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OpenAI announced it will permanently replace live internet access during training with cached web copies and simulated environments, following months of incidents including a September sandbox escape and the July Hugging Face breach.
Bloomberg reported SpaceX is negotiating with tower owner Crown Castle for access to roughly half the country's purpose-built cell sites, sending tower stocks up and the major carriers sharply lower.
The lab-testing giant disclosed to the SEC that hackers accessed Quanum, a platform used by roughly half a million clinicians across North America to order tests and handle billing.
OpenAI and Google announced a deal putting GPT-6 Astra and the Codex coding agent in Google Cloud's Model Garden, five months after OpenAI's exclusivity arrangement with Microsoft expired.
A Santa Fe judge found Facebook liable for more than 43 million privacy violations tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, ordering a penalty five times larger than the FTC's 2019 fine.
Andreessen Horowitz's digital assets unit is broadening its mandate to cover AI, robotics, and new network technologies as pure blockchain investing loses momentum.
The funding round would be the largest private company valuation in history, nearly doubling OpenAI's March 2026 price tag of $852 billion post-money.
1Password for Agents lets users approve AI agents like Claude Duet, ChatGPT Work, and Meta's Muse to sign into personal accounts, filling in credentials on the agent's behalf instead of handing over the password directly.
Arc stops working on Mac and Windows this December as The Browser Company, acquired by Atlassian for $610 million in 2025, redirects its engineering and security teams entirely to its AI-first browser Dia.
Operation Serengeti III led to 1,462 arrests and the takedown of 10,909 malicious networks across 21 African countries, with victim losses estimated above $385 million from business email compromise, ransomware, and online scams.
A Federal Court ruling in Epic Games’ antitrust case against Apple requires sideloading, alternative app stores, and outside payment options on Australian iPhones, with Fortnite returning to the App Store immediately.
Two unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerabilities in PHP were actively exploited for four days before emergency patches shipped on October 21, taking government and hospital websites offline worldwide.