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Thomas Joos

VulnCheck counted how often the security flaws that AI turns up are ever used in an attack. For the first half of 2026, Patrick Garrity counts 1,061 vulnerabilities traced to AI-assisted discovery.
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Anthropic extends free Fable 5 access for subscribers as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol heats up the pricing war

Anthropic is keeping Claude Fable 5 in its subscription plans through July 19, 2026. The model was supposed to switch to pay-per-use today. Subscribers can use up to 50 percent of their weekly limit ...
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S&P Global sees OpenAI as a "key credit risk" for Oracle and cuts its credit rating

S&P Global views OpenAI as a "key credit risk" for Oracle and has downgraded Oracle's rating from "BBB" to "BBB-," one notch above junk status. Oracle's AI business is burning through far more cash ...
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OpenAI CEO Altman is now "pretty sure" AI is net job-creating, which is quite the pivot from predicting mass layoffs

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says he's "pretty sure" AI has created more jobs than it's eliminated. That's a sharp turn from his earlier warnings about entire professions disappearing. Anthropic CEO ...
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China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle

China is looking into restricting foreign access to its most advanced AI models. Authorities have already held talks with tech giants like Alibaba and Bytedance. For Europe, which relies heavily on ...
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AI search agents don't fail at searching, they fail at asking the right questions when queries get ambiguous

AI search agents rarely fail at multi-step research tasks because of the search itself. Their real problem is failing to ask the user for clarification when queries are ambiguous. That's the finding ...
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A 26,000-student study shows AI's hidden learning cost takes two full years to surface

Students who used AI finished assignments faster and got better grades. On exams, though, their scores dropped by up to 24 percent, and the full scale of the learning gap on entrance exams didn't show ...
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Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents

Microsoft is planning yet another overhauled version of Copilot, reportedly set to release in August. According to an internal memo seen by The Information, the company will merge its consumer and ...
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Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers

Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the same question that came up with xAI now ...
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NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust

Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University, warns that a potential crash in the AI sector could be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble around 2000. In the podcast ...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns of "a small number of AI systems capturing all the economic returns"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thinks AI will reshape what companies fundamentally are. A "real cognitive loop" is forming between people and digital systems for the first time, Nadella writes in his ...
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OpenAI kicks off the AI price wars with flexible rate-limit resets for its Codex coding agent

OpenAI is rolling out a new feature for its AI coding agent Codex: users can now bank their rate-limit resets and use them whenever they want. Rate limits cap how often someone can use a service in a ...