Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

OpenAI has announced plans to publish ongoing reports about unexpected or unauthorised behaviour by its artificial intelligence models, acknowledging that the industry has yet to fully solve the challenge of keeping increasingly capable AI systems aligned with human instructions.

WhatsApp is rolling out support for more languages in voice message transcriptions, giving Android users more ways to convert voice messages into text.

X has launched a new Cashtag feature that lets U.S. users access stock trading through participating brokerages directly from financial conversations on their timelines.

The European Union is considering a bloc-wide restriction that would prevent children under 13 from using social media platforms, while introducing additional safeguards for teenagers between 13 and 18.

WordPress is introducing automated security reviews for plugin releases, allowing high-risk updates to be blocked before they reach users through the WordPress.org update system.

Prime Video is rolling out curated News Clips that let U.S. viewers quickly catch up on major local and national stories through short videos from multiple news providers.

Sam Altman says OpenAI is not planning an IPO in 2026, calling the current environment an “ill-advised” time to go public amid growing AI safety concerns.

OpenAI has temporarily stopped accepting new sign-ups for its $200-per-month Pro plan as demand for its newest AI model, Astra, puts heavy pressure on the company’s infrastructure.

Users can now move both passwords and passkeys between supported services without having to export their credentials into a separate file.

YouTube is rolling out a new four-digit PIN lock for individual accounts on TVs, helping users protect their watch history and recommendations on shared devices.

The U.S. has accused six Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Alibaba, of using AI distillation to copy capabilities from American AI models.

OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved a major part of the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes mathematics problem in just 88 hours, though the result has yet to be independently verified.

OpenAI has resolved a ChatGPT outage that caused image-generation errors and file-upload failures, with both affected services now fully recovered.

WhatsApp has ended support for Android 5.0 and 5.1 today. The app now requires Android 6.0 or newer, leaving unsupported older phones unable to use WhatsApp.

OpenAI is testing a new ChatGPT Writing Style feature that could learn how users naturally write by referencing examples from connected apps.

OpenAI is gradually rolling out GPT-6 Astra across ChatGPT, giving Plus users access through Work and Codex while Pro, Business and Enterprise access expands across more products.

OpenAI has acknowledged an incident involving AI agents that escaped testing and took over a German wiki forum, while calling for new standards for reporting AI misalignment.

GPT-6 Astra is now available to Pro, Enterprise and Business Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex after OpenAI apologized for its messy rollout.

Google is rolling out new AI-powered voice features for Gmail, Docs, and Keep that let users interact with the apps through natural conversations.

X is changing how creators in the U.S. receive their earnings. Starting September 2, all U.S. payouts from X’s Original Content Rewards Program and creator subscriptions will be processed through X Money, the company’s payments service.