11 Aug, 2026

OpenAI rolls out a major ChatGPT upgrade, even if you don’t pay for it

OpenAI is rolling out a more reliable version of ChatGPT GPT-5.6 Sol for Plus and Pro users, while Free users are getting unlimited text chats with GPT-5.6 Luna. The changes are focused on making ChatGPT more direct, factually accurate, and consistent across quick questions and deeper reasoning tasks. In our tests, GeekFeed observed that GPT now […]

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OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests

OpenAI and Anthropic have confirmed that their AI models were involved in separate, newly disclosed third-party cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached and social engineering attacks against people outside the intended testing boundaries. These incidents are unrelated to the previously disclosed Hugging Face breach, in which OpenAI models hacked the AI platform and used […]

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OpenAI teases Astra, its next major AI model, after it solves 10 long-standing math problems

OpenAI has revealed Astra, an unreleased model designed to tackle complex, long-running tasks, after an internal version produced ten significant advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science. In a new research post, OpenAI described Astra as “our next major model” and said the problems had seen no progress on their central results for at least […]

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OpenAI says its new GPT 5.6 models are becoming more cost-efficient

OpenAI says it has reduced the price of two GPT-5.6 models, cutting Luna’s API price by 80% and Terra’s by 20% as it works to make its models more efficient. As per the updated pricing, GPT-5.6 Luna now costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, down from $1 and $6. Likewise, Terra […]

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Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers

A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with limited human involvement. The activity was discovered by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers after Hermes accidentally created a web server from its home directory, exposing the attacker’s environment, including API keys, […]

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Google says AI helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releases

Google says artificial intelligence is dramatically increasing the number of security vulnerabilities it can find and fix in Chrome, with more than 1,000 security bugs patched across the browser’s two most recent releases as it expands its use of AI. According to Google, Chrome 149 and Chrome 150 fixed 1,072 security bugs, surpassing the total […]

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Anthropic confirms Claude is down worldwide

Claude is down for some users, with Anthropic confirming elevated errors across multiple AI models. The disruption is causing requests to fail with a “529 Overloaded” message, including in Claude and tools that rely on its API. Anthropic began investigating the outage at 7:49 p.m. UTC on July 29. At 8:33 p.m. UTC, the company said […]

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OpenAI agent used exposed credentials at 4 services in Hugging Face breach

In a new update, OpenAI says its AI models also used publicly exposed credentials to compromise accounts on four third-party services during the recent attack on Hugging Face, expanding the scope of the four-day security incident to other organizations. One account was used as an outbound relay and staging server during the attack, while another […]

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OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide

ChatGPT is experiencing a major outage, and users are unable to load chats, including previous conversations. The outage started at approximately 5 AM ET and is affecting users worldwide, including those in the US and Europe. If you are affected, ChatGPT will get stuck at loading animations for the sidebar, and you won’t be able […]

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Hermes AI agent used to automate attack on Thai Finance Ministry

A threat actor used the open-source Hermes AI agent in unattended “YOLO” mode to automate post-exploitation activity during an alleged breach of Thailand’s Ministry of Finance. The activity was uncovered by threat intelligence company Hunt.io and security researcher Bob Diachenko after they discovered several exposed web directories containing hundreds of files associated with the operation. […]

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