OpenAI has revealed Astra, an unreleased model designed to tackle complex, long-running tasks, after an internal version produced ten significant advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science. [...]

OpenAI says it has reduced the price of two GPT-5.6 models, cutting Luna's API price by 80% and Terra's by 20% as it works to make its models more efficient. [...]

A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with limited human involvement. [...]

A Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro" used Google's open-source Gemini CLI AI tool as a hacking agent and to operate a small-scale botnet. [...]

OpenAI appears to be testing a new subscription and experience for science use cases, but it's unclear if it'll be available to everyone regardless of their background. [...]

Microsoft has created an open-source fork of Windows Terminal called "Intelligent Terminal," and it allows you to use AI directly inside Terminal without interfering with the regular session. [...]

Researchers at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) say that a zero-day exploit targeting a popular open-source web administration tool was likely generated using AI. [...]

A malicious Hugging Face repository that reached the platform's trending list impersonated OpenAI's "Privacy Filter" project to deliver information-stealing malware to Windows users. [...]

OpenAI told BleepingComputer that ChatGPT ads on Free and Go plans are not yet rolling out outside the United States, even though some users noticed references to ads in the updated privacy policy. [...]

AI assistants like Grok and Microsoft Copilot with web browsing and URL-fetching capabilities can be abused to intermediate command-and-control (C2) activity. [...]

With the massive adoption of the OpenClaw agentic AI assistant, information-stealing malware has been spotted stealing files associated with the framework that contain API keys, authentication tokens, and other secrets. [...]

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has published a new report warning about AI model extraction/distillation attacks, in which private-sector firms and researchers use legitimate API access to systematically probe models and replicate their logic and reasoning. [...]

The United Kingdom's data protection authority launched a formal investigation into X and its Irish subsidiary over reports that the Grok AI assistant was used to generate nonconsensual sexual images. [...]

French prosecutors have raided X's offices in Paris on Tuesday as part of a criminal investigation into the platform's Grok AI tool, widely used to generate sexually explicit images. [...]

More than 230 malicious packages for the personal AI assistant OpenClaw (formerly known as Moltbot and ClawdBot) have been published in less than a week on the tool's official registry and on GitHub. [...]

OpenAI previously confirmed that it's testing ads in ChatGPT for free and $8 Go accounts, and now we're seeing early signs of that rollout, at least on Android. [...]

OpenAI has confirmed that it's retiring ChatGPT's most popular model called GPT-4o and several other models, including GPT-5 Instant, GPT-5 Thinking, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini. [...]

A U.S. federal jury has convicted Linwei Ding, a former software engineer at Google, for stealing AI supercomputer data from his employer and secretly sharing it with Chinese tech firms. [...]

Security researchers are warning of insecure deployments in enterprise environments of the Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) AI assistant, which can lead to leaking API keys, OAuth tokens, conversation history, and credentials. [...]

OpenAI plans to begin rolling out ads on ChatGPT in the United States if you have a free or $8 Go subscription, but the catch is that the ads could be very expensive for advertisers. [...]