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OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
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OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity prowess.
We’re making updates to Claude Fable 5’s biology safeguards in a way that substantially reduces fallbacks.
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.
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
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 be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in […]
The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
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OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" ( previously on this blog).
OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed that one of its unreleased large language models may pose a significant cybersecurity risk.
Compeq Manufacturing said on August 6 that satellite and data center demand helped lift second-quarter performance, with revenue reaching a record for the period and management expecting further gains through the rest of 2026.
The 2026 OCP APAC Summit will take place in Taipei on August 11-12. Ahead of the event, Lightmatter founder and CEO Nicholas Harris spoke exclusively with DIGITIMES about the company's advantages after joining the Nvidia NVLink ecosystem, its technology roadmap and the importance of close collaboration with...
Harvey AI Corp., a provider of artificial intelligence software for attorneys, is reportedly seeking at least $500 million in new funding.
Users running the latest version of Claude Code on macOS and Linux can now have their sessions message each other to share findings, ask questions, and coordinate work. Here are the details.
In this tutorial, we build an advanced multimodal retrieval-augmented generation pipeline with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever.
The board of SK hynix Inc., a major data center memory supplier, today approved the construction of two new fabs.
NVIDIA Labs has open-sourced NOOA (NVIDIA Object-Oriented Agents), a model-agnostic Python framework for building AI agents.
OpenAI is working on a feature that allows users to export custom stickers created on ChatGPT straight into WhatsApp. Here are the details.
Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more. Additionally, a robust lineup of companies in sectors including AI, e-commerce, cybersecurity, biotech and even mining also announced sizable new rounds.
Internal tests of OpenAI's new AI model Astra show cybersecurity capabilities so strong that the company can no longer rule out the highest risk level in its own safety framework.
Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.
Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.
WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model.
Sam Altman says OpenAI still plans broad access, but the lab is tightening controls around a model with potentially critical cyber capabilities.
Apple sued OpenAI last month in San Jose, California, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a campaign to steal the iPhone maker's trade secrets via former employees as it tries to develop its own consumer hardware device.
OpenAI today said it is "pausing" activities involving its upcoming AI model Astra, because its cyber capabilities are potentially too dangerous.
The news was first reported by market intelligence company Cleanview, which reviewed satellite imagery to connect three data center construction permits filed this week by Amazon to the gas plant, which is being developed by Pacifico Energy and is known as GW Ranch.
AI helps patch a signature check to always say "yes" on a specific HP laptop using a hardware flasher.
Hidden inside Grok Build 1.0, the Computer Hub command can turn a developer's local workspace into a remotely accessible tool server.
Our top-rated desktop computer for professionals comes with Intel Core Ultra 7 265, Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti, 32GB DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD.
I knew OpenAI’s Black Hat 40-minute debrief was a big story, but I didn’t expect my reporting to go viral — or to spark so much alarm. Here’s what security experts at the conference made of it.
If Google Assistant is headed for the graveyard, let's at least try to save what we can.
Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game from a premise I generated with GPT-3 and DALL-E four years ago.
The ChatGPT maker is reportedly working on a small, portable AI smart speaker, but it better not look too much like Apple’s designs.
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Claude Code auto mode will become the default permission setting for users next week. Starting August 14, sessions for Pro, Max, and Team users will use it unless a user or administrator has pinned another setting.
AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips.
Anthropic has cut false positives in its biology safety filters for Fable 5 by about 85 percent.
OpenAI is planning a donut-shaped smart speaker for 2027, priced above $300. The screenless device has a camera, microphones, and moving parts.
Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to slow down on EC2 usage as it struggles to meet CPU capacity demand for external customers.
As Europe swelters in a heatwave, residents probably don’t want to hear about ways to make their homes even hotter, but that’s what Polish property developer Citylink is talking about, with plans to dump waste heat from a new data center in Wrocław into the municipal district heating network.
Salesforce customers more than doubled their agentic workforces year on year, according to the company’s second annual Agentic Enterprise Index, which looks at trends in AI agent development and deployment over the past five quarters.
Some protesters brought a guillotine to public consultation for a potential data center in Salem, Oregon. Even though this was displayed outside the venue, it was a confrontation between the data center's representatives and some of the community members that led the latter to leave early.
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 2 shows state-of-the-art accuracy in cyclone prediction.
Anthropic is recruiting a custom-silicon team for Claude, with a Silicon Engineer listing updated August 4, 2026 and a related chip-design reinforcement-learning role updated August 3.
YouGov found that Claude and OpenAI were among the fastest-rising brands in consideration among U.S.
An indirect prompt injection vulnerability in Claude on Chrome can be exploited to steal email verification codes and hijack accounts on platforms like Slack, X, and Claude.ai.
Demis Hassabis, the driving force behind Google DeepMind, is ascending to the role of chief scientist at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, replacing Jeff Dean who is leaving to work at a start-up.
The Nvidia booth at QuakeCon 2026 is offering Founders Edition GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, and 5070 GPUs at MSRP. Supplies are limited, though, so you should head out ASAP if you want to snag one right now.
As enterprises look for ways to cut the cost of running AI models in production, AMD is betting that not every AI workload will be best served by a power-hungry general-purpose GPU.
As enterprises look for ways to cut the cost of running AI models in production, AMD is betting that not every AI workload will be best served by a power-hungry general-purpose GPU.
Anthropic has announced its building a team to co-design custom ASIC chips for AI inferencing workloads. This will give it greater control over its compute buildout and allow it to make its AI models specifically more efficient for its designs.
An AI agent got confused with file path conventions and mistakenly deleted its user's entire profile folder. Claude Opus 5 apologized to the user, who called it "the funniest and most painful AI moment I've had."
Enterprises deploying agentic AI may need a new generation of AI servers as conventional GPU-centric infrastructure struggles to efficiently execute multi-step AI workflows, according to researchers from Microsoft Azure and the University of Texas at Austin.
Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel have jointly created Agent Plugins, an open standard that defines a single package format for AI agent extensions.
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
Daon, the Digital Identity Trust Company, has been granted a new patent aimed at tackling one of the toughest production hurdles facing agentic AI within regulated sectors.
The lab is tightening internal security around its next major model after saying it cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities.
nCino, the platform for agentic AI banking, has introduced new functionality allowing lenders to link MCP-compatible AI agents straight into the nCino Mortgage Suite.
For a little under a year, everyone — myself included — has compared NVIDIA to Enron, largely because NVIDIA insisted, in detail, that it was nothing like Enron, WorldCom, or Lucent, a potent example of the Streisand Effect that would be much funnier if NVIDIA wasn’t holding up
We have fresh rumors on OpenAI's AI hardware, but what do they really mean? We turned to Gemini and ChatGPT for fresh perspective, renders, and have new thoughts about why the gadget still won't work for us.
"It was determined that meeting the project purpose and completely avoiding water resources was not feasible." The post Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands appeared first on Futurism.
OpenAI’s long-awaited move into consumer hardware is beginning to take a clearer shape, with new reports suggesting the company’s first device will be a compact, screen-free smart speaker designed to bring ChatGPT into the home in a more physical and personal way.
Designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, the screenless gadget is slated for 2027 and will use cameras, lights and moving parts.
Palo Alto Networks works closely with OpenAI across our product platform and Unit 42, leveraging advanced frontier model capabilities.
Are Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 GPU owners still paranoid about cable melts? Vibe coded tools popping up to defend against disaster suggest they are.
Amazon has confirmed that it is eyeing a potential data center site at the former Homer City coal fire plant in Indiana County. “We are evaluating...
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — AI is finally coming for one of the least glamorous, yet most essential, parts of the global economy: spare parts.
A small town in Kansas took its city meetings virtual and ended public comment after city leaders received a wave of death threats.
Encore AI, a startup that trains AI voice agents by analyzing companies’ customer interactions, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8, with additional participation from Planven, Lukatz, Garage, and several banks and insurers, some of which became investors after first using the product.
Google's Gemini Robotics 2 controlled Apollo 2 in three configurations, with reported dexterity results ranging from 32% to 92%.
Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, has raised $9 million in funding led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Haystack, ScOp, Script Capital, and Cadenza.
OpenAI announced it is removing limits on text-based chats for all ChatGPT users, a platform that recently surpassed 1 billion weekly users.
Insider Brief The U.K. government has opened a £20 million funding round for robotics and automated farming systems designed to plant, tend and harvest crops, as it looks to ease seasonal labor shortages and improve farm productivity.
Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation.