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OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program with a new open-source patching initiative built with Trail of Bits, and fully released GPT-5.5-Cyber — its most capable security AI — alongside a commercial partner program with Cisco, CrowdStrike, and IBM.
The open-weight AI startup, founded by ex-Google DeepMind researchers and valued at $25 billion, will pay SpaceX $150 million per month for GPU access starting July 2026 — adding to SpaceX's rapidly growing roster of external compute customers at its Memphis data center.
The two companies are co-developing Project Kilby, a natural gas-fired power plant in the Permian Basin that will supply electricity to Microsoft's planned $7 billion AI data center complex — the largest energy deal between an oil major and a tech company to date.
CVE-2026-8461, a heap overflow in FFmpeg's MagicYUV decoder rated CVSS 8.8, affects Jellyfin, Nextcloud, OBS Studio, Kodi, and potentially Slack, Discord, and Telegram. Patch now: FFmpeg 8.1.2.
Paradigm Shift, a Barcelona-based security firm, has disclosed usbliter8 — a permanent Boot ROM vulnerability affecting iPhone XS, XR, and iPhone 11 devices that no software update can fix.
Getty Images shares surged roughly 200% in premarket trading Monday after the stock photo giant announced a licensing agreement with OpenAI to integrate its curated image library into ChatGPT's search features. The deal marks a significant pivot for Getty, which previously sued an AI image generator over unauthorized use of its content.
Intelligence chiefs from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand issued a rare joint warning Monday, stating that AI systems capable of undermining governments and critical businesses could be operational within months, and calling for urgent coordinated action.
South Korea's memory chip giant SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics in market capitalization, ending a 25-year reign at the top of the KOSPI. The shift reflects AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory chips, where SK Hynix holds a commanding lead.
WeChat users in China can now invoke Xiaowei by text or voice to send messages, start calls, and navigate the app's vast mini-program library — putting an AI command layer on top of the world's most-used super app ahead of a full Q3 rollout.
John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for co-creating AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind to join rival AI lab Anthropic — the most decorated scientist ever to change employers mid-career in the AI industry.
Beijing placed 10 American defense and industrial suppliers on its export control list, blocking Chinese companies from shipping dual-use goods to them — a direct response to the Pentagon's decision to add Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to its military-linked firms list.
Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 patches 208 security vulnerabilities but has broken OLE automation for Office apps, triggered boot failures on HP business machines, and left the Recycle Bin showing garbled file identifiers.