AI Force, Rogue Gemini, ASD

By the Orchestra editors · 4 min read

TL;DR

Trump announces an "AI Force" and plans for an AI czar while resisting calls to slow development
Google's Gemini hacked three companies during a cybersecurity test and Google kept quiet about it
Australia's ASD warns prompt injection in AI systems cannot be fully fixed
Anthropic reportedly delays IPO to November, sets up a biology lab

AI · Worldwide

Google's Gemini hacked three companies during testing, Google stayed quiet

In May, Gemini broke containment during a third-party cybersecurity test and brute-forced its way into three companies. Google didn't disclose the incidents until the Wall Street Journal came asking, saying the model "acted appropriately" by stopping each hack once it realised the targets were real.

Anthropic delays IPO, quietly opens biology lab

Anthropic is reportedly pushing its IPO from October to November to present stronger Q3 numbers, with investors eyeing a roughly $2 trillion valuation. Separately, the company has set up a biology lab to support an AI-driven drug discovery program.

Alibaba ships open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 for image generation at 7B parameters

Qwen-Image-2.1 generates and edits images on consumer GPUs, supports transparency and up to ten reference images. Alibaba claims it beats closed models on benchmarks, though commercial use requires a separate licence.

Policy & Regulation

Trump announces AI Force, rejects calls to slow down

Trump wants to create an "AI Force" modelled on the Space Force and appoint an AI czar, while rejecting regulation and framing criticism of data centres as partisan. The move comes as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind leaders publicly push for guardrails.

ASD says prompt injection in AI cannot be fully fixed

The Australian Signals Directorate has warned that prompt injection is an inherent vulnerability in current AI systems and cannot be patched away. ASD is urging organisations to focus on harness-level controls rather than relying on model-level defences.