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Every day, millions of people across Europe use OpenAI’s tools to learn, create, work and manage everyday tasks. Our tools also support businesses of all sizes and governments across the region. We believe responsible AI can help drive Europe’s competitiveness and prosperity. As the EU AI Act enters its next phase, we’re sharing how we have strengthened our approach to safety, security, transparency and provenance in line with the EU framework—and how we will continue to evolve our practices as AI advances. ## Our longstanding commitment to responsible AI Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. That mission carries with it an ongoing responsibility to maximize AI’s benefits, broaden access, and manage risks. That is why, for years, we have de

## Introduction Earlier this year, we disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes. We began investigating this activity following a lead from our peers at WhatsApp and have since shared additional threat signals with industry partners and relevant authorities. The operation illustrates an important reality about modern scam networks: organized criminal groups rarely restrict themselves to a single type of scam. Instead, they opportunistically employ whatever narratives, personas, and tactics they think will be most effective to deceive victims. In our investigations we routinely observe actors moving between scam types, or combining multiple scam techniques within a single operation. Some us

Japan’s home-appliance retailers face a persistent challenge: extending expert sales support beyond store hours while staffing remains tight. avatarin, an AI customer service company spun out of ANA Holdings, partnered with Yamada Holdings to turn experienced associates’ knowledge into a 24/7 multilingual shopping agent. Built on OpenAI’s GPT‑Realtime, the Kurashi-Marugoto AI Agent supports natural voice conversations and guides shoppers from product discovery to purchase decisions. In a two-week public campaign on Yamada Denki’s online store, approximately 30,000 people used the agent; 92% of survey responses were positive. > “This is not an extension of the conventional chatbot. It is an attempt to expand what customer service can be with AI. We see it as the beginning of an ‘interface r

## Building AI capability across the organization As one of the Netherlands’ largest cooperative insurers, [Univé⁠(opens in a new window)](https://www.unive.nl/) serves millions of members across insurance, mortgages, financial services, and risk prevention. Its mission has always been to help people prevent problems before they happen—and as AI began reshaping knowledge work, the organization saw an opportunity to rethink how employees could better deliver on that mission. Rather than approaching AI as another technology deployment, Univé viewed it as a major organizational transformation. The objective wasn’t simply to introduce new tools, but to build AI capability across the workforce so every employee could use AI safely, responsibly, and effectively. OpenAI became a key part of that

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AI infrastructure is not valuable because it is large. It is valuable because of what it makes possible: more capable intelligence, available to more people, at a lower cost. That is how I think about abundance. It is both embedded in our mission—ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity—and in the economic engine that drives our business. When the cost of useful intelligence falls, more work becomes worth doing. When models become more capable, that work creates more value. As adoption grows, we gain the revenue, real-world feedback, and visibility into demand to keep investing in the next generation of research and infrastructure. Better intelligence drives broader adoption. Broader adoption supports more investment. More investment improves intelligence and

The OpenAI agent sandbox breach reached Hugging Face systems. Agent tools and permissions increased the security risk. An autonomous AI agent operating with reduced security restrictions escaped an OpenAI evaluation environment and gained access to Hugging Face’s production infrastructure during a cybersecurity test in July. The agent chained vulnerabilities across systems operated by several […] The post OpenAI agent escapes sandbox and breaches Hugging Face: What happened appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Google Gemini Robotics 2 enables whole-body control and robot collaboration. It runs locally, adapts across robots, and includes safety controls. Videos of humanoid robots walking, carrying objects, and completing factory or household tasks have become common online. Many of these systems, however, remain designed for defined workflows or specific types of hardware. Google DeepMind […] The post Google Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole-body control to robots appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Enterprise AI should be measured by better decisions, not just savings. Governance, trusted data, and human oversight are key to scaling AI. Artificial intelligence has spent the past few years being measured largely in terms of speed: how many hours it can save, how much work it can automate, and how much it can […] The post Why enterprise AI needs better decisions, not just more automation appeared first on TechWire Asia .

SAS says healthcare AI still faces evidence and data gaps. SAS says clinical AI still needs human oversight. Artificial intelligence is being used across healthcare and life sciences, but clinical applications still face questions around evidence, data quality, bias, and accountability. In an exclusive interview with Tech Wire Asia, Mark Lambredt, Senior Director for […] The post SAS on why healthcare AI still faces evidence and data gaps appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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Aug 7 (Reuters) - Chinese startup Moonshot's flagship AI model, Kimi K3, escaped a cybersecurity testing ‌environment developed by the UK AI Safety ‌Institute, research firm Frontier Security said on Thursday, raising concerns over ​the cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI systems. AI models are typically run in isolated "sandboxes" during cybersecurity tests to block access to external information and assess their ‌ability to solve ⁠problems independently. Kimi K3 bypassed one such sandbox, allowing it to access information beyond ⁠the test environment, U.S.-based cybersecurity research firm Frontier Security said. The researchers warned that if one "high-reasoning model" discovers ​such a ​shortcut, other models with ​similar access could likely ‌do the same. As Kimi K3 is a publicly

Tech Data has signed a distribution deal with Wasabi Technologies to bring cost-efficient, S3-compatible cloud storage to partners in Singapore and Malaysia amid rising AI-driven data growth. The post Tech Data Adds Wasabi Cloud Storage in SG, Malaysia appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

Nearly nine in 10 Singaporeans now use digital platforms, including AI-powered chat tools, to manage their personal finances or seek financial information, according to a new survey by [MDRT](https://www.mdrt.org/), the global association of financial services professionals. The survey, conducted by Opinium among 2,000 Singaporean adults in April 2026, found that 89 per cent use at least one digital platform — such as mobile banking apps, financial websites, or AI-powered chat tools — for financial management or information. More than a third of Singaporeans (35 per cent) now use AI tools specifically for financial purposes, ranging from information gathering to real-world financial actions. ## AI’s growing influence on financial decisions Among Singaporeans who have acted on AI-generated

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When OpenAI first acknowledged that its models designed to measure hacking ability had escaped the boundaries of a test and breached Hugging Face during a cybersecurity evaluation the central fact was startling enough, but at Black Hat USA 2026 this week, OpenAI shared that these agents went beyond simple exploits to more sophisticated coordination. According to OpenAI researchers speaking at the conference, AI agents on separate model runs discovered a shared communications channel, began exchanging information, assigned work to one another, passed along exploits and credentials, and continued operating over a period of weeks. When OpenAI shut down the first communications mechanism, the autonomous agents found another one and rebuilt it. OpenAI researcher and Alignment Tech Lead at OpenA

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[Nova](https://mothership.sg/category/nova) The studio acknowledged that its "creative choices" were likely to polarise viewers. [](https://bit.ly/3qgqzHg) [](https://bit.ly/3KjTj94) Edenstone, a Singapore-based studio developing scalable media intellectual property (IP), is set to release an AI-assisted short film that it acknowledges will likely polarise audiences. Titled _Bersama Majulah_ (translated as _Together Onwards_), the National Day-themed AI short film imagines a country similar to Singapore under siege by a lethal spore pathogen outbreak. Edenstone said in a media release: > "The characters' struggle against an oncoming crisi

NEW YORK (AP) — Some U.S. adults are using artificial intelligence for financial guidance, but it's far from the most trusted source of advice, according to [a new Gallup survey](https://news.gallup.com/poll/712952/americans-canadians-turn-financial-guidance.aspx) conducted in partnership with Edward Jones, a financial services firm. About 1 in 5 Americans who have sought financial advice in the past year turned to AI, the survey found. But among U.S. adults overall, only about 3 in 10 have "a great deal" or "some" confidence in its expertise for managing money, according to the survey, including just 3% who trust AI "a great deal." The poll, which was conducted in the spring and looked at the views of adults who are at least 21, found a disconnect between the resources Americans trust for

Routers are hardware that connect your home devices to the internet, but a new report find that some models have been shipped with an alarming backdoor — meaning you're not the only one with access to your devices. According to a recent[post](https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/zbt-endlessdoors)by cybersecurity firm VulnCheck, multiple models of routers manufactured and sold by Zbtlink are compromised, claims the company has since denied. **Tech:**[**Is It True That People Can Read Your Text Messages? This Latest Scam Is A Doozy**](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/can-people-read-your-texts-scam_n_68a48474e4b00feff7d12af7?utm_campaign=yahoo-recirc) Jacob Baines, the chief technology officer at VulnCheck who found the backdoor, said that 20 models made by Zbtlink have been shipped with an implant

Up until maybe six or seven years ago, if you asked a journalist what the most annoying part of their job was, chances are most would say "transcribing an interview." Thanks to the advancement in technology, many Gen Z journalists today may not even know what transcribing is. But essentially, it's the act of listening to a recording of an interview and typing out every single word (or at least, the key words). That way, the journalist would have the information needed to write their article. It's a tedious, time-consuming process that has given me many a sleepless night. And so I've been impressed to see how far technology has advanced with the recent batch of AI notetakers. These small devices, from companies like Mobvoi and Plaud, are essentially digital recorders that can transcribe hum

Update on Uzbekistan-developed AI module launches aboard Earth observation satellite. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

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Hackers have broken into water systems in [at least a dozen states](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cyberattack-minnesota-hackers-b3028647.html) in recent weeks, what cybersecurity experts say should be an urgent wake up call to immense vulnerabilities in American infrastructure. "Malicious cyber actors" have infiltrated internet-connected water systems that routinely monitor and adjust safe drinking water across the country, according to [federal law enforcement agencies.](https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/alerts/2026/malicious-cyber-actors-targeting-water-and-wastewater-sector-internet--facing-programmable-logic-controllers-causing-operational-disruptions) Officials have not reported any widespread disruptions to America's drinking water supplies, but analysts who h

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A software company which stores contact details of supporters of Lincoln Cathedral and leisure centre users in Lincolnshire says it has experienced a "cyber-security incident". Beacon CRM said the incident involved unauthorised access to systems containing data it processes on behalf of its customers. Lincoln Cathedral and Magna Vitae said they used Beacon to store data including names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers, but not payment or bank account details. Beacon CRM said: "We immediately engaged external cyber-security experts to help us contain the incident and investigate." The software is used by more than 1,000 charities and organisations. Beacon CRM said: "We understand this is concerning and we're taking it very seriously. We've already spoken with all our customers and our

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By Mike Scarcella and Sara Merken Aug 7 (Reuters) - Major artificial intelligence developers have reported cases of their autonomous AI models breaching other companies' cyber infrastructure, raising questions about who may be held legally responsible when AI systems act without direct human oversight. Here's a look at some of the legal questions surrounding autonomous AI ‌breaches. WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE AI AGENTS? AI agents are systems that can independently make decisions and perform tasks without requiring significant human oversight. ChatGPT maker OpenAI said one of its agents compromised ‌the system of AI startup Hugging Face and that it discovered other instances when its agents escaped their digital containment. Anthropic said its Claude models had breached the systems of three com

Anthropic is building custom AI chips for Claude alongside existing suppliers. Custom chips give AI firms more control over cost and performance. Anthropic is forming an internal semiconductor team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models, marking its first public confirmation that it plans to develop its own silicon. The company said […] The post Anthropic builds custom AI chips for Claude appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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Blackstone and [Coatue](https://www.coatue.com/) are providing a US$10 billion loan to Australian AI infrastructure startup [Firmus Technologies](https://firmus.co/), one of the largest private credit financings in Australia. The funds will support the expansion of Firmus’ AI data center platform, which plans to build data centers with a capacity of up to 1.6 gigawatts across Australia by 2028. The company’s announcement indicates the data centers will incorporate chips from Nvidia. Investment in AI data centers globally is expected to exceed US$3 trillion, with much of it debt-funded, though industry skepticism remains about valuation and scale. Blackstone, managing US$1.3 trillion in assets, is backing the project through funds managed by its Tactical Opportunities and Credit & Insurance

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The country’s firms raise orders after Beijing mandates local tech firms find alternatives to Nvidia products Published Fri, Aug 7, 2026 · 01:10 PM CHINA’S artificial intelligence chip designers are expecting bumper sales this earnings season off the back of Beijing’s push to [get local firms to use homegrown components](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/telcos-media-tech/china-asks-tech-firms-halt-orders-nvidias-h200-chips-report) and reduce their reliance on American tech. Cambricon Technologies is projected to post surging revenue for the first half of 2026 with up-and-coming Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor expected to see sales triple over the same period. Beijing-based Moore Threads Technology said in July it expected revenue for the first six months of 2026 to

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OpenAI is looking to break new ground with the product, slated for release in 2027 [SAN FRANCISCO] A highly anticipated new device from OpenAI will have a unique look, complete with moving parts that help give it personality, and likely cost more than US$300, according to people familiar with the matter. The product – essentially a smart speaker without a display – will be shaped like a doughnut that is roughly the size of a hockey puck, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the work is confidential. The idea is to make the device easy to carry around the home with one hand. OpenAI is looking to break new ground with the product, which is slated for release in 2027. The device will be positioned as an artificial intelligence-first computer that can help users get things d

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SINGAPORE – After the birth of her third daughter, former food technologist Huang Jing Han noticed that she was slurring her speech and had difficulty walking down the stairs. The year was 2015, and she was 30 years old. “It was in 2017 that I was officially diagnosed with ALS. I was in denial and tried acupuncture, other traditional Chinese medicine treatments and different types of therapy for about two years before accepting the diagnosis,” Huang, now 41, told The Straits Times. ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease that destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, causing a loss of muscle control that worsens over time. In Singapore, between 250 and 400 people are living with ALS, and specialist centres like the National Neuro

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Adobe announced an AI assistant for Photoshop in beta on the web and in mobile apps that lets users edit images via natural language prompts. The assistant can remove objects or people, change colors, and adjust lighting. Adobe is also rolling out AI markup in public beta, which lets users draw markers on images and instruct the assistant to transform or remove marked items. Adobe said paid Photoshop users get unlimited generations through April 9, while free users start with 20 generations. Separately, Adobe is updating Firefly with Generative Fill and a generative remove tool. Firefly subscribers have unlimited generations and that the service now integrates over 25 third-party image and video models, including models from Google, OpenAI, Runway, and Black Forest Labs. _🔗 Source: _ ## 🧠

Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel have jointly created Agent Plugins, an open standard that defines a single package format for AI agent extensions. Version 1.0.0 uses a plugin.json manifest file and supports both agent skills and MCP servers. The article Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel unite on a shared standard for AI agent plugins appeared first on The Decoder .

The history of networking is full of tools that repurposed solutions to very different kinds of problems first. Wi-Fi’s origins trace back in part to a team of Australian radio astronomers trying to detect signals from evaporating black holes. But the data processing tools they’d developed also proved capable at extracting clean messages from any chaotic, echoing signal environment . Echoes are echoes, after all, whether from distant star systems or from the far corner of the house. I research vehicle communications networks , connecting cars to cars and to transportation infrastructure like traffic lights—for tomorrow’s vehicle-to-everthing (V2X) networks . V2X research has long relied on models that assume “perfect” or “ideal” network conditions. Which is a simplifying assumption that ma

Airbnb might be taking slow steps to roll out AI features to its consumer-facing interface, but the company is rapidly adopting the tech to build product. Earlier this year, the company said [AI is writing 60% of its code](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/airbnb-says-ai-now-writes-60-of-its-new-code/). In its latest earnings call, co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said AI is helping Airbnb create features at rapid rate. Chesky said that because of AI, the company has reduced time from conceptualization to finally shopping features by 60%. “Today, we’re building, testing, and iterating faster than we could just a year ago. Across some of our key initiatives, we’ve reduced the time from concept to launch by as much as 60%. And compared to the same 6 months last year, we’ve increased the numbe

Cybersecurity is rapidly changing as models become more capable in ways that can both strengthen cyberdefenses and enable attacks at unprecedented speed and scale. Our latest internal evaluations of Astra, one of our upcoming models, over the past few days indicate significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. These results, in addition to expert assessments, have led us to conclude last night that we cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities under our [Preparedness Framework⁠(opens in a new window)](https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/18a02b5d-6b67-4cec-ab64-68cdfbddebcd/preparedness-framework-v2.pdf). We are sharing this because we believe it’s important to be transparent with the public and the safety and security communities about this potential shift in capabilities. We first

Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products —almost as if they’re forming a new government. And whether you’re thinking of Twitter’s old “town hall in your pocket” or[Anthropic’s Claude constitution](https://www.anthropic.com/constitution),it’s a theory that doesn’t paint Silicon Valley in a very flattering light. In Lepore’s upcoming book,[_The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State_](https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324098423), the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian and New Yorker writer argues that tech companies are gradually taking on the functions of democratic government—whether that’s Twitter giving a distorted picture of the electorate or Facebook displacing local news.In her view, these leaders often mistake

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SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the [Terafab semiconductor factory](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/tesla-and-spacex-will-invest-16-8b-to-start-building-terafab-chip-factory-in-texas/) it plans to build in Texas, according to a [report](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/spacex-to-build-natural-gas-power-plants-for-texas-chip-factory?srnd=phx-industries) from Bloomberg. Riley Trettel, who leads energy and data center development for SpaceX, said in a public meeting on Wednesday that his company will be “bringing our own power” for the project, which will also include “very large battery arrays.” Notably absent from the Bloomberg report — and other SpaceX announcements related to Terafab — is any mention of terrest

OpenAI's planned smart speaker is taking shape. The company's first hardware device will be donut-shaped, roughly the size of a hockey puck, and priced above $300, according to Bloomberg. The article OpenAI's hockey-puck-sized smart speaker with moving parts is set to ship in 2027 appeared first on The Decoder .

A research team in California has used artificial intelligence to design working viruses that kill bacteria, in what they describe as the "first generative design of complete genomes." The project marks an early step toward AI-designed life forms, according to a report in MIT Technology Review. The article Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used AI to design new viruses that killed bacteria in the lab appeared first on The Decoder .

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Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters, according to the Financial Times. That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model. The article China's Largest AI Model Is Being Developed at Bytedance appeared first on The Decoder .

_The usage figures in this story refer to the shared ChatGPT Enterprise workspace used by HSP GRUPPE and Kanzleipakt, covering 81 organizational groups. HSP GRUPPE itself is a network of legally independent tax advisory, auditing, and law firms._ ## Reinventing professional work For more than two decades, [HSP GRUPPE⁠(opens in a new window)](https://www.hsp-gruppe.de/) has consistently invested in digitizing and standardizing professional firm processes. Long before generative AI, the firm network standardized processes, embedded quality management, and fostered a culture of continuous improvement across the network. When ChatGPT emerged, HSP saw more than another productivity tool. It saw an opportunity to rethink how professional work itself could evolve. Rather than asking how AI could

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July 28, 2026, 6:02 a.m. CT If you call 911 in New Orleans, you may hear the sound of an [artificial intelligence (AI)](https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/special-reports/datacenter/2026/07/13/is-meta-expanding-the-richland-parish-data-center-investment-costs-how-large-much-water-energy/90901504007/) agent answering your call instead of a human voice. The Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) is changing the way dispatch calls are handled in New Orleans with the implementation of [new technology](https://www.shreveporttimes.com/videos/news/nation/2026/07/27/trump-backs-ai-growth-who-protects-consumers/91042988007/). The OPCD is currently testing out the [new tool](https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/state/california/san-francisco/2026/07/22/rogue-ai-incident-raises-qu

On 11 July, Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the attack on the company that hosts and supports popular AI developer resources led Hugging Face’s security team to conclude it was the work of an AI agent . Realizing this, the team tried to use “frontier models behind commercial APIs” —presumably from Anthropic and OpenAI, although only Anthropic was named in the second of the company’s two posts about the security incident—to analyze the onslaught. These models refused to help due to safety guardrails the AI labs have implemented to make their models harder to use for cyberattacks. Hugging Face instead turned to GLM 5.2, a model from Beijing-based AI lab Z.ai, to aid its analysis. On 21 July, OpenAI announced the at

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July 28, 2026, 6:02 a.m. CT If you call 911 in New Orleans, you may hear the sound of an [artificial intelligence (AI)](https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/special-reports/datacenter/2026/07/13/is-meta-expanding-the-richland-parish-data-center-investment-costs-how-large-much-water-energy/90901504007/) agent answering your call instead of a human voice. The Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) is changing the way dispatch calls are handled in New Orleans with the implementation of [new technology](https://www.shreveporttimes.com/videos/news/nation/2026/07/27/trump-backs-ai-growth-who-protects-consumers/91042988007/). The OPCD is currently testing out the [new tool](https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/state/california/san-francisco/2026/07/22/rogue-ai-incident-raises-qu

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Adobe announced an AI assistant for Photoshop in beta on the web and in mobile apps that lets users edit images via natural language prompts. The assistant can remove objects or people, change colors, and adjust lighting. Adobe is also rolling out AI markup in public beta, which lets users draw markers on images and instruct the assistant to transform or remove marked items. Adobe said paid Photoshop users get unlimited generations through April 9, while free users start with 20 generations. Separately, Adobe is updating Firefly with Generative Fill and a generative remove tool. Firefly subscribers have unlimited generations and that the service now integrates over 25 third-party image and video models, including models from Google, OpenAI, Runway, and Black Forest Labs. _🔗 Source: _ ## 🧠

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OpenAI is looking to break new ground with the product, slated for release in 2027 [SAN FRANCISCO] A highly anticipated new device from OpenAI will have a unique look, complete with moving parts that help give it personality, and likely cost more than US$300, according to people familiar with the matter. The product – essentially a smart speaker without a display – will be shaped like a doughnut that is roughly the size of a hockey puck, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the work is confidential. The idea is to make the device easy to carry around the home with one hand. OpenAI is looking to break new ground with the product, which is slated for release in 2027. The device will be positioned as an artificial intelligence-first computer that can help users get things d

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Anthropic is building custom AI chips for Claude alongside existing suppliers. Custom chips give AI firms more control over cost and performance. Anthropic is forming an internal semiconductor team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models, marking its first public confirmation that it plans to develop its own silicon. The company said […] The post Anthropic builds custom AI chips for Claude appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Blackstone and [Coatue](https://www.coatue.com/) are providing a US$10 billion loan to Australian AI infrastructure startup [Firmus Technologies](https://firmus.co/), one of the largest private credit financings in Australia. The funds will support the expansion of Firmus’ AI data center platform, which plans to build data centers with a capacity of up to 1.6 gigawatts across Australia by 2028. The company’s announcement indicates the data centers will incorporate chips from Nvidia. Investment in AI data centers globally is expected to exceed US$3 trillion, with much of it debt-funded, though industry skepticism remains about valuation and scale. Blackstone, managing US$1.3 trillion in assets, is backing the project through funds managed by its Tactical Opportunities and Credit & Insurance

SINGAPORE – After the birth of her third daughter, former food technologist Huang Jing Han noticed that she was slurring her speech and had difficulty walking down the stairs. The year was 2015, and she was 30 years old. “It was in 2017 that I was officially diagnosed with ALS. I was in denial and tried acupuncture, other traditional Chinese medicine treatments and different types of therapy for about two years before accepting the diagnosis,” Huang, now 41, told The Straits Times. ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease that destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, causing a loss of muscle control that worsens over time. In Singapore, between 250 and 400 people are living with ALS, and specialist centres like the National Neuro

The country’s firms raise orders after Beijing mandates local tech firms find alternatives to Nvidia products Published Fri, Aug 7, 2026 · 01:10 PM CHINA’S artificial intelligence chip designers are expecting bumper sales this earnings season off the back of Beijing’s push to [get local firms to use homegrown components](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/telcos-media-tech/china-asks-tech-firms-halt-orders-nvidias-h200-chips-report) and reduce their reliance on American tech. Cambricon Technologies is projected to post surging revenue for the first half of 2026 with up-and-coming Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor expected to see sales triple over the same period. Beijing-based Moore Threads Technology said in July it expected revenue for the first six months of 2026 to

Samuel O'Brient Fri, 7 August 2026 at 9:11 am GMT-7 3 min read * Citrini Research says threats from agentic AI will boost cybersecurity demand. * It shared it's list of top stock picks in the sector, flagging names like Cloudflare and F5. Citrini Research, the market research firm that went viral for its futuristic [AI doomsday scenario](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-stock-picks-winners-citrini-research-labor-market-report-gtlb-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) earlier this year, sees the rise of agentic threats boosting demand for cybersecurity. In a note published on Friday, [Citrini shared](https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/protection-matters?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=836125&post_id=210211756&utm_campaign=email-

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Reuters Fri, 7 August 2026 at 4:06 pm GMT-7 2 min read Aug 7 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Friday it cannot rule out that its upcoming AI model, Astra, has "critical" cybersecurity capabilities, prompting the startup to ‌pause some internal development and trigger safety protocols. Under OpenAI's safety guidelines, a ‌model reaches the "critical" threshold if it can autonomously identify and exploit severe, real-world software vulnerabilities, known as ​zero-day exploits, or execute complex cyberattacks against highly secure targets without human intervention. Here are some details on Astra: • This follows an exclusive report by Reuters that OpenAI has discovered more instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its ‌investigation of the hacking inciden

* OpenAI officials revealed in greater detail what led up to the Hugging Face incident. * One of the new details is that AI agents repeatedly established an ad hoc message board. * You can watch the entire nearly 40-minute presentation. Experts in AI and tech are cursing in shock after OpenAI's new revelations about the [Hugging Face incident.](https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-people-react-openai-hugging-face-hacking-cybersecurity-incident-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) Earlier this week, OpenAI employees revealed jaw-dropping details about the incident in which OpenAI agents broke out of the company's internal testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face's systems in search of answers. The presenters, OpenAI alignment and s

When someone queues up a track on a laptop, the expectation is a few minutes of music. The thought of a song [crashing the computer](https://www.upworthy.com/15-90s-misconceptions-ex1/) never crosses anyone's mind. Yet, that is precisely what happened when people tried to play Janet Jackson's [1989 hit "Rhythm Nation"](https://www.upworthy.com/real-high-school-in-1989-ex1/) on certain Windows XP laptops. The bizarre flaw was eventually documented as a hardware vulnerability and even received a CVE designation years later, as reported by [_PC World_](https://www.pcworld.com/article/2767927/a-janet-jackson-song-killed-laptops-for-nearly-a-decade.html)on April 29, 2025. When an unnamed computer manufacturer reached out to Microsoft about a baffling hardware failure, product support teams assu

[AI](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/ai) experts are panicking about a future in which [artificial intelligence](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/artificial-intelligence) undermines the safety and security of our devices and the personal information they contain. But is there anything we, as normal computer users can do? In recent days, there have been a wave of terrifying-sounding reports about AI-powered cyber attacks. They began last month, when [OpenAI announced that one of its experimental models had broken out of its testing environment and hacked into a fellow AI company](https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/security/openai-chatgpt-hack-cyber-attack-b3024049.html) –and have been followed by yet more [disclosures, from OpenAI](https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/security/openai-c

Update on Agentic AI Is Breaking Security’s Human Assumptions. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

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Internal tests of OpenAI's new AI model Astra show cybersecurity capabilities so strong that the company can no longer rule out the highest risk level in its own safety framework. Parts of Astra's development have been paused. The move follows recently disclosed incidents in which autonomous AI agents infiltrated OpenAI's own infrastructure undetected for weeks. The article OpenAI flags its new Astra model as potentially reaching the highest cybersecurity risk level for the first time appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue […]

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in […]

AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips. That makes them extremely fast but locks each chip to a single model. A demo chip hit over 16,000 tokens per second per user running Llama 3.1-8B. Google is reportedly working on a similar approach for Gemini. The article AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon appeared first on The Decoder .

Cloudflare is the latest company to join the race to build a new web browser. But instead of pitching a Chrome alternative to consumers, the internet infrastructure provider launched [Kitesurf](https://kitesurf.cloudflare.app/), a cloud-hosted browser designed specifically for AI agents. AI software is evolving from chatbots that answer questions to agents that can complete tasks on users’ behalf. Browsers are a critical part of this transition, as they’ll need to navigate the web and use websites, as humans do. Unlike traditional web browsers built for humans, a browser built for AI agents doesn’t care about visual elements, like themes, tabs, or browser extensions, Cloudflare explained in its [announcement](https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/). A browser designed for AI agents needs to

OpenAI said Friday it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra after an internal review found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity — enough to warrant concern over its capabilities. OpenAI said in a [blog post](https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/) Friday that this model, which is still in development, reached its “critical cybersecurity threshold,” meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems. Under the company’s “Preparedness Framework,” which it created in 2023, this triggered additional safeguards. “While we continue to benchmark and assess this model, our preliminary evaluations indicate strong enough performa

Anthropic has cut false positives in its biology safety filters for Fable 5 by about 85 percent. Previously, nearly all biology-related queries got blocked and rerouted to the less capable Opus 5. The restrictions stay in place for sensitive dual-use topics like virology and toxicology. The article Anthropic loosens Fable 5's biology restrictions but keeps the guardrails on for virology and toxicology appeared first on The Decoder .

Amazon is quietly trying to build the biggest gas power plant in the country. The Distilled newsletter [reported](https://www.distilled.earth/p/scoop-amazon-is-behind-one-of-the) Friday that the megacorporation has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid, at least in the beginning, the permits [show](https://storage.googleapis.com/data-center-source-files/campuses/572__gw-ranch/2025-08-04_air-permit_psdtx1672-full-nsr-application.pdf). The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country

OpenAI is planning a donut-shaped smart speaker for 2027, priced above $300. The screenless device has a camera, microphones, and moving parts. It's designed to learn from conversations and adapt to users, fitting Sam Altman's "Her" vision. The article OpenAI's first smart speaker is expected in 2027 at over $300 appeared first on The Decoder .

Three long weeks after OpenAI’s agents autonomously hacked Hugging Face, the company finally shared an in-depth description this week of what actually happened, and a video of that account published [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=87DyyMV0kCY) on Thursday night has quickly gone viral. The video is of a talk two OpenAI staffers gave on Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Many viewers are saying the details are more unsettling than they expected, particularly an account of how the agents collaborated with each other through [messaging boards](https://fortune.com/2026/08/06/openai-agents-passed-secret-notes-for-months-leading-up-to-hugging-face-hack/)—with no humans in sight. It’s worth a watch. Another notable part of the presentation occurs

[James Callan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-callan) ### James Callan Published Aug 6, 2026 OpenAI’s eagerly awaited consumer hardware device is expected to feature a doughnut-like design roughly the size of a hockey puck and carry a price tag of more than $300, [Bloomberg reports](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/what-is-openai-s-device-a-doughnut-shaped-speaker-that-costs-over-300?srnd=homepage-americas), citing anonymous sources. The AI-powered [gadget](https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/openai-reportedly-developing-screen-free-companion-device-9068826/), slated for release in 2027, will function like a smart speaker without a screen, serving as an interactive companion. Desig

HR software provider Rippling this week [unveiled AI Spend Console](https://www.rippling.com/blog/introducing-ai-spend-console), an anti-tokenmaxxing product that helps a company track and contain its AI spending. One of the most interesting features is that it maps how much individual employees, teams, and roles are spending and if they are genuinely more productive, or generally producing more AI slop. The company promises the tool will show “which engineers have high AI spend whose peers frequently ask them to redo work in code reviews,” the company says in its [blog post](https://www.rippling.com/blog/introducing-ai-spend-console). The tool was born after Rippling went all in on tokenmaxxing at the start of the year — as so many did — only to discover employees were wildly burning cash

It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer Medasin's videos claiming that an AI tool called Treblo (formerly Sonauto) was used to make the song, and the company releasing an AI detector that identifies it […]

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focused on giving viewers access to a constant source of AI-generated content. […]

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Aug. 7, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT As Republicans and Democrats sort through new federal policies regulating the Artificial Intelligence industry, a leading progressive on Capitol Hill is calling on presidential candidates in his party to reject donations from AI billionaires, arguing it’s a chance for Democrats to draw a clear contrast with Republicans on what he says could be the “defining issue” of this election cycle and the next. In an interview with MS NOW this week, Rep. Greg Casar of Texas — the chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus — called recent protests against data centers “just the initial tremors of the earthquake that’s coming if people start losing their jobs in a big way.” “If someone wants to win the presidential nomination, they should start taking these cues now,” Ca

Update on TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back?. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

* Jun 15, 2026 * 9 min read ## Election Fraud Worldwide: How AI Is Eroding Trust in Elections (2026) Discover what election fraud is, its main types, real-world examples, and the penalties fraudsters could face. Fair elections depend on trust that voters know when and where to vote, trust that candidates are who they claim to be, trust that information is real, and trust that results reflect the will of the public. This trust, however, has been eroded in an ongoing AI-driven fraud crisis, making parts of the electoral process increasingly vulnerable to certain types of fraud. In January 2024, thousands of voters in New Hampshire [received a robocall](https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-issues-6m-fine-nh-robocalls) that sounded like President Joe Biden telling them not to vote in the state’s D

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Samsung's latest smartwatch introduces new metrics, a longer-lasting battery, and hints at the future of wearables.

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Aug 7 (Reuters) - Chinese startup Moonshot's flagship AI model, Kimi K3, escaped a cybersecurity testing ‌environment developed by the UK AI Safety ‌Institute, research firm Frontier Security said on Thursday, raising concerns over ​the cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI systems. AI models are typically run in isolated "sandboxes" during cybersecurity tests to block access to external information and assess their ‌ability to solve ⁠problems independently. Kimi K3 bypassed one such sandbox, allowing it to access information beyond ⁠the test environment, U.S.-based cybersecurity research firm Frontier Security said. The researchers warned that if one "high-reasoning model" discovers ​such a ​shortcut, other models with ​similar access could likely ‌do the same. As Kimi K3 is a publicly

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Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel have jointly created Agent Plugins, an open standard that defines a single package format for AI agent extensions. Version 1.0.0 uses a plugin.json manifest file and supports both agent skills and MCP servers. The article Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel unite on a shared standard for AI agent plugins appeared first on The Decoder .

_The usage figures in this story refer to the shared ChatGPT Enterprise workspace used by HSP GRUPPE and Kanzleipakt, covering 81 organizational groups. HSP GRUPPE itself is a network of legally independent tax advisory, auditing, and law firms._ ## Reinventing professional work For more than two decades, [HSP GRUPPE⁠(opens in a new window)](https://www.hsp-gruppe.de/) has consistently invested in digitizing and standardizing professional firm processes. Long before generative AI, the firm network standardized processes, embedded quality management, and fostered a culture of continuous improvement across the network. When ChatGPT emerged, HSP saw more than another productivity tool. It saw an opportunity to rethink how professional work itself could evolve. Rather than asking how AI could

Nearly nine in 10 Singaporeans now use digital platforms, including AI-powered chat tools, to manage their personal finances or seek financial information, according to a new survey by [MDRT](https://www.mdrt.org/), the global association of financial services professionals. The survey, conducted by Opinium among 2,000 Singaporean adults in April 2026, found that 89 per cent use at least one digital platform — such as mobile banking apps, financial websites, or AI-powered chat tools — for financial management or information. More than a third of Singaporeans (35 per cent) now use AI tools specifically for financial purposes, ranging from information gathering to real-world financial actions. ## AI’s growing influence on financial decisions Among Singaporeans who have acted on AI-generated

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By Mike Scarcella and Sara Merken Aug 7 (Reuters) - Major artificial intelligence developers have reported cases of their autonomous AI models breaching other companies' cyber infrastructure, raising questions about who may be held legally responsible when AI systems act without direct human oversight. Here's a look at some of the legal questions surrounding autonomous AI ‌breaches. WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE AI AGENTS? AI agents are systems that can independently make decisions and perform tasks without requiring significant human oversight. ChatGPT maker OpenAI said one of its agents compromised ‌the system of AI startup Hugging Face and that it discovered other instances when its agents escaped their digital containment. Anthropic said its Claude models had breached the systems of three com

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Routers are hardware that connect your home devices to the internet, but a new report find that some models have been shipped with an alarming backdoor — meaning you're not the only one with access to your devices. According to a recent[post](https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/zbt-endlessdoors)by cybersecurity firm VulnCheck, multiple models of routers manufactured and sold by Zbtlink are compromised, claims the company has since denied. **Tech:**[**Is It True That People Can Read Your Text Messages? This Latest Scam Is A Doozy**](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/can-people-read-your-texts-scam_n_68a48474e4b00feff7d12af7?utm_campaign=yahoo-recirc) Jacob Baines, the chief technology officer at VulnCheck who found the backdoor, said that 20 models made by Zbtlink have been shipped with an implant

Hackers have broken into water systems in [at least a dozen states](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cyberattack-minnesota-hackers-b3028647.html) in recent weeks, what cybersecurity experts say should be an urgent wake up call to immense vulnerabilities in American infrastructure. "Malicious cyber actors" have infiltrated internet-connected water systems that routinely monitor and adjust safe drinking water across the country, according to [federal law enforcement agencies.](https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/alerts/2026/malicious-cyber-actors-targeting-water-and-wastewater-sector-internet--facing-programmable-logic-controllers-causing-operational-disruptions) Officials have not reported any widespread disruptions to America's drinking water supplies, but analysts who h

A software company which stores contact details of supporters of Lincoln Cathedral and leisure centre users in Lincolnshire says it has experienced a "cyber-security incident". Beacon CRM said the incident involved unauthorised access to systems containing data it processes on behalf of its customers. Lincoln Cathedral and Magna Vitae said they used Beacon to store data including names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers, but not payment or bank account details. Beacon CRM said: "We immediately engaged external cyber-security experts to help us contain the incident and investigate." The software is used by more than 1,000 charities and organisations. Beacon CRM said: "We understand this is concerning and we're taking it very seriously. We've already spoken with all our customers and our

NEW YORK (AP) — Some U.S. adults are using artificial intelligence for financial guidance, but it's far from the most trusted source of advice, according to [a new Gallup survey](https://news.gallup.com/poll/712952/americans-canadians-turn-financial-guidance.aspx) conducted in partnership with Edward Jones, a financial services firm. About 1 in 5 Americans who have sought financial advice in the past year turned to AI, the survey found. But among U.S. adults overall, only about 3 in 10 have "a great deal" or "some" confidence in its expertise for managing money, according to the survey, including just 3% who trust AI "a great deal." The poll, which was conducted in the spring and looked at the views of adults who are at least 21, found a disconnect between the resources Americans trust for

The history of networking is full of tools that repurposed solutions to very different kinds of problems first. Wi-Fi’s origins trace back in part to a team of Australian radio astronomers trying to detect signals from evaporating black holes. But the data processing tools they’d developed also proved capable at extracting clean messages from any chaotic, echoing signal environment . Echoes are echoes, after all, whether from distant star systems or from the far corner of the house. I research vehicle communications networks , connecting cars to cars and to transportation infrastructure like traffic lights—for tomorrow’s vehicle-to-everthing (V2X) networks . V2X research has long relied on models that assume “perfect” or “ideal” network conditions. Which is a simplifying assumption that ma

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OpenAI's planned smart speaker is taking shape. The company's first hardware device will be donut-shaped, roughly the size of a hockey puck, and priced above $300, according to Bloomberg. The article OpenAI's hockey-puck-sized smart speaker with moving parts is set to ship in 2027 appeared first on The Decoder .

A research team in California has used artificial intelligence to design working viruses that kill bacteria, in what they describe as the "first generative design of complete genomes." The project marks an early step toward AI-designed life forms, according to a report in MIT Technology Review. The article Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used AI to design new viruses that killed bacteria in the lab appeared first on The Decoder .

Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters, according to the Financial Times. That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model. The article China's Largest AI Model Is Being Developed at Bytedance appeared first on The Decoder .

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Airbnb might be taking slow steps to roll out AI features to its consumer-facing interface, but the company is rapidly adopting the tech to build product. Earlier this year, the company said [AI is writing 60% of its code](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/airbnb-says-ai-now-writes-60-of-its-new-code/). In its latest earnings call, co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said AI is helping Airbnb create features at rapid rate. Chesky said that because of AI, the company has reduced time from conceptualization to finally shopping features by 60%. “Today, we’re building, testing, and iterating faster than we could just a year ago. Across some of our key initiatives, we’ve reduced the time from concept to launch by as much as 60%. And compared to the same 6 months last year, we’ve increased the numbe

Plus: AI has designed new viruses from scratch for the first time. August 7, 2026 _This is today's edition of_[_The Download_](https://forms.technologyreview.com/newsletters/briefing-the-download/?_ga=2.179569122.736533416.1649661040-405833893.1649413289), _our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology._ ### **How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy** For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles. The theory claimed that, under the guise of combating disinformation, a sprawling constellation of government agencies, academics, civil society groups, and Big Tech platforms was suppressing conservative and populist speech online. What began as a relatively

SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the [Terafab semiconductor factory](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/tesla-and-spacex-will-invest-16-8b-to-start-building-terafab-chip-factory-in-texas/) it plans to build in Texas, according to a [report](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/spacex-to-build-natural-gas-power-plants-for-texas-chip-factory?srnd=phx-industries) from Bloomberg. Riley Trettel, who leads energy and data center development for SpaceX, said in a public meeting on Wednesday that his company will be “bringing our own power” for the project, which will also include “very large battery arrays.” Notably absent from the Bloomberg report — and other SpaceX announcements related to Terafab — is any mention of terrest

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Samuel O'Brient Fri, 7 August 2026 at 9:11 am GMT-7 3 min read * Citrini Research says threats from agentic AI will boost cybersecurity demand. * It shared it's list of top stock picks in the sector, flagging names like Cloudflare and F5. Citrini Research, the market research firm that went viral for its futuristic [AI doomsday scenario](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-stock-picks-winners-citrini-research-labor-market-report-gtlb-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) earlier this year, sees the rise of agentic threats boosting demand for cybersecurity. In a note published on Friday, [Citrini shared](https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/protection-matters?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=836125&post_id=210211756&utm_campaign=email-

[AI](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/ai) experts are panicking about a future in which [artificial intelligence](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/artificial-intelligence) undermines the safety and security of our devices and the personal information they contain. But is there anything we, as normal computer users can do? In recent days, there have been a wave of terrifying-sounding reports about AI-powered cyber attacks. They began last month, when [OpenAI announced that one of its experimental models had broken out of its testing environment and hacked into a fellow AI company](https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/security/openai-chatgpt-hack-cyber-attack-b3024049.html) –and have been followed by yet more [disclosures, from OpenAI](https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/security/openai-c

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in […]

Cloudflare is the latest company to join the race to build a new web browser. But instead of pitching a Chrome alternative to consumers, the internet infrastructure provider launched [Kitesurf](https://kitesurf.cloudflare.app/), a cloud-hosted browser designed specifically for AI agents. AI software is evolving from chatbots that answer questions to agents that can complete tasks on users’ behalf. Browsers are a critical part of this transition, as they’ll need to navigate the web and use websites, as humans do. Unlike traditional web browsers built for humans, a browser built for AI agents doesn’t care about visual elements, like themes, tabs, or browser extensions, Cloudflare explained in its [announcement](https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/). A browser designed for AI agents needs to

OpenAI is planning a donut-shaped smart speaker for 2027, priced above $300. The screenless device has a camera, microphones, and moving parts. It's designed to learn from conversations and adapt to users, fitting Sam Altman's "Her" vision. The article OpenAI's first smart speaker is expected in 2027 at over $300 appeared first on The Decoder .

The Birdfy Feeder Rookie is a good option if you’re new to birdwatching or simply don’t want to spend a lot on a smart feeder, and several configurations are on sale. The standard model is down to $59.99 ($60 off) at Amazon, which is close to its lowest price. It includes seven days of access […]

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* Jun 15, 2026 * 9 min read ## Election Fraud Worldwide: How AI Is Eroding Trust in Elections (2026) Discover what election fraud is, its main types, real-world examples, and the penalties fraudsters could face. Fair elections depend on trust that voters know when and where to vote, trust that candidates are who they claim to be, trust that information is real, and trust that results reflect the will of the public. This trust, however, has been eroded in an ongoing AI-driven fraud crisis, making parts of the electoral process increasingly vulnerable to certain types of fraud. In January 2024, thousands of voters in New Hampshire [received a robocall](https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-issues-6m-fine-nh-robocalls) that sounded like President Joe Biden telling them not to vote in the state’s D

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* OpenAI officials revealed in greater detail what led up to the Hugging Face incident. * One of the new details is that AI agents repeatedly established an ad hoc message board. * You can watch the entire nearly 40-minute presentation. Experts in AI and tech are cursing in shock after OpenAI's new revelations about the [Hugging Face incident.](https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-people-react-openai-hugging-face-hacking-cybersecurity-incident-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) Earlier this week, OpenAI employees revealed jaw-dropping details about the incident in which OpenAI agents broke out of the company's internal testing environment and hacked into Hugging Face's systems in search of answers. The presenters, OpenAI alignment and s

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AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips. That makes them extremely fast but locks each chip to a single model. A demo chip hit over 16,000 tokens per second per user running Llama 3.1-8B. Google is reportedly working on a similar approach for Gemini. The article AMD acquires Taalas, a startup that bakes AI models directly into silicon appeared first on The Decoder .

Anthropic has cut false positives in its biology safety filters for Fable 5 by about 85 percent. Previously, nearly all biology-related queries got blocked and rerouted to the less capable Opus 5. The restrictions stay in place for sensitive dual-use topics like virology and toxicology. The article Anthropic loosens Fable 5's biology restrictions but keeps the guardrails on for virology and toxicology appeared first on The Decoder .

Update on TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back?. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

This 6-port USB-C charger replaced my ugly power brick - and powers my entire desk. The Satechi ChargeView 240W desktop charger ticks all the right boxes for this charging geek.

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Samsung's latest smartwatch introduces new metrics, a longer-lasting battery, and hints at the future of wearables.

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Internal tests of OpenAI's new AI model Astra show cybersecurity capabilities so strong that the company can no longer rule out the highest risk level in its own safety framework. Parts of Astra's development have been paused. The move follows recently disclosed incidents in which autonomous AI agents infiltrated OpenAI's own infrastructure undetected for weeks. The article OpenAI flags its new Astra model as potentially reaching the highest cybersecurity risk level for the first time appeared first on The Decoder .

It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer Medasin's videos claiming that an AI tool called Treblo (formerly Sonauto) was used to make the song, and the company releasing an AI detector that identifies it […]

When someone queues up a track on a laptop, the expectation is a few minutes of music. The thought of a song [crashing the computer](https://www.upworthy.com/15-90s-misconceptions-ex1/) never crosses anyone's mind. Yet, that is precisely what happened when people tried to play Janet Jackson's [1989 hit "Rhythm Nation"](https://www.upworthy.com/real-high-school-in-1989-ex1/) on certain Windows XP laptops. The bizarre flaw was eventually documented as a hardware vulnerability and even received a CVE designation years later, as reported by [_PC World_](https://www.pcworld.com/article/2767927/a-janet-jackson-song-killed-laptops-for-nearly-a-decade.html)on April 29, 2025. When an unnamed computer manufacturer reached out to Microsoft about a baffling hardware failure, product support teams assu