What to know as the US tries to open the Strait of Hormuz and a ceasefire wavers

The ceasefire in the Iran war faces its most critical moment yet as the United States begins efforts to open the Strait of ...
MacRumors

OpenAI Codex Update Adds Computer Use, Image Generation, and Memory on Mac

OpenAI is making several updates to its Codex AI coding agent. Codex is now able to operate desktop Mac apps with its own cursor, seeing what's on the screen, clicking, and typing to complete tasks.
The New York Times

Russia and China Veto Proposed U.N. Resolution to Open the Strait of Hormuz

The vote came hours before an 8 p.m. deadline set by President Trump to reach a deal to reopen the waterway. By Farnaz Fassihi Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a resolution at the United Nations ...
VentureBeat

Anthropic cuts off the ability to use Claude subscriptions with OpenClaw and third-party AI agents

Are you a subscriber to Anthropic's Claude Pro ($20 monthly) or Max ($100-$200 monthly) plans and use its Claude AI models and products to power third-party AI agents like OpenClaw? If so, you're in ...
VentureBeat

Arcee's new, open source Trinity-Large-Thinking is the rare, powerful U.S.-made AI model that enterprises can download and customize

The baton of open source AI models has been passed on between several companies over the years since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, from Meta with its Llama family to Chinese labs like Qwen and z.ai.
The New York Times

A Bid to Use Force to Open Strait of Hormuz Hits Roadblocks at U.N. Security Council

Several permanent members of the Security Council opposed the resolution, drafted by Bahrain in coordination with its Gulf neighbors, officials said. By Farnaz Fassihi and Vivian Nereim Farnaz Fassihi ...
Wall Street Journal

U.A.E. Wants to Force Hormuz Open and Is Willing to Join the Fight

WSJ’s Shelby Holliday breaks down the training, equipment and operations of the Marine Corps’s expeditionary units as several get deployed to the Middle East amid a war with Iran. Photo: Lance Cpl.
Bleeping Computer

Claude AI finds Vim, Emacs RCE bugs that trigger on file open

Vulnerabilities in the Vim and GNU Emacs text editors, discovered using simple prompts with the Claude assistant, allow remote code execution simply by opening a file. The assistant also created ...
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI Scraps Sora Video Platform Months After Launch

WSJ’s Wilson Rothman played with OpenAI’s Sora app. It made him feel very creative—and very lonely. OpenAI is planning to pull the plug on its Sora video platform, a product it released to great ...
Reuters

China's open-source dominance threatens US AI lead, US advisory body warns

Chinese open-source AI overtaking US models in data collection, report says China best positioned to benefit from shift towards physical AI Some Western firms prefer low-cost Chinese models BEIJING, ...
Ars Technica

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...
Los Angeles Times

California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes — a step toward healing a 175-year-old broken promise

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A new California policy aims to bring at least 7.5 million acres under the care of tribes, representing the ...