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Published on August 28, 2026 at 08:43 Updated on August 29, 2026 at 10:34 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Coolcaesar/Wikimedia An AI that cuts a researcher’s workweek short while its own creators press the pause button. The major back-to-school divide plays out in San Francisco. The magazine Time spent two weeks inside OpenAI and publishes a long account drawing on interviews with Sam Altman and his lieutenants. Between two protests outside headquarters, the company l

Published on August 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM Updated on August 29, 2026 at 8:30 AM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more than one hundred companies have published an open letter calling for a “global response” to AI cyberattacks. This collective alarm call follows a summer marked by several AIs breaking out of their testing framework to launch offensives. The signatories are demanding strong measures from governments and AI companies. O

Published on August 28, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Alexis_Anice - Iliad Xavier Niel’s group has the land, the 700 megawatts and the 4 billion. The missing piece of the puzzle is buried somewhere in a stack of binders, and no one knows for how long. In early June, beneath the wood-paneled ceilings of Versailles, Masayoshi Son (Softbank) was promising up to 75 billion euros worth of AI data centers for France, with a presidential handshake to top

Published on August 29, 2026 at 08:31 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Editing by 01net Apple makes accusations, OpenAI dismisses them, and a California judge will rule on October 1. The latest motion seeks more than a simple rejection: an outright ban on Apple from trying again. Between Cupertino and San Francisco, the summer of 2026 will be fought through legal briefs. Since July 10, Apple has been pursuing two of its former executives, Chang Liu and Tang Tan, as wel

Published on August 30, 2026 at 09:30 Comment 6 𝕏 Print © Microsoft The billionaire who dismissed any notion of pausing AI development in 2023 is now calling for machines to be taxed. Between two rounds of advice to governments, the Microsoft co-founder discovers that innovation can leave destruction in its wake. In 2023, an open letter signed by a thousand researchers and entrepreneurs called for a six-month pause in the development of large AI models. Bi

Published on August 30, 2026 at 3:03 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Capture 01net Google's AI summaries used to be displayed collapsed, with users having to click to read further. This safeguard has just failed: for some queries, the box expands on its own, and the regular links shift a little further down. Since their general rollout, AI Overviews have sat at the top of the results page, in the form of an AI-generated summary that Google used to truncate by def

Published on August 31, 2026 at 08:31 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © 01net.com - Lionel Morillon - For the time being, Apple’s Mac Studio is the most powerful Apple Silicon Mac. Renting your Mac out to AIs at night and pocketing up to $200 per month: the promise has been circulating for the past few days. A French internet user measured everything, from the token to the watt. The verdict comes down to two decimal places. Millions of Macs spend their days in standby,

Published on August 31, 2026 at 4:02 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © MacStadium Tens of thousands of Mac minis would have ended up in OpenAI’s labs. At Nvidia, the first RTX Spark PCs are reserved before they even exist. Meanwhile, consumers are seeing lead times stretch and prices rise. Apple Mac Studio 4.3/5 See the review View the technical specifications You’ve already felt the shortage of RAM in PC prices this year. Now computers themselves are becoming scarce

Published on August 31, 2026 at 18:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net OpenAI is making a major change to the billing of some of its large customers. No more tokens burned without tangible benefit; performance-based billing is taking its place. Sam Altman’s company hopes in particular to reassure companies that fear seeing their AI budget go up in smoke without achieving the expected results. For the time being, major artificial intelligence providers us

Published on September 1, 2026 at 08:01 Comment 1 𝕏 Print Conceptual view of the data center commissioned from Bull © LUMI-AI and Nordic Architects Europe has just commissioned from Bull an AI supercomputer worth €387.8 million for Finland. Just five months after moving under public ownership, the former flagship of Atos is filling its order book faster than Bercy issues its press releases. Bull, you may have filed it away in the same drawer as the Minitel

Published on September 1, 2026 at 08:05 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash South Korea will make freely available to its population an artificial intelligence with no limit on use. With its “AI for All” program, the government’s goal is twofold. As part of its “ AI for All ” program, the South Korean government will roll out among the population an artificial intelligence that is accessible free of charge and with no limit on use. In other words, in this country

Published on September 1, 2026 at 12:18 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Editing by 01net While OpenAI wants to quickly close the case, Apple is multiplying accusations in what is shaping up to be the industrial espionage case of the decade. August 31, 2026 will remain in Cupertino’s history as Tim Cook’s last day at the helm, almost exactly fifteen years to the day after he succeeded Steve Jobs. John Ternus, who has headed hardware engineering for years, takes the rei

Published on September 2, 2026 at 10:31 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net OpenAI revealed that Astra, its future model intended for ChatGPT, crossed the “critical” threshold for the first time during a safety evaluation. The AI is capable of discovering unknown vulnerabilities and independently mounting cyberattacks against protected systems, without human intervention. After taking a series of precautions, OpenAI intends to launch the AI in the near futu

Published on September 2, 2026 at 4:04 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic has just released two new AI models to power Claude, namely Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The duo has distinguished itself through a series of achievements in cybersecurity and science. They are also cheaper, more capable in programming, and equipped with more precise safeguards in cybersecurity. Anthropic has just unveiled two new artificial intelligence models for

Published on September 3, 2026 at 3:01 p.m. Comment 7 𝕏 Print © Thomas Estimbre / 01net.com Hacked this summer and called out over its digital defenses, the state is spending big and enlisting Mistral's services to shore up its ministries. One detail complicates the picture: its own officials prefer ChatGPT. It has been a tough summer for the Directorate General of Public Finance. The hacking of the tax authority exposed the tax data of 678,000 individuals

You may not use Gemini or other AI products, but many people do, and their ranks are growing. During day three of Google’s antitrust remedies trial, the company presented a slide showing that Gemini reached 350 million monthly active users as of March 2025. That’s a massive increase from last year, showing that Google is beginning to gain traction among competing chatbots, but Google’s estimation of ChatGPT’s traffic shows it still has a long climb ahead o

Google’s antitrust remedy trial started this week, and the Department of Justice has produced several witnesses to testify about how Google’s stranglehold on search has slowed their innovation. On day three, Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko told the court that Google blocked Perplexity from being the default on Motorola phones, which is precisely the kind of anticompetitive behavior that got it in hot water. It would appear there is some

Donald Trump’s executive order requiring artificial intelligence training in education as a national priority has been met with enthusiasm and confusion. On the one hand, his plans to promote early AI training in K–12 schools appear to be “critical,” as Trump says, to “maintain America’s global dominance in this technological revolution for future generations.” To that end, the order established an AI Presidential Challenge to highlight significant student

A lawyer representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell in a defamation case admitted using artificial intelligence in a brief that has nearly 30 defective citations, including misquotes and citations to fictional cases, a federal judge said. “[T]he Court identified nearly thirty defective citations in the Opposition. These defects include but are not limited to misquotes of cited cases; misrepresentations of principles of law associated with cited cases,

ChatGPT users have become frustrated with the AI model’s tone, and OpenAI is taking action. After widespread mockery of the robot’s relentlessly positive and complimentary output recently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirms the company will roll back the latest update to GPT-4o. So get ready for a more reserved and less sycophantic chatbot, at least for now. GPT-4o is not a new model—OpenAI released it almost a year ago, and it remains the default when you acc