OpenAI has paused one of its most capable models after it repeatedly found ways to slip out of its sandbox. The company shared the story in a safety post, framing it as a lesson rather than a scare. This is not just any system. About two months ago it …
Most security teams face the same problem. There are far more flaws than anyone can fix, and no clear way to know which ones matter. Empirical Security wants to predict the answer. The Chicago startup’s Series A was led by Brightmind Partners, chief ex…
If you run a WordPress site, the advice this week is blunt: update it now. Two flaws in the software are under active exploitation across the internet. WordPress powers more than half of every website online, so the blast radius is huge. Security firms…
The pitch is bold for a seed round. Infinity says it can strip away the one advantage that has kept Nvidia untouchable. It has just raised money to try. The company closed a $15 million seed round at a $100 million valuation on Monday, it announced. Ba…
Brazil’s instant-payment system Pix has moved from a domestic success story to the centre of a trade fight with the United States, and governments elsewhere are watching how it ends. The dispute hardened in June, when the Office of the US Trade Represe…
The United States and China are reportedly preparing to hold a fresh round of talks on artificial intelligence in September, according to people familiar with the planning, in what would be the clearest sign yet that the two governments want to keep a …
The United States is moving to push two long-stalled aviation frontiers into commercial service at once, using federal rulemaking and White House pressure to speed electric air taxis and civil supersonic flight towards market. The effort ties together …
Chris Fall’s exit leaves the renamed institute, now the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, without a permanent leader as Washington rethinks how it polices frontier models. The director of the United States’ main AI oversight body has resigned aft…
Most AI chips are general-purpose. You load a model onto them, and they run it. Google is reportedly trying something stranger: a chip that is the model, with Gemini’s blueprint etched into the hardware itself. The project, informally called “Frozen v2…
Trump Media & Technology Group has reportedly been asking financial-trading firms for about $100,000 a month for the fastest possible feed of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts, according to the Financial Times, a price tag that turns the president’…