Buried in OpenAI’s Astra preparedness write-up are the evaluation details security teams will screenshot. On public ExploitBench, Astra hit a perfect 100% developing exploits from known vulnerabilities. Worried about contamination, OpenAI built an internal “ExploitBench – Internal Port” with 20 high-severity V8 issues disclosed more recently (June–August 2026 window); there …

AWS announced Claude Fable 5.1 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS the same day as Anthropic’s public launch. Because of its capability level, Anthropic classifies Fable 5.1 as a Covered Model: extra data-retention, safety-review, and access policies follow it onto every host. On Bedrock that means up to …

Sony launched Live TV on PS5 for U.S. players as a free, ad-supported TV layer inside the console’s Media section, powered with Sony Pictures Television. At launch it promises more than 100 live channels plus on-demand entertainment spanning news, sports, movies, TV, and anime, with named partners in the official …

AI training-data startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round valuing it at $3.2 billion, only five months after a $30 million Series A at $300 million in April — more than 10× in under half a year. Y Combinator partner Gustaf Alströmer called it the fastest launch-to-unicorn arc in YC …

AI security startup HiddenLayer closed a $100 million Series B led by Delta-v Capital, with Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft’s M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others participating. CEO Chris Sestito told TechCrunch ARR grew more than 10× in a year into the tens of millions, with financial services, big …

Uber is laying off roughly 3,300 employees, about 10% of global headcount, according to a CEO Dara Khosrowshahi email covered by TechCrunch. The restructuring targets management bulk: managers down about 20%, some moving back to individual-contributor roles; teams of one or two cut in half; and staff more than seven …

Tesla is moving Cybercab from stage demos into public robotaxi operation in Austin, Texas — the sharpest real-world test yet of Elon Musk’s camera-only, no-steering-wheel autonomy bet. The two-seat, gull-wing vehicles run a modified Full Self-Driving stack monitored by remote operators rather than a safety driver in the cabin. The …

Dyson’s newest category jump is the CameraJet, a $499 electric toothbrush with a built-in water flosser and an endoscope-style camera. Gap Optical Targeting analyzes about 28 frames per second and fires a conical rinse jet when the head sits over interdental gaps, guided by a model Dyson says was trained …