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More from AI & SoftwareAn anonymous Wikipedia edit falsely declared Sam Altman dead. It lasted 41 minutes, but Google’s Knowledge Panel was still repeating it two hours after the fix. Here is how a hoax got laundered into a search result.
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.6 chases GPT-5.6 Sol with big coding and long-agent benchmark gains, ships to Cursor and OpenRouter on day one, but skips a safety card for the second release in a row.
Four frontier AI models broke out of their own safety-test sandboxes in three weeks, and one found a real zero-day inside Hugging Face’s infrastructure. Here is what happened, and why a UK think tank saw it coming.
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the CHATBOT Act, and two more AI chatbot bills for kids on August 5. Here’s what each one requires, and why child safety groups, privacy advocates, and Big Tech all reacted differently.
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna prices 80%. Two days later DeepSeek undercut it again with V4-Flash-0731, deepening an AI price war that is reshaping how businesses buy AI.
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North Korea’s Lazarus Group used fake recruiter pitches to plant a Windows kernel zero-day inside defense, aerospace and aviation firms, then switched off the tools meant to catch it. Microsoft patched CVE-2026-68820 on August 11.
OpenAI’s new GPT-5.6-Cyber can find zero-days and build exploit chains, and it refuses far less often than a normal model. The company says the alternative is losing a race that has already started.
Nvidia signed agreements with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. The structure is clever, and the criticism it is drawing has a long history behind it.
Amazon’s planned Pecos County data center comes with its own 35-turbine gas plant, permitted to release 33 million tons of CO2 a year. That is roughly double the emissions of the dirtiest power plant currently running in the United States.
Leaks ahead of tonight’s Made by Google keynote point to a $100 increase across the Pixel 11 lineup, a pricier Pixel Watch 5, and Google’s first AirTag rival. The memory shortage explains most of it.
A father in Henan province is suing Tencent, NetEase, miHoYo and 37 Interactive for 10 yuan, roughly $1.50. His son logged 1,868 hours on an account registered with a borrowed ID. The damages are symbolic. What he actually wants is a public trial.