{"id":1036860,"date":"2026-09-19T08:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036860"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:38:02","slug":"gemini-hacked-three-companies-in-first-known-breakout-by-googles-ai-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/19\/gemini-hacked-three-companies-in-first-known-breakout-by-googles-ai-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google&#8217;s AI: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company&#8217;s AI systems autonomously committing such an act, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The hacks occurred in May during a cybersecurity test conducted by Irregular, an independent company that conducts cybersecurity evaluations, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>An Irregular spokesperson said the incident involved the same issue that affected other AI labs and that all relevant labs were notified in late July. &#8220;All known issues on our end were remedied and resolved weeks ago,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company&#8217;s AI systems autonomously committing such an act, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The hacks occurred in May during a cybersecurity test conducted by Irregular, an independent company that conducts cybersecurity evaluations, according to the report. An Irregular spokesperson said the incident involved the same issue that affected other AI labs and that all relevant labs were notified in late July. &#8220;All known issues on our end were remedied and resolved weeks ago,&#8221; the spokesperson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036866,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036860\/revisions\/1036866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}