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Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-1

The FTC clears quantum computing company IonQ's $1.8B acquisition of chipmaker SkyWater after the FTC's two members disagreed at first on imposing conditions (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-1 Quantum

The Major Labels Propose Rules to Keep AI Slop Off the Charts (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 AI

Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% (www.ft.com)
2026-8-1 Amazon

Amgen says cloud data breach exposed patient health, proprietary info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1

Sources: OpenAI demoed a new “Astra” AI model family to US policymakers and regulators this week, touting its improved abilities to complete long-running tasks (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-1 AI

Most Australian Teens Still On Social Media Three Months After Ban (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Australia Ban Social Media

Amazon shares closed up 15.32% on Friday, the biggest one-day jump since April 2012, after the company reported accelerating AWS revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-1 Amazon

Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 Linux

Roblox shares close down ~27%, its worst-ever daily percentage decline, after the company forecasted declining bookings and slowing revenue growth (www.barrons.com)
2026-8-1

Online ad firm Adform's script compromised to steal cryptocurrency (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 Cryptocurrency

Sony Heard Backlash Over Dropping PlayStation Discs, Plans to Press Ahead (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Sony

Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-1 AI

FBI and EPA say water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states reported cyberattacks this week, with some causing flooding and other operational issues (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-1 FBI

Hackers Targeted Municipal Water Systems In 7 States This Week, FBI Says (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 FBI

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs the Children's Social Media Safety Act, a bill designed to limit children's access to “addictive” social media algorithms (capitolnewsillinois.com)
2026-8-1 Algorithm Social Media

New Google Earth AI Tool Could Fuel Misinformation, Experts Say (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Google AI

Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add “stronger guardrails” after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery (www.npr.org)
2026-8-1 Google

An in-depth account of the past two days inside Situational Awareness, as Aschenbrenner assured investors he would focus on changes to his portfolio management (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-1

OpenAI says its new GPT 5.6 models are becoming more cost-efficient (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1

10 News-Worthy Events That Made 1926 a Year to Remember (listverse.com)
2026-8-1

Index Ventures has raised $2B in new capital: a $900M venture vehicle, $400M for seed financing, and an addition of $700M to a 2024 $1.5B growth fund (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-1

Publishers Are Losing Google Traffic As AI Answers Replace Links (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Google AI

Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-1 AI

Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 AI Hacker

New York Sues Kalshi For Running 'Illegal Gambling Operation' (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 New York

Trump says he does not think Iran is behind a cyberattack on Minnesota water systems: “I think I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent” (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-1 Trump Iran

OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-1

Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars (www.ft.com)
2026-8-1 Autonomous Car

Chrome Is Using AI To Fix Hundreds of Bugs, Eliminate Full Browser Restarts (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 AI Browser Chrome

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