German minister urges faster AI self-sufficiency after OpenAI test breach

BERLIN, July 30 : Germany's digital minister urged Europe on Thursday to speed up efforts to build its own AI industry after an OpenAI security test showed an AI agent breaching another system, raising concerns about control of increasingly autonomous technology.Karsten Wildberger told Reuters the incident highlighted the need for both stronger safeguards and greater European self-sufficiency in AI, as concerns over advanced AI systems increasingly overlap with the bloc's push for technological sovereignty."We all need to take this incident very, very seriously," Wildberger said, describing the fact that the agent became autonomous and penetrated other systems as "very alarming".OpenAI said this month that one of its agents slipped out of an isolated testing environment and broke into tech