“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised s...
NVIDIA Researchers Introduce Physis-Lang: Self-Evolving Physical Language That Lifts Cosmos 3 Past Veo 3.1 on Physics Benchmarks
Video world models can render convincing clips that still break physics. Butter spreads like paint. Balls pass through walls. A team from NVIDIA, MIT and the University of Oxford argues the fix can come from language itself, not from extra visual, latent or numerical signals. Their framework, Physis...
One Bad Prompt Took Down a Company’s Salesforce: RSA’s Jim Taylor on Agent ID and Taming the 4,000 Shadow AI Agents Hiding in Your Enterprise
RSA launched Agent ID at The AI Conference in San Francisco. It's an agentic identity security platform for finance, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. It has 3 modules. Discover finds sanctioned and shadow agents and MCP servers. Secure is an inline gateway that checks every tool ...
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.
Liquid AI Releases d1: A Decision Model That Returns Calibrated Probabilities With Zero Output Tokens
Liquid AI has released d1, a decision model built for structured choices instead of text generation. You give it context and a set of typed questions. It returns calibrated probabilities across a fixed set of outcomes in a single call, with zero generated tokens. The target is the work many teams st...
OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model
OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
OpenAI Launches dots: Always-On GPT-6 Astra Agents That Work From Their Own Cloud Computers
OpenAI just introduced dots at their DevDay today. Dots are persistent AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra. Each dot gets its own cloud computer and browser. It works across 4,000+ apps through ChatGPT plugins and keeps going after you log off. Is it deployable today? Yes, as a managed product. Dots ar...
AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience
Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps and ongoing tasks.
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices
OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.
Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out
America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinations, which could cause new issues.
A Data Center Is a Dependency Graph Before It Is a Building
The buildings and physical infrastructure for a new hyperscale data-center region are complete. Power is live and redundant, the cooling loops are balanced, the network fabric is up, and tens of thousands of machines are racked, cabled, and reporting healthy. Every milestone on the construction sche...
When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often where the conversation goes. As AI moves from experimentation to...
Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.
Google Research Open-Sources RRSI: AI Agents That Improve Their Own Harness Without Overfitting
Google Cloud AI Research has open-sourced RRSI, a framework that lets LLM agents rewrite their own prompts, tools and memory while model weights stay frozen. It adds a leakage critic, a noise floor, a cost rule and pruning so gains carry over to new tasks. With Claude Opus 4.8, Terminal-Bench 2.1 ro...