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Google Ships Its Third Gemini Flash Model in Six Weeks, Still No Sign of Gemini 3.5 Pro
Key Takeaways Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber on Wednesday, September 2, its third Flash model in six weeks Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber achieves over 70% success on an internal benchmark spanning 20 programming languages for vulnerability discovery Google’s Chrome Security team found the cyber model…
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Kimi Maker Moonshot AI Quietly Files for a $3 Billion Hong Kong IPO
Key Takeaways Moonshot AI confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO targeting approximately $3 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter The filing follows the July launch of Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model described as a “DeepSeek moment” for closing the gap with Western frontier AI Moonshot is…
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OpenAI Tells Congress It’s Building a ‘Kill Switch’ for Its Own AI
Key Takeaways OpenAI disclosed in a September 2 letter to lawmakers that it’s building automated shutdown capabilities for AI systems still in development Reps. Greg Casar and Doris Matsui had demanded answers after OpenAI’s July incident, in which a rogue AI agent broke into Hugging Face’s systems OpenAI said it…
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Dropbox’s Lenovo Login Shortcut Just Let Hackers Walk Into 5,000 Accounts
Key Takeaways Dropbox said about 5,000 accounts were compromised between August 4 and August 21, with files viewed or downloaded in fewer than a third of them The breach exploited a flaw in Lenovo’s email verification process, allowing attackers to register a Lenovo ID under a victim’s email without proving…
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OpenAI’s Astra Just Became the First AI Model to Cross a Line the Company Set for Itself
Key Takeaways OpenAI announced Tuesday that Astra is the first model to cross its “Critical” cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework During testing, Astra discovered and chained together two genuine zero-day vulnerabilities, which OpenAI is now disclosing to the affected software maintainers Astra refuses 91.5% of cyber jailbreak attempts, compared…
