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This Wednesday morning, Microsoft's new AI security system, MDASH, has identified 16 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Windows, including four critical remote code execution flaws. Both PCMag and Thurrott.com confirm MDASH uses over 100 specialized AI agents and multiple AI models to discover and prove exploitable bugs, outperforming other AI models with an 88.45% score on the CyberGym benchmark.

The development comes as the cybersecurity landscape grapples with the rapid advancement of AI.

This Wednesday morning, OpenAI is facing multiple lawsuits and internal drama, with CEO Sam Altman at the center. Both KTVU and Piedmont Exedra report that Sam Altman is currently testifying in a federal court in California, defending himself against a lawsuit filed by co-founder Elon Musk.

Musk's lawsuit claims Altman betrayed OpenAI's charitable charter by operating it for profit, with The Hindu adding that Musk is seeking to revert OpenAI to non-profit status. Altman, according to multiple o

This Tuesday morning, a major new benchmark reveals leading AI models are failing high-risk conversations despite improving safety. Both GlobeNewswire and GeekWire report on the new mPACT benchmark from AI safety company mpathic, which evaluates how models like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini handle sensitive topics such as suicide risk, eating disorders, and misinformation. While models generally avoid harmful responses, they consistently fall short of clinical adequacy, particularly in recognizing

This Tuesday morning, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is facing intense scrutiny on multiple fronts, most notably testifying in a federal trial against Elon Musk, who seeks his removal and $150 billion in damages. Both AP News and WSLS confirm Altman has the most to lose in this high-stakes legal battle, which centers on Musk's accusation that Altman betrayed OpenAI's founding nonprofit mission by turning it into a capitalistic venture now valued at $852 billion.

According to KQED and Arise News, fo

This Tuesday morning, OpenAI is rolling out a new safety feature for ChatGPT called "Trusted Contact," a development confirmed by both hi-Tech.ua and Phandroid. This opt-in system allows users to designate an adult contact who will receive an emergency notification if the AI detects signs of self-harm risk or a severe psychological condition in the user's conversation. Phandroid notes that if automated systems flag a conversation, a human reviewer assesses it, and if a genuine safety concern is

This Tuesday morning, multiple sources confirm that AI is both the future of cyber defense and a rapidly escalating security risk, with cybercriminals using it to launch sophisticated attacks.

Both iTnews Asia and GovInfoSecurity highlight that AI is making cyberattacks faster, more convincing, and harder to detect. Google researchers, according to GovInfoSecurity, thwarted a mass cyberattack nearly launched with a "zero-day" exploit built entirely by an AI model, which not only found a new vul

This Tuesday morning, multiple reports confirm a major shift towards agentic AI, with companies worldwide adopting and developing these systems to automate tasks and boost efficiency.

Both SiliconANGLE and HPCwire highlight that while 41% of organizations are already deploying agentic AI in production, a significant hurdle remains: only 15% believe their data foundations are truly ready. This lack of proper context and unified architecture, as noted by AOL.com, leads to 88% of AI pilot programs

This Monday morning, a groundbreaking development in AI security has Google confirming that cybercriminals successfully used AI to discover and exploit a zero-day software vulnerability. This marks the first confirmed instance of AI autonomously finding and exploiting a flaw, with Google's Threat Intelligence Group observing AI-generated code in the exploit script that bypassed two-factor authentication.

The implications are far-reaching. Both Forbes and CSOOnline highlight that the biggest AI

This Monday morning, new AI models are making waves, from reducing costs to transforming shopping and even influencing AI behavior.

Smallest.ai and Tenstorrent are partnering to slash voice AI infrastructure costs by 3.6 times, making production-quality audio more affordable for businesses. Their Lightning V2 text-to-speech model now runs on Tenstorrent hardware, marking the first production-grade system to match text token costs without sacrificing audio quality. This means on-premise voice AI

This Monday morning, OpenAI engineer Weng Jiayi has proposed a groundbreaking method for Agentic AI: self-modification of its own code, a development confirmed by both 36Kr and eu.36kr.com. Instead of relying solely on more data and computing power, Jiayi's experiment showed an AI, Codex, repeatedly writing, running, and modifying its strategy code to fix failures. This process led Codex to achieve a perfect score in Atari Breakout and perform well in robot control simulations, suggesting AI cou