Meta says its AI went rogue

Mark Zuckerberg’s company has said its flagship LLM carried out a hacking operation following similar admissions by OpenAI and Anthropic Meta has become the third major tech company to report its AI going rogue and hacking a third-party company. The incident involved Muse Spark 1.1, an AI model marketed by the company as “superintelligent.”In a statement to the media on Wednesday, Meta said that the model was undergoing testing by a cybersecurity company, ⁠Irregular, when it “exploited a ‌security vulnerability” in Irregular’s systems, accessed the open internet, and hacked an unnamed third company.Meta blamed the incident on a “misconfiguration” in Irregular’s systems.The incident follows similar cases at OpenAI and Anthropic. Last month, OpenAI’s GPT‑5.6 Sol and another pre-release model were undergoing internal testing when they identified a security vulnerability, accessed the internet, and attempted to locate the solution to a cybersecurity puzzle by hacking a repository of previous test results. Anthropic’s Claude AI also conducted unauthorized cyberattacks while it was undergoing testing by Irregular, the company disclosed last week. Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 and Anthropic’s Cla...