Much has been made of the incident in which one of OpenAI’s agents broke out of its sandboxed test environment and proceeded to hack the AI hosting platform Hugging Face. OpenAI has since launched an investigation into how the incident occurred, which is still ongoing. Now, anonymous sources have told Reuters that more of OpenAI’s…
Meta says artificial intelligence is beginning to shorten the distance between a product idea and a working application. During the company’s latest earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said AI is accelerating software development across Meta and could allow its engineers to create and test more consumer apps. He cited several recent launches, although the company…
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The prevailing narrative in Silicon Valley is that Chinese AI models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek R1 came out of nowhere. But the truth is that even if you never travel to China, there’s an easy way to get a sense of what Chinese AI researchers are up to: log on to X. In the…
Google rolled out a new feature on Thursday that allowed users to deploy Nano Banana 2, its AI image generator, to create fabricated images inside its satellite imagery mapping app Google Earth. The whole point of this feature, Google said, was to get creative with geography. But critics quickly pointed out that the tool could…
GitHub is adding a human checkpoint before certain suspicious Actions workflows can run in public repositories. The company announced on July 28, 2026, that workflow runs it identifies as potentially malicious will be held before execution. A repository collaborator with write access must review and approve the run through an authenticated GitHub web session before…
If your T-Mobile service was disrupted on Monday, you may be able to get some compensation for your troubles. Multiple outlets, including KTLA in Los Angeles, have reported that some T-Mobile customers have been able to get at least $20 off their next bill because of the outage. One Reddit user said they were able…
In the immediate aftermath of Anthony Fauci’s tense congressional hearing on Wednesday, where he refused to answer any questions and invoked the Fifth Amendment, MAGA figures and Republican officials appeared to be seeking one thing: jail time for the former White House chief medical adviser. “Why, when Fauci walks off of there today, is he…
Just a few short years ago, General Motors and Ford were all-in on electric vehicles, spending billions of dollars on those efforts. Now, the two biggest American automakers are hardly talking about EVs with their investors. TechCrunch teamed up with Hudson Labs, a New York-based financial research firm, to analyze the last seven years of…
Seven of nine image-editing tools tested on Hugging Face produced sexualized alterations of a woman’s photograph after receiving a straightforward prompt. The July 28 findings expose an enterprise governance gap: A public AI platform, model publisher, application developer and inference provider may all be different parties. The research does not show that every Hugging Face…
