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OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.
Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasks
As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls. Dividing the work among a team of agents seems like the obvious fix, but it introduces a fatal flaw: most multi-agent systems are not designed for agents to coordinate among themselves mid-task and in real time.To solve this, researchers at Coral AI Labs and multiple universities introduced AgentRadio, an asynchronous message-pa
After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.
Wacom’s MovinkPad 11 is a fun, midpriced entry point for digital artists
The MovinkPad 11 a versatile little graphics tablet that can help make your wildest digital art dreams come true.
Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks
Researchers found common points of failure, like software used to organize and display web content, could have allowed hackers to run riot through government websites.
Musk's SpaceX, Tesla to build $16.8B Terafab chip factory in Texas
Here's what to know as SpaceX and Tesla announce plans to build a $16.8 billion chip factory in Texas, promising 3,000 jobs ...
Elon Musk Says AI Needs More Power Than the Grid Can Handle. Is He Right?
When Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla(NASDAQ: TSLA) and Space Exploration Corporation(NASDAQ: SPCX), talks about a problem, it ...
Elon Musk’s $55M chipmaking facility Terfab is coming to College Station
Gov. Greg Abbott announced that the semiconductor facility will get a $30 million grant on top of tax breaks from Grimes ...
Government Watchdog Slams Elon Musk's DOGE For 'Incorrect' Savings Estimates
The report found the agency did not share its methodology on how the purported savings were calculated, calling into question its accuracy.
GAO finds Elon Musk's DOGE inflated claims of $110 billion in savings for federal government
The nonpartisan watchdog found Elon Musk's DOGE didn't cut as much federal spending as it claimed and that it fell far short of its promised $2 trillion.
Elon Musk’s Net Worth Tops $800 Billion Again As SpaceX Shares Spike 11%
Musk’s net worth exceeded $1 trillion in June after his spaceflight and artificial intelligence company went public.
Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck
For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026, James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, argued that assumption is about to break: the next frontier isn't a single, more capable agent, it's tens of thousands of them collaborating.For developers and product builders, the most critical takeaway from Zou’s presentation is how these massive systems are orchest
Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong
A VB Pulse survey this June found that 57% of enterprises had traced a confidently wrong agent answer back to missing or inconsistent context — the latest sign of how central context has become to whether AI agents can be trusted to act on their own.Most of the fixes so far have solved a narrower version of that problem: one agent remembering more, in one session. What's been missing is a way for a team of agents to draw on the same context at once, and that gap is where a newer problem is
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.
Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach
Framework told "all" of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.
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Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms
The Trump administration has now convinced developers to abandon 12 offshore wind leases. The latest will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion.
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Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say
In the Kimi test, the sandbox designed to contain the experiment was not properly configured.
Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function
Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.