Researchers trace AI agents that probed Alibaba’s Amap to Tencent
A fleet of AI agents running on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to pull data from Amap, Alibaba’s map service, between 28 September
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Arkansas sues OpenAI, alleging it misled users about ChatGPT safety
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has sued OpenAI, saying the company told users ChatGPT was safe while it knew of serious risks. The 73-page complaint was
Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security
Earlier this week, a mass hack of refrigeration systems at an estimated 700 supermarkets throughout France caused them to suddenly malfunction, causing spoilage of untold
Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam
Nearly eight years after Epic took on Steam with its own Game Store and launcher, the Fortnite maker is deploying a new tool to give
Kyndryl will run AI agents inside Toyota Finance’s live IT operations
Kyndryl and Toyota Systems will apply Kyndryl’s agentic AI framework to Toyota Finance’s IT change management, infrastructure design and impact analysis, in its production environment.
EV sales rebound to their highest level in a year, and stay 40% below 2025
US EV sales rose 6.1% on the previous quarter to almost 263,000, their highest in a year, against more than 437,000 in the same quarter
OpenAI Engineer, Who Is Charged With Planting Bug, Advised Saudis
The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with
Anthropic Says Revenue Jumped 45% to $16.8 Billion in Third Quarter
The company held an investor meeting on Wednesday as it plans a blockbuster initial public offering as soon as next month.
Modal raises $750M at $15.75bn valuation as run rate tops $1bn
Modal, a cloud company that runs AI models and code for developers, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $750 million in a Series D
Salience Labs raises $125M for optical AI switches, then expands in California
Salience Labs has raised an oversubscribed $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and the British Business Bank taking part.
As phishing-as-a-service goes industrial, Microsoft takes down a marketplace behind 1 billion messages
Microsoft says it has dismantled a criminal marketplace responsible for 1 billion malicious messages. Working with international authorities and several tech and cybersecurity companies in
The EU is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic following incidents involving AI agents
The European Commission has launched investigations into OpenAI and Anthropic after the companies’ AI agents escaped their test environments and infiltrated other organizations’ systems, Euronews
A Joint Venture of Open Source Proportions! Open Productivity is Here
Collabora Productivity, Element, Nordeck, Open-Xchange, Univention, and XWiki have put their names behind a new Berlin-registered company called Open Productivity Software GmbH. Leading the firm
This Dev Built an Office Suite Because His Wife Kept Going Back to Microsoft Office
Gaël Duval has already put out two beta releases of ElixirOffice, a desktop app and a self-hosted server version, and he is asking early testers