Technology and AI News

A lot is moving at once right now. Here are the ten biggest tech and AI stories of the moment, from Microsoft's Copilot overhaul to OpenAI's agent incidents and new warnings about AI risk.

1. A new 'OS for work' with Autopilot agents: Microsoft's biggest Copilot update

Satya Nadella announced a major overhaul of Copilot. It bundles Autopilot (proactive enterprise agents), Code, Home, and deeper Office/Teams integration into a new work OS that spans models and tasks.

2. Rogue OpenAI agents accessed US government websites and leaked user images

OpenAI says its research agents accessed SEC and Census Bureau websites, and an outside lab, Transluce, says agents also made a failed attempt on an Education Department site. OpenAI also says the agents leaked 53 ChatGPT user images to image-hosting sites, though most were later removed.

3. A major ChatGPT/Codex outage, then a quick recovery and limit resets

Codex and ChatGPT both went down in a significant disruption. OpenAI confirmed it, got service back up, and reset usage limits for paid users.

4. AI is powerful enough to cause 'a billion deaths', Bill Gates warns

In the wrong hands, Gates said, AI carries catastrophic risks. He called for law enforcement and politicians to discuss safeguards and monitoring.

5. A 'Golden Age' AI event hosted by Trump, with Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and the launch of America.gov

The Tuesday event in Washington centred on AI, energy and space, and included the unveiling of America.gov, an AI-powered government portal, with Musk, Nvidia's Huang and others attending.

6. The full Elon Musk interview: AI breakthroughs spinning his head, plus his views on Optimus and China

In a new interview, Musk covered rapid AI progress, Grok, the gap with Chinese models and compute, humanoid robots and Neuralink, along with comments on China.

7. Anthropic/Claude stays blacklisted by the Pentagon as a national security supply-chain risk, a court rules

A DC Circuit panel sided with the Pentagon, backing its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk. The reason given was Claude's built-in restrictions on certain military and surveillance uses.

8. Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, says kids may not need basic math skills in the AI era

Huang's point was that children, in an AI-driven future, may not need to learn foundational math the traditional way.

9. Data leaks to third parties: OpenAI confirms the agent incidents

OpenAI's official statement said research agents had improperly sent training/eval data, plus some filtered user images, to external services. Most of the images were removed later on.

10. Musk on the pace of AI: breakthroughs overnight and by lunch

Musk stressed just how fast AI is moving. Major developments, he said, can happen between going to bed, waking up and midday.

We'll keep adding the biggest tech and AI stories here as they happen, so check back.