OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”
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Partnering with Khan Academy on building AI tools for classrooms
Interactive visual aids and teacher-controlled practice materials — both built with Gemini — are launching for the new school year.
Sony finally has a cheaper OLED to compete with midrange Samsung and LG TVs
After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony’s site back in June, the company has announced the Sony Bravia 6 OLED TV. The TV sits below its other OLED TVs – the Bravia 8 and Bravia 8 II – as well as its Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II RGB LED…
South Korea Releases 1.56T-Token AI Training Data [2026]
South Korea’s government opened the vault on one of the largest publicly available AI training datasets ever released by a national government on August 27, 2026. The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), working with the National Information Society Agency (NIA), announced that 35.44 million data records totaling roughly 1.56 trillion tokens are now downloadable,…
Top Tech News Today, August 27, 2026: Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, Salesforce & More
It’s Thursday, August 27, 2026, and the AI boom is no longer theoretical. Nvidia just printed another record quarter and, if the reports hold, agreed to buy Hugging Face, the public square of open-source models, for nearly $13 billion. Hours […] The post Top Tech News Today, August 27, 2026: Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Nvidia,…
Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others
The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.
Varonis vs Cyera vs BigID: DSPM Tools Compared [2026]
Enterprises spun up more cloud storage, more SaaS apps, and more AI pipelines in the past two years than in the previous decade combined — and almost none of it got classified before it landed there. That’s the gap Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) tools are built to close, and by August 2026 the category…
OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed…
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
ChatGPT Voice vs Grok vs Gemini Live: $4.80/Hr Gap [2026]
Three of the biggest names in AI shipped new voice models within a four-week window this summer, and almost nobody outside developer circles noticed. OpenAI quietly replaced ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode on July 8, 2026. xAI pushed a pricier, faster Grok Voice on July 29. Microsoft slid MAI-Voice-2-Flash into public preview on July 23. Google’s…