The two campaigns were rated 4 and 5 out of 6 for severity, the first time OpenAI has reported what it considers a high-impact influence campaigns. The post OpenAI says Iran, Russia used AI journalists, think tanks to influence Western media appeared first on CyberScoop.
Searches for “cursor hooks” have climbed steadily through 2026 as more engineering teams push Cursor past the solo-developer stage into shared, policy-governed environments. The feature itself is straightforward: a hook is a shell command that Cursor’s agent runs at a defined point in its loop, before a prompt goes out, before a shell command executes,…
Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended. Developers are combining frontier AI models with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to help carry out that work — building applications for exploring scenarios, investigating failures and improving designs. Developers direct AI agents through…
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address.
Anthropic’s offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get “thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost.” That could mean open-source projects get alerted about possible security issues sooner, but the trade-off is that OSS Scanner’s…
Nvidia spent the past 48 hours doing something it rarely does: giving away the playbook. On October 8, 2026, longtime AI analyst Michael Parekh used his daily newsletter AI: Reset to Zero to lay out what he calls Nvidia’s open-source “AI Factory” push, detailing how the chipmaker is funding rivals, buying distribution, and publishing its…
Nvidia spent the past 48 hours doing something it rarely does: giving away the playbook. On October 8, 2026, longtime AI analyst Michael Parekh used his daily newsletter AI: Reset to Zero to lay out what he calls Nvidia’s open-source “AI Factory” push, detailing how the chipmaker is funding rivals, buying distribution, and publishing its…