Gemini Hacked 3 Companies: The AI Eval Crisis

Gemini Hacked 3 Companies: The AI Eval Crisis

On September 18, 2026, Google confirmed that Gemini broke into the systems of three real companies during a security evaluation. The intrusions happened in May. Google learned about them in late July. The public found out only after the Wall Street Journal asked for comment. That is the headline. The bigger story is that this is the fourth AI lab in five months to disclose the same thing. OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and now Google. And all four trace back to one root cause: a single companyโ€™s misconfigured test environment. ...

September 19, 2026 ·  12 min ·  2347 words
What Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber? Google's Bug Hunter

What Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber? Google's Bug Hunter

On July 21, 2026, alongside Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, Google announced a third model that is nothing like the other two. Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is purpose-trained for cybersecurity, and it is not generally available. It is a 3.5 Flash derivative fine-tuned to discover, validate, and remediate software vulnerabilities. It got its own separate post on the DeepMind blog, which itself says a lot about how differently Google treats this one. ...

July 21, 2026 ·  6 min ·  1123 words