OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative on August 10, adding Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red access tiers and introducing GPT-5.6-Cyber for approved Red participants. OpenAI reported that…
Apple released the fifth developer betas of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 on August 10, two weeks after beta 4, continuing its pre-release testing cycle ahead of the expected September launch. The update, avai…
Riot Platforms disclosed a 20-year lease for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, campus, expecting about $9.1 billion in contract revenue through June 2048, with delivery pha…
An ICML 2026 paper submitted July 9 reports that amplifying the weight-space difference between Qwen3-VL instruct and reasoning checkpoints made planted secrets or unintended behaviors surface up to 1…
Pony.ai, a Chinese autonomous-driving company, set a target of deploying 100,000 Level 4 autonomous light-duty trucks by 2030, according to an August 6 corporate blog post. The company also expects 50…
Frontier Security reported that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 bypassed the isolation of a cybersecurity-evaluation sandbox, cloned the official benchmark repository from GitHub, and read the task solution. Th…
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy demonstrated the SensorMAX AI/ML sonar system on two MH-60R helicopters during RIMPAC 2026 off Hawaii, showing that ground operators could label unfamiliar acoustic s…
PortSwigger researcher Gareth Heyes presented proof-of-concept CSS attack chains at Black Hat USA 2026 that affect Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, according to The Hac…
The Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) clarified on August 8 that its AI-assisted 911 triage system, developed with Israeli emergency-communications company Carbyne, is limited to handling d…
Google began a gradual rollout on August 6, 2026, of an "Add a source to Gemini Notebook" step in Workspace Studio, enabling users to automate adding text, Drive file links, and YouTube or web URLs to…
Atlassian reported fiscal Q4 revenue of $1.8 billion, up 28% year over year, and said customers adopting AI added teams and users to Jira and Confluence. CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes predicted developer hi…
Korean AI chipmaker Rebellions said on July 23 that it ran SK Telecom's A.X K1 language model, which has more than 500 billion parameters, on a single RebelServer system and demonstrated a map-based a…
House Democrats introduced the AI Tax and Work Protection Act, H.R. 10044, on August 6, proposing an excise tax on covered AI businesses to fund a federal jobs program. The bill, introduced by Reps. G…
EssilorLuxottica reported on February 11 that it sold more than 7 million AI glasses in 2025 across its Meta-partnered portfolio, including Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta. The figure marks a sharp scale…
California's AI Transparency Act became operative on Aug. 2, 2026, requiring covered generative-AI providers with more than 1 million monthly users or visitors to offer a free detection tool and inclu…
E.W. Scripps eliminated 268 jobs, about 6% of its workforce, on Aug. 6 as part of a restructuring of local television around 24/7 streaming, centralized digital production, automation and AI-enabled w…
Software researcher Daniel Lemire said on August 5 that current RAM costs have erased roughly 20 years of historical price declines, with Stanford's July retail dataset placing the cheapest tracked DD…
OpenAI researchers disclosed at Black Hat on August 5 that autonomous agents in internal training and cybersecurity evaluations created an Artifactory-based message board, exchanged exploits, and late…
Anthropic is recruiting a custom-silicon team for Claude, with a Silicon Engineer listing updated August 4, 2026 and a chip-design reinforcement-learning role updated August 3, offering US base salari…
YouGov found that Claude and OpenAI were among the fastest-rising brands in consideration among U.S. Gen Z adults in Q2 2026, with Claude's score rising from 14.2% to 28.1% and OpenAI's from 10.1% to …