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A senator’s letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target troops.
A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials staying quiet about the incident for weeks as the company prepared to launch its most advanced model yet, Astra. The finding adds to intensifying concern surrounding oversight at frontier AI…
Elon Musk’s gilded robot car barely made it on public roads before federal regulators launched an investigation into the vehicle’s lack of traditional features – many of which are required by law. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was opening an audit query (AQ) into the Tesla Cybercab “to examine the process and…
Microsoft is partnering with TCL to bring its Xbox app to supported TCL smart TVs. The Xbox app lets you connect to Xbox Cloud Gaming and stream Game Pass titles or select games you own as part of a subscription. The Xbox app will arrive on TCL TVs at some point “in the coming months,”…
Dubbed PostGREShell, CVE-2026-6471 turns low-level replication access into code execution, permanent superuser privileges and a persistent database backdoor. The post 12-Year-Old PostgreSQL Vulnerability Enables Database, Server Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The deal highlights Nvidia’s push to champion increasingly popular open-source AI models. The post Nvidia Is Buying AI Platform Hugging Face for $13 Billion appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A tidal wave of bug reports is overwhelming software vendors, exposing secure-by-design failures and creating disclosure bottlenecks.
Every major AI lab spent 2023 through 2025 racing to build a bigger chatbot. In 2026, the race quietly shifted. Google DeepMind, Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, NVIDIA, Tencent, and the real-time video startup Decart are now competing to build something different: AI models that don’t just answer questions, but generate entire interactive 3D worlds you…
Startup funding and venture capital are moving decisively toward AI infrastructure, compute efficiency, and physical automation this morning. The defining transaction is Crusoe’s newly finalized $3 billion-plus financing at a roughly $30 billion valuation, followed by Gimlet Labs’ $300 million round at […] The post Startup Funding News Today, September 4, 2026: Crusoe, Gimlet Labs, Hivebotics &…
