Microsoft Rushes Patch for Entra ID Flaw Already Under Attack

Microsoft on Thursday released an emergency fix for a vulnerability in Entra ID, its identity and access management service, that carries the maximum severity score of 10.0 on the CVSS…

OpenAI Finance Chief Plays Down IPO Urgency

Inside OpenAI, the question of when the company will go public has an answer, and it is not soon. Outside, the company is selling enterprises a new promise about how…

OpenAI Halts Frontier Training to Bolster Defenses After Cyberattack

Greg Brockman had a message for the people who build and guard OpenAI’s most powerful models: slow down. The company’s co-founder said Tuesday that OpenAI has paused large-scale frontier model…

States Open Trial Against Meta With Four Words: Hook, Hold, Harvest, Hide

The prosecutor stood before the federal jury and reduced Meta’s product strategy to four words: hook, hold, harvest and hide. The trial that began Wednesday in federal court is the…

Cerebras Bets Inference Can Be 30 Times Faster Without the Switches

Cerebras Systems said Wednesday it has built a new generation of its AI server, the CS-4, that eliminates the switching fabric connecting chips and claims the design makes AI inference…

Microsoft’s Eight-Month Fix for a Copilot Flaw Renews Security Questions

Microsoft said Wednesday it has patched a critical vulnerability in its Copilot AI assistant, a flaw that security researchers first reported privately eight months ago. The bug, dubbed CoSnitch, could…

Beijing Orders State Bodies to Uninstall Custom Windows 10 Ahead of Schedule

China’s Ministry of State Security has told some state institutions to remove the government-customized edition of Microsoft’s Windows 10 from their computers, earlier than the original timetable, Bloomberg reported on…

Tesla’s Robotaxi Debuts Days Away, Nevada Approves 10 Vehicles

Inside Tesla’s Austin headquarters, employees are queuing for test rides in the Cybercab, the robotaxi the company has promised for years. The first rides for staff are underway, and the…

OpenAI’s Safety Team Disbanded, Company Says It Was a Reorganization

The Financial Times reported on Aug. 16 that OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team, the unit charged with assessing catastrophic risks from AI models, at the end of July, folding its…

Apple’s Camera AirPods Surface in macOS Update

The product reveal came in a file most people will never open. MacRumors, sifting through the demo video inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, found footage of AirPods fitted…