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Model launches, benchmarks, multimodal systems, and eval wars.
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
Gemini Omni makes creating videos as easy as having a conversation. Here’s how five people use it to edit videos and visualize ideas.
Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.
OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity prowess.
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.
Mistral AI has released Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that frames content moderation as a single yes/no question instead of a fixed harm taxonomy.
OpenAI has announced that it is deliberately slowing the development of Astra, its upcoming frontier AI model, after internal evaluations revealed advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity that could push the system into “Critical” risk territory.
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" ( previously on this blog).
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.
In this tutorial, we build an advanced multimodal retrieval-augmented generation pipeline with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever.
NVIDIA Labs has open-sourced NOOA (NVIDIA Object-Oriented Agents), a model-agnostic Python framework for building AI agents.
AI coding tools deliver immense value: at Databricks, agentic coding has measurably...
Learn how Gemini provides personalized recommendations and creates custom travel itineraries when you ask it to plan a trip.
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.
Palo Alto Networks works closely with OpenAI across our product platform and Unit 42, leveraging advanced frontier model capabilities.
OpenAI announced it is removing limits on text-based chats for all ChatGPT users, a platform that recently surpassed 1 billion weekly users.
Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation.
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.
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.
Unlike the recent breakouts at OpenAI and Anthropic, this involved a model anyone can download, running its default safeguards.
OpenAI has updated GPT-5.6 Sol, the model behind ChatGPT for Plus and Pro subscribers, and pushed a new model, GPT-5.6 Luna, out to everyone using the free tier.
I have been trying to develop an agentic AI system with a local MCP server. I am using llama-cpp with the LFM 2.5 2.6B model—this LLM is only 1.7 GB and is very fast.
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 2 shows state-of-the-art accuracy in cyclone prediction.
From agentic capabilities and real-time information to personalized recommendations, Ask Maps makes it easier than ever to get more done.
OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.
ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.
SpaceX and Tesla are building a massive semiconductor fab in Texas that will depend on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B, an agentic model that plans, calls tools, and completes multi-step tasks entirely on-device.
Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm’s track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data. Researchers don't yet fully understand how it does this.
Anthropic has rolled out a major update to Claude Fable 5’s biology safety classifiers, cutting biology-related “fallbacks” by roughly 85% across its product surfaces.
OpenAI has announced a major expansion of ChatGPT access, rolling out its updated GPT-5.6 models to Free and Go tier users while removing text chat limits altogether.
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 former engineer’s iCloud account after he left the company —undermine its claims that the allegedly stolen information...
After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.
South Korean internet giant Naver is accelerating its move into defense AI after falling short in the country's independent AI foundation model race, seeing the sector as its next growth engine.
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.
In the Kimi test, the sandbox designed to contain the experiment was not properly configured.
Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.
This burgeoning wearable tech lets you talk to an AI assistant, listen to music, or check out a display screen from the comfort of your very own face.
WIRED spoke with Tucker Bryant, an artist and former Google employee who created ChatTJB to get people to reflect on the “strange moment” we’re in.
As organizations move beyond single-prompt AI interactions, agentic workflows are...
OpenAI and the APA are launching a three-year partnership to develop guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use supporting youth mental health.
The presentation at the annual Black Hat conference sheds new light on how OpenAI's models collaborated to launch the Hugging Face breach.
OpenAI’s GPT-5 turns one tomorrow, and the company is marking the week by looking beyond individual models. Today, OpenAI introduced Agent Plugins, an open standard meant to let reusable AI-agent extensions work across compatible products.
A repeatable vulnerability pattern across AI coding agents from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI that allows attackers to achieve remote code execution, steal API credentials, and compromise software supply chains, all without any privileged access.
Meta has become the latest AI company to confirm that one of its models hacked a real organization during cybersecurity testing, as similar incidents continue to emerge following OpenAI'sOpenAI's initial disclosure that its agents breached Hugging Face. [...]
New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.
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.
Astra is an unreleased new OpenAI model, which has already solved 10 major math problems that stood open for decades.
Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams.
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.
Agents are a new kind of visitor. They don't render CSS or click ads, but they have a paying human on the other end. Block them and you block your customer. We're building the open tools and protocols so publishers and agents can cooperate and not collide.
We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.
Koray Kavukcuoglu, a "world-renowned expert", will oversee model development, AI research, Gemini and developer teams following a leadership reshuffle at Google DeepMind.
Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it will hand you something that looks like a fix.
Taalas' current chip runs a small version of Meta's Llama 3.1, though the company is working on chips for bigger and more advanced models.
More than half a dozen services advertised on underground forums and messaging platforms, offering discounted or “unlimited” token access to frontier AI models, were discovered by Okta.
OpenAI has revealed at the Black Hat security conference that AI agents involved in a cybersecurity evaluation found previously unknown vulnerabilities and used them to escape a restricted test environment.
The rogue OpenAI models that broke out of their testing environment in an "unprecedented cybersecurity incident" recently reportedly spent months communicating with each other.
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss how ICE has been collecting DNA samples of people with no criminal convictions, including children, which end up in an FBI database indefinitely.
Cloudflare is unifying AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane, giving developers observability, billing, and dynamic routing across both managed GPUs and external providers. Learn how unified bindings and model-first routing simplify building resilient AI applications.
Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.
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The DOJ alleged that OpenAI did not meaningful attempt to hire U.S. citizens before seeking permanent residence for Visa-holding employees.
The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
Tencent Cloud has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0, a team-level memory hub that turns conversations, documents and code into four governed, reusable assets — Chat Memory, Skill, LLM-Wiki and Code-Graph.
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th: “We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least that it’s actually not our engineers that are...
Yet another AI model has escaped from a cybersecurity test lab: This time, it’s the Chinese company Moonshot’s Kimi K3 model on the run.
AI assistants use language models, data retrieval, and reasoning to understand requests...
The administration’s new framework for frontier AI models is “voluntary” in name only.
A 28.9M-parameter model runs on a microcontroller costing less than $10 at 9.88 tokens a second because 25M of those parameters never leave flash storage
Hermes, the NousResearch coding agent, now routes model requests through Vercel AI Gateway and can run agent commands in Vercel Sandbox cloud microVMs.
Every AI model, no matter how capable, is only as good as the systems underneath it.
What could possibly go wrong? The post AI Model Invents Completely New Viruses Unknown to Nature appeared first on Futurism.
Business application development is entering a new operating model. The traditional approach of gathering requirements, designing screens, writing services, integrating systems, testing, fixing defects and preparing release documentation still exists, but it is no longer sufficient for enterprises that need speed,...