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OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world sy

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Restart, a games media website launched in late 2024 that was sponsored by Walmart, has laid off its "entire editorial team," according to a Friday post from Brandy Berthelson, the site's former editor-in-chief. Other st

Copernicus Browser adds wildfire visualization amid record wildfire season.

After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.

The MovinkPad 11 a versatile little graphics tablet that can help make your wildest digital art dreams come true.

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Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies.

Researchers found common points of failure, like software used to organize and display web content, could have allowed hackers to run riot through government websites.

That cover art is almost certainly AI too. | Image: Fenix Flexin It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the

New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis.

Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona.

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do wit

Yiyang Zhuge was already an intellectual celebrity in China. Her viral interview with Christopher Nolan made her famous in the US—and quickly turned her into a political Rorschach test.

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OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure

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There’s something magical about using instant cameras that smartphones can’t match. You can capture a moment, print it out, and then give the photo as a gift or hold onto it. Image quality won’t be all that good, but imp

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19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.

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Disney’s AI tools for Disney Plus and ESPN. Disney is testing a new AI-powered tool for Disney Plus that uses a natural language search, a voice query, or a suggested prompt to create a customized row of show and movie r

DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.

Microsoft Edge is ending support for the Manifest V2 extensions platform, which will cut off the uBlock Origin adblocker and others like it, just like Google Chrome did earlier this year. According to Microsoft, there ar

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Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.

Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.

There's no evidence the truck will be a cheap EV truck, but what if it were?

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Lanterns, Dark Matter, and the original Star Trek are just a few of the TV shows you should be watching right now.

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213029 Points: 156 # Comments: 167

Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.

Following the release of its premium and very expensive $650 The Collexion headphones in May, Sony could be taking its 1000X line of wireless noise-canceling headphones in a cheaper direction next month. The company is r

Framework told "all" of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.

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The Trump administration has now convinced developers to abandon 12 offshore wind leases. The latest will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion.

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The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software.

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Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.

You put together the concept — from a founder mixer, an after-hours panel, a themed party, a morning run, whatever fits your goal — and the TechCrunch team helps put it in front of the attendees already in town for Disru

In the Kimi test, the sandbox designed to contain the experiment was not properly configured.

Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.

The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.

The fab is intended to build chips for data centers that will be run by SpaceX and its xAI subsidiary.

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Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.

TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.

We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see.

A court rules that a hold on all wind projects clearly violates the law.

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.

So i've been working on this project since a few days (or months i should say), it's called wyzer (meaning wiser) it's a statically typed, compiled, resource-oriented programming language with integrated distributed safe

Meta's total fine has racked up to $942 million in this case.

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