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As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with reduced refusals, 95% completion on advanced cybersecurity tasks
Earlier today, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model designed to perform advanced vulnerability research and exploit development for approved defenders — including categories of work that its general-purpose models will often refuse.GPT-5.6-Cyber is a fine-tuned version of OpenAI's most advanced general model, GPT-5.6 Sol, unveiled back in June, but trained specifically to improve performance on advanced cybersecurity tasks, including finding zero-day vulnerabilities and develo
CEO Elon Musk Says This Is the Most Underappreciated Part of SpaceX's Business
SpaceX's president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell added that she expects robotics to dramatically increase ...
“It’s going to happen”: Elon Musk says SpaceX is looking beyond Moon landings with factory plans
Elon Musk says SpaceX is serious about building factories on the Moon as the company looks toward long-term lunar exploration ...
Elon Musk Plans to Spend $119 Billion to Construct the World’s Largest Building, Just Outside Houston
SpaceX and Tesla just announced a semiconductor megafactory in Texas that would dwarf every building on Earth, but the gap ...
These analysts say Elon Musk’s ambitious AI plans for SpaceX should be taken seriously, thanks to Microsoft
If Elon Musk can expand its compute capacity swiftly, Microsoft could be perfectly positioned to monetize this ...
Jeff Bezos might finally get his hands on a sports team
Jeff Bezos is reportedly close to buying his first stake in a sports team: the U.K.'s famed Liverpool Football Club.
Now Rippling is counter-suing tiny startup Runlayer
This lawsuit follows one filed last month by Runlayer that accused Rippling of stealing its product ideas. It's a seller- and buyer-beware market warning.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
California's Prop 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state's billionaires.
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the "personal superintelligence" systems Meta AI is building.
Valve is warning Steam Machine buyers that scammers have their address
Valve has emailed European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or a Steam Controller. A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the firm that ships Valve hardware across Europe, took their delivery details. CNET’s Tyler Graham reported the warning on Monday. CEVA told Valve about the breach on 7 August, and Valve spent the following days working […]This story continues at The Next Web
Corma raised $60M from Sequoia to build the defensive AI that cybersecurity is missing
In hundreds of simulations modelled on Fortune 500 companies with dozens of security tools, Corma tested leading AI models including GPT and Claude. First, the models attacked the simulated organisations and planted persistent threats. Then the same models were asked to defend and find what they had planted. The attackers succeeded in 88% of simulations. […]This story continues at The Next Web
The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI, and its revenue just halved
The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI. The publisher of TheStreet, Parade and Men’s Journal expects the change to finish by the end of August. Business Insider had it first. Steven Tweedie and Ben Shimkus obtained a staff memo from chief executive Paul Edmondson, confidential until 4:05 PM ET, five minutes after the closing bell. […]This story continues at The Next Web
Google is testing a homepage without a Search button
Google is testing a homepage with no Search button. A small group of signed-out users see three AI shortcuts in its place, and the familiar layout returns the moment they log in. Search Engine Watch spotted the change on Monday and reproduced it across Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Perplexity’s Comet browser. Three buttons sit under […]This story continues at The Next Web
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class' waitlist. And the tech industry took notice.
Point2 raised $136M to solve AI’s wiring problem. Its RF cables beat copper on reach and optics on latency.
Point2 Technology has raised $136 million in total Series B financing to commercialise a new type of cable that could replace both copper and optics inside AI data centres. The latest extension was led by LB Investment, with new strategic participation from Arm and continued support from Maverick Silicon. The investor roster now includes Nvidia, […]This story continues at The Next Web
AWS Continuum integrates with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code in major AI security push
Amazon Web Services is threading its AI-powered security infrastructure directly into the coding environments built by two of its fiercest rivals — and in doing so, it is making a bold bet that controlling the security layer matters more than controlling the model.AWS announced at Black Hat USA 2026 this month that its Continuum platform for code vulnerabilities will integrate directly into Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, alongside AWS's own Kiro IDE.The move embeds AW
Hackers talked their way into Levi’s, and three computers were enough
Levi Strauss has disclosed a breach that involved no software vulnerability at all. Attackers used social engineering to reach three employees’ work computers, then took corporate data out with them. The company set out the incident in a regulatory filing with the SEC on 7 August. Intruders accessed and exfiltrated “certain corporate information”, the filing […]This story continues at The Next Web
Cybersecurity stocks hit record highs, and one analyst target lasted a morning
CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks hit record highs on Monday. Each rose more than 5%, after a week in which the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas turned into an argument about AI agents. CNBC’s Samantha Subin reported the move. CrowdStrike gained 11.32 points, or 5.28%. Palo Alto added 17.84 points, or 4.90%, and traded […]This story continues at The Next Web