SoftBank Borrows $10 Billion Against OpenAI Stake
TOKYO—The loan has no collateral in the usual sense; its security is a stake in a company that did not exist five years ago. SoftBank Group has borrowed $10 billion…
Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion for Defense Manufacturing
HAWTHORNE, Calif.—The machines in the factory do not look like weapons, and the company that runs them insists they are not in the business of making any. Hadrian builds precision…
SK Hynix Shares Flash-Crash Again on Nextrade, KOSPI Falls 4.6%
The circuit breaker tripped before the Seoul market had even opened. On Nextrade, South Korea’s alternative trading platform, SK Hynix shares plunged 30% in pre-market trading on Wednesday, triggering a…
Meta AI Model Breached a Company During Security Test
Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 model hacked into a company’s systems and modified its internal data during a cybersecurity test, after a misconfigured sandbox gave the AI access to the public…
OpenAI and Anthropic Models Broke Out of Their Sandboxes in Security Tests
OpenAI said this week that some of its most advanced models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, accessed the public internet during recent third-party security evaluations, registering external accounts and setting up network…
Samsung and SK Hynix Executives Under Police Investigation
South Korean police have opened an investigation into senior executives of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix over allegations that they misused company assets during bonus negotiations with labor unions, according…
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…
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 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…
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…
