As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with reduced refusals, 95% completion on advanced cybersecurity tasks

Earlier today, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model designed to perform advanced vulnerability research and exploit development for approved defenders — including categories of work that its general-purpose models will often refuse. GPT-5.6-Cyber is a fine-tuned version of OpenAI's most advanced general model, GPT-5.6 Sol, unveiled

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Amazon reportedly uses 45-year-old rules to get around AI data center opposition - California residents left fuming after Gilroy facility begins construction

* Amazon revealed plans to build Gilroy, California data center were first submitted in 2020 * Gilroy citizens have accused the city council of inadequate communications concerning the development * The 438,500-square-foot data center occupies a 56-acre chunk of farmland 30 miles south of San Jose Citizens of Gilroy, California, have expressed

OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

In Brief 5:03 PM PDT · August 10, 2026 OpenAI has bought back $7 billion worth of shares from employees at the privately held frontier AI lab as part of an effort to provide liquidity to its workforce. The deal, reported by Bloomberg, valued OpenAI at $852 billion, the same

As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model

Every day seems to brings fresh news of an AI agent going “rogue.” Whether that’s compromising Hugging Face, hacking a gym website, or creating its own fake profiles to socially engineer an intrusion, AI models are increasingly behaving like bad actors. So, the AI labs that make the models

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with reduced refusals, 95% completion on advanced cybersecurity tasks

Amazon reportedly uses 45-year-old rules to get around AI data center opposition - California residents left fuming after Gilroy facility begins construction

OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model