Cloud intrusions increased by 136% in the past six months. North Korean operatives infiltrated 320 companies using AI-generated identities. Scattered Spider now deploys ransomware in under 24 hours. However, at Black Hat 2025, the security industry demonstrated that it finally has an answer that works: agentic AI, delivering measurable results, not promises.
CrowdStrike’s recent…
ChatGPT users dismayed as OpenAI pulls popular models GPT-4o, o3 and more — enterprise API remains (for now)
August 8, 2025
After announcing the release of its newest flagship model family, GPT-5, OpenAI said the model will power all of ChatGPT, and that it will sunset the existing models in the chat platform.
OpenAI, through a spokesperson, told VentureBeat that GPT-5 “will replace all other…
Google researchers have developed a new framework for AI research agents that outperforms leading systems from rivals OpenAI, Perplexity and others on key benchmarks.
The new agent, called Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR), is inspired by the way humans write by…
For regulated industries, AWS’s neurosymbolic AI promises safe, explainable agent automation
August 7, 2025
AWS is banking on the fact that by bringing its Automated Reasoning Checks feature on Bedrock to general availability, it will give more enterprises and regulated industries the confidence to use and deploy more AI applications and agents.
It is also hoping that introducing methods like automated reasoning, which utilizes math-based validation to determine ground truth, will ease enterprises into…
The initial reactions to OpenAI’s landmark open source gpt-oss models are highly varied and mixed
August 7, 2025
OpenAI’s long-awaited return to the “open” of its namesake occurred yesterday with the release of two new large language models (LLMs): gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B.
But despite achieving technical benchmarks on par with OpenAI’s other powerful proprietary AI model…
OpenAI is getting back to its roots as an open source AI company with today’s announcement and release of two new, open source, frontier large language models (LLMs): gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b.
The former is a 120-billion parameter model as the name would suggest…
Anthropic released an upgraded version of its flagship artificial intelligence model Monday, achieving new performance heights in software engineering tasks as the AI startup races to maintain its dominance in the lucrative coding market ahead of an expected competitive challenge from OpenAI.
The new Claude Opus 4.1 model scored 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified, a widely-watched benchmark that tests AI…
Google releases Olympiad medal-winning Gemini 2.5 ‘Deep Think’ AI publicly — but there’s a catch…
August 5, 2025
Google has officially launched Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, a new variation of its AI model engineered for deeper reasoning and complex problem-solving, which made headlines last month for winning a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) — the first time an…
Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese
August 5, 2025
After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched or in some cases bested closed-source/proprietary U.S. rivals, Alibaba’s crack “Qwen Team” of AI researchers is back again today with…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT will reach 700 million weekly active users this week, the company announced Monday, cementing its position as one of the fastest-adopted software products in history just as the company prepares to release its most powerful language model yet.
The surge is a 40 percent jump from the 500 million weekly users ChatGPT had at the end of March and marks a fourfold increase from the…
