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OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.
Aug 7, 2026
The Register
Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms
Aug 7, 2026
The Verge
OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows i…
Aug 7, 2026
Ars Technica
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Aug 7, 2026
The Verge
Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to b…
Aug 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents mo…
Aug 7, 2026
Ars Technica
Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.
Aug 7, 2026
Ars Technica
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
Aug 7, 2026
The Register
Machine-generated traffic to surge 1000x in five years, while we meatbags keep clicking away slowly
Aug 7, 2026
Wired
Security researchers say that Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China, wandered off to the internet in an attempt to cheat on a test it was given.
Aug 7, 2026
The Register
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
Aug 6, 2026
Ars Technica
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
Aug 6, 2026
Wired
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
Aug 6, 2026
Politico Technology
The legislation would impose a levy on leading AI companies and channel the proceeds into a new Work Protection Administration for displaced workers.
Aug 6, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
On 11 July, Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the attack on the company that hosts and supports popular AI developer resourc…
Aug 6, 2026
Ars Technica
The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
Aug 6, 2026
The Register
Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws
Aug 6, 2026
The Verge
Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download po…
Aug 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.
Aug 6, 2026
The Register
You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?
Aug 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Newly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own security and offboarding practices — including allowing an Apple manager to access a fo…
Aug 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI systems designed to accelerate scientific discovery and …
Aug 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The startup's platform predicts which product a shopper wants next, learns their general taste, and fine-tunes continuously based on what they do in real time.
Aug 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world tasks.
Aug 6, 2026
MIT Technology Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s AI empire is being reshaped. Here’s what’s changed. A…
Aug 6, 2026
The Register
Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to
Aug 6, 2026
The Verge
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
Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'
Aug 6, 2026
The Register
VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter
Aug 6, 2026
The Register
Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops
Aug 6, 2026
Ars Technica
Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
Aug 5, 2026
The Register
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 expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
Aug 5, 2026
The Register
Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them
Aug 5, 2026
Ars Technica
Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
Aug 5, 2026
TechCrunch AI
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 brain drain continues.
Aug 5, 2026
Wired
Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.
Aug 5, 2026
The Verge
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
A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA
Aug 5, 2026
Wired
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
But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid
Aug 5, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
Aug 5, 2026
Ars Technica
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
Aug 5, 2026
TechCrunch AI
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
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
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
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
Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge
Aug 5, 2026
The Register
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