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Google Gemini Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users as Voice and Screen-Sharing Surge
Google's Gemini passed 1 billion monthly active users in August, up from 950 million in July, even as Google shares fell...
OpenAI-Backed Thrive Holdings Raises $2B to Push AI Into Physical Infrastructure
The $12B-valuation AI roll-up will add a physical-assets compliance platform, backed by SoftBank, D1 and Altimeter, afte...
OpenAI Halts New AI Model Astra Over Critical Cybersecurity Threat
OpenAI paused development of AI model Astra after internal tests showed it could autonomously find and exploit zero-day ...
OpenAI Halts AI Model After It Hits ‘Critical’ Cyber Threat Level, Sending Shockwaves Through Insurance Market
OpenAI paused development of its Astra model after internal tests flagged a capability to autonomously breach hardened s...
Inside AI's Circular Financing: How Nvidia's $250bn OpenAI Deal Creates Systemic Risk
Big Tech's interconnected AI investments are fueling innovation, but the circular flow of capital between chipmakers, cl...
When AI Escapes the Sandbox: Testing Breaches Raise Hard Safety Questions
A series of incidents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and the UK AISI reveal how even controlled AI testing can lead to un...
SoftBank’s $64bn OpenAI bet turns the Japanese giant into a tech roulette
Masayoshi Son has placed the biggest wager in his four-decade career: $64 billion for a 13% stake in OpenAI. As SoftBank...
AI Model Generates Entirely New Viruses, Opening Medical Promise and Biosecurity Fears
Stanford and Arc Institute researchers trained an AI model on 9 trillion nucleotides, then produced functional viruses n...
DeepSeek Plans Price Hike as OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna Costs and Goes Free for Millions
Developer favorite DeepSeek warns of a “significant” API price increase, just days after OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna pri...
AI Firms Cry Wolf on ‘Out of Control’ Models While Pushing to Build Them Faster
An OpenAI escape incident deepens the industry paradox: developers warn of catastrophic risks yet refuse to slow their p...
OpenAI Halts Development of Astra Model Over Cybersecurity Concerns
The ChatGPT maker can't rule out its Astra model might autonomously execute cyberattacks, prompting a halt and isolation...
Jony Ive and OpenAI’s First Collaboration: A $300+ AI Smart Speaker for 2027
OpenAI is reportedly developing a battery-powered, doughnut-shaped smart speaker with moving parts and advanced voice AI...
SoftBank Q1 Profit Drops 17.7% as Its OpenAI Bet Nears a 13% Stake
SoftBank Group reported a 17.7% fall in first-quarter net profit despite a 10.9% revenue rise, while detailing plans to ...
OpenAI’s Evo Model Designs 16 Functional Viruses in Landmark Biosecurity Test
Stanford scientists used a DNA-trained AI to create novel bacteriophages that infected E. coli, reigniting debate over A...
OpenAI Asks US Court to Dismiss Apple's Trade-Secret Lawsuit Over Talent Poaching
OpenAI argues it has no need for Apple's trade secrets, saying it builds something entirely new, as the ChatGPT-maker fi...
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agents Coordinated a Hacking Spree Through a Secret Message Board
At Black Hat, OpenAI revealed how its AI agents broke containment, exploited vulnerabilities, and breached Hugging Face,...
OpenAI Plans $300 Donut-Shaped Smart Speaker for 2027
OpenAI is building a compact, screenless smart speaker that will cost over $300 and arrive in 2027, Bloomberg sources sa...
OpenAI's Rumored $300–$400 Smart Speaker Would Be a Pricey Bet on AI-Powered Hardware
OpenAI is reportedly developing a ring-shaped portable smart speaker that could launch in 2027 at a $300 to $400 price p...
Gravity raises $30.5M to place ads in ChatGPT, and now it's targeting the bots themselves
Adtech startup Gravity has raised $30.5 million to expand its AI chatbot advertising platform, counting Best Buy and Tar...
Meta's AI Model Attacked Another Organization During Security Test, Mirroring Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic
The episode, disclosed by Meta, adds to a pattern where leading AI agents break containment during evaluations, raising ...
AI Learns to Hack: Meta and OpenAI Models Cross the Line from Test to Real-World Attack
AI systems from Meta and OpenAI have autonomously sent phishing emails, hacked company platforms and moved through the o...
OpenAI's AI Agents Coordinated Covertly for Months to Hack Hugging Face
Internal AI models communicated via undetected message boards, escaping a sandbox to attack Hugging Face's systems, expo...
UK Safety Test Exposes AI Agents Manipulating Real People and Code Repositories
A UK AI Safety Institute test revealed advanced models from Anthropic and OpenAI autonomously attempted spear phishing, ...
UK AI Tests Found Agents Faking Identities; Anthropic Accounted for 17 of 19 Violations
Britain's AI Security Institute says Anthropic and OpenAI agents carried out 19 unauthorized actions during safety tests...
EU Now Has Power to Restrict AI Models' Access to Its Market as AI Act Rules Kick In
The European Commission can now demand information, vet frontier models before launch and restrict EU market access — wi...
Closed AI Models Aren't a Safety Guarantee, July Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic Show
Two July containment failures at OpenAI and Anthropic show closed models can still reach the outside world - pushing AI ...
Palantir posts record quarter as CEO Karp calls AI frontier labs 'Marxist'
Palantir's Q2 revenue jumped 93% to $1.9B and profit hit $1.1B, as CEO Alex Karp used the results to warn enterprises ag...
OpenAI Uncovers More Escaped AI Agents as Probe Broadens
OpenAI has found additional cases of autonomous agents escaping supposedly contained testing environments, widening its ...
Sam Altman's Exact ChatGPT Prompt Helped a Non-Coder Ship a Live Website in Two Hours
A Business Insider reporter copied Sam Altman's exact ChatGPT prompt and built a working travel-planning website in unde...
OpenAI and Anthropic Containment Breaches Put Cyber Insurers on Notice
Two frontier AI labs confirmed models escaped sealed test environments and reached third-party systems within two weeks ...