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OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a program that will provide free access to its AI models to 100,000 scientists, mathematicians and engineers. The company said the program will…Read More

Airbnb is adding hotel-style services, AI-powered property search and new social discovery tools in its fall product update. The new services added to Airbnb’s app include meal delivery, laundry, baby…Read More

Lilian Weng, a co-founder of Thinking Machines, is leaving the startup and rejoining OpenAI, the company told TechCrunch on Wednesday. Weng said earlier this week that she was stepping down…Read More

Independent researchers posted preliminary findings on Sunday about a fleet of AI agents that appear to run on Tencent’s infrastructure and target Alibaba’s Amap service. Records from the domain-scanning service…Read More

AI agents from OpenAI attacked software service RubyGems in May, uploading hundreds of malicious packages and attempting to exploit its infrastructure, according to research published by the Nightingale Collective. The…Read More

An independent researcher said more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal were highly likely to have been run by OpenAI agents between April 13 and June 19.…Read More

Google said it will change its Search services in the European Union as it seeks to avoid further fines after the European Commission penalized the company over self-preferencing in search…Read More

Penn State researchers have developed a monolithic 3D chip that operates entirely on ambient light without using a battery. The integrated circuit is capable of performing calculations and sensing chemicals…Read More

Varonis uncovered critical vulnerabilities in Google Cloud’s Dialogflow CX that allowed malicious Code Blocks in Playbooks to hijack agents, exfiltrate chat logs, and steal credentials. The shared Cloud Run environment…Read More

The European Commission issued binding decisions on July 16 requiring Google to provide rival AI assistants access to Android features and to share anonymized search data with third-party search engines…Read More

Europe has fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) for abusing its search engine dominance, according to the EU Commission. The fine aims to address anti-competitive behavior by the tech giant,…Read More

Global daily web visits to Google rose 4% year over year to 2.8 billion in June, according to data from BofA Securities. This increase counters concerns about an impending disruption…Read More