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Pro-Palestinian operation claims dozens of data breaches against Israeli firms

Hacktivist group Cyber Toufan claims 60 data breaches of Israeli and allied firms, wiping systems and erasing backups; Check Point links it to Iran.

The pro-Palestinian group Cyber Toufan said it released stolen data from 60 Israeli and foreign firms, including SpaceX, Toyota and IKEA, as part of a month-long leak operation launched in late November. Researchers at Check Point and SOC Radar assess the leaks are genuine, likely stemming partly from a major attack on Israeli hosting company Signature-IT, and attribute the group to Iran; researcher Kevin Beaumont said roughly a third of victims remain offline weeks later with backups erased. Google blocked the group's Telegram leak channel, while about 10 Iranian-backed hacking groups are assessed to be attacking Israel in the ongoing cyberwar.

The Record·Sep 8, 00:00 UTC · 8d agoThreat actor in the wild

Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant

Target-owned delivery platform Shipt launched Ask Shipt, an AI shopping assistant that turns prompts and dish photos into ready-to-buy carts.

Shipt, the same-day delivery platform owned by Target, announced Ask Shipt, an AI assistant that converts text prompts, budget constraints, and uploaded dish photos into customized shopping carts. It follows similar 2026 launches from Instacart (Clementine), Uber Eats, and DoorDash. Target.com has separately added AI features such as photo search and review summaries. The tool is available now in the Shipt app and on Shipt.com.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 9, 14:51 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

To See a World in a Living Context: Unified Indoor-Outdoor Urban World Generation

Researchers introduce HoloWorld, a unified text-driven framework generating coherent indoor-outdoor 3D urban worlds, improving average AQS over SOTA by 7.68%.

HoloWorld is a text-driven 3D generation framework that unifies indoor and outdoor urban world generation using a continuously updated cross-scale world context. It autoregressively generates urban exteriors with consistent spatial organization, grounded in 3D building instances and footprints, then produces building-specific interiors with geometry-constrained layouts that inherit exterior appearance. The authors claim it is the first framework to unify indoor and outdoor generation within one coherent 3D urban world, reporting a 7.68% average AQS improvement over prior SOTA and the highest average RDR score.

Hugging Face daily papers·Aug 28, 20:00 UTC · 19d agoAI research

Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design

Formas launches Cartesian, an AI 3D modeling tool for architecture and product design with natural-language editing and CAD exports.

Cartesian by Formas is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool aimed at architecture and product design that converts photos, rough plans, sketches, and scans into precise geometry. Users can edit models conversationally while explicitly preserved elements stay unchanged. It creates real solids and NURBS geometry and exports to AutoCAD DWG, Rhino 3DM, and SketchUp SKP, with BIM IFC support planned, removing the need for a separate desktop CAD license.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 15, 15:26 UTC · 1d agoAI industryHN 42↑ · 32 comments

The hinge for Apple’s new foldable phone was built with AI

Apple's first foldable phone, the Duo, uses AI algorithms and 3D printing to manufacture its precision-matched hinge and durability coatings.

Apple introduced its first foldable phone, the Duo, at its Surprise and Shine event on September 9. Chief hardware officer Johny Srouji said AI algorithms match each hinge with its best-fit housing, while confocal laser scans guide 3D printing of up to 25 micro layers of custom photopolymer to eliminate residual waviness. The device also features a nano-texture anti-glare finish and multi-layer lamination aimed at improving foldable durability.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 9, 19:21 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

Fashion app Daydream uses Apple Intelligence to help you shop the outfits in your camera roll

Fashion app Daydream uses iOS 27 Apple Intelligence APIs to turn saved outfit photos into shoppable matches and enable Siri voice search.

Daydream launched photo-based outfit shopping and Siri natural-language search built on Apple's iOS 27 developer tools, matching images against roughly 3 million products from 325+ retailers and 10,000 brands. The app claims over 1.5 million shoppers and frames the features as steps toward a cross-surface shopping agent. Competitors include Google, Amazon, Onton, and Alta.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 14, 17:00 UTC · 2d agoAI industry

Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine

Instacart launches Clementine, a conversational AI grocery assistant that turns chats, lists, or recipes into purchasable carts in the US and Canada.

Instacart launched Clementine, an AI assistant that converts conversations, grocery lists, photos of handwritten lists, or recipes into ready-to-buy carts, now available in the US and Canada. It generates personalized recipes, tailors recommendations to dietary needs such as gluten-free and vegetarian, and surfaces deals and lower-cost alternatives. Uber Eats and DoorDash have launched similar AI assistants as delivery apps compete to become households' default meal-planning tools.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 9, 13:00 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

Hugging Face details building and using multi-vector late-interaction embedding models with Sentence Transformers for retrieval workloads.

Hugging Face published a guide on multi-vector, late-interaction embedding models (ColBERT-style) supported through Sentence Transformers. The post covers how practitioners can build and use these models for retrieval and RAG pipelines. It is a developer tooling and technique write-up, not a security advisory.

Hugging Face Blog·Aug 18, 00:00 UTC · 29d agoAI tools & infra1

The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center

Ars Technica probes diffuse accountability behind TeraWulf's $3.2B Lake Mariner AI data center after a June fire exposed safety and job gaps.

A June fire at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York exposed missing alarms, a nonfunctioning suppression system, and dry hydrants, highlighting how responsibility is split across TeraWulf (owner-operator), Fluidstack (operator), Google (lease guarantees and equity warrants), and Anthropic (compute customer). The article details local concerns over the gap between promised 165 permanent jobs and a projected 35-40, socialized grid costs, and Governor Hochul's moratorium on hyperscaler development. Anthropic's February 2026 pledge to cover electricity price increases applies to the site but leaves other commitments unverified.

Ars Technica · AI·Sep 7, 11:00 UTC · 9d agoAI industry

I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw.

MIT Technology Review reports on China's humanoid robot industry push and embodied AI strategy from a Shanghai event.

A dispatch from a Shanghai humanoid robot 'carnival' describes China's push into embodied AI, embedding artificial intelligence into physical systems. Embodied AI is a key facet of China's latest five-year plan, and Chinese companies are already world leaders in humanoid robots. Nearly 90% of the market discussion centers on domestic adoption of the machines.

MIT Technology Review · AI·Aug 25, 09:00 UTC · 22d agoAI industry1

U.S. Defense Manufacturer IEH Hit by Phishing Attack, Exposing Potentially Export

Security Affairs·Aug 9, 16:44 UTC · Aug 9, 2026Phishing & fraud

TANGO: Humanoid Navigation in Cluttered Environments with a Whole-Body Vision-Language-Action Model

Researchers introduce TANGO, a whole-body vision-language-action model enabling zero-shot language-guided humanoid navigation on the Unitree G1 robot.

TANGO addresses humanoid navigation in cluttered indoor environments by predicting 29-DoF joint-space actions directly from natural-language instructions and egocentric RGB, rather than 2D path planning. It is trained entirely in simulation via a pipeline combining global path planning, kinematic whole-body motion generation, obstacle-aware motion editing, and RL-based tracking. In simulation it achieves state-of-the-art vision-language navigation performance and transfers zero-shot to a Unitree G1 humanoid without any real-world navigation data.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 7, 20:00 UTC · 9d agoAI research1

SK Hynix reportedly in talks with Intel to build memory chips in US

SK Hynix is reportedly negotiating with Intel to manufacture memory chips in the US, possibly leasing space at Intel's Ohio fab.

Reuters reports SK Hynix and Intel have discussed SK Hynix producing RAM in the US for the first time, including leasing space at Intel's planned Ohio factory or forming a joint venture that could include cloud-service providers; SK Hynix says nothing is finalized. The company is already building a $3.8 billion AI chip packaging and research facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, with mass production expected to begin in 2029, amid surging HBM demand from AI data centers. The potential deal could face a South Korean government review over transfers of strategically important chip technology, and follows Intel's 2020 sale of its NAND flash business to SK Hynix for $9 billion.

TechCrunch · AI·13:23 UTC · 10h agoAI industry

Recorded FutureがGartner® サイバー脅威インテリジェンス・テクノロジー部門のMagic Quadrant™のリーダーの１社に位置づけられました。

Recorded Future·Aug 5, 00:00 UTC · Aug 5, 2026Phishing & fraud

Axis Robotics Releases AXIS: A Browser-Based Data Engine With 207 Robot Manipulation Tasks and 50,129 Trajectories

Axis Robotics and academic partners released AXIS, a browser-based teleoperation system yielding 207 manipulation tasks and 50,129 trajectories that lifts pi0.5 to 88.8 on LIBERO-Plus.

A team from Axis Robotics, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and NTU introduced AXIS, a browser-based data engine where contributors teleoperate a simulated Franka Research 3 in a MuJoCo WebAssembly frontend while GPU backends handle task generation, training, and evaluation. The released snapshot holds 207 tasks, 50,129 episodes, and 60K+ task or scene variants from more than 70,000 community contributors. Continual pretraining of pi0.5 on AXIS data raises LIBERO-Plus performance from 83.9 to 88.8, versus 57.5 for a volume-matched RoboCasa365 control; the 2.36 TB dataset is gated for non-commercial academic use.

MarkTechPost·Sep 7, 18:38 UTC · 9d agoAI research

Polimill builds Japan's next-generation public AI infrastructure

OpenAI says Japanese company Polimill uses GPT models and Codex to give municipalities searchable access to administrative knowledge.

OpenAI published a customer story describing how Polimill, a Japanese civic technology company, builds public AI infrastructure using OpenAI GPT models and Codex. The tools let municipalities search and reuse administrative knowledge and are intended to accelerate internal development workflows.

OpenAI News·Aug 31, 07:00 UTC · 16d agoAI industry

PurpleDelta's Fraudulent Employment Operations

Recorded Future details North Korean cluster PurpleDelta using AI-generated personas and ChatGPT assistants to infiltrate companies via fraudulent employment.

Recorded Future profiles PurpleDelta, a North Korean IT worker threat cluster, in a new research report. The group uses AI-generated personas, sophisticated tradecraft, and custom ChatGPT assistants to obtain employment at target organizations and operate covertly. The report includes key indicators of compromise and recommended mitigation strategies for defenders.

Recorded Future·Aug 18, 00:00 UTC · 29d agoThreat actor

A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup from a former Spotify leader for making music apps

Former Spotify innovation head raises $5.5M pre-seed for A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, a startup building playful music-creation apps with selective generative AI features.

A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, founded by former Spotify head of innovation Máuhan M Zonoozy, raised a $5.5M pre-seed round from Mantis VC, SV Angel, Boxgroup, Quiet Capital and others. The startup ships small music-play apps including Speed Surfer, Usersound, Stacks, Drops, Sampler, and the iOS mixer app bop, plus a new prompt-based sound creation feature. Zonoozy says the company deliberately avoids infusing AI into every product, arguing human taste and participation become more valuable as AI-generated content grows abundant.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 14, 13:55 UTC · 2d agoAI industry 2 sources

17 draft Cyber Resilience Act standards are open for comment

ETSI publishes 17 draft harmonised standards detailing EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance, open for comment until between mid-September and mid-November 2026.

Seventeen draft standards covering the higher-risk tier of products with digital elements, including password managers, antivirus software, connected toys and wearables, are open for comment. Following a Harmonised Standard grants manufacturers the presumption of conformity with the Cyber Resilience Act, whose obligations apply through the end of 2027 to importers, distributors, service providers and developers. The drafts went to 41 member organisations plus societal partners ANEC, ECOS, ETUC and SBS, with closing dates varying by vertical.

Help Net Security·Aug 14, 00:00 UTC · Aug 14, 2026Policy & legal

Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work

AP automation firm Stampli used OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT Work to cut product launch production hours by 68%.

Stampli, an accounts-payable automation company, compressed weeks of launch production into days using Codex and ChatGPT Work. Facing a fixed deadline with design resources committed elsewhere, the team reported a 68% reduction in launch hours. The piece is an OpenAI customer adoption case study.

OpenAI News·Aug 20, 00:00 UTC · 27d agoAI industry

There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything

An essay argues AI capex ($1.0–1.3T in 2026) now rivals global human-benefit spending and predicts shortages spreading from DRAM/HBM to cars and appliances.

The essay claims AI demand has caused DRAM and NAND shortages, doubled US gas turbine prices, and pushed memory makers to shift DRAM capacity to HBM. It cites the Hugging Face hack, where models self-organized and persisted information, and ARC-AGI 3 being solved in six months by OpenAI's general-purpose LLM ('Astra') as evidence of rapid capability gains. The author predicts mass humanoid robot production within five years will inflate prices of cars and appliances, and notes AI capital investment ($1.0–1.3T in 2026) now matches the ~$1.3T spent globally on human-benefit research and aid.

Hacker News · security·Sep 6, 19:45 UTC · 10d agoAI industryHN 50↑ · 88 comments

RoboSPA: Can VLA Models Go Beyond Simple Scenes and Short-Horizon Tasks?

RoboSPA introduces a 527K-trajectory benchmark with 280 task variants showing current VLA models struggle with spatial reasoning and long-horizon planning.

RoboSPA is a large-scale robotic manipulation dataset and benchmark for diagnosing embodied reasoning in vision-language-action models, covering fine-grained spatial reasoning and long-horizon procedural planning. It spans 10 task categories and 56 base tasks instantiated across five difficulty levels for 280 variants, with 527K trajectories collected across multiple embodiments and diverse scenes. Diagnostic metrics go beyond binary success rates, and experiments show current VLA models struggle with complex spatial relations, precise low-level execution, and memory-intensive planning.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 3, 20:00 UTC · 13d agoAI research

Harrods becomes latest retailer to announce attempted cyberattack

The Record·Aug 5, 00:00 UTC · Aug 5, 2026Ransomware

Mercator ↔ Equal Earth

Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work to build an animated D3 transition between Mercator and Equal Earth map projections.

Willison built an animated transition between the Mercator and Equal Earth map projections using D3. The tool was generated by GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work. Equal Earth is a projection recently voted on at the UN. The post is a vibe-coding demonstration rather than a security or major model event.

Simon Willison·Sep 7, 16:24 UTC · 9d agoAI tools & infra1

How Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code

Hugging Face explains how Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets power semantic search on Papers with Code.

Hugging Face describes the infrastructure behind search on Papers with Code, built on its Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets services. The post is a product-focused engineering walkthrough with no security impact.

Hugging Face Blog·Aug 21, 00:00 UTC · 26d agoAI tools & infra

UniMate: One Unified Model to Animate Diverse Skeletons

UniMate is a topology-aware diffusion transformer generating articulated motion for arbitrary rigged skeletons from text, trained on 13,006 motion sequences.

UniMate is a unified foundation model that animates arbitrary rigged 3D skeletons from an asset and text prompt with no test-time optimization or per-skeleton retraining. It uses a topology-aware diffusion transformer combining graph-aware attention bias from joint relations and geodesic distances, a spectral rotary position embedding generalizing RoPE to kinematic trees via the graph Laplacian, and a global topological conditioner. The accompanying UniML3D dataset spans 13,006 motion sequences across bipedal, quadrupedal, avian, marine, insectoid, serpentine, and articulated rigid-object skeletons; the model outperforms baselines and supports zero-shot cross-topology transfer, in-betweening, expansion, and text-guided editing.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 3, 20:00 UTC · 13d agoAI research

Analysis of Smoke Loader in New Tsunami Campaign

Fake Japanese Meteorological Agency tsunami warning emails delivered Smoke Loader and AzoRult malware to steal credentials from targets in Japan.

A fake tsunami warning email impersonating Japan's Meteorological Agency asked recipients to click a link on a registered fake agency domain, delivering the commodity loader Smoke Loader to targets in Japan. Smoke Loader, active since 2011, is modular, and its payloads have included banking trojans, ransomware, cryptominers, password stealers, and PoS malware; the campaign later also deployed AzoRult. New samples add junk-jump obfuscation, encrypted network traffic and payload files, a unique machine ID used for tracking and encryption, and PROPagate injection into explorer.exe, with persistence via a Startup folder shortcut and RC4-encrypted C2 communication.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Aug 17, 12:54 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Malware in the wild

TANGO: Humanoid Navigation in Cluttered Environments with a Whole-Body Vision-Language-Action Model

Researchers present TANGO, a whole-body vision-language-action model enabling humanoid robots to traverse cluttered spaces from language instructions.

TANGO predicts 29-DoF joint-space actions from egocentric RGB observations and natural-language instructions for whole-body humanoid navigation, going beyond 2D path planning. It is trained entirely in simulation using global path planning, kinematic whole-body motion generation, obstacle-aware motion editing, and RL-based tracking. The model reports state-of-the-art simulation performance and was deployed zero-shot on a Unitree G1 humanoid without any real-world navigation training data.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 8, 17:59 UTC · 8d agoAI research1

GPT-6 Astra appears to show a "step change" in spatial reasoning based on early benchmarks

Early StationeryBench robotics results show OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra far ahead of Ai2's MolmoAct2 at dual-arm manipulation, completing 7 of 100 tasks versus zero.

A new robotics benchmark called StationeryBench tested OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra against Ai2's MolmoAct2 on five desk-object tasks using identical dual-arm YAM robots over 200 trials. Astra fully completed 7 of 100 tasks with a median progress score of 46 out of 100, while MolmoAct2 completed zero with a median score of 12. Cornell and Google DeepMind researcher Yoav Artzi called the result a 'step change in spatial reasoning' and noted Astra approaches human-level accuracy on the unpublished REMAP benchmark. He speculated OpenAI trained the model on large amounts of 3D data such as Blender scenes, and OpenAI reportedly plans consumer robots.

The Decoder·Sep 12, 14:26 UTC · 4d agoAI industry 2 sources1

KlueセキュリティインシデントとRecorded Futureへの影響

Recorded Future disclosed a Klue incident that exposed some Salesforce business data, including contacts and emails, via a compromised OAuth token.

Recorded Future disclosed that unauthorized activity in marketing vendor Klue's integration layer, starting June 12, 2026 and contained the same day, affected some of its Salesforce data through a compromised OAuth token in the Salesforce-Klue integration. Impacted fields are limited to business data such as customer contact names, email addresses, and possibly business contract information. No evidence indicates Recorded Future's core platform, Intelligence Graph, internal databases, or customer platform data were accessed. The company revoked all relevant OAuth tokens, coordinated with Salesforce and law enforcement, and began reviewing all third-party Salesforce integrations.

Recorded Future·Aug 12, 00:00 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Data breach