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SenseTime open-sources SenseNova-Vision, a single model unifying detection, segmentation, depth prediction and 3D reconstruction, topping HuggingFace Any-to-Any Leaderboard globally.
BXI Robotics secures funding from Suochen Technology after Feirongda backing, providing full-stack humanoid ODM solutions from motors to algorithms with marathon-verified reliability.
ModelBest raises 5 billion RMB in H1 2026 as edge AI pure-play unicorn with MiniCPM models powering Samsung Galaxy AI and automotive deployments.
WAIC 2026 opens with 100+ chip companies, supernode clusters, humanoid robots, and 64 consumer AI products across three Shanghai zones.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 with 2.8 trillion parameters, ranking third globally behind Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, with open-weight release and API service.
a great week for open models continues.
Jul 17, 01:42 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Jul 17, 01:26 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Jul 17, 01:25 UTC Identified - Cloudflare is investigating an increased level of HTTP 500 errors in Querétaro, Mexico. We are working to analyse...
Jul 17, 00:19 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Jul 16, 22:43 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are currently monitoring the results. Jul 16, 22:10 UTC Identified - The cause of this issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Jul 16, 21:47 UTC...
Status: ResolvedAll impacted services have now fully recovered.Affected components Connectors/Apps (Operational)
Jul 17, 00:14 UTC Resolved - From 22:21 UTC - 23:50 UTC on July 16, 2026, the REST API experienced significant degradation. During this period, about 39% of REST API requests failed with HTTP 500 level responses, with the errors peaking at 44.3%. We identified the issue as an infrastructure change...
Jul 16, 22:04 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available. Jul 16, 21:06 UTC Update - We are experiencing degraded availability for the Claude Fable...
Jul 16, 20:58 UTC Update - At this time, we are seeing recovery on requests to most models. We are continuing to see elevated errors on requests to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and are working to resolve these remaining issues. We will provide an additional update as soon as possible. Jul 16, 20:07...
Jul 16, 20:20 UTC Resolved - This incident is now resolved. Jul 16, 19:47 UTC Monitoring - We have identified and applied a fix for this issue and are currently monitoring the results. Jul 16, 19:07 UTC Investigating - We are currently investigating an issue where customers may experience errors...
Jul 16, 17:14 UTC Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. Jul 16, 16:53 UTC Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. Jul 16, 16:49 UTC Identified - The cause of this issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Jul 16, 16:44 UTC Update -...
Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London. The attack left 148 TfL systems inoperable and forced all 27,000 of the transport authority's employees into an office...
A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something that looks close enough. A familiar repo. A useful installer. A harmless sync setting. Then the handoff goes bad, the box starts talking to someone else, and the damage moves faster than the explanation. Old bugs are back, weak defaults are earning...
Legacy systems, safety concerns, and critical infrastructure risks make OT vulnerability disclosure one of cybersecurity's most challenging balancing acts. The post Legacy Systems, Real-World Impacts: The Reality of OT Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
n8n, the workflow automation platform, handed out the wrong accounts at login. On Enterprise instances configured to trust more than one external token issuer, it matched an incoming JWT to a local user on the sub claim alone and ignored iss. A valid token from issuer A carrying...
Lila is betting that science, not the internet, is the last untapped source of training data. We went to find out what that actually looks like in a room full of robots.
Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers were prosecuted over a 2024 cyberattack targeting Transport for London (TfL). The post Two Scattered Spider Hackers Sentenced to Jail in UK appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI infrastructure introduces new security risks that traditional data center designs were never built to handle. The post AI Data Centers Are Being Built Faster Than They Can Be Secured appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new modular malware called TELEPUZ that's been spreading via websites infected with ClickFix lures since late April 2026. "The malware is full-featured, lightweight, and modular," Elastic Security Labs researcher Cyril François said in a...
The new macOS malware has targeted at least 100 users to steal their passwords and cryptocurrency. The post ‘ClickLock Stealer’ Bypasses macOS Security With Social Engineering, Process Killing appeared first on SecurityWeek.
ClickLock Stealer, a new macOS infostealer, answers a victim's refusal by killing their apps on a loop until they hand over the login password. It arrives as a command pasted into Terminal, asks for the password behind a fake system dialog, and when the victim cancels, installs two LaunchAgents and...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a...
Jul 16, 11:57 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Jul 16, 11:46 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Jul 16, 11:37 UTC Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. Jul 16, 11:22 UTC Identified - The issue has been identified and a...
The startup has built an AI-powered Identity Operating System that governs all identities across an organization’s environment. The post Oak Emerges From Stealth Mode With $60 Million in Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.
It feels as if it should be illegal to even think about heating appliances during the height of summer—seriously, these heat waves in New York have been brutal—but we need to talk about heat pumps. The appliances use electricity for heating, they’re incredibly efficient, and they’re on the rise....
Status: InvestigatingWe are investigating the issue for the listed services and seeing gradual recovery.Affected components Login (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance)
Jul 16, 09:30 UTC Monitoring - The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. Jul 16, 09:13 UTC Investigating - We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services.
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.
Jul 16, 09:23 UTC Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Jul 16, 08:58 UTC Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Jul 16, 08:53 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Jul 16, 08:39 UTC Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!
Incident began at 2026-07-15 16:57 (all times are US/Pacific).Summary Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS) services are experiencing a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure Description The datacenter serving...
arXiv:2607.13037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a data contributor requests removal, model trainers face a practical gap: unlearning algorithms require a forget set, yet no tool can locate which training records belong to a given author. Existing provenance systems operate at file or dataset...
arXiv:2607.13049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models have given robots a sophisticated brain for complex decision-making, yet deploying that intelligence into a physical platform still demands tedious, expert-driven calibration. This deployment gap, the robot's spinal cord, remains a...
arXiv:2607.13069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models produce chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning that appears logically sound yet may not genuinely depend on its stated premises. We introduce interventional grounding audits, a black-box, step-level test of premise dependency: we...
arXiv:2607.13073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neuro-symbolic AI based on $IFOL_B$ is a way to combine neural learning and symbolic reasoning to overcome limitations of purely neural systems (like lack of interpretability and logical structure) with formal logical machinery for self-reference. In...
arXiv:2607.13104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving autonomous agents are moving from research prototypes to deployed systems. The primary goal is controllable evolution, or adaptation, from experience with minimal or even no human input. This survey frames modern self-improving agents...
arXiv:2607.13042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper traces, with explicit numerical values, how PyTorch's automatic differentiation (AD) engine computes gradients for Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) training -- a setting that requires two levels of differentiation: computing the...
arXiv:2607.13043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning models achieve state-of-the-art image classification but face deployment challenges due to computational costs and energy demands. We propose a lightweight training strategy that adapts normalization layers of the model to the new domain...
arXiv:2607.13045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a key paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative model training across distributed and heterogeneous data sources. By keeping raw data local, FL addresses data confidentiality concerns, yet it does not resolve...
arXiv:2607.13046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop a framework for the information discarded by machine learning models whose inputs carry a Lie group action. Given a representation $\pi$ of a Lie group $G$ on a space $V$ and a learned function $f\colon V \to \mathbb{R}$, we define two...
arXiv:2607.13047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter decomposition (PD) decomposes neural networks into interpretable computational components that faithfully reflect the original network's operations. However, scaling PD to large models requires vast compute, making it a costly and risky...
arXiv:2607.13035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cloud services experience frequent incidents that require rapid diagnosis and resolution. Troubleshooting guides help engineers respond consistently, but creating them manually is labor-intensive, resulting in incomplete coverage and outdated...
arXiv:2607.13036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for decision support in healthcare, but clinical evidence is often incomplete or evolving. When the available information is insufficient to support a reliable answer, models should request...
arXiv:2607.13044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The European Patent Office (EPO) reported record filings in 2025, and the 2026 EPO Guidelines hold applicants strictly responsible for LLM-assisted content under Article 83 and Rule 42, creating pressure to triage suspected AI-generated patent text....
arXiv:2607.13158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) requires incremental translation under strict latency constraints, yet remains challenging for decoder-only LLM systems due to limited context and cross-lingual reordering. Recent approaches often introduce...
arXiv:2607.13162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What a language model will and will not do is largely set during post-training, but which behaviors it expresses, hides, or resists is not revealed by prompting alone. Persona vectors, behavioral directions in activation space, can probe this...
Robust and accurate neural decoders are integral to neurotechnologies such as brain-computer interfaces and closed-loop experiments. Recent work has shown that tokenizing neural data at the spike level facilitates multi-session pretraining and delivers state-of-the-art decoding performance....
OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company released the latest version of its flagship LLM, GPT-5.6. OpenAI says that training it against GPT-Red made the model its...
Agentic coding tools are increasingly capable of generating and submitting pull requests (PRs) to software projects, introducing new forms of human-agent collaboration in software development. While prior studies have examined PR-level outcomes of agent-generated contributions, less is known about...
With rising global energy demand and growing awareness of climate change and its impacts, the share of renewable energies in the global energy mix continues to grow. Unlike conventional power generation, the output of renewable energy sources cannot be controlled as consistently due to their...
Jul 15, 15:11 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Jul 15, 15:02 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Jul 15, 14:49 UTC Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Jul 15, 14:04 UTC Investigating - We are currently...
Reliable perception under diverse weather conditions remains a major challenge for autonomous driving systems. A common strategy to improve robustness is either to synthesize adverse weather conditions for training perception models or to apply weather-removal techniques to recover clean inputs....
The broadcast nature of wireless channels exposes radio-frequency (RF) networks to anomalous and malicious transmissions, making anomaly detection a fundamental requirement for secure spectrum management. Quantum Kitchen Sinks (QKS) offer a lightweight hybrid quantum feature map suitable for...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks...
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Status: ResolvedAll impacted services have now fully recovered.Affected components Image Generation (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Operational) ChatGPT Work (Operational) Login (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) Deep Research...
Status: ResolvedAll impacted services have now fully recovered.Affected components Voice mode (Operational)
a continuation: Codex adding 1M users a day now.
At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.
Incident began at 2026-07-14 10:00 (all times are US/Pacific).Summary Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Stretched Cluster customers are experiencing zonal outages impacting network connectivity across multiple regions. Description We are experiencing an issue with Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE)...
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning...
Jul 14, 18:01 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available. Jul 14, 17:55 UTC Monitoring - The degradation affecting Webhooks has been mitigated. We...
Status: ResolvedAll impacted services have now fully recovered.Affected components Conversations (Operational)
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show —James O’Donnell When Anthropic announced last week that it had found a new window...
Jul 14, 09:56 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available. Jul 14, 09:51 UTC Monitoring - The degradation affecting Codespaces has been mitigated....