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The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) worker scheme with an aim to defraud U.S. businesses and generate illicit revenue for the regime to fund its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs. “The North Korean regime targets American companies through deceptive schemes carried out by its overseas IT operatives, who weaponize sensitive data and extort businesses for substantial payments,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. The fraudulent scheme, also called Coral Sleet/Jasper Sleet,…

The chatbot also is intentionally flexible, with the new integrations in mind. “It can take on slight tweaks to the look and feel, to make it feel like a natural part of other environments,” Danker says.Shopping ShiftThe new Walmart experience is part of a broader pivot for OpenAI to focus on having checkouts take place within embedded apps, the Information reported earlier this month, without providing a rationale for the change. Danker spoke about the shift at the Morgan Stanley investor conference this month but didn’t cite the data behind it.OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson says the company wants to focus…

The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, at a recent MIT seminar. “We need to work with each other for the good of both of our countries.” During the MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition presentation, Burns gave insight into the evolving state of U.S.-China relations, its implications for the global order, and its impact on global efforts to advance the energy transition and address climate change.“We are the two largest global economies,” said Burns, who is now the Goodman Professor…

Phaidra leaders, from left: CTO Vedavyas Panneershelvam, CEO Jim Gao, and COO Katherine Hoffman. (Phaidra Photo) Phaidra, a startup using artificial intelligence to make data center operations more energy efficient, this week announced key collaborations with Nvidia, CoreWeave and Applied Digital. The Seattle company revealed “groundbreaking methodology” that predicts and prevents data center heat spikes when computing workloads surge. Phaidra has been partnering with cloud provider CoreWeave and data center operator Applied Digital to test and deploy the cooling strategy. As data center operations and deployments boom nationwide, demand for energy and water to run the facilities and cool the…

Cybersecurity solutions and services provider Specter Ops Inc. today announced an expansion of its BloodHound Enterprise platform to cover Okta Inc., GitHub and Mac environments and introduced new OpenGraph extensions to map and remediate identity-based attack paths across hybrid systems. The new BloodHound Enterprise expands identity attack path visibility and remediation to allow organizations to identify and prioritize hybrid attack paths across identity providers, applications and repositories. At the same time, they can access remediation guidance to shut down pathways before they can be exploited. The new capabilities also support customers in maturing their identity attack path management practice. Features of the…

Introduction Open‑weight models are rapidly narrowing the gap with closed commercial systems. As of early 2026, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.5 is the flagship of this trend: a one‑trillion parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) model that accepts images and videos, reasons over long contexts and can autonomously call external tools. Unlike closed alternatives, its weights are publicly downloadable under a modified MIT licence, enabling unprecedented flexibility. This article explains how K2.5 works, evaluates its performance, and helps AI infrastructure teams decide whether and how to adopt it. Throughout we incorporate original frameworks like the Kimi Capability Spectrum and the AI Infra Maturity Model…

When Sam Altman first told her that he’d never let OpenAI go corporate, that what he and his colleagues were building was too powerful to be driven by investors, Catherine Bracy more or less believed him.The conversation took place in 2022, when Bracy, CEO and founder of the social mobility-focused nonprofit TechEquity, was interviewing Altman for a book she was writing about the dangers of venture capital. It was before Altman’s mysterious firing and unfiring a year later, after which he mostly stopped responding to Bracy’s texts.And ever since then, OpenAI — which was initially founded as a nonprofit in…

Key Takeaways Best practices for threat detection in hybrid cloud environments focus on visibility across both cloud and on-premise systems. Hybrid cloud monitoring helps security teams identify suspicious behavior across distributed workloads. Detection and response strategies must connect identity, network, and workload activity. Automating incident response in a hybrid cloud environment improves containment and investigation speed. Hybrid cloud environments rarely start as a carefully planned architecture. Most organizations reach that point gradually.A few workloads move to the cloud first. Then development teams adopt additional cloud services. Meanwhile, critical systems continue running on-premise because they cannot easily migrate.Over time, the result…

The content vs. sales debate has been running for years. Here’s why the war itself is the wrong battle – and what SaaS organizations should be fighting for instead. The debate has been running for years now. Sales teams think marketing is making noise. Marketing teams think sales is sabotaging their leads. Both factions are presenting their case like it’s 1847 and they’re arguing land borders. Here’s the problem: the war itself is the problem. Not the teams. Not the strategy. The framing. The first touch is dead. Nobody told the playbooks. Ask most SaaS organizations how they think about…

Subnautica 2 has weathered the storm and has rescheduled its early access release. IGN reported today that the sequel to the underwater survival game will begin early access on PC and Xbox in May, although a more specific date was not provided.The news comes a day after a judge ruled that former Unknown Worlds Entertainment CEO Ted Gill should be rehired at the game studio. That decision capped off a dramatic year for the team behind Subnautica, which was acquired by Krafton in 2021. The studio and its new owners entered a legal battle because the purchase of Unknown Worlds…