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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at a UN Security Council meeting on AI and international security on Sept. 23, 2026.Credit: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Stringer/Getty Images OpenAI has paused training, evaluation, and tool-using inference for its most capable models after a September 20 incident in which an internal research agent
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10:45 AM PDT · September 29, 2026 OpenAI has been a close partner of Microsoft from the jump, but the AI lab is increasingly going after the company’s bread and butter, workplace software, with new features that closely resemble an office software suite like Microsoft’s. At its Dev
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Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited deal is finally back ahead of the October Prime Day sale: Right now, you can sign up to get Kindle Unlimited totally free for your first three months — down from the usual price of $11.99 a month. If you own a Kindle and haven’t
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AI's expanding role in cybersecurity has spawned a flawed assumption among security professionals: that the industry's future is a binary choice between fully automated AI agents or human defenders, with little middle ground. Many experts are rejecting that binary premise, pointing instead to a symbiotic model.
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The FBI and Dutch law enforcement say they have arrested a member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which the agencies say are responsible for hacks on over 140 organizations around the world. The hackers also claimed responsibility for a breach of the FBI’s own systems earlier this month. Brett
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Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW September 29, 2026 01:27 PM ET A review of six agencies could not establish the full extent of DOGE’s system access or whether security rules were followed. Two agencies challenged the watchdog’s authority
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OpenAI introduced new capabilities for its software engineering agent Codex, making it more useful beyond a developer’s laptop with reusable cloud development environments that can be accessed from any device. The update, announced at OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday, is one of several for Codex. OpenAI also announced
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At OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday, the company announced the launch of Dots, a new personal agentic assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra. The company describes Dots as “remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything.” Unlike Codex or ChatGPT, Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific
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Bill Gates says AI crossed two danger thresholds early this year: it can now help a bioterrorist, and it can power a crippling cyberattack. He made the case on The Ezra Klein Show, in an interview published by The New York Times on Tuesday. “We crossed the cyber threshold and
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The AI industry will need about $6tn in annual revenue by 2031 to pay for the data centres being built today. Bain & Company makes the estimate in its Global Technology Report, published on Tuesday. Existing AI products could bring in only $1.2tn to $1.8tn of that. “The
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Assistant Director of the FBI's Cyber Division Brett Leatherman. Courtesy: FBI ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW September 29, 2026 12:04 PM ET “You know how to find us, and we know how to find you,” said Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division.
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After leading the cybersecurity practice at one of the Big Four consultancies in Israel, Dima Shaposhnykov is taking a deliberately different bet. With co-founder Pavel Sheynkman, he has built MindCypher - a boutique cybersecurity consultancy operating cloud-first and fully remote, serving clients across Israel, the United States, and internationally. The
