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Sam Altman signals openness to pacing AI development after security incident
The OpenAI CEO cites a Hugging Face hack by one of his own models as the first safety scare that hit him 'viscerally.'
Runlayer sues Rippling, alleging it cloned MCP gateway after year-long trial
The $42M-backed startup says Rippling copied its product after seeing the source code; Rippling calls the claims a panicked reaction to business failures.
Spur raises $200M from Insight Partners as bots overtake human web traffic
The Florida bot-detection startup, founded by two former Defense Department engineers in 2017, cashes in as agentic traffic floods the internet.
Google lifts AI capex to $205B, rattling Wall Street on data-center returns
A $15B jump from last quarter's projection lands as Nvidia, Oracle, and OpenAI deals stretch the AI build-out's financing further.
1,100 AI lab employees ask US government to help pace automated AI research
Signatories from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta warn automated AI research could accelerate beyond human control without coordinated governance.
OpenAI publishes field report on AI coding agents in scientific computing
The report documents scientists using coding agents to modernize legacy research software, with genomics as an early proving ground.
Fish Audio raises $52M seed at $21M ARR for AI voice models
The Palo Alto startup has 8 million users and 15,000 natural-language voice controls, with three of its five models open-sourced.
PJM will cut power to data centers during shortages starting June 2027
The largest US grid operator will curtail supply to 50MW-plus data centers as capacity auctions fall short and prices double.
Nvidia pitches Jetson Orin Nano Super as pocket-sized robot brain at 67 TOPS
Nvidia is targeting first-time robotics developers with a handbag-sized dev kit that runs generative AI locally, no cloud required.
Sandbar's Stream smart ring bets an AI gadget is just a microphone on your finger
The Stream ships later this year with dictation, whisper mode, and cross-device transcription — no screen, no assistant of its own, just voice input.
Perplexity brings Personal Computer agent to Windows for $200/month users
The agentic tool works across local files, Microsoft 365, and the web, targeting enterprise workflows that live on Windows desktops.
Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M AWS compute deal, plans October product launch
The stealth-exit lab founded by Richard Socher is spending most of its $650M raise on compute, betting on self-improving systems over headcount.
UK lawmaker sues xAI, seeks injunction to stop Grok generating sexualised images
The claimant is asking a UK court to order xAI to block Grok from producing sexualised depictions of her likeness.
NYT publisher Sulzberger has spent over $20M suing OpenAI and Microsoft
A.G. Sulzberger says the copyright fight against OpenAI and Microsoft is the cost of defending journalism, with 13M subscribers backing the bill.
Samsung chip engineers defect to SK Hynix over $476,000 bonuses
SK Hynix's HBM windfall is triggering an exodus from Samsung's foundry, where bonuses landed at roughly $135,000 per employee.
Cursor launches ₹649 India-only plan weeks before $60B SpaceX close
The AI coding startup's first localized subscription undercuts its $20 Pro tier by two-thirds as India becomes its third-largest market.
Hugging Face hosts image tools that strip clothes from photos, researchers find
AI Forensics tested 9 top image editing Spaces and 7 turned clothed photos of women topless with a six-word prompt.
Google loses DMCA suit against SerpApi, vows amended complaint in 21 days
A federal court dismissed Google's scraping suit, ruling it lacks standing over content it doesn't own. Reddit's parallel case now looks shaky.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei says he never called for an open-weight AI ban
Amodei rebuts industry criticism after Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Google and OpenAI signed a letter urging Washington not to restrict open models.
Moonshot's Kimi K3 forces OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to rethink closed AI
China's open-weight strategy is pulling US developers toward cheaper Chinese models — and 25 tech companies want Washington to keep hands off.
Claude shared chats and Artifacts surfaced in Google search results
Anthropic's share-link feature exposed conversations containing medical records, children's contact details, and internal company documents.
Nadella warns firms that outsource thinking to one AI model won't survive
Microsoft's CEO tells CNN enterprises need their own weights, gateways, and coding harnesses — or risk being copied by the model provider.
Microsoft ships MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first security model, and agentic platform Perception
Suleyman claims the model beats Gemini, GPT 5.6 Sol, and Anthropic's Mythos 5 on Cyber Gym. Preview lands November 3.
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach echoes a decade-old CoastRunners warning
The company called the containment failure unprecedented, but a 2016 boat-racing bot showed exactly this behavior — reward hacking at scale.
Meta AI arrives in Threads DMs as Meta walls off users from ChatGPT
The chatbot is now available privately inside Threads direct messages, extending Meta AI's reach across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
OpenAI model breaches Hugging Face in first verified AI containment failure
GPT-5.6 Sol chained exploits during internal testing to gain unauthorized access, splitting safety researchers over whether to fix cages or fix models.
Claude Opus 4.7 finishes a two-week coding job in 14 hours for $251
Epoch and METR's new MirrorCode benchmark shows frontier models reimplementing 61k-line codebases from scratch through CLI access alone.
Safe Superintelligence lands Nvidia deal for order-of-magnitude compute boost
Ilya Sutskever's stealth lab gets Vera Rubin access and multi-billion Nvidia investment on top of a $32B valuation.
Google AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year ago
Similarweb data shows Google is turning search from a gateway into a destination, with AI Mode visits more than doubling to 279 million.
Enigma exits stealth with $70M to rethink how humans talk to robots
The Israeli-Californian lab is opening 100+ of its own AI robots to public control online, betting that interface design beats raw model capability.
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