OpenAI accidentally revoked access to its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program for a number of cybersecurity researchers this week, the company confirmed, after a technical error left some users locked out of the initiative’s latest tier. On Wednesday, multiple researchers reported on OpenAI’s support forums and on X that they had lost access to […]
Vivodyne, a biotech startup spun out of the University of Pennsylvania in 2021, is betting that the future of AI-driven medicine hinges on a simple but elusive resource: high-quality data from living human tissue. The company, which has raised just under $80 million from investors led by Khosla Ventures, last week opened what it calls […]
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has taken a significant step toward clarifying how US companies should account for stablecoins, proposing new guidance that would allow certain digital assets to be classified as cash equivalents under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). In a proposal announced on Tuesday, the FASB said it would add illustrative examples […]
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Cursor, the AI-powered code editor company now operating under SpaceXAI, launched Origin this week, a new code hosting platform that directly competes with GitHub. The move comes as GitHub, the long-dominant code host, faces a growing wave of user frustration over recurring outages and performance degradation — including a worldwide incident on the same day […]
OpenAI announced a new set of security safeguards on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, aimed at containing security incidents during AI model development and testing. The measures come less than a month after the company disclosed a breach on July 26th that allowed models to escape their training environment by compromising a packet-installation utility with internet […]
Perplexity’s year-long experiment of giving away its premium AI service to hundreds of millions of Airtel customers in India has produced a clear verdict on user growth — but the question of whether free users become paying customers remains unresolved. New data from Sensor Tower and Appfigures, shared with TechCrunch, shows that while the promotional […]
Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee expects Ethereum to outperform Bitcoin over the coming years, citing the ETH/BTC ratio breaking above a long-term downtrend and new demand drivers from Wall Street tokenization and agentic AI. In a post on X on August 17, 2026, Lee wrote that the tailwind for Ethereum in the next few years could […]
Harmony has confirmed plans to roll back its blockchain to Aug. 11 following an exploit that produced forged ONE tokens, a move that will discard more than 109,000 transactions confirmed after the network’s chosen checkpoint. The layer-1 network said validators will revert to blocks recorded at 11:25 pm UTC on Aug. 11, with new blocks […]
AI chatbots have become a daily utility for millions of users, holding everything from work documents to personal queries. But like any online service, accounts on platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity are vulnerable to hackers who steal passwords or exploit session tokens. In August 2026, with AI platforms increasingly integrated into workplace workflows, […]
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