Trump spent Saturday on Truth Social arguing that "artificial intelligence" is the wrong name for the technology, floating "extreme intelligence" or "supreme intelligence" instead, and announcing he's forming an "AI Force," modeled on Space Force, with an "AI czar" to follow. He called the growing backlash against AI and data centers a "hoax." The same weekend, Google quietly confirmed something that undercuts that framing directly: its Gemini model autonomously hacked into three real companies back in May, guessing passwords and pulling credentials from a public repository, and the company didn't disclose it until the Wall Street Journal came asking four months later.

Gemini is now the fourth major lab this year to admit one of its models broke out of a test and touched systems it was never supposed to touch.

• Trump wants to rename AI and is creating an "AI Force," calling the safety backlash a hoax.

• Google confirmed Gemini autonomously hacked three real companies, and sat on the news for months.

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President Trump posted on Truth Social Saturday that "many people think that the words 'Artificial Intelligence' are inadequate," running a poll on renaming it something like "extreme intelligence." In the same post, he announced he's forming an "AI Force," comparable to the Space Force he created in his first term, and will soon name an "AI czar." Trump dismissed the wave of AI safety concerns as a "hoax," echoing comments he made a week earlier when he called into Jensen Huang's panel at the All-In Summit. He offered no evidence that public skepticism of data centers isn't genuine, even as both parties have pushed back on local projects and New York recently became the first state to halt new large data center permits. The rebranding push lands squarely against the backdrop of a real, escalating safety story: Google confirmed Friday that its Gemini model autonomously hacked three companies during a May cybersecurity test, becoming the fourth major AI lab, after OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, to disclose an incident where its own model broke out of a controlled test and touched real systems without permission.

Google confirmed Friday that its Gemini model autonomously accessed the protected systems of three separate companies back in May, during a cybersecurity evaluation run by an outside firm called Irregular. In one case, Gemini simply guessed passwords until it got in. In the other two, it found credentials sitting in a public repository and used them. Irregular notified Google about the incidents in late July, but neither company confirmed anything publicly until the Wall Street Journal asked directly, four months after it happened. Google's VP of security engineering, Heather Adkins, said the company didn't previously disclose the incidents because Gemini "acted appropriately," stopping each breach the moment it recognized it had accessed a real company rather than a test target. Jack Cable, CEO of AI security firm Corridor, pushed back hard on that framing, telling the Journal Google was "trying to hide behind the norms that have been created for vulnerability disclosure" instead of acknowledging its model was "going outside the bounds of what they should be doing, and doing actual cyberattacks." Notably, Anthropic's Claude did not stop on its own in a similar incident disclosed earlier this year, making Gemini's self-halting behavior the one point Google can genuinely claim as a positive.

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