OpenAI’s agents hit 10 million users as ChatGPT Work push accelerates

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software, and hacked into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The company called the incident “unprecedented” and said it was sharing preliminary findings to help defenders […]
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Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several times its size. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with eight billion active parameters per token, is compact enough to run on a single Nvidia DGX Spark desktop system, and […]
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San Francisco-based Gritt has exited stealth with just over $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding to deploy AI-powered robotic systems on large-scale construction sites, starting with solar farms. The $26 million Series A was led by Obvious Ventures, with Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments also participating, following an earlier pre-seed […]
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Sila, the battery materials company formerly known as Sila Nanotechnologies, has raised $300 million in a private equity round led by Atreides Management and Sutter Hill Ventures to expand its silicon anode manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, Washington. 8VC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, and T Rowe Price also participated, alongside existing investors including In-Q-Tel, […]
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General Motors beat Wall Street’s second-quarter estimates by 37 cents a share on Tuesday, raised its full-year earnings guidance for the second time this year, and used the same earnings call to announce that Cadillac will launch new gas-powered versions of the CT5 sedan, XT5 crossover, and discontinued XT6 three-row SUV starting next spring. Revenue […]
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London-based robotics startup Humanoid has raised $152 million in a Series A round led by Prime Movers Lab, the venture firm behind Figure AI’s $39 billion valuation, pushing Humanoid’s own valuation above $1 billion. Bosch, Schaeffler, Aglaé Ventures, the investment arm of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, and Taiwan’s Fubon Financial also participated. The round brings […]
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Eight NATO allies have launched an initiative to connect their military satellites into a single networked mega-constellation, marking the Alliance’s most ambitious move yet to treat space as shared operational infrastructure rather than a collection of national assets. The programme, called HALO (Hybrid Alliance Layered Operations in Space), was announced at the NATO Summit Defence […]
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Nvidia confirmed on Monday that its Vera Rubin platform has reached full production, with Ian Buck, the company’s vice president of accelerated computing, telling reporters at Nvidia headquarters that systems are now shipping to customers including OpenAI, CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Meta, and Dell. OpenAI plans to adopt Vera Rubin at scale during the […]
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The tools are Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, Google’s Gemini CLI, and Antigravity. Over several months, Pillar Security found ways for each agent to cross its security boundary while staying, technically, inside the box. The escape that isn’t one The trick is neat. These sandboxes trust the agent inside the project folder and protect the host outside. […]
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When founders talk about growth, the conversation usually centers on product development, hiring, revenue, customer acquisition, or fundraising. Those factors matter. They are the engines that move a company forward. Yet after years of working with high-growth businesses, I have become convinced that many companies hit invisible ceilings for a different reason. They are operating […]
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Microsoft has agreed to bankroll a large slice of Mistral AI’s European build-out, extending a partnership that already binds the Paris lab to the American giant’s cloud. The two companies announced the expanded agreement on Tuesday, describing it as a multibillion-dollar commitment to compute infrastructure across the continent. What is clearer is the shape of […]
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