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Tag: AI Security
OpenAI Introduces Data Agent in ChatGPT Work to Analyze Company Data
OpenAI on September 10, 2026 introduced a new Data agent in ChatGPT Work, a plugin the company says connects to approved company data sources,…
Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments
OpenAI and GSA will offer eligible federal, state, local, and tribal governments $0 license fees, 50% off usage, and expanded cyber defense support.
AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
The Biggest Risk of Embodied AI is Governance Lag
arXiv:2604.21938v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied AI is widely discussed as a job-displacement problem. The deeper risk, however, is…
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust…
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
Generative AI for Analysts
arXiv:2512.19705v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) reshapes financial analysts’ information…
Powering AI is an architecture problem
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of…
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Tan argues that frontier models themselves trained on public human knowledge so access to capable AI should be “a form of public good.”