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Here’s what it would take: stronger defenses for large utilities, hands-on help for smaller systems and federal support to make both happen. The post The US needs a real plan to defend its water systems appeared first on CyberScoop.
Sam Altman told the world the singularity is here, and he sounded thrilled about it. On a late-July appearance on the podcast Relentless, the OpenAI chief executive said, “We are now, like, in the singularity,” and followed it with a line that has since been quoted everywhere from cable news chyrons to Discord servers: “I’ve…
Broadcom has locked in a chip-pricing arrangement with Samsung Electronics that mirrors the terms Nvidia commands from its own memory suppliers, according to media reports cited by ad-hoc-news.de on October 4, 2026. The agreement builds on the $200 billion memorandum of understanding Samsung and Broadcom signed on July 25, 2026, and it puts Broadcom’s custom…
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, 2026, and the model has already become the default mid-tier pick for developers who need strong coding performance without paying flagship prices. If you have been running production workloads on Claude Sonnet 5 or an older Claude model, the upgrade path is mostly a one-line change, but…
OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers.
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…
Meta said on October 2, 2026, that its Muse Spark AI models helped mathematicians crack six research-level problems spanning probability, differential equations, group theory, optimization, arithmetic physics, and non-associative algebra. Five of the six papers answer questions that had been open in their respective fields, according to Meta’s research blog. The company paired the math…
Z.ai shipped GLM-5.3-Flash on August 26, 2026, and the model has spent the following five weeks quietly becoming one of the cheapest capable coding and agentic models on the market. It is a 320-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts system that only activates 18 billion parameters per token, ships under the MIT license, and reads a 1,048,576-token context window.…
Personal bots, such as Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, and Instinct, are raring to take on your to-do list.
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn’t top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku,…
