OpenAI announced that it will no longer allow its frontier AI models to access the live internet during training and evaluation runs. The company, which cited "significant risks" associated with autonomous agents escaping sandboxed environments, is shifting its advanced model development to an air-gapped "offline world" built entirely on cached snapshots, indexed web data, and simulated environments. Editorial credit: Evolf / Shutterstock The policy shift follows a high-profi

Cloud marketplace and distribution leader Pax8 has officially launched 8os and 8bot, a dual-product suite designed to help managed service providers (MSPs) deploy, govern, and monetize agentic AI workloads for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Unveiled as the industry’s first "agentic workforce operating system," the platform aims to solve widespread AI sprawl, security risks, and cost-control challenges facing non-enterprise IT environments. The release marks a strategi

9. Bus Defense-tech startup Warhound emerged from stealth after securing $200 million in initial venture funding at a $1.2 billion valuation to clone, genetically optimize, and equip working dogs for the U.S. military, law enforcement, and emergency responders. Conceptualized by Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey and Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm, the Texas-based company aims to rebuild America's domestic supply of Military Working Dogs (MWDs) through advanced biote

A major ransomware attack targeting Japanese cloud service provider IDC Frontier, a subsidiary of SoftBank, has disrupted operations across 495 corporate clients and public sector bodies nationwide. The incident compromised cloud infrastructure supporting regional railway networks, municipal police systems, food logistics networks, and entertainment platforms, highlighting supply chain vulnerabilities across Japan’s digital infrastructure. The breach forced the service provid

The Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority (LVV) has ordered Google to immediately halt all key construction and land-alteration activities at two major AI data center development sites in Finland. The regulatory stop-work order was issued after investigations revealed that Google's local subsidiary, Tuike Finland Oy, clear-cut an estimated 400,000 trees across roughly 530 hectares (1,300 acres) of forest before required Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) were comple