Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others |

Australian police have arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of TeamPCP, a prolific hacking group blamed for high-profile hacks against big tech…

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India |

4:35 AM PDT · August 27, 2026 It seems there is no escaping the ad industry. OpenAI said on Thursday that it will start showing…

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition |

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday night, citing a source familiar with the matter. Business Insider, which…

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies |

In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging…

AI's memory crunch is coming for Android apps |

7:27 AM PDT · August 27, 2026 Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industrywide memory chip shortages driven…

Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale |

The rapid scaling of robotaxis over the last two years has come with a hidden human cost. Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more…

This former PG&E engineer is building a 'Google Maps for the underground' |

Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what the utility company doesn’t know about what’s…

US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to target NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate |

10:01 AM PDT · August 26, 2026 The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and…

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over 'surging demand' |

Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million…

Meta's $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn't work well |

Meta reached an $18 billion settlement on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by 29 U.S. states concerning children’s safety. The settlement is historic in scale…