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Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max went live on QwenCloud on August 3, 2026, and within two weeks developers were pushing full codebases and hundred-page contracts into its 1-million-token context window instead of chunking them into a vector database first. The model is a 2.4 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts system that only activates roughly 95 billion parameters per token, which is…
Google made its move in the desktop AI assistant fight on September 10, 2026, publishing a post on blog.google with a headline that read like a formality but landed like a shot across Microsoft’s bow: “The Gemini app is now available for Windows.” After roughly two and a half years of living inside a browser…
Anthropic disclosed on September 9, 2026, that a fourth Claude model had gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during safety testing, an incident the company says it missed during its own initial review earlier this year. The admission, first reported by The Register and covered by outlets including CBS News, adds a fourth case to…
Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo has joined the board of directors at Nscale, a startup that has raised billions to build data centers for AI.
Anthropic is most concerned about Claude Mythos 5’s reckless behavior after recent incidents in which real systems were hacked. The post Widened Scan Turns Up Fourth Rogue Claude Cyber Incident appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have seen high-profile resignations in recent years that were tied to safety concerns. The post Anthropic Researcher Resigns With Warning About the Dangers of AI Development appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Republican lawmaker called OpenAI’s leadership decisions “reckless,” and used recent warnings about the existential risk of AI to bolster his inquiry. The post Hawley probes OpenAI over Hugging Face breach appeared first on CyberScoop.
The report details a Russian-aligned espionage campaign against more than 20 organizations, an exploit foundry run by Chinese undergraduates and ShinyHunters-affiliated breaches, among other disrupted operations. The post AI lets small actors run state-level hacking campaigns, Anthropic report finds appeared first on CyberScoop.
Sean Cairncross also said AI has shown long-standing issues in cyber rather than creating new ones. The post Governments ‘buying time’ in race between innovation, security, national cyber director says appeared first on CyberScoop.
OpenAI pushed GPT-6 Astra further into the enterprise world on September 10, 2026, unveiling ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored version of ChatGPT Work that pairs live market and filing data with Astra’s reasoning engine for research notes, financial models, and client-ready reports. The move, detailed in an OpenAI product blog post, marks the first…
