August’s Patch Tuesday is a monster: 751 fixes, with an exploited Windows flaw
Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday closes at 751 CVE entries (across all product families), with 108 rated as critical. One flaw is already exploited, CVE-2026-68820
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OpenAI loses its AI ethics lead
OpenAI has lost its AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar just a year after she joined the company, the Financial Times reported. Bakalar has maintained a
OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
Leading US AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic are releasing cheaper models as they fight to retain cost-conscious customers who are switching to cut-price
Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin’s two-pad plan
Welcome to Edition 9.06 of the Rocket Report! Rocket Lab made a lot of news this week with its quarterly update, and it is clear
Trump’s drone tariffs reach 100%, and Europe gets capped at 15%
Tweety McTreason signed the proclamation on 13 August. It carries the title Adjusting Imports of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components into the
France’s under-15 social media ban is struck down two weeks before it starts
The decision lands about two weeks before the ban was due to start, Bloomberg reported. Platforms were to stop creating accounts for under-15s from 1
Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math
“The first rule of Mark Zuckerberg is never count out Mark Zuckerberg.”
Chatbots Are Pushing Us Toward a Post-Human Internet
In matters of work, school and even romance, we turn to A.I. chatbots. But what happens when the bots begin talking to one another?
Meta removed 756,000 Australian accounts. Its real ask is that Apple does the checking
Representatives of Meta, TikTok, Google and Snap give evidence to an Australian parliamentary inquiry on Friday, Reuters reported. Regulators and government officials appear too. Meta
Thrive Capital’s first investor letter shows how completely OpenAI has come to define it
Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has sent its first formal letter to investors, and the standout figure captures the AI era in miniature. One of its
Researcher bypasses Microsoft Defender security patch, seizing control
Just weeks after Microsoft patched a critical hole in Microsoft Defender, a cybersecurity researcher has posted an apparent bypass that provides system-level control to attackers
A Massachusetts teen is charged with killing his mother and brother, and prosecutors point to ChatGPT
A 17-year-old in Massachusetts has been charged with murdering his mother and younger brother, and prosecutors say that in the period before the deaths he
Weather drones are filling the data blind spot that armies and traders both need
The artificial-intelligence weather boom has a dirty secret. For all the talk of models that see storms days ahead, an AI forecaster is only as
US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer
As cancer treatments have advanced and outcomes have improved, one aspect of cancer care in the US has consistently worsened over the last decade: the