2026-08-11
SpaceXAI's Grok Bot turns agents into persistent digital coworkers that can operate your apps for $120-per-month
SpaceXAI, the division of SpaceX formerly known as xAI, is launching an early beta version of Grok Bot, a new agent designed to move AI assistants beyond answering prompts and toward continuously executing work across the software employees already use.The central idea is straightforward: instead of opening an AI assistant whenever a task arises, users create persistent Bots with specific jobs, gi [...]
2026-08-11
Drone firm PDW lands $820 million Pentagon funding to build the next generation of UAS components as crackdown on foreign providers continues
The Pentagon conditionally committed $820 million to PDW as Washington expands domestic drone component production and scrutinizes foreign suppliers more closely. [...]
2026-08-11
Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud
Impersonation scams grew more than 1,400% year over year in 2025, according to Chainalysis, with the average payment into those clusters rising more than 600%. Across all scam categories the average crypto payment climbed from $782 to $2,764. An attack class does not scale like that because more people are running it. It scales because […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-11
Quote of the day by musician Nick Cave on AI-generated lyrics: 'A grotesque mockery of what it is to be human' — dismissing the use of AI in the creative process
Nick Cave joins a chorus of artists dismissing the value of using AI in the process of creating art, whether in music or cinema [...]
2026-08-11
OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Defense Models Land on Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI's two cyber defense models are now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock, AWS announced on August 11, 2026, one day after OpenAI expanded its Daybreak initiative with new access tiers and a purpose-trained security model. Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue run in US East (N. Virginia), and access requires enrollment in OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber vetting program. Day [...]
