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AI tools expose water sector risks

Commercial artificial intelligence models helped an unidentified adversary plan and conduct a cyber intrusion against the operational technology environment of a water and drainage utility in Mexico, sharpening concern over how widely available AI systems can accelerate attacks on critical infrastructure. Industrial security specialists at Dragos said the campaign targeted a municipal utility serving the Monterrey metropolitan area after a wider compromise of Mexican government organisations between […]

Claude gains lift from SpaceX compute

Anthropic has struck a major compute agreement with SpaceX that will give the maker of Claude access to all capacity at the Colossus 1 data centre, adding more than 300 megawatts of power and over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs within a month. The deal is aimed at easing capacity pressure on Claude as demand rises for AI assistants, developer tools and enterprise services. Anthropic said the extra resources […]

OpenAI phone push sharpens agent race

OpenAI is reportedly accelerating work on a ChatGPT-centred smartphone, raising the prospect that the artificial intelligence company could move from software into mass-market consumer hardware as early as 2027. Supply-chain checks point to a device designed around AI agents rather than the familiar app-led smartphone model. The project is being described as OpenAI’s first AI agent phone, with mass production targeted for the first half of 2027 […]

OpenAI widens cyber access for public defenders

OpenAI plans to open its Trusted Access for Cyber programme to government cyber defenders across federal, state and local levels, marking a broader push to place advanced artificial intelligence tools in the hands of public agencies responsible for protecting critical systems. The expansion is aimed at agencies handling national security, emergency response, public health systems, benefits delivery, municipal infrastructure and other services that face rising digital threats. […]

Apple’s quiet AI bet gains traction

Apple is turning restraint into a strategic advantage as rivals pour record sums into artificial intelligence infrastructure, betting that a narrower, device-centred approach can protect margins while keeping investors focused on earnings rather than data-centre bills. The iPhone maker’s latest quarterly performance has strengthened that argument. Apple reported March-quarter revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17 per cent from a year earlier, with diluted earnings per share rising […]

China’s Lead Over U.S. In AI Patent Applications Casts Its Shadow Over Trump-Xi Summit

Google exits Pentagon drone contest

Google has withdrawn from a $100 million US Department of Defense contest to build voice-controlled technology for autonomous drone swarms, stepping away after its proposal had advanced in the competition and reopening questions over how far major AI companies are willing to go in military work. The company notified the government on 11 February 2026 that it would not continue in the challenge, only weeks after submitting […]

OpenAI tests biosecurity guardrails

OpenAI has opened a GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty programme that invites selected researchers to test whether the company’s latest model can be pushed past safeguards designed to block dangerous biological guidance. The initiative offers a reward of up to $25,000 for the first verified “universal jailbreak” capable of defeating a five-question biosafety challenge from a clean chat without triggering moderation. The model in scope is GPT-5.5 in […]

Munsit sharpens Arabic voice race

  CNTXT AI has launched Munsit Emirati TTS, a native Arabic text-to-speech model designed to produce real-time, human-like speech in the UAE dialect for enterprise and consumer applications. The Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence company is positioning the system as a response to a long-running weakness in global voice technology: the inability of many speech engines to capture Arabic dialects with natural rhythm, pronunciation and cultural nuance. The […]

Google gives AI agents a verifiable passport

Google has moved to tackle one of enterprise AI’s hardest problems by giving each autonomous software agent its own cryptographic identity, part of a broader Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform unveiled at Cloud Next on 22 April. The idea is straightforward but consequential: every agent action can be tied to a unique, verifiable ID and checked against a defined set of permissions, creating an audit trail designed for […]

When AI takes the controls

Enterprises are moving into a more consequential phase of artificial intelligence adoption, one in which software no longer just drafts, suggests or summarises but can carry out multi-step work across finance, customer service, coding, procurement and compliance. That shift is forcing boards, risk teams and technology leaders to rethink an assumption that has shaped enterprise software for decades: if a human still presses the final button, responsibility […]

OpenAI turns to science with Rosalind

OpenAI has moved deeper into the scientific market with the launch of GPT-Rosalind, a specialist artificial intelligence model designed for biology, drug discovery and translational medicine, marking the company’s first dedicated push into life sciences as pharmaceutical groups and research institutes race to test whether advanced reasoning systems can shorten the slow and costly path from laboratory insight to new treatments. Announced on April 16, GPT-Rosalind is […]

AI vulnerability race gathers speed

Commercial artificial intelligence models are advancing quickly in vulnerability research and exploit development, sharpening concern across the cybersecurity industry that tools built for productivity and defence could also lower the barrier for offensive misuse. A study by Forescout’s Vedere Labs found that commercial systems now outperform open-source and underground alternatives in identifying software flaws, while more than half of the models tested were able to generate exploits […]

Sequoia maps $7bn push into AI elite

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Sequoia Capital has raised about $7 billion for a new fund, giving one of Silicon Valley’s best-known venture firms fresh firepower to back its largest and most expensive bets, especially in artificial intelligence, according to people familiar with the discussions. The fundraising marks the first major capital raise under the firm’s newer leadership era and arrives as investor appetite has swung sharply toward […]

OpenAI sharpens AI race for cyber defence

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.4-Cyber, a new version of its frontier model tailored for defensive cybersecurity work, moving quickly to answer growing concern that ever more capable AI systems could help both defenders and attackers in a widening digital arms race. The release came a week after Anthropic disclosed Claude Mythos Preview under its tightly controlled Project Glasswing programme, setting up a new contest over who can best […]

SoftBank widens hunt for OpenAI lenders

SoftBank Group’s push to raise broader backing for a $40 billion loan tied to its investment in OpenAI is drawing fresh attention to how far global lenders are willing to support Masayoshi Son’s debt-heavy bet on artificial intelligence. More banks are being approached to join the financing, extending a syndication effort that began after SoftBank secured the bridge facility in March, in what has become a major […]

OpenAI moves to secure Mac apps

OpenAI has told users of its Mac software to update their applications after a third-party supply-chain incident touched the company’s app-signing workflow, prompting a wider effort to replace security certificates and tighten the process that proves its desktop software is authentic. The company said there is no evidence that user data was accessed, that passwords or API keys were exposed, or that its systems, intellectual property or […]

OpenAI says Musk escalates trial clash

OpenAI has accused Elon Musk of staging a last-minute legal manoeuvre ahead of a jury trial due to begin on 27 April in Oakland, California, deepening a dispute that has grown from a fight over the company’s founding ideals into one of the most consequential courtroom battles in artificial intelligence. The latest exchange came after Musk amended his claims against OpenAI and Microsoft, widening the remedies he […]

Attack on Altman home sparks alarm

Police in San Francisco arrested a 20-year-old man after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the home of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, in an attack that was followed within an hour by threats against the company’s headquarters, according to police statements and OpenAI. No injuries were reported, but the episode has sharpened concerns over the security risks facing senior technology executives as arguments over artificial intelligence […]

AI tools widen Mexico breach alarm

Commercial artificial intelligence tools were used as operational components in a cyber campaign that hit nine Mexican government organisations, according to a full technical report published by Gambit Security, which said the intrusion ran from late December 2025 to mid-February 2026 and exposed hundreds of millions of citizen records. The report says Anthropic’s Claude Code generated about three-quarters of the remote command activity, while OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 was […]

One-line jailbreak raises wider AI safety alarms

  A newly disclosed technique dubbed “sockpuppeting” has sharpened concerns over how easily some artificial intelligence systems can be pushed past their safety controls, after researchers showed that a short output-prefix prompt inserted through an application programming interface can drive several leading open-weight models to produce harmful material they would normally refuse. The work, published in January by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, describes the method […]

Meta resets its AI race

Meta Platforms has unveiled Muse Spark, its first new flagship artificial intelligence model in about a year, marking a pivotal moment in Mark Zuckerberg’s attempt to restore the company’s standing against OpenAI, Google and Anthropic after a period of criticism around its earlier Llama releases. Muse Spark began rolling out on 8 April through the Meta AI app and the meta. ai website in the United States, […]

OpenAI charts a giant ad push

OpenAI is projecting a steep new revenue path built around advertising, with the ChatGPT maker expecting about $2.5 billion in ad revenue in 2026 and as much as $100 billion annually by 2030, according to a report by Axios citing investor presentation material. The same projections indicate ad sales could climb to $11 billion in 2027, $25 billion in 2028 and $53 billion in 2029, underscoring how […]

Catfishing and sock puppets as a public threat

  What used to be dismissed as internet oddity is moving into the mainstream of fraud prevention, platform regulation and organised crime analysis: the distinction between sock-puppet accounts and catfishing is no longer academic. Authorities, platforms and researchers are increasingly treating fake digital personas as a wider security and financial risk, particularly as artificial intelligence makes them cheaper to create, easier to scale and harder for ordinary […]