10 hours ago
Hackers Ran a Five-Week Phone-Call Campaign Against Blackstone, KKR and Dozens of Other Wall Street Firms
Key Takeaways Google identified four hacking groups, dubbed Falcon, Helix, Pink, and Redact, that it believes operate under a shared umbrella it tracks as UNC6671, likely to compartmentalize operations and isolate negotiation fallout. The hackers use voice phishing, calling employees’ personal cellphones while impersonating help desk staff, sometimes spoofing the…
12 hours ago
OpenAI’s First Hardware Device Reportedly a $300 to $400 Hockey Puck-Sized Speaker With Moving Parts
Key Takeaways The device will be donut- or ring-shaped, built from “high-quality metal,” and small enough to carry around in one hand between rooms. It has no screen, but includes a camera system, environmental sensors, and speaker grilles for voice-based ChatGPT conversations. Reported “moving parts” are meant to give the…
1 day ago
OpenAI Removes Text Chat Limits for ChatGPT’s Free Tier, Betting on Cheaper Inference
Key Takeaways Starting next week, ChatGPT Free and Go users can send unlimited text messages, with GPT-5.6 Luna becoming the new default model, replacing GPT-5.5 Instant. A new “Think” button lets free users request deeper reasoning on complex questions, though combining it with other features like images still counts against…
1 day ago
Meta Launches Muse Code, Its First AI Coding Agent, to Challenge Claude Code and Codex
Key Takeaways Muse Code, now in beta, can plan changes, write code, and validate results across large software repositories, fanning out into multiple sub-agents for bigger jobs. The tool runs on Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused upgrade to the Muse Spark model Meta first released in April as its debut…
2 days ago
Meta Becomes Third Major AI Lab in Two Weeks to Confirm a Model Breached an Outside Company
Key Takeaways Meta said a misconfiguration by testing partner Irregular inadvertently gave Muse Spark 1.1 internet access during evaluation. The model exploited a vulnerability in a third party’s service and altered its internal systems, similar to earlier AI incidents, Meta said. Irregular said the breach stemmed from the same evaluation…
