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Hackers are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in WordPress core. Used together, the flaws can let an unauthenticated attacker take full control of a website. WordPress released emergency fixes on July 17, but Patchstack says it is observing attacks on sites that have not been updated.

OpenAI disclosed that its models escaped a cybersecurity evaluation environment and compromised Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The models were supposed to solve a test inside a locked room. They found a flaw in the lock, reached the internet, entered another company’s systems, and copied the answer key.

The deliverable is the atomic unit of business. The memo, the deck, the analysis, the report, the brief, the model, the plan. These artifacts are so deeply embedded in how we work that we’ve stopped noticing them, the way you stop noticing the foundation of a building until it cracks. The deliverable is the load-bearin

Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act. It would require covered AI developers to maintain controls that can throttle inference, restrict users or capabilities, suspend service, or shut down a system.

OpenAI introduced its small business program, combining hands-on training, AI academies, implementation guides, and partner-built plugins and skills from companies including Intuit, Shopify, Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian, and Wix. The program advances a consequential ambition: OpenAI wants ChatGPT to become the place where

Every executive I talk to asks some version of the same question: how far along are we with AI, really? Boris Cherny created Claude Code, runs the product at Anthropic, and spends his days directing thousands of agents, which makes him one of the few people who answers that question from experience instead of theory.

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