OpenAI’s top safety reviewer quit the same week it buried a model
Three things happened at OpenAI in quick succession, and the order tells a story. The company cancelled the planned release
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Kevin Mandia raised $2.5bn for AI that attacks on purpose
Most AI security pitches are about defence: catch the threat, patch the hole, watch the network. Kevin Mandia, the man
The AI landlord is here, and it just raised $350m
Of all the jobs people hoped AI would take, “the landlord” was not high on the wish list. Too late.
OpenAI trained a model whose only job is designing chips
There is a tidy loop forming in the AI industry, and it tightened this week. OpenAI and Synopsys announced a
IBM built an AI coding agent that never phones home
Most AI coding assistants work by sending your code off to someone else’s cloud and trusting it comes back unharmed.
Congratulations, your tax dollars now subsidise AI’s electricity bill
Here is a tidy piece of corporate socialism: privatise the profit, socialise the power bill. On 30 September the US
Oracle borrowed $48bn for AI, then handed the bill to its own staff
Oracle did something most companies work hard to keep out of writing: it told the SEC, in a legally binding
Meta wants $199.99 a month for an AI that orders your DoorDash
According to documents reviewed by The Information, Meta is preparing a consumer AI agent codenamed Hatch that plugs into DoorDash,
AI’s chipmaker wants to build its own city in Texas, but we are definitely not in a bubble
This is mad, though not quite for the reason the headline suggests. TSMC, the Taiwanese company that makes the chips
Scientists built a lie detector for video, and it runs on light
Deepfakes have spent 2026 getting cheaper, slicker and lawsuit-grade dangerous, while the tools meant to catch them kept losing the