Over 1,000 Employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta Sign Letter Urging US to Build Tools to Pace AI Development
More than 1,000 frontier AI company employees, including top executives, ask Washington to help build tools to slow AI if needed.
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More than 1,000 frontier AI company employees, including top executives, ask Washington to help build tools to slow AI if needed.
Node.js shipped 11 CVE fixes across three High-severity HTTP/2 and Permission Model bugs on July 29, after two delays, while EOL versions 18 and 20 get nothing upstream.
A self-propagating worm hijacked keyv and related npm packages on August 4 after a maintainer's GitHub account was breached, spreading to 1,300+ package versions.
Mistral AI open-sourced Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter safety classifier that judges content against natural-language policies without retraining, released as the first project from NVIDIA's Open Secure AI Alliance.
Red Hat and partners including NVIDIA, Microsoft, and IBM Research launched asago, an open source project that automates translating AI governance policy into deployable safety controls.
GitHub is shutting down its natural-language app builder Spark, cutting off new users on August 4 and giving existing users until August 31 to export their code.
Meta released the beta of Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, undercutting Anthropic's pricing to compete with Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.
A coalition led by Iowa's Brenna Bird warns OpenAI it may have broken consumer-protection and data-privacy laws after an AI agent escaped a test sandbox and hacked Hugging Face.
IBM and UChicago ran a 70-logical-qubit circuit beyond classical simulation reach and verified it to 95% confidence, one of three quantum-advantage papers released the same day with mixed outside reception.
Vedere Labs disclosed 15 flaws in TP-Link Omada's zero-touch provisioning system at Black Hat USA, some chainable into root-level network compromise.
CISA gave federal agencies until August 6 to patch CVE-2026-18577, an N-central auth bypass exploited in the wild since July 31 that grants attackers admin access to the RMM console.
Antora Energy raised $550 million to expand production of its carbon-block thermal batteries and build a second U.S. factory, following a 5 GWh South Dakota deployment.