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Tesla’s Make-or-Break Cybercab Had a Quiet Debut
Tesla quietly rolled out its driverless Cybercab on public roads in Austin, a subdued launch marked by no livestream, an embargo on attendee posts, and Elon Musk’s absence. The vehicle, a two-seater without a steering wheel or pedals, is central to Tesla’s pitch that it should be valued as an AI robotics company rather than…
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OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders
OpenAI has pledged $1 billion in AI credits to help under-resourced cybersecurity teams defend critical infrastructure, launching a scheme called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. The initiative targets organisations such as water utilities, electrical suppliers, hospitals, community banks, nonprofits and open-source maintainers, which often lack the budget or staff to deploy advanced AI tools against increasingly…
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Serbians targeted with spyware in country’s ‘largest documented wave of surveillance’
At least 14 members of Serbian civil society, including student protesters, were targeted with advanced spyware earlier this year in what the digital rights group Share Foundation has called the largest documented wave of surveillance in the country to date. The attacks were uncovered after Apple warned users in 110 countries in August that they…
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Reform reported to police over claims of funding rules breach in undercover sting
Reform UK has been reported to police after undercover reporters posing as an American donor and his UK-based son secured £32,500 for party-commissioned polling, in an operation that led to the resignations of head of policy James Orr and long-serving Farage aide Dan Jukes. Foreign companies are barred from funding UK political parties, and undercover…
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You can watch the coolant flow inside Ugreen’s liquid-cooled power bank
Ugreen has launched the MagFlow Pro Magnetic Power Bank, which it says is the world’s first wireless-charging power bank to use liquid cooling. A micro-pump circulates coolant to draw heat away from internal components, including the Qi2.2-compatible wireless charging coil, with the process visible through a window on the front of the device. This is…
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The Cybercab is Tesla’s ‘fork in the road’ moment
Tesla is set to “launch” its Cybercab robotaxi in Austin, Texas, in what could prove a defining moment for the company. The Cybercab is a small, two-seater vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, relying on cameras and AI to drive itself, and its rollout is being framed by CEO Elon Musk and other executives…
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Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
A startup called Abliteration.ai has turned “abliteration” – a technique for stripping AI models of their built-in refusals to carry out harmful requests – into a commercial service. The platform hosts modified versions of open-weight models, including Z.ai’s GLM-5.3, with guardrails removed, accessible via a browser or API for tasks such as offensive cyber security…
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OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its latest flagship AI model, which the company describes as a “generational leap” in areas including cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science and computer use. OpenAI president Greg Brockman went further, suggesting history may judge this as the point at which artificial general intelligence (AGI) was achieved, saying “it’s not…
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Malware harvests Claude session cookies in widespread attack
Anthropic has been forcibly signing users out of Claude accounts, deleting stored payment cards and issuing refunds after criminals used malware-stolen login sessions to run up unauthorised usage on victims’ accounts. The company told affected users in an email, later shared on Reddit, that infostealer malware on their own computers—not any breach of Anthropic’s systems—had…