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OpenAI on Tuesday announced that it closed a record-breaking funding round at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. The round totaled $122 billion of committed capital, up from the $110 billion figure that the company announced in February. SoftBank co-led the round alongside other investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and D. E. Shaw Ventures, OpenAI said. OpenAI kickstarted the artificial intelligence boom with the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022, and the company has since ballooned into one of the fastest-growing commercial entities on the planet. As of March, ChatGPT supports more than 900 million weekly active users, including more…

Two rogue Chrome extensions have compromised over 900,000 users by secretly exfiltrating ChatGPT and DeepSeek conversations, along with full browsing histories, to attacker servers. Discovered by OX Security researchers, the malware impersonates the legitimate AITOPIA AI sidebar tool, with one fake even earning Google’s “Featured” badge. The OX Research team identified the threat during routine analysis, revealing extensions that clone AITOPIA’s interface for chatting with LLMs like GPT and Claude. Named “Chat GPT for Chrome with GPT-5, Claude Sonnet & DeepSeek AI” (600K+ users, ID: fnmihdojmnkclgjpcoonokmkhjpjechg, version 1.9.6) and “AI Sidebar with Deepseek, ChatGPT, Claude and more” (300K+ users, ID:…

SAO PAULO (AP) — As the war in Iran rattles global oil markets, Brazil is partially shielded by a decades-old buffer against shocks that is both cheap and emits less pollution that causes climate change: Tens of millions of drivers here can choose between filling their tank with 100% sugarcane-based ethanol or a gasoline blend that contains 30% of biofuel.Brazil’s massive dual-fuel fleet — consisting of vehicles capable of running on any combination of ethanol and gasoline — is unique in its scale. The program, launched in 1975 during the country’s military dictatorship, has successfully evolved in democratic times to…

Flying on Mars — or any other world — is an extraordinary challenge. An autonomous spacecraft, operating millions of miles from pilots or engineers who could intervene on Earth, must be able to navigate unfamiliar and changing environments, avoid obstacles, land on uncertain terrain, and make decisions entirely on its own. Every maneuver depends on careful perception, planning, and control systems that are fault-tolerant, allowing the craft to recover if something goes wrong. A single miscalculation can leave a multi-million dollar spacecraft face-down on the surface, ending the mission before it even begins.“This problem is in no way solved, in…

Traders are hoping for a resolution in the Middle East, but hot oil prices are likely to be sticky – and that bodes well for Chord Energy, according to Morgan Stanley. The Dow Industrials were up more than 1,100 points at its session high on Tuesday as traders grew optimistic that an end may be in sight for the weekslong war between the U.S. and Iran. Just over the course of March, Brent crude oil futures surged more than 60% for their biggest monthly advance since 1988. West Texas Intermediate crude gained more than 51% this month. “Even with near-term…

The Anthropic logo appears on a smartphone screen with multiple Claude AI logos in the background. Following the release of Claude Opus 4.6 on February 5, Anthropic continues to challenge its main competitors in the generative AI market in Creteil, France, on February 6, 2026. Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAnthropic leaked part of the internal source code for its popular artificial intelligence coding assistant, Claude Code, the company confirmed on Tuesday.”No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed,” an Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement. “This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not…

OpenAI and Instacart are launching a grocery shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, allowing customers to brainstorm meal ideas, make a grocery list, and check out, all without leaving the chat interface. This builds upon an existing partnership between OpenAI and Instacart; more than two years ago, Instacart launched an in-app AI search tool powered by ChatGPT, which helps shoppers ask questions about what to make for dinner or how to accommodate dietary restrictions. The relationship between OpenAI and Instacart seems to have only deepened after former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo — who was already an OpenAI board member — joined…

Server monitoring tools keep IT infrastructure running smoothly by delivering real-time visibility into key metrics like CPU load, memory usage, disk capacity, and network throughput. Standouts include Zabbix for its scalability and customization, Nagios with vast plugin ecosystems for tailored setups, and open-source LibreNMS supporting diverse hardware and OS environments. Checkmk shines in ultra-scalable deployments, monitoring thousands of servers with minimal setup effort. Grafana excels at visualization, pulling from multiple sources for dynamic dashboards. PRTG Network Monitor provides all-in-one coverage with smart alerts and adaptable interfaces. These solutions empower IT teams to spot and fix issues fast, maximizing uptime and…

Almost three years ago, New York City joined governments across the country in banning TikTok from its phones over security concerns about the Chinese social media site. On Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a bona fide social media star, took to the app to announce a reversal: “TikTok, we’re back.”The city will now allow agencies to start posting again on the short-form social media site as long as departments follow a set of security precautions, according to a memo from city cybersecurity officials provided by the mayor’s office. The prohibition was established by Eric Adams, Mamdani’s predecessor, in 2023 as the…

MIT researchers have developed a generative artificial intelligence-driven approach for planning long-term visual tasks, like robot navigation, that is about twice as effective as some existing techniques.Their method uses a specialized vision-language model to perceive the scenario in an image and simulate actions needed to reach a goal. Then a second model translates those simulations into a standard programming language for planning problems, and refines the solution.In the end, the system automatically generates a set of files that can be fed into classical planning software, which computes a plan to achieve the goal. This two-step system generated plans with an…