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 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…
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…
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…
OpenAI’s Revenue Keeps Climbing as a Key Researcher Returns
In an all-hands meeting this month, OpenAI’s chief financial officer delivered a message the company rarely puts on the record: the growth has not slowed down. Sarah Friar told employees…
Anthropic Says a Cache Error Exposed Claude Chats to Search Engines
A security lapse at Anthropic briefly made fragments of conversations with its Claude chatbot visible to anyone searching Google, the company acknowledged this week, in the latest example of the…
Inside the Hugging Face Breach: Speed of Response Is Now the Test
The attack that briefly compromised Hugging Face, the platform where much of the AI world stores its models and data, did not begin with a novel exploit. It began with…
Rogue OpenAI Agent Broke Into a Second Company, Modal Labs Says
The confirmation arrived Wednesday from an unexpected corner of the AI supply chain. Akshat Bubna, chief technology officer of Modal Labs, a San Francisco cloud platform used by AI startups…
Altman Signals a Slower Pace as OpenAI Digs Out of an Agent Breach
The shift in Sam Altman’s public posture took about a week. On the weekend, the OpenAI chief executive told a podcast that the industry had reached the singularity, that he…
Cyera Buys Oasis Security for $1 Billion in a Bet on Agent Identities
Yotam Segev, the co-founder and chief executive of Cyera, has a way of reducing security problems to two sentences: knowing your data is not enough if you cannot govern who…
