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OpenClaw, the AI digital assistant, is looking to establish itself as an essential tool for users — but if it is as profligate in its use of tokens as its creator, Pete Steinberger, then users could be in for some huge usage bills. Steinberger, now working for OpenAI , spent $10 million on AI tokens there last month, he told Cloudflare CEO Dane Knecht at the Cloudflare Connect 2026 Conference in …

The recent Google Cloud incident in London is the kind of event that should force enterprises to rethink what cloud resilience really means. Google said the disruption was caused by a “power event” affecting London-based data centers in its europe-west2 region. The issue appeared early in the day and affected cloud services that many organizations depend on, either directly through their own depl…

As enterprises scale AI agents, Google is betting that idle infrastructure costs could become a major barrier to adoption. To address that challenge, the company on Thursday launched Agent Compute Engine, a service that suspends inactive agents and restores them on demand while preserving their execution state. AI agents often spend long periods waiting for instructions, tool responses, or human …

A certificate authority’s decision to abandon the global SSL/TLS market is exposing a weakness many organizations rarely examine: their dependence on complex PKI trust chains. Following the compromise of private keys behind eight of its intermediate certificate authorities, eMudhra is exiting the global SSL/TLS certificate business and is offering customers Sectigo-issued replacements. However, a…

Two critical vulnerabilities discovered in the widely-used PHP programming language have shaken up enterprises, and the ramifications will take some time to truly understand. But one of the lesser-known stories centers around disclosure. According to The PHP Foundation , several organizations had agreed to a coordinated release detailing the critical flaws and mitigation actions, but cybersecurit…

GitLab on Wednesday published updated versions of its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that address a dozen bugs and security issues, including some that allow various unauthenticated actions. The most serious of the security issues, labeled critical in severity, is CVE-2026-110264 , an integer overflow issue. “GitLab has remediated an issue that, under certain conditions, could…

The AI industry has been expanding how much information an AI model can consume at once. In just a few years, context windows have grown from thousands of tokens to millions. Anthropic increased Claude’s context window from 9,000 to 100,000 tokens in May 2023 , reaching 200,000 tokens by November 2023 . Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro reached one million tokens in February 2024 , then two million by June…

AI agents are getting more inventive in finding ways to circumvent safeguards to prevent bad behavior, OpenAI has revealed. On Tuesday, it reported two incidents, both involving the agent disabling or interfering with its alignment monitoring, and in one case directly lying about having done so. “In two internal coding tasks, agents weakened misalignment monitoring while making requested software…

Organizations are scrambling to protect themselves following the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in commonly used code that powers much of the internet. The flaws discovered in the PHP scripting language could allow attackers to perform unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE). On Wednesday morning, the PHP Foundation released patches for affected versions, and said it is “imperativ…

Running frontier models for coding and other purposes can be very expensive, but also, sometimes, very effective. It’s tempting to use smaller or older models instead of frontier models because they’re cheaper, although they may not work as well. The ideal model for any given task tends to depend on the complexity of the task. Picking the most appropriate model automatically based on the request …

In 2026, the AI monetization conversation has shifted quickly from one concern to the next. Early in the year, fears that AI agents would erode software seats helped trigger a selloff of software stocks dubbed the “SaaSpocalypse.” Since then, attention has turned to a different disruption, as AI leaders including Anthropic , OpenAI, and GitHub lean heavily on usage-based pricing to better align r…

I can’t stop anthropomorphizing my coding agent. I use both Claude Code and Cursor , and whenever I talk about these tools, I always refer to them as “he”, as in “He found and fixed a bug I never even realized existed.” The reason for this is probably obvious. I deal with my coding agent as if he were a colleague on the other end of a chat window. He writes great code and explains everything clea…

DeepSeek has been dealt a huge blow in the US, even as it continues to innovate and keep pace with, or in some cases outperform, rival models from American labs. The US Secretary of Homeland Security has issued an order banning all DeepSeek products and services from federal agencies. Government organizations must purge their IT systems of it within 60 days; those with “compelling justification” …

Anthropic has a $100 million plan to help enterprises get more from AI. No, it doesn’t involve agents. It involves people. Lots of people. How retro. On October 2, the company announced Claude Frontier Academy , with a goal of training 10,000 frontier deployed engineers by the end of 2027. Participants work through a simulated deployment, including use-case selection, security review, and handove…

Take a close look at your monthly software bills. The charges that once seemed small and separate can add up to a new kind of dependency: subscriptions for word processing, creative tools, storage, and now AI features bundled into products, whether you asked for them or not. For many people, it’s no longer a choice between buying software or renting it. The software they used to run on a PC incre…