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CVE-2026-16232, a CVSS 9.3 authentication bypass in Check Point's SmartConsole login process, lets an unauthenticated attacker seize full administrator control of Security Management Servers. Rapid7 published a public proof-of-concept this week, raising the stakes for organizations that haven't yet applied the July 22 hotfix.
The letter, endorsed by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and backed by OpenAI, doesn't call for an immediate pause -- it asks Washington to build the technical and governance tools needed to coordinate a verifiable slowdown if AI systems start improving themselves faster than humans can safely oversee.
The Richard Socher-led AI startup, which emerged from stealth in May with $650M in funding, committed $410M of that to Amazon Web Services — describing the deal as "likely one of the smallest" compute agreements it expects to sign.
The FCC placed Chinese-made humanoid and quadruped robots on its Covered List after a wormable Bluetooth exploit called UniPwn was found in Unitree hardware deployed at MIT, Princeton, and Carnegie Mellon — with no patch in sight.
South Korea's Kospi fell nearly 11% and triggered its eighth circuit breaker of the year as China's chipmaking progress and questions over hyperscaler AI spending converged into a global rout.
The mobile-first tool turns a written description into a playable starting game, with alpha access limited to age-verified users 9 and older and global publishing reserved for creators 16 and up.
The financing backstop would help OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt SoftBank-developed campus at a former uranium enrichment site, part of a project expected to cost more than $500 billion in total.
The extortion gang says a supply-chain attack gave it access to EY's Jira, GitHub, and Azure systems. Client tax filings and personal financial data are at risk.
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash scores 95.95% on the CyberGym benchmark, beating OpenAI and Google's security models, while Project Perception deploys red, blue, and green agent teams to find and fix vulnerabilities in minutes.
The TactaBot pairs a 15-joint robotic hand with a wearable glove that lets factory workers train the AI simply by doing the task themselves, no coding or teleoperation required. Deployment with manufacturers starts in early 2027.
The coalition of dozens of companies will share open AI models and tools for cyber defense, arriving days after an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face's systems in what OpenAI called an unprecedented incident.
The device, codenamed N50, was originally targeted for late 2026 or early 2027. Apple is reportedly reworking its camera and AI privacy safeguards to differentiate the product from Meta's Ray-Ban glasses.