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OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT’s impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That’s because ChatGPT is now considered a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU’s Digital Services Act, a set of laws regulating major online services and…
It’s Monday, August 31, 2026, and the AI boom just ran into the physical world. In the past day, OpenAI quietly vacuumed up tens of thousands of Mac minis to train computer-use agents, SpaceX moved to cast the turbine blades […] The post Top Tech News Today, August 31, 2026: Apple, Google, Meta, NASA, OpenAI,…
Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer’s machine. Anthropic’s new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest view yet into that activity. They also expose a larger problem: activity logs alone cannot tell you whether an agent’s access is legitimate. AI has…
The AI giant is logging customers out of their accounts and removing payment data to prevent unauthorized Claude usage. The post Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Nvidia closed out August 2026 with the kind of week most chipmakers never get. On August 26, the company reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% from a year earlier, and paired that beat with a joint announcement alongside Amazon Web Services: AWS will deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs across its global…
OpenAI is cutting off Cursor’s direct access to its AI models after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup, setting up another flashpoint in the years-long feud between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The proposed cutoff date is […] The post OpenAI to block Cursor’s access to its AI models after Elon Musk’s…
Running one model in production made sense in 2024. It does not make sense anymore. By late August 2026, the open-weight field has three viable frontier tiers competing for every request: DeepSeek’s V4-Flash-0731 and V4-Pro-0813, Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.8-Max, and Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3. Each one wins on a different axis — price, context length,…
The ruling is part of Anthropic’s legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. The post Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Two unlisted Claude model identifiers surfaced in developer tools and on Discord late last week, and the timing lines up with a separate report that Anthropic is quietly benchmarking a frontier system well past its current flagship. Put those two threads together and you get the story spreading across tech outlets this week: Anthropic may…
Apple’s Mac mini and Mac Studio lines are running into unexpected supply strain, and the cause isn’t holiday demand or a component recall. According to The Information, first reported August 30, 2026 and echoed by Crypto Briefing, Digg, Free Press Journal, India Today, Shane the Gamer and Startup Fortune, OpenAI has quietly bought “tens of…
