October 2026

A months-old cybersecurity startup that was founded by former members of Elon Musk’s disbanded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claims it has hacked the internal systems of frontier AI lab Anthropic. As the Washington Post reports, the startup called Cathedral says its AI agents exploited vulnerabilities in business software to access meeting transcripts, details about […]

To experiment with AI’s predictive skills, I let Codex loose on a fantasy team. It tried to bench Erling Haaland at first, but it soon learned the error of its ways.

A family is suing OpenAI over the death of a 31-year-old user in Seattle who died of a seizure after ChatGPT coached her on how to decrease the dose of her epilepsy medication. The lawsuit adds to a stack of litigation against OpenAI regarding alleged harm to consumers and concerns over the safety of relying

Let’s face it, the mid-December box office will be dominated by Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three, but for those seeking fun holiday family fare, Jumanji: Open World opens the very next week on Christmas Day. Sony Pictures just released a new trailer for director Jake Kasdan’s sequel to his 2019 hit, Jumanji: The Next

It’s no secret that living near a data center can be hell on Earth. The widely-loathed facilities are known to emit constant screeching noises that could drive anybody crazy, while causing electricity prices to surge, and spiking greenhouse gas emissions. As the backlash to the massive buildout of AI data centers continues to grow into

For centuries, infrastructure has evolved alongside technology. New materials and engineering techniques enabled taller buildings, longer bridges, and larger cities. Computing and digital technologies later transformed how infrastructure was designed, monitored, and operated. Now, the pace of change is accelerating, and challenges are arriving simultaneously. Climate change is increasing pressure on water, energy, and other

Helps organizations execute migration off VMware, ahead of contract renewals while preserving existing hardware Mirantis, delivering open, standards based infrastructure for the next generation of AI clouds, today announced an enterprise virtualization offer built for enterprise IT teams looking to transition VMware workloads to Mirantis’s OpenStack-based private cloud ahead of rising VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

After provisioning more than 3 million CPU cores and 120 petabytes of high-speed storage in August following a series of reliability incidents, GitHub is now doubling down on expanding its infrastructure by adding more than 4 million CPU cores and 160 PB of storage. This comes as GitHub experienced a massive surge in AI-driven commit

Researchers in Alán Aspuru-Guzik’s group at the University of Toronto want to hand that job to their AI. Their recent paper describes an agentic system that designs, configures, and operates its own laboratory setup from a high-level scientific goal. Give it an objective, and it works out: The layout The simulation  The robot skills  And

Opera’s WebAI brings local AI models to supported browsers, offering developers new options while raising questions about privacy and device requirements. The post appeared first on TechRepublic.