China Warns of AI Agent ‘Skill’ Packages That Jailbreak Models and Mine Crypto
BEIJING — The advisory landed on the website of China’s national computer emergency response center with the clipped, technical tone of a routine warning, but its subject was new. The…
Trump Confirms Talks With OpenAI on Government Equity Stake
The proposal had circulated privately for months. This week it was confirmed in public: President Trump said he is discussing with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman the possibility of the…
OpenAI Adds Lockdown Mode to Curb Prompt-Injection Leaks
The request had been repeated by enterprise buyers for more than a year: keep our confidential data from leaking through the cracks of the model. OpenAI has answered with a…
NSA Prepares to Put Anthropic’s Mythos to Work in Cyber Operations
The executive order said one thing. The intelligence community did another. Eight weeks after President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop working with Anthropic, the National Security Agency began using…
Google Cloud’s Quiet Cuts Reach Its Elite Threat Hunters
The notice arrived after dark. Andrew Kopcienski, a principal threat intelligence analyst at Google, wrote on LinkedIn that he had been laid off “alongside a lot of other great folks…
Oura Ring 5 Gets Thinner, Lighter, Smarter
The computer on your finger is getting an upgrade. Oura, the company that made the smart ring a category, has released the fifth generation of its namesake device, and the…
Honor Launches Magic V6 Folding Phone With Waterproofing First
The most durable folding phone yet is going on sale outside China. Honor has begun shipping the Magic V6, its latest foldable, in Singapore and Malaysia at a price of…
Microsoft Ships Seven In-House AI Models, Testing Its Ties to OpenAI
SEATTLE — On the Build 2026 stage, a Microsoft engineer handed a new reasoning model a 40,000-line codebase and asked it to find a memory leak, explain the cause in…
Amazon Faces Class Action Over Ring’s Facial Recognition Feature
RICHMOND, Va. — The plaintiffs are neighbors who never agreed to be in the system. Virginia residents filed a class action against Amazon this week over Ring’s Familiar Faces feature,…
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
Over the weekend, the Instagram accounts of the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force briefly displayed pro-Iranian images and messages. The defacements were…
