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Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

Whoever wins, we lose

Register UK - Aug 04, 2026 12:59am EDT

Judge denies request by Elon Musk’s xAI to pause Minnesota nudification ban

The ruling clears the way for the first-in-the-nation law to go into effect on Saturday.

NBC News - Aug 03, 2026 11:03pm EDT

Next-generation EV batteries: Who is building them, what they promise and when they hit the road

Inside the race for next-gen EV batteries: CATL, BYD, Toyota and Nissan battle over ultra-fast charging, solid-state tech, sodium-ion cells and future range.

Gulf News - Aug 03, 2026 9:09pm EDT

Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations

It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.

BBC News - Aug 03, 2026 7:51pm EDT

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

Daddy, I typed a Unix command! Was it a bad one?

Register UK - Aug 03, 2026 7:08pm EDT

Big Tech's Anthropic and OpenAI stakes are distorting the corporate earnings picture

If you were to strip out Big Tech's investment gains from private AI companies, the earnings story is a lot less bullish.

CNBC - Aug 03, 2026 6:52pm EDT

US companies are stepping up to cut reliance on China for critical minerals used in key weapons

ABC News - Aug 03, 2026 1:49pm EDT

Video Myspace owners plan to relaunch platform

ABC News - Aug 03, 2026 1:34pm EDT

Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in

APUC investigating after criminals claim historical data theft

Register UK - Aug 03, 2026 1:22pm EDT

Video OpenAI says its AI models launched their own hack against other company

ABC News - Aug 03, 2026 12:55pm EDT

Creator of test at the heart of rogue AI hacks warns ‘there have likely been more’

Dawn Song, who helped create the cybersecurity evaluation entangled in the recent OpenAI and Anthropic rogue-agent incidents, says the disclosed cases probably aren’t the only ones.

NBC News - Aug 03, 2026 12:40pm EDT

Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations

Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem

Register UK - Aug 03, 2026 11:50am EDT

OpenAI's AI Hack Was 'Unprecedented,' Hugging Face CEO Says. He Is Calling For New Rules On Autonomous Cyberattacks

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says last month's autonomous AI attack by an OpenAI test model marked a first for the industry, urging lawmakers to establish legal safeguards before similar incidents become more common.

International Business Times - Aug 03, 2026 11:48am EDT

FBI investigates as Michigan joins Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks on its water systems

Michigan on Saturday joined Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks on nine of the state’s water systems but an official said all systems were operating “safely.”

One America News Network - Aug 03, 2026 11:46am EDT

NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover

Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap

Register UK - Aug 03, 2026 10:25am EDT

OpenAI models hacked into another AI company by themselves

NPR - Aug 03, 2026 10:23am EDT

Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew

Researchers say Sapphire Sleet socially engineered maintainers before publishing malicious updates through trusted accounts

Register UK - Aug 03, 2026 9:33am EDT

SpaceX's post-IPO plunge sets tense backdrop for first earnings report

Two weeks after Tesla's earnings report was panned by Wall Street, Elon Musk faces investors again, but this time to discuss SpaceX's results.

CNBC - Aug 03, 2026 8:33am EDT

The One Town That Wants a Data Center

The Atlantic - Aug 03, 2026 7:56am EDT

Xbox Series X price hiked by £170 due to rising memory chip costs

Xbox consoles now cost significantly more in the UK, with one model increasing in price by 43%.

BBC News - Aug 03, 2026 7:42am EDT

Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook

Opening a booby-trapped message unleashes a browser implant that can survive password changes and device rebuilds

Register UK - Aug 03, 2026 7:41am EDT

Alibaba unveils biggest AI model as DeepSeek sets new low-cost benchmark

China's Alibaba on Monday introduced its largest and most capable AI model to date, sending its shares higher, while a research firm reported that...

Daily Sabah - Aug 03, 2026 6:54am EDT

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Wired News - Aug 03, 2026 6:23am EDT

How scientists plan to stop deadly doomsday asteroid from hitting Earth

Chinese scientists have reportedly discovered the most effective way to destroy a doomsday asteroid aimed at protecting Earth from destructive effects of collision.For human civilization, asteroids...

International The News - Aug 03, 2026 6:08am EDT