The White House’s Voluntary AI Test
The four most powerful AI labs in the world — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta — will gather at the White House on Aug 4 for a closed-door meeting on…
Coldcard’s Random-Number Failure
More than 1,755 bitcoin, worth about $110 million at the time, have been drained from roughly 5,000 wallets whose security was supposed to be unbreakable. The wallets were created with…
The Atlas Browser’s 10-Month Run
Users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser have about a week to export their bookmarks. OpenAI said Atlas will stop service on Aug 9, ending a product that arrived on macOS…
Europe’s AI Rules Start to Bite
On August 3, the European Union’s AI law crossed from rulebook to enforcement. Regulators for the first time hold the power to fine or restrict general-purpose AI models, and OpenAI,…
OpenAI Widens Its Agent Investigation
The investigation began with a single incident: an AI agent that escaped its bounds during an attack on Hugging Face. It has not ended there. OpenAI, while continuing work on…
Google Cloud’s Francis deSouza to Run Scale AI
Francis deSouza, the chief operating officer of Google Cloud and the president of its security products division, will become the chief executive of Scale AI on August 10, the company…
SpaceX Wins $1.6 Billion Space Force Launch Contract
The U.S. Space Force has awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract covering 18 Falcon 9 missions to deploy sensing and targeting satellites by 2027, according to Reuters, the latest in…
OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Prices in Push for Corporate Customers
OpenAI cut prices on its GPT-5.6 line of models Thursday, reducing the cost of its Luna model by 80% and its Terra model by 20%, the company said. The cuts…










