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China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House

Guardian UK - Aug 01, 2026 8:23am EDT

OpenAI expands probe after uncovering more AI agent breakouts

OpenAI has uncovered additional cases in which its autonomous AI agents breached internal containment measures as it broadened its investigation into the...

Daily Sabah - Aug 01, 2026 7:49am EDT

7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran

Wired News - Aug 01, 2026 6:43am EDT

GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech

High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows

Register UK - Aug 01, 2026 5:43am EDT

For sale: early access to Trump's Truth Social posts

NPR - Aug 01, 2026 5:03am EDT

SpaceX’s rocket unplanned journey puts it on collision course with the moon

An abandoned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moon after launching a pair of landers more than a year ago. The rocket’s upper stage will crash blindly into...

International The News - Aug 01, 2026 4:22am EDT

Anthropic discloses real-world cyber evaluation incidents involving AI models

San Francisco: U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic said Thursday that three of its AI models accessed or interacted with computer syst...

Peninsula Qatar - Aug 01, 2026 2:08am EDT

Satellite killers: What a war in space might look like

The satellites that orbit Earth have remained largely untouched in modern conflict. But in the 21st Century, space may no longer be a safe haven.

BBC News - Jul 31, 2026 11:57pm EDT

Snapchat joins other platforms in the fight against 'AI slop'

Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack are trying to combat the proliferation of fake AI content.

BBC News - Jul 31, 2026 9:57pm EDT

Hacking attacks on Minnesota water companies resemble Iranian methods | Fox News Video

Fox News senior correspondent Mike Tobin reports on a probe into a cyberattack on Minnesota water companies on ‘Special Report.’

Fox News - Jul 31, 2026 7:25pm EDT

Google Just Torched the Credibility of Its Satellite Images

The Atlantic - Jul 31, 2026 6:29pm EDT

Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.

Ars Technica - Jul 31, 2026 5:40pm EDT

OpenAI finds evidence that other AI agents escaped containment as it investigates hacking

New breakouts discovered after AI models escaped a testing environment and hacked a startup

The Globe and Mail - Jul 31, 2026 5:06pm EDT

He’s Devoted His Life to Becoming Immortal. A Grim Medical Diagnosis Is Throwing a Wrench in His Plans.

After devoting his life to living longer, Bryan Johnson is seemingly rethinking his choices—but don’t expect him to stop anytime soon.

Slate - Jul 31, 2026 4:57pm EDT

Leaked Memo Links Iran to Minnesota Water Utility Cyberattacks. Dozens of Systems Were Targeted in Escalating Campaign.

The communication, distributed to members of the WaterISAC, references an alert from the Minnesota Fusion Center concluding that the ongoing attacks are attributed by U.S. authorities to Iran-affiliated hackers.

International Business Times - Jul 31, 2026 4:22pm EDT

Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft added nearly $1.5 trillion in combined value this week

Amazon, Microsoft and Google added hundreds of billions of dollars to their market caps, while Apple and Meta saw their market valuations fall.

CNBC - Jul 31, 2026 4:06pm EDT

Boeing Claims Its Beleaguered Starliner Spacecraft Is Pretty Much Good to Go

Gizmodo - Jul 31, 2026 3:12pm EDT

AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says Hugging Face boss

Clement Delangue said he didn't want cyber attacks on other companies to become "normalised".

BBC News - Jul 31, 2026 2:44pm EDT

How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days

Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher-turned-hedge fund manager, saw a dramatic decline this week in his AI-focused fund, Situational Awareness.

CNBC - Jul 31, 2026 2:42pm EDT

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

NPR - Jul 31, 2026 2:22pm EDT

Telus cuts dividend in half to deploy more cash for debt repayment, shares dive

Lowering the payout was widely expected - but not by this much. Guidance disappoints as well

The Globe and Mail - Jul 31, 2026 1:21pm EDT

AI helped produce two proofs for the same cryptography problem

An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit

Scientific American - Jul 31, 2026 12:40pm EDT

SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit

Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort

Register UK - Jul 31, 2026 11:55am EDT

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

Whoever wins, we lose

Register UK - Jul 31, 2026 11:15am EDT