Sources: AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise $300M to $500M at a $5B pre-money valuation, more than 4x its valuation in a January 2026 round

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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Better coffee — and now better NBN? Melburnians may have added another bragging right over Sydneysiders

Adding more fuel to the fire over which city is actually Australia’s best place to live, those residing in the all-seasons-in-a-day city of Melbourne have a new statistic on their side — and it all relates to fixed-line broadband speed. Ookla, the company behind the hugely popular Speedtest tool that

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Source: OpenAI head of ethics Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and a former head of mission alignment

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OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

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

Better coffee &mdash; and now better NBN? Melburnians may have added another bragging right over Sydneysiders

Source: OpenAI head of ethics Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and a former head of mission alignment

Better coffee — and now better NBN? Melburnians may have added another bragging right over Sydneysiders