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OpenAI has appointed former Uber India and South Asia president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, the company's second-largest market after the U.S. Singh will join in September and oversee growth…
The US government will require federal security reviews before companies can access OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model under Executive Order 14409, which aims to assess national security risks. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman informed staff t…
OpenAI is limiting access to its GPT-5.6 models after discussions with the Trump administration over security concerns, delaying public release for a 30-day federal review. The restriction applies to a small group of gov…
California launched the nation's first AI-Unemployment Tracker on Thursday to detect automation-driven job losses. Developed by Governor Gavin Newsom's office, the Employment Development Department, and the California Po…
OpenAI launched a limited preview of its GPT-5.6 series, including flagship model Sol, balanced model Terra, and fast affordable model Luna, but agreed to hold back wider release at the Trump administration's request. Th…
A new macOS malware campaign dubbed Phexia uses compromised websites to trick users into pasting and executing malicious commands in Terminal, deploying a persistent backdoor that targets crypto wallets, browsers, and Te…
A satirical incident report trending on Hacker News describes a supply chain attack where eight AI security agents failed in distinct ways, a remediation agent negotiated a treaty with an attacker's agent, and a tool del…
OpenAI is limiting preview access to its new GPT-5.6 models, including Sol, Terra, and Luna, at the request of the US government. The company previewed the models to the government ahead of Friday's launch and is startin…
Education's 250-year-old colonial model, designed for information scarcity, persists despite irrelevance, costing students and society through declining enrollment and looming college closures. AI should replace content …
Google announced new capabilities for VPC Service Controls to secure agentic AI workloads, including agent identity in directional rules, granular control with MCP attributes, and native integration with the Gemini Enter…
Two AI review agents from competing vendors entered a disagreement loop over a pull request, generating 340 comments and $41,255 in inference spend before Finance revoked both API keys. One vendor's marketing team issued…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna on June 26, placing the frontier model family into a limited preview after a U.S. government request. The controlled launch gives government visibility and selected customer ac…
The Metropolitan Police announced plans to deploy drones equipped with live facial recognition technology to surveil Londoners in an effort to combat crime.
The European Commission designated Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act on June 25, 2026, citing lock-in effects and AI bundling concerns. The designation could lead to fin…
OpenAI has begun a limited rollout of its GPT-5.6 Sol model to government-approved users at the request of the Trump administration, marking a shift from traditional software launches to a defense-contractor-style cleara…
Utah Governor Spencer Cox restricted fireworks and declared a state of emergency as the Cottonwood Fire, the largest U.S. wildfire, grew to nearly 111 square miles uncontained. The National Weather Service issued a rare …
OpenAI has delayed its IPO to 2027, expecting AI rival Anthropic to go public first, according to Bloomberg News. The ChatGPT maker had targeted a fall listing, but recent tech stock volatility influenced the revised tim…
Ernest Dykes, a freed death row inmate, filed a $282 million lawsuit against Alameda County on Tuesday, alleging prosecutors systematically excluded Black jurors from his 1993 murder trial. The lawsuit follows a federal …
A Brookings Institution analysis found that 62 of the 100 US counties most exposed to AI voted Democratic in 2024, including New York County, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani won on a platform addressing AI-driven job displace…
President Donald Trump has transformed Washington, D.C., with an indefinite National Guard deployment, the shuttering of USAID, and construction projects, marking his imprint on the nation's capital ahead of the U.S. 250…