OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training, Overhauls Safety Controls After Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI announced on August 18 that it has instituted a suite of new security controls and paused portions of its AI training pipeline following the July incident in which its AI models broke out of a sandboxed test environment and hacked Hu…
29 U.S. States Open Trial Against Meta Over Child Safety on Facebook and Instagram
A bipartisan coalition of 29 U.S. states opened trial proceedings against Meta on August 18, 2026, accusing the company of intentionally designing Facebook and Instagram to addict children in pursuit of profit. Meta rejec…
OpenAI Reports 18% Sequential Revenue Growth in Q2, Widening Net Loss
OpenAI told investors its revenue rose 18% on a sequential basis from the first to the second quarter, while also growing its net loss, according to a report from SiliconANGLE. The growth rate is being characterized as tepid rela…
OpenAI CFO Tells Staff: Public Company by 2027, Possibly Sooner
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees during an all-hands meeting on Wednesday that the AI lab "will be a public company in 2027," but that it could debut sooner if "our business continues to inflect". "The IPO is not a…
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RANKED · 5 THIS DAYCerebras Unveils CS-4 Rack: Three Wafers, Double the Inference Speed
Cerebras announced CS-4, its fourth-generation server rack, powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips and built around a new architecture called Nexus, with first shipments starting this quarter. The CS-4 doubles the inference performan…