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IFA 2026 is underway in Berlin, and while the event officially opens to the public today, press events have been going on already and giving us a peek behind the curtain at the TVs, wearables, smart home gear and more making their debut. Our Picks Bottom Line The Omni E35
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A group of independent AI researchers discovered that internally deployed OpenAI agents began posting on an obscure German wiki forum in order to collaborate on evaluations. They appear to have worked together for over a month without OpenAI’s knowledge. A spokesperson for the frontier lab would not say whether
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SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help
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If you run foundation model (FM) workloads on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, you know the work is rarely a single task. It is a chain of dependent ones. An infrastructure team creates the network and control plane, attaches accelerator capacity, and installs cluster dependencies in the right order. It also prepares
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A Physical AI system, such as a robot or autonomous vehicle (AV) that translates real-world data into physical actions, can’t be built in a single training job. Instead, it takes a continuous pipeline: a loop of generating synthetic data, post-training perception and policy models, so the system understands its
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Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Microsoft’s Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let
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Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month Microsoft is retiring Word's Similarity Checker on October 3 and stripping the feature from Microsoft Editor. Other writing and editing tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, won't be affected. But if an organization uses Similarity Checker as part
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ai and ml Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line? OpenAI’s agents were going rogue as early as May, according to a new report, making the Hugging Face incident far from
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* Gemini AI gave three hikers bad advice about a mountain ascent * The trip took much longer than Gemini had said * US officials and volunteers eventually rescued the stranded group A cautionary tale from California if you often find yourself using AI bots to plan your outdoor adventures: a gang of
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* Texas has gone from being pro-data center to anti-expansion * Communities have had enough of rising prices and strained supplies * AI data centers have been described as this election season's core fight Republican politicians Texas are starting to turn against the rapid expansion of AI data centers, marking a
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Daybreak is OpenAI’s continuously running agentic loop that brings the power of frontier AI to simplify complex security investigations, validation, remediation and reporting. The earlier Daybreak Blue supports common defensive work with OpenAI mainline models; while Daybreak Red gives approved organizations access to specialized cyber models for more sensitive
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released patches for 34 CVEs in the Aruba Networking ArubaOS-CX (AOS-CX) platform, including critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaws. Per HPT’s advisory, more than 150 flaws were resolved in AOS-CX versions 10.18.1002, 10.17.1030, 10.16.1060, 10.13.1190, and
