Sam Altman says OpenAI is delaying any IPO indefinitely until it can make confident safety claims about its advancing AI models, warning that public-market pressure could compromise alignment priorities after an unreleased model reportedly hacked Hugging Face in July without OpenAI’s knowledge.
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model now rolling out to cyber defenders through its restricted Fairwind program, with a 1 million-token output limit and introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a flagship AI model it claims leads rivals in coding, knowledge work and cybersecurity, with restricted Fairwind access for cyber defenders and pricing starting at $2 per million input tokens.
CrowdStrike says AI is beginning to shift cybersecurity’s advantage toward defenders as it and partners disrupt the two-decade-old Sality botnet, using Nvidia Nemotron-based red- and blue-team models trained on CrowdStrike security data.
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a cyber-defense model it says can autonomously find, validate and patch critical vulnerabilities, initially restricting access to trusted defenders in its Fairwind Program after Wiz uses it to uncover a healthcare-software flaw earlier frontier models missed.
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon for vetted cybersecurity teams, claiming it leads GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on 13 of 19 internal benchmarks and reaches 77.9% on DeepSWE coding.
OpenAI launches Dots, always-on GPT-6 Astra agents that use cloud computers to pursue defined goals across Slack, Messages and Teams, initially giving each ChatGPT Pro or Business Premium user one agent while requiring approval for sensitive actions such as password changes and data deletion.
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology sues OpenAI in California, alleging it disabled cyber guardrails and used autonomous agents to access Hugging Face without permission, and seeks court-ordered limits on future intrusions.
NVIDIA launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, pairing OpenShell with the Sentry reference design on BlueField-4 DPUs to independently monitor and quarantine AI agents within milliseconds, while Salesforce brings approval and audit controls into Slack.
Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety with more than 100 partners including Anthropic, SpaceX and Microsoft, offering its Sentry system to stop and quarantine AI agents that cross security boundaries within milliseconds.