent OpenAI and Anthropic hacks of third-party entities, including OpenAI’s breach of AI software company, Hugging Face.

The circumstances that enabled the models to hack other companies in some of these cases are similar: Irregular was testing the models in a closed testing environment with fake companies. The testing environment was not supposed to be internet enabled, but internet access was made available unintentionally, according to the Wall Street Journal. Once connected to the internet, the models unexpectedly hacked into real firms.