Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s special projects lead and former chief operating officer, announced his departure from the company in August 2026 after an eight-year tenure at the AI lab.
In an internal…
Zoom patched an August 2026 bug enabling attackers to fully control a device during meetings; A Security says it found it in one day using fewer than 20 prompts on public AI models. Patch shipped Tuesday for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, abusing annotations; A Security says no user action and no visual cue.
Anthropic has announced plans to embed machine-readable watermarks and provenance metadata into content generated by its Claude AI models, citing compliance with European AI transparency rules as the…
A Security found a Zoom screen-sharing bug that could let any call participant silently take over another device with no victim interaction, tied to real-time annotation protocol handling. Zoom’s Aug 11, 2026 advisory says fixes roll out to Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android; A Security’s exploit took fewer than 20 prompts.
The FBI is investigating how a North Korean national was hired to work for a U.S. federal government agency, according to a senior FBI official who spoke at a conference in Washington, D.C. on July…
OpenAI has completed a $7 billion tender offer, buying back shares from employees of the privately held AI company. The deal, reported by Bloomberg and completed in 2026, valued OpenAI at $852…
HR software company Rippling filed a lawsuit on August 10, 2026, accusing MCP gateway startup Runlayer of infringing on three of its patents. The filing is a direct response to a lawsuit Runlayer…
OpenAI’s Aug 2026 Daybreak adds Blue and Red tiers: Blue targets incident response, malware analysis and patch validation; Red broadens to security testing and vulnerability research. GPT‑5.6‑Cyber, built on GPT‑5.6 Sol, is available only in Red and is limited to trusted partners like Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike and Cloudflare.
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for thousands of lawsuits against major social media companies to proceed, after rejecting the platforms’ attempt to use a legal shield to dismiss the…
Bluesky’s August 2026 update adds a per-user “Hide reposts in feeds” option (no unfollow needed) and a beta thread feature that auto-numbers posts in sequence. The numbering mode is enabled from Settings.
Meta released Muse Glimmer on August 10, 2026, an open-weight AI model built to run autonomous agents directly on consumer hardware, offering the clearest indication yet of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s…
Security research says Klaviyo’s sign-up form misconfiguration exposed new customers’ email addresses and passwords—and company details—to third-party “pixels” from Facebook, Google, HubSpot, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and X. The issue ran at least Feb 2024–Nov 2025; Klaviyo fixed it and says fewer than 200 people were affected.
