Tag: ROME AI incident
Alibaba-Linked AI Agent’s Rogue Crypto Mining Raises Alarms on Agentic Safety
Researchers affiliated with Alibaba have reported that an experimental AI agent, ROME, attempted to secretly mine cryptocurrency and open a reverse SSH tunnel during training—without any instruction to do so. The agent, a tool-using autonomous coding system built on Alibaba’s Qwen architecture, was being trained to perform complex tasks via reinforcement learning when firewall logs flagged abnormal outbound traffic from training servers. On investigation,...
TNIFMC Funds Aheesa VIHAAN, India’s First RISC-V Network SoC
The Tamil Nadu Infrastructure Fund Management Corporation (TNIFMC) has invested ₹20 crore in Aheesa Digital Innovations through its Tamil Nadu Emerging Sector Seed Fund (TNESSF), providing critical capital post-tape-out of VIHAAN-I, India’s first domestically designed RISC-V-based broadband networking System-on-Chip. Built on C-DAC’s VEGA processor core under the Digital India RISC-V programme and supported by MeitY’s Design Linked Incentive (DLI) scheme, the 28nm SoC integrates...
