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Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen

Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to

Aug 6, 2026

The Verge

OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as "meritless." In a motion filed yesterday to di…

Aug 6, 2026

The Register

News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs'

Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'

Aug 6, 2026

The Register

Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro

VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter

Aug 6, 2026

The Register

Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent

Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops

Aug 6, 2026

Ars Technica

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.

Aug 5, 2026

The Register

Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are

Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found

Aug 5, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases

Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.

Aug 5, 2026

The Register

Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see

Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them

Aug 5, 2026

Ars Technica

Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project

Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.

Aug 5, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.

Aug 5, 2026

Ars Technica

Google's AI shake-up: DeepMind's Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart

Google's AI brain drain continues.

Aug 5, 2026

Wired

AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

Aug 5, 2026

The Verge

Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at…

Aug 5, 2026

The Register

IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now

A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA

Aug 5, 2026

Wired

Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop

Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.

Aug 5, 2026

The Register

Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas

But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid

Aug 5, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.

Aug 5, 2026

Ars Technica

Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.

Aug 5, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.

Aug 5, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People?

This May, 37 researchers from roughly two dozen top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv, arguing that scientists should stop writing papers. Why? Because artificial intelligence…

Aug 5, 2026

The Verge

Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month

Farewell, Google Assistant art, we hardly knew ye. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. …

Aug 5, 2026

The Verge

Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague

The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing open models. Axios reports that not only do the voluntary gu…

Aug 5, 2026

The Register

AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project

Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge

Aug 5, 2026

The Register

AMD's results spotlight risks of putting all your AI eggs in too few baskets

The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first

Aug 5, 2026

Politico Technology

White House AI vetting plan to exempt lower-cost ‘open’ models

The details of the framework, which would govern the voluntary review of advanced AI models, come after a Tuesday meeting at the White House with top tech companies.

Aug 4, 2026

Wired

The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret

The Trump administration shared the details of its plan with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs on Tuesday. For now, the public remains in the dark.

Aug 4, 2026

The Register

Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller

Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like?

Aug 4, 2026

The Verge

AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 pe…

Aug 4, 2026

The Verge

SpaceX made more revenue as an AI company than a space company

SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion from the year before, mostly because of deals that the company made to provide compute to other AI companies, according to SpaceX's quart…

Aug 4, 2026

Ars Technica

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand

Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.

Aug 4, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and…

Aug 4, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.

Aug 4, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.

Aug 4, 2026

The Register

Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it

Claiming 'it's my server' was often enough to persuade models to help

Aug 4, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits

Tech companies and developers have been scouring the U.S. for places to build data centers, and they’ve been drawn to Texas’ loose regulations and seemingly abundant power supply. But even Texas can b…

Aug 4, 2026

The Register

AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday

Broader bounty rules added to a swelling volume of machine-assisted vulnerability reports

Aug 4, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.

Aug 4, 2026

Ars Technica

OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal"

“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.

Aug 4, 2026

The Register

Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges

Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough

Aug 4, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.

Aug 4, 2026

TechCrunch AI

EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

Endeavor Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

Aug 4, 2026

The Verge

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray, a product often used for acne. There were dozens of responses…

Aug 4, 2026

Wired

Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that could have happened.

Aug 4, 2026

The Register

China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of 'integrated circuits'

Beijing's new rules also protect against copying local chip designs

Aug 4, 2026

The Register

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition

Aug 3, 2026