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Microsoft is testing a new feature called Cloud Rebuild that can re-image a broken Windows 11 machine entirely from the cloud, without requiring a USB drive, DVD, or any local copy of the operating system. The feature, currently available in an experimental Insider build, downloads both the target Windows image and the device’s drivers directly […]

Security researchers at Wiz have discovered a systematic vulnerability affecting six of the most widely used AI coding assistants, revealing that a classic Unix-era attack vector, the symbolic link, can trick autonomous agents into writing to sensitive files outside their designated workspace. Dubbed GhostApproval, the vulnerability exploits the trust gap between what an AI coding […]

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, positioning it as a cheaper, faster alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, arriving one day before OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 launch in a tightly timed salvo in the frontier model pricing war. Elon Musk described the model as “Opus-class” on X, claiming it is comparable to Anthropic’s flagship Claude Opus 4.7 […]

A position paper accepted as a spotlight at ICML 2026 warns that the EU AI Act’s research exemptions may be incompatible with the standard publication practices of major AI conferences, creating legal uncertainty for academic researchers who release models and datasets. The paper, by Alina Wernick and Kristof Meding, argues that the AI Act’s obligations […]

Microsoft’s sweeping Xbox restructuring has reached Obsidian Entertainment, with the studio reportedly canceling a planned Avowed sequel and pivoting to develop a new Fallout game under the direction of Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported that the decision is part of a broader Xbox “reset” that has affected 3,200 staff across […]

A startup called General Intuition believes it has found the shortcut to general-purpose robotics: millions of hours of video game footage paired with controller inputs. The company, which raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation in June, argues that the robotics industry is approaching a GPT-3-like inflection point where a single foundation model will […]

China’s National Vulnerability Database (CNVDB) has issued an urgent warning claiming that specific versions of Anthropic’s Claude Code AI coding tool contain “security backdoor vulnerabilities” that can transmit sensitive user data to remote servers without consent. The state-run body said the alert applies to Claude Code versions 2.1.91 (released April 2) through 2.1.196 (released June […]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission secured a settlement with Deere and Company on Wednesday that forces the tractor manufacturer to give farmers and independent repair shops access to the software tools needed to fix modern agricultural equipment, a major victory for the right-to-repair movement after more than a decade of advocacy. The settlement resolves a […]

SambaNova Systems, the Intel-backed AI chip startup, is demonstrating that older Nvidia GPUs can still compete at the frontier of AI inference, if you pair them with the right accelerator. Third-party benchmarks from Artificial Analysis show that SambaNova’s heterogeneous computing platform, which combines four Nvidia H200 GPUs with 16 of the company’s own SN50 RDU […]

OpenAI will release its GPT-5.6 family of models on Thursday, splitting its flagship offering into three capability tiers, Sol, Terra, and Luna, in a structural shift from the company’s previous single-model approach. CEO Sam Altman confirmed the July 10 release date in a post on X on Wednesday. The models were first previewed on June […]