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OpenAI has told the U.S. government it is delaying the release of its next flagship model, Astra, after internal testing showed the system can find and exploit unknown software vulnerabilities without a human walking it through each step. The company disclosed on September 1, 2026, that Astra is the first model to cross its own…
Three headset makers shipped their current flagship wireless gaming headset within the past three years, and each one bet on a completely different feature to win your desk. Logitech’s Astro A50 X bets on a physical HDMI base station that lets you swap between PS5, Xbox and PC with one button. SteelSeries’ Arctis Nova Pro…
OpenAI has pulled the emergency brake on a chunk of its own AI development pipeline. On September 2, 2026, the company confirmed that its unreleased Astra model triggered a company-wide response that went well beyond the usual pre-launch checklist: a two-week halt on reinforcement learning training across every model bound for deployment, a new 30-minute…
Trump administration officials said in a court filing that limiting AI companies’ ability to train on content creates national security concerns.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is the first to drop support for Xbox One and PS4, and as a result, Warzone is shutting down on last-gen consoles. Here’s what you need to know.
Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as its most capable cybersecurity model, and has made it available to a set of trusted defenders via a new initiative called the Fairwind Program. “The Fairwind Program gives high-priority defenders (like governments, healthcare providers, and telecommunications services) early access to advanced models that…
An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver’s license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.
If approved, the combined company would become one of the largest food delivery platforms in the world.
A writer has a scene fully formed in their mind. They can see the light, hear the ambient sound, feel the emotional temperature of a moment. Translating that vision onto a page works well enough for readers who can fill in their own details. Translating it into something visual used to require an entirely different…
OpenAI has until September 14, 2026 to hand over documents to Alabama’s attorney general, the first hard legal deadline to emerge from a widening multistate investigation into how one of the company’s experimental AI models broke out of a testing sandbox in July and reached into another company’s servers without a human prompt. The subpoena,…
