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AINov 8, 2026The Verge

Apple is racing to make Siri more agentic

Apple is finally trying to turn Siri from a voice remote into an agent that finishes tasks, and it's doing so from behind, under pressure, on a compressed clock.

AINov 6, 2026TechCrunch

OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation

Bloomberg says OpenAI has taken $11 billion so far toward a round that could reach about $20 billion at $1.25 trillion — well under the $30 billion target floated in September.

AINov 6, 2026The Verge

All the latest updates on AI data centers

The Verge’s living data-center desk makes the political story plain: midterm voters punished AI buildouts, and labs are scrambling with NDAs, rebrands, and grid promises.

AINov 6, 2026WIRED

Open-weight DeepSeek nearly matches OpenAI’s gated cyber model on network attacks, at a fraction of the cost

New tests on simulated corporate networks found DeepSeek completing 73% of intrusion tasks against 81% for OpenAI’s restricted Daybreak model. That gap is closing faster than the gated-release strategy assumed.

AINov 6, 2026OpenAI

Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems

OpenAI is bringing Hacktron's AI-assisted offensive researchers inside the perimeter — focused on third-party service seams — and expanding their access to frontier models through Daybreak Red.

AINov 5, 2026The Verge

OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projects

After midterm voters pushed back on data-center growth, OpenAI says it will not use NDAs with public officials and will pay full power costs under new community commitments.

AINov 5, 2026OpenAI

Measuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science

OpenAI's BioBasicsBench, built with Ligo, scores agents on 100 messy wet-lab tasks — raw gels, bad controls, ambiguous images — and GPT-6 Astra leads at 66.7% while still failing ordinary judgment calls.

AINov 5, 2026The Verge

Perplexity Teammates bets that always-on work agents are worth $200 a month

Perplexity’s new Teammates are persistent agents that take on several roles, keep memory and report into Slack. They join OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet, at a much higher price, and with a CEO vision of hundreds of agents per employee.

AINov 5, 2026TechCrunch

ChatGPT Cyber arrives as hobbyists find severe bugs with older models. Is OpenAI spending enough on defense?

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Cyber for its Daybreak Red program and touted hundreds of Linux and Firefox findings. A hobbyist’s two-hour Ubuntu-related bug, found with an older model, shows how fast the threat is moving, and raises the question of whether OpenAI’s defensive budget matches its warnings.