A critical GitHub Enterprise Server vulnerability (CVE-2026-3854) allows remote code execution via unsanitized git push options, and despite a rapid patch, a staggering 88% of instances remain exposed — with AI-powered tools enabling researchers to develop a working exploit in under 48 hours.
MIT and IBM are launching the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, expanding their seven-year AI collaboration into quantum and hybrid computing systems to tackle real-world challenges like drug discovery, weather prediction, and financial forecasting.
Biohub launches its $500 million Virtual Biology Initiative, a five-year effort to build open, AI-powered predictive models of human cells, partnering with major institutions like the Broad Institute and Allen Institute, with NVIDIA providing computing power, and all generated data made freely available to accelerate disease prevention and cures.
The Zuckerberg Chan Biohub is committing $500 million over five years to build AI-powered simulations of the human body, partnering with Nvidia and top research institutions in an ambitious push to ultimately cure all human disease.
GPT-5-powered agentic search systems are crushing baseline scores with an NDCG of 0.453 versus a 0.289 BM25 baseline on Amazon ESCI, but hit a hard wall when facing knowledge-gap tasks where LLMs cannot evaluate information they don't already know.
Poolside launches two powerful agentic coding models — Laguna M.1 (225B) and open-weight Laguna XS.2 (33B) — both free via API for a limited time, delivering top-tier SWE-bench Pro scores and built for complex, long-horizon coding tasks using reinforcement learning trained on 30 trillion tokens.
Elon Musk takes the stand in federal court, accusing OpenAI co-founders of 'looting' a charity through its for-profit conversion, while OpenAI's attorneys strike back with Musk's own emails showing he once supported the very restructuring he now seeks to unwind in court.
Elon Musk takes the stand in a landmark $130 billion trial against OpenAI, demanding the company revert to nonprofit status and remove CEO Sam Altman, while OpenAI fires back claiming Musk's lawsuit is fueled by jealousy and competitive motives tied to his rival xAI venture — with the outcome potentially …
Former Google DeepMind researcher David Silver's new AI startup, Ineffable Intelligence, raises a record-breaking $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion valuation, marking the largest seed round in European history as it pursues superintelligence through reinforcement learning, backed by Sequoia, Nvidia, Google, and others.
A nine-person jury is seated in Oakland as the high-stakes Musk v. Altman trial kicks off, with Elon Musk seeking up to $134 billion from OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman over allegations they abandoned the company's nonprofit mission, with opening arguments set for Tuesday before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.