AI News Brief: GitHub’s legal team recently shared how they’ve been using Copilot CLI to streamline their day-to-day workflows. Without writing any code, the team built custom tools to handle common repetitive legal tasks, boosting overall efficiency. The article focuses on showing how non-technical legal staff can operate Copilot CLI directly through natural language commands…
AI News Flash: OpenAI has published a statement regarding a recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incident and proposed new safety measures to strengthen its model testing and evaluation processes. The incident stemmed from a dispute that arose when an external research organization tested OpenAI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, and in its response OpenAI explained what happened and acknowledged the need to review how third-party evaluations are conducted and communicated. In response, OpenAI has proposed a…
AI News Flash: The Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability incident continues to grow, with Galaxy Digital’s head of research Alex Thorn saying victim reports keep coming in — at least 15 different attackers have now been confirmed exploiting the same flaw. One case where a single victim reported losing less than 1 BTC turned out to be tied to a whole new wave of attacks, with hackers stealing 12 BTC total from 126 addresses, showing how this decentralized-style attack is hard to spot from any single event and can only be pieced together as victims come forward.
AI news flash: Bitcoin miner Bitdeer announced an expansion of its AI infrastructure investment, signing a long-term data center lease agreement worth up to $4.7 billion over 16 years. Under the deal, Bitdeer will provide 121 megawatts (121MW) of IT computing capacity through its AI data center in Tydal, Norway, to a tenant disclosed only as a subsidiary of Volta Infra.
AI news brief: a decade of platform-building pays off across the board. Google’s July AI progress spans developer tools, robotics, consumer devices, and public-interest infrastructure. On the developer side, three new Gemini models launched — 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber — focused on higher token efficiency and lower latency for production-scale agentic workflows.
AI News Brief: Apple finally shipped Siri AI in the iOS 27 consumer beta released in July 2026, ending years of delays. The new assistant can understand personal context, tap into broad world knowledge to answer questions, and surface relevant info from your iPhone. Users can now have natural back-and-forth conversations with Siri, adjust how expressive and paced its voice responses are, and…
AI news brief: Anthropic is taking a staged, controlled rollout approach with its most powerful models, arguing that once a new model goes public, attackers could benefit from it faster than defenders can. Delphi Digital researcher Su says that if a new model lets attackers scale up capabilities much faster than defenders, it ends up hurting the whole ecosystem, so a limited testing period helps shrink the potential blast radius.
AI News Brief: OpenAI held its first-ever influencer brand trip, a ‘Summer Club’ event at a luxury resort in upstate New York over the weekend, inviting several content creators to attend. The itinerary included farm-to-table dinners, therapeutic activities like beekeeping, and lessons on how to get more out of OpenAI’s products, with one highlight being the newly launched ChatGPT Work, which helps users with tasks like drafting documents and presentations.
AI News Flash: Boltz, a service that supports non-custodial, trustless atomic swaps between the Bitcoin mainnet and its Layer networks (like the Lightning Network and Liquid Network), recently announced it’s pausing service after a sharp escalation in AI-assisted hacking attempts. Boltz says attacks have accelerated dramatically over the past few days, and it doesn’t believe this asymmetric attack-defense situation will reverse. The Solana Foundation…
AI news brief: OpenAI publicly responded to Apple’s lawsuit against it, stating the suit lacks factual basis and correcting false claims circulating about its employees. OpenAI says it has compiled and released internal communication records to clarify what actually happened, showing the allegations don’t match Apple’s court filing. The post…