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The Australian Signals Directorate's 2025-26 annual cyber threat report reveals a sharp rise in cyber incidents and losses, with AI frontier models identified as a core factor redefining the threat landscape, including the first autonomous AI agent attack on government systems.
Oracle and OpenAI are moving to buy Google TPUs, signaling that Google is commercializing its internal chips and that Nvidia's dominance in AI compute is being diluted rather than replaced. The shift reflects mounting inference-cost pressure and a broader industry push toward multi-supplier chip strategies.
Workers tell WIRED that NOA—or “No Ordinary Assistant”—was unhelpful. Bestselling authors also say AI is ruining their relationships with Big Five publishers.
Human beings struggle with emergency communication. Chatbots can help—if people take them seriously.
Meta has announced an equity financing plan of up to $95 billion, with Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom intending to subscribe as strategic shareholders. The deal binds chip suppliers to their largest customer through equity and raises the intensity of the AI infrastructure arms race.
One of England’s top judges, Geoffrey Vos, believes that AI could adjudicate plenty of civil cases. The question, he says, is where the line should be drawn.
China's draft export control revisions on AI technology appear sweeping but contain significant open source exemptions. The real regulatory logic targets strategic capabilities rather than commercial AI deployment, creating a de facto compliance advantage for open source model developers.
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.
Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.
The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.
Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for "reckless" AI, US Rep. Comer says.
Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, the first Genie model to natively generate audio, with scene continuity doubled from the previous generation and synchronized multimodal generation across vision, physics, and sound through deeper Gemini integration. However, key performance metrics such as resolution, frame rate, and parameter count have not been disclosed.
A federal court approved a $1.5 billion settlement under which Anthropic will pay rights holders of roughly 500,000 books after downloading more than 7 million pirated copies for model training. Twenty-eight authors, including Stanford professor Tobias Wolff, opted out and filed a separate suit seeking up to $150,000 per work.
WDCD Run #400 (2026-10-28) recorded 0% average commitment decay across all 15 tested models, with GLM-4.6 topping the leaderboard at 96.2 points, followed by Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-o3.
