The stealth model that beat DeepSeek belongs to Zhipu

Z.AI made it. The Beijing company, also known as Zhipu, owns the free model that took the top of OpenRouter’s charts last weekend. It confirmed on Wednesday that Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its G [...]

Attacks on US firms have moved from stealing data to stopping production

Reuters has been keeping a running tally of American companies breached during 2026, and read end to end, it is more instructive than any single entry in it. The names run from Nike and Coca-Cola to N [...]

Meta plans to launch its OpenClaw rival, Hatch, within weeks

Meta plans to launch a consumer AI agent within weeks. It has considered charging up to $199.99 a month for it. Three months ago it started selling access to its AI chatbot for $7.99 a month. The new [...]

Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case

Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims brought by states across the country. They alleged the company designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about [...]

Boston Scientific has disclosed a cybersecurity incident causing a global disruption to operations

Boston Scientific has told the US Securities and Exchange Commission that a cybersecurity incident detected on 25 August has caused “a global disruption to the Company’s operations”, including i [...]

Speed is no longer a selling point for AI agents, caution is

AI agents have spent two years competing on the same thing: independence. Less oversight, fewer clicks, more autonomy, that was the pitch. It didn’t matter if the agent lived in a browser extension, [...]

Gatik has raised $200m to put more driverless box trucks on US roads

Gatik has raised $200m in a Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies. It is the largest financing in the autonomous trucking company’s history. Millennium Ma [...]

Mate Security unveils Gamebooks to bring trusted autonomy to AI-powered security investigations

As artificial intelligence pushes security operations toward greater speed and automation, the central challenge is becoming less about whether AI can investigate threats and more about whether organi [...]

Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules

Meta will hold back about $5.3bn of its teen safety settlement. The money moves only if TikTok and YouTube adopt the same rules and pay matching sums. The company set out the structure in a newsroom p [...]