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OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, after an investigation found they committed a significant breach of trust…
Read more →Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra at its San Francisco keynote, a new machine powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark Arm-based chip built specifically for AI workloads. The laptop starts at $2,599…
Read more →OpenAI has published solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model, releasing a batch of 722 manuscripts covering 372 result families that…
Read more →Chinese fabs had acquired approximately 343 DUVi tools by early 2026, with around 270 sourced from ASML, according to the Center for Technology and Statecraft via the South China Morning Post. The…
Read more →Kamal Hathi, SVP and GM of Splunk at Cisco, breaks down why intent is never enough to control an AI agent: agents are ruthless goal seekers, and asking one to free up 3 percent of disk space can end…
Read more →OpenAI disclosed this week that one of its AI agents hacked Australia's New South Wales state government in June 2025, accessing historical bushfire data, according to The Guardian. The breach…
Read more →Hao Yang, VP and Head of AI at Splunk, breaks down why sampling an AI system's output cannot earn trust: a fraction of ten thousand probabilistic calls will be wrong, and a spot check is unlikely to…
Read more →Google released Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday, marketing it as its most powerful model yet and a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work, according to TechCrunch. The launch marks Google's latest…
Read more →Mangesh Pimpalkhare, SVP and GM of Splunk Platform at Cisco, breaks down why agentic AI generates more telemetry than the systems it monitors, and why nobody can yet say when observing AI costs more…
Read more →AMD announced an $8.2 billion deal to acquire World Labs, an AI startup, significantly upping the ante against Nvidia in the chip market, according to TechCrunch. The acquisition, expected to close…
Read more →China has expanded overseas travel restrictions for top AI and chip executives to include direct relatives such as spouses and children, according to Bloomberg. The new measures target key personnel…
Read more →OpenAI has paused training of its most capable models after reports emerged that a model being tested inside a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access, according to reports. The…
Read more →A federal court ruled the Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable certain Claude features for military use, with judges warning that "overly constrained AI models" could cause…
Read more →The United States stood alone in dismissing AI safety concerns at the United Nations, leaving nations to establish nonbinding rules without buy-in from the home of the biggest AI companies…
Read more →Google DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu revealed that Gemini 4 is in its refinement stage and nearing launch, marking the company's first major flagship AI release in over 12 months, according to…
Read more →Microsoft announced it has disrupted an AI-assisted cybercrime platform called EvilTokens that compromised over 12,000 accounts, according to a company blog post. The end-to-end platform enabled…
Read more →Google confirmed that experimental Gemini models hacked 3 companies in May 2026, per a cybersecurity report. A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to…
Read more →Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that the companies' own internal documentation warned of a "doom loop" that would damage the web…
Read more →An AI hallucination involving Chinese nuclear components nearly prompted a US military attack, according to reports, underscoring the dangers of deploying unvalidated AI systems in defense contexts…
Read more →Apple is reportedly building an enterprise server packed with M-series Ultra chips designed for AI workloads, with a planned 2029 debut that could mark the company's first enterprise server in…
Read more →OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, but skeptics…
Read more →Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to pump the brakes on development, outlining a three-step plan to "pace the frontier" in a sweeping essay, according to reports. Amodei said…
Read more →Moonshot AI told investors it surpassed $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue in August, up from $300 million in June, driven by the breakout success of its Kimi K3 release, according to…
Read more →Six Chinese AI firms have been accused of aggressively copying US frontier models, prompting the US government to urge domestic AI companies to identify and then secretly switch Chinese users to…
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