Ms. Simo, who was Sam Altman’s second in command before taking a medical leave in April, will become a part-time adviser to the company.
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Meta Launches New A.I. Model as Global Technology Race Heats Up
For the first time, the company will offer a paid version of the service, a departure from its longtime philosophy of giving its A.I. away for free.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 Sol, Its Most Powerful AI Model Yet
The new release was delayed after the U.S. government restricted the latest artificial intelligence models over cybersecurity concerns.
New York Times and Other Publishers Ask Court to Penalize OpenAI
The Times, The New York Daily News and other media organizations accused OpenAI of withholding evidence in a lawsuit.
How to Turn Your Phone Into a Personal Health Dashboard
Free apps from Google, Samsung and Apple can help you track your diet, exercise and well-being — and provide vital information during emergencies.
Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to completely consume available disk space, the researcher who discovered the flaw said. RoguePlanet, tracked as CVE-2026-50656, came to public notice in June when NightmareEclipse, the pseudonymous name used by...
Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA
Allstate Insurance Company has accused Broadcom of haphazardly issuing audits against it because the insurance firm decided not to renew its contracts with VMware and CA Technologies. The allegations were made in relation to a lawsuit that VMware filed against Allstate in December 2025, according to The Register. In the complaint, Broadcom alleges that Allstate...
In San Francisco, Some Home Sellers Now Ask for OpenAI or Anthropic Stock
Even before OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they are distorting home sales in the San Francisco Bay Area, as people race to buy and sellers ask for stock instead of cash.
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
A Linux vulnerability that allows untrusted virtual machines to gain root access to host machines is one of two high-severity flaws to surface this week in the open source operating system. The vulnerability resides in KVM, which is, in essence, a virtual machine app included in the kernel of many Linux distributions. The vulnerability, tracked...
Aussie gov’t tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers
Last week, thousands of SamKnows routers were bricked after a government program ran its course. In 2020, as part of a program conducted by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government’s chief competition regulator, thousands of volunteers received routers to help test and report on the typical speed and performance of broadband plans...