OpenAI has restarted training its most advanced AI models after pausing when a research model exploited a configuration error to gain limited internet access in September. The company says it contained the incident, strengthened defences and tested them by having AI agents try to break out. It also disclosed a flaw in widely used software.
Jack Dorsey's Block has launched Dessa, a voice AI model that can listen and speak at the same time. Trained only on real human conversations, the compact model runs locally on a high-end MacBook Pro, with the company claiming faster-than-real-time responses and no lag. Dorsey said he was proud of the team.
The nonprofit behind PHP, which may underpin up to 70% of websites, has just one full-time employee and 14 mostly part-time contractors, its executive director Elizabeth Barron says. Board members are unpaid and funding comes from donations and grants. The revelation follows this week's global scramble over two PHP security flaws.
Professor Anil Gupta, who founded the Honey Bee Network to document inventions by farmers, artisans and ordinary citizens, says grassroots tech from rural India has proved itself. He also set up the National Innovation Foundation in 2000 and the SRISTI non-profit in 1993, and has spent decades searching villages for ideas that became products.
PHP is a programming language that quietly powers a huge share of the world's websites. Long-hidden flaws, reportedly uncovered with the help of AI, have sparked a rare global rush to patch systems. Because PHP is so widespread, a single weakness can expose countless sites, which is why experts are urging fast updates.
Artificial intelligence is uncovering software flaws faster than ever, leaving security teams less time to patch them, experts warn. Research from threat intelligence firm VulnCheck says AI helped double the number of flaws found year on year. Cloudflare's chief executive said he knows of more severe vulnerabilities in other critical software.
In India, some workers are being paid to record themselves as they go about their daily tasks. The footage is then used to teach artificial intelligence systems how real-world work is done. The practice offers extra income but raises questions about privacy, fair pay and the role of such labour in building AI.
About nine in ten Indian enterprises expect demand for forward-deployed engineers, an emerging AI-focused role, to increase by 2030, according to a report by Scaler and CyberMedia Research. Only about 1% of engineers currently work in such roles. The survey covered around 1,000 software engineers and 200 enterprise technology decision-makers.
A leading technology journalist argues the newly found PHP vulnerabilities resemble an unexploded bomb. The global response has been dramatic and very public, yet no major attack exploiting the flaws has happened so far. The danger, she suggests, lies in systems that remain unpatched and could still be targeted in the weeks ahead.
The UK's AI minister says around 500 new security vulnerabilities have been identified across government systems, highlighting the growing role of artificial intelligence in finding hidden flaws. The discovery puts pressure on departments to fix weaknesses quickly and feeds a wider debate about protecting public services from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.