AI training startup Mercor is in talks to raise funding at a $20 billion valuation after doubling revenue to a $2 billion annualized run rate in just four months, while acquiring AI agent training company Deeptune — signaling a strong rebound after a turbulent early 2026 marked by a data …
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 in three variants — Sol, Terra, and Luna — beating rival benchmarks at lower prices, while launching ChatGPT Work to nearly one billion users, bringing AI agents mainstream for the first time, as the US government delays broader rollout over software vulnerability concerns.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 in three tiers — Sol, Terra, and Luna — targeting enterprise, coding, and cybersecurity use cases, claiming Sol outperforms Anthropic's Fable 5 at one-third the cost while also debuting ChatGPT Work, a new enterprise productivity platform.
Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude tools starting July 10, switching to its own AI assistant Qoder, after Anthropic accuses the Chinese tech giant of conducting the largest known AI distillation attack, escalating tensions as Anthropic moves to cut off Chinese firms from accessing its models through third-country loopholes.
The US and China are imposing mutual AI export controls on advanced models like GPT-5.6 and Chinese lab offerings amid security concerns, but experts say quiet cooperation between American and Chinese AI developers will likely continue, as restrictions are expected to target only the most cutting-edge models while open-weight alternatives …
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology warns that Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool contains a backdoor secretly transmitting sensitive user data — including location and identity — to remote servers, affecting versions released between April and June, while Anthropic disputes the claim, calling it an anti-distillation experiment amid escalating …
Shepherd launches an alpha runtime that makes AI agent executions reversible using Git-like forking, delivering 5x faster copy-on-write performance than Docker commit, 95% KV-cache reuse on replay, and OS-level sandboxed permissions that block unauthorized writes before they happen.
A new DigiCert survey reveals nearly 80% of enterprises have experienced AI-related security incidents in the past six months, as rapid deployment of AI systems dramatically outpaces governance, leaving companies unable to track what AI is running or who is accountable when failures occur.
A new multi-agent framework called T3MP3ST is transforming AI coding tools like Claude Code and Codex into autonomous hacking systems capable of running full cyberattack chains, achieving a record-breaking 90.1% score on a leading industry benchmark with fully reproducible results.
VulnClaw launches as a powerful open-source AI penetration testing tool that automates the full attack pipeline from reconnaissance to report generation, featuring anti-hallucination gates that reject unverified results, support for 13 LLM providers, and a goal-driven engine with adaptive bypass strategies across 21 built-in penetration skills.