17 Jun 2026
Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies
Researchers have long warned that AI agents could lower the skill floor for offensive cyber operations, and a recent report by OALABS (Open Analysis) researchers bears that out. After recovering and analyzing over 1,000 agent sessions from a compromised server on which an attacker deployed Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex agents, the researchers discovered how easily the attacker was…
17 Jun 2026
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.
Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest AI labs are racing to teach machines to operate in the physical world. But building capable robots requires something the AI industry doesn’t yet have, which is the training data to match that used for language models. That gap is creating a new kind of infrastructure…
17 Jun 2026
How AI could help criminals to steal personal data
Over the last few years, an elite group of software companies have been locked in a headlong sprint to see who can develop the most powerful generative AI models. And while the rate of progress has been quite astonishing, some of the consequences are profoundly alarming.
17 Jun 2026
SpaceX shares climb as post-IPO rally hits 58%
SpaceX gained for a fourth straight day, cementing the company’s place among the world’s most valuable stocks after it surpassed Amazon.com Inc.
17 Jun 2026
Anthropic asked for regulation. Washington went much further
Anthropic's longstanding push for regulation is coming back to bite it. The artificial intelligence company, now valued at close to $1 trillion, has spent years touting its dedication to safety. But for the second time this year, Anthropic has found itself caught in the Trump administration's crosshairs, this time out of concern for the safety of its newest models.
17 Jun 2026
LVMH Announces the Winners of Its 2026 Innovation Awards
LVMH Group has announced the winners of its LVMH Innovation Award, “which recognizes the most innovative and high-potential startups helping to reinvent the luxury industry”, according to the group’s press release. The three winners were named on Wednesday at tech conference Vivatech in Paris.
17 Jun 2026
Is SpaceX Really Worth Trillions? Let Grok Explain.
Tech Tech Elon Musk’s company isn’t being overvalued at a number that’s completely untethered to reality—it’s a lesson in how to be a business alpha Getty Images/Ringer illustration Last week, Elon Musk’s space exploration company, SpaceX—which also includes xAI, an artificial intelligence business; X, a social network; and Starlink, a satellite-internet service—enjoyed a blockbuster IPO on the…
17 Jun 2026
BRIDGE: benchmarking large language models for understanding real-world clinical practice texts
The BRIDGE benchmark systematically evaluated the performance of 95 large language models (LLMs) on real-world clinical data on tasks spanning the patient care continuum. This benchmark, which is being continuously updated, provides a field reference for improving how LLMs understand clinical texts.
17 Jun 2026
The Boring Company just doubled its tunneling power in Nashville
The Boring Company's Prufrock MB2 tunnel boring machine has completed commissioning and is ready to launch in Nashville as part of the Music City Loop project, with MB3 shipping in August 2026.
