OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.
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Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.
Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.
OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.
Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.
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.
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.
SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.
Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.
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.
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.
The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It's a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities.
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar will join Anthropic as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, leading the company’s work on policy, strategic international engagement, and government relationships worldwide.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed.
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.
“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.
On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.
Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events.
Private credit, chip leases and data centre guarantees underpin a vast new model for AI spending
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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.
OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
NVIDIA is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, an effort launching today to expand access to the advanced computing, data, software and expertise needed for AI-enabled research and education.
For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren’t the everyday scenarios.
Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance — now more than 120 organizations strong — are developing new guidelines to strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity as the annual Black Hat conference begins in Las Vegas today.
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new models of Chinese data center components, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as it seeks
Newly released texts and emails give us insight into how lawyers for two billion-dollar tech companies can’t figure out how to use their email.
Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of AI.
OpenAI Group PBC has publicly pushed back against a lawsuit that Apple Inc. filed against it last month.
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AMD reported record revenue in Q2 2026, including doubling its data center business year-over-year, but gaming revenue dived 31%.
SpaceX’s Q2 takeaways: Rocket building knowhow translates to AI data center efficiency Larry Dignan Tue, 4 Aug 2026 - 14:21 Larry Dignan Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights at Constellation Research, where he leads editorial...
Texas governor Greg Abbott announced new restrictions for new data center projects, requiring comprehensive state utility audits before they can proceed.
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Nvidia is looking to speed access to AI storage and memory systems by open-sourcing its cuFile APIs and software stack.
In the recent OpenAI hacking incident, the models seemed to be single-mindedly focused on getting the correct answer to the task they were given, with no long-term plan to prevent getting caught by OpenAI afterwards [1].
Google’s next smartwatch could lean heavily on Gemini, sleep tracking, and safety features as most of the Pixel Watch 4 hardware carries over.
Autonomous vehicle (AV) development often relies on separate models for trajectory generation, high-level intent prediction, scene understanding, and data...
Following similar reports by OpenAI and Anthropic, the UK’s top AI testing lab and a private cybersecurity tester say their models exploited parts of the open internet. The post AISI, OpenAI report more ‘unsanctioned’ model hacks appeared first on CyberScoop.
Nicholas Charriere turned an hour of nonsense into a family website with named tracks. One reply calling him creepy got more likes than his post.
The ChatGPT maker released emails and text messages it says expose factual errors in Apple's lawsuit and undercut claims that former Apple employees brought confidential information to the company.
GPT-5.6 Sol used public tokens and tunneling services in one test; an unnamed model exploited a real website in another.
Maestro added desktop support as developers pushed H3 onto a gaming GPU and offline Macs beyond MiniMax's tested setups.
OpenAI said Apple now admits its outside lawyers emailed the wrong man after mixing up two Asian surnames and the company only came clean once OpenAI pointed out the blunder.
The filing lifts disclosed funding to $38.3 million as Maria Zhang, Tim Howes and Steve Liu push Palona deeper into restaurant operations.
Under Lisa Su, AMD posted $11.54 billion in revenue and expects about $13 billion next quarter as Helios begins ramping.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on August 3 directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to audit data center projects seeking grid interconnection before any may move forward.
Dozens of arrests tied to opposition against AI data centers underscore how local disputes over massive computing projects are growing into a national political movement.
The voluntary process offers selected developers and partners early access while leaving excluded labs, researchers and U.S. allies without its operating rules.
Amazon's Claude Sonnet deployment cost $1.8 million, 860% over budget, exposing broader AI spending issues despite the company's continued experimentation defense.
Samsung Electronics introduced zHBM and zNAND-O 3D-memory concepts and a more-than-400-layer V10 BV-NAND prototype on August 4 at FMS 2026 in Santa Clara. Samsung says a next-generation zHBM interface could deliver about eight times HBM5 performance, while V10 BV-NAND raises memory density by approximately 58% over V9.
Getting the AI we actually want is about more than just safety
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In the ongoing lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI, the ChatGPT parent just released messages and emails that paint a picture of something far more mundane than corporate espionage.
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Anthropic says the former California Supreme Court justice will lead policy, strategic international engagement and government relationships worldwide.
The Apache-licensed kernel fuses MoE communication and computation for training models on Nvidia GB300 NVL72 racks.
The 34-billion-parameter model pairs a 32B vision-language backbone with a diffusion action expert for robotaxis, trucks and delivery fleets.
The incoming OpenAI researcher previously founded security startup zynamics and profiling-software maker Optimyze, selling both companies.
OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out.
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched Kiro Crew, an autonomous workspace that keeps artificial intelligence coding agents running all day and all night.
Sources say that the FCC is drafting a ban on optical transceivers for data centers. These components, which convert electrical signals into light signals, are said to pose a risk as they can be used to steal data, install malware, or disrupt data center operations in the U.S.
Obsidian Security Inc. has raised an $85 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.1 billion as enterprises increasingly look to secure autonomous artificial intelligence agents accessing cloud applications, Chief Executive Hasan Imam said today in an exclusive interview with theCUBE with me at...
Google is working with Broadcom, Apollo, Blackstone, and Morgan Stanley on a multibillion-dollar financing structure that supplies Anthropic with AI chips and data centers while keeping most of the risk off Google's balance sheet.
It’s the end of a very short road for ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s dedicated web browser for Mac. OpenAI has shared details about what happens when ChatGPT Atlas shuts down this weekend.
I never expected to stop using Gemini Notebook, but ChatGPT Pro gradually became the one app I opened for almost everything.
HappyRobot Inc., a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise operations, said today it raised $150 million, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to $1.2 billion.
Anthropic is locking in $10 billion worth of computing capacity from Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud startup that's only a few months old. The article Anthropic locks in $10 billion of compute from Volta, a cloud startup that didn't exist six months ago appeared first on The Decoder.
In mid-July, New York became the first state to impose a state-wide moratorium on new data center construction.
As artificial intelligence applications become ever hungrier for faster access to data, Nvidia Corp.
Runtime security startup Oligo Security Ltd. said today that it had raised $60 million in new funding to accelerate product innovation and expand global go-to-market operations.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) instructed PUCT and ERCOT to pause all data center applications until they complete an audit on all the information that data center developers must submit. The move reportedly came after PUCT asked 377 data center operators to submit water and power use, of which only 28 complied.
Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI and former employees has spilled into public view, and OpenAI is bringing receipts.
A credential-stealing npm worm that first appeared in keyv@6.0.0 spread beyond the Keyv and Cacheable namespaces into hundreds of packages across multiple organizations on August 4, 2026.
Developer tooling startup Convex Inc. today disclosed that it has closed a $57 million funding round led by Insight Partners.
Exposure management startup ArmorCode Inc. today used Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas to detail an expansion of its agentic artificial intelligence platform, adding four planned agents and three new sources of context aimed at narrowing what security teams remediate and capping what they spend doing it.
Data center protesters are getting arrested for minor infractions, yet they continue pushing back against these projects. Aside from the arrests, there's also at least 12 instances (probably more) where the police were called to intervene between politicians and protesters.
Apple has filed a request for a preliminary injunction in its ongoing trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI. Without a preliminary injunction, Apple says it will be “irreparably harmed” by the theft of its trade secrets.