LibreOffice Base survey results
Heiko Tietze has published a blog post summarizing the results of a recent survey about the use of LibreOffice's database application, Base. 455 people participated in the survey, including more than...
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Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could "kill us all"
When a prominent researcher quits a job at a frontier AI lab these days, it's often to pursue a new startup or protest a new business model . But AI researcher Jacob Coxon is using his departure from...
Google's AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change
On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas , a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome is about 3 billion...
OpenAI Ends Billion-Dollar Cursor Deal to Avoid Musk-Linked Risks
OpenAI announced late last Friday that it is winding down its partnership with Cursor, the AI coding tool startup recently acquired by SpaceX in a $60 billion deal. The stated reason: OpenAI says it...
Nvidia snaps up Hugging Face for $12.93B in push to own open AI software
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, the developer platform often described as a GitHub for AI, in a deal valued at $12.93 billion. The acquisition, announced Thursday, ranks among Nvidia's largest...
OpenAI's Astra model marks first to hit 'critical' cybersecurity threshold
OpenAI announced Tuesday that its upcoming AI model, Astra, is the first to cross the company's "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold. According to the firm, Astra can identify and exploit...
AWS Glue 6.0 launches with 30% price cut and full Iceberg v3 support
AWS has announced the general availability of AWS Glue 6.0, a fully managed ETL service update that comes with a 30% price reduction compared to earlier versions and complete support for Apache...
Micron leads our AI memory stock picks as DRAM, NAND, and HDD markets diverge
Micron, Sandisk, Seagate, and Western Digital have become four of the hottest AI investment plays this year, all ranking among the S&P 500's top 10 performers. Sandisk leads with a roughly 575%...
OpenAI closes gap with Anthropic among US businesses, new spending data shows
Fresh data from corporate card and expense management firm Ramp suggests OpenAI is regaining momentum with US businesses, even though Anthropic still holds a lead in market share. The numbers, drawn...
Grok leaks user chats when malicious commands are hidden in encrypted text
Researchers have found a new way to trick Grok, the AI assistant owned by Elon Musk, into stealing user chats and other personal data. The attack uses encrypted instructions to bypass the chatbot's...
Meta AI Incident Highlights 'Shady AI' as Emerging Governance Challenge
In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta caused a "Sev 1" incident after sensitive company and user data was exposed to employees without proper authorization. The event began when an employee...
Stripe's OpenRouter deal: payments giant eyes AI's money flow, not the singularity
Stripe confirmed Wednesday it is acquiring OpenRouter, with the New York Times reporting a $7.5 billion price tag—though Stripe didn't disclose terms. That's a sharp jump from OpenRouter's $1.3...
OpenAI counters Anthropic with privacy-focused abuse monitoring
OpenAI is rolling out a new privacy-centric system for detecting misuse of its AI models, a move that directly challenges rival Anthropic's recent data-retention policy. The service, called Private...
OpenAI Halts Frontier RL Training for Two Weeks to Bolster AI Safety Defenses
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest AI models for two weeks to strengthen defenses and expand monitoring, aiming to prevent another incident...
Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Exposes JWT at 12 Bits Per Second, Firm Says Fix Already Deployed
Security researchers have detailed a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment, achieving a data rate...
OpenAI Blames Technical Error for Revoking Researchers' Cyber Program Access
Several security researchers report that OpenAI suddenly cut off their access to a limited program designed for cybersecurity work, and the company says the issue was a mistake on its end. On...
Coders Claim Quick Fixes for Claude's Invisible Watermarks
Within hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude models would embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into all AI-generated content, developer Guillaume Meyer published code to strip them. His...
Agentic AI Reshapes Phishing: Defenders Must Automate or Fall Behind
Email security has largely stayed the same for a decade: scan for malicious content and block it. That approach worked when threats lived in links or attachments, but it fails when the danger is in...
U.S. Targets Cloud Loophole in Nvidia Chip Export Ban
U.S. export controls on Nvidia's most powerful AI chips are meant to keep China from accessing cutting-edge compute, but several Chinese firms have apparently sidestepped the restrictions by tapping...
OpenAI tightens model-testing safeguards following Hugging Face breach
OpenAI announced a new set of security policies on Tuesday aimed at containing incidents during model testing. The measures include more detailed monitoring of models during development and a...