WordPress released a patch on September 22 for CVE-2026-87902, a critical unauthenticated path traversal flaw. Every branch from 4.7.0 through 7.1.1 needs updat...
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OpenAI announced broader Airbnb access to GPT-6 Astra and frontier models via OpenAI APIs and Amazon Bedrock. Airbnb's teams use the models for coding and for marketplace work like search, support, and insurance claims.
OpenAI released MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark built with 80+ licensed mental health experts to score AI responses in mental health conversations. It covers everyday support, serious distress, and emergencies.
The PyTorch Foundation has opened submissions for academic projects to join a Day 0 workshop at PyTorchCon NA 2026. Eight selected teams get lightning talks plus mentor office hours on governance, docs, and releases.
Qualcomm unveiled two flagship mobile platforms, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. Both 2 nm chips pair 5 GHz Oryon CPUs with faster Hexagon NPUs for on-device agentic AI.
Harvey says OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra lets it pull more matter context into legal drafting for law firms. It adds a memory panel for lawyer drafting preferences, but the disclosure includes no accuracy figures.
Google Beam expands to six countries with HP hardware and 18 channel partners. A new Industrious partnership lets businesses book immersive video units at select U.S. workspaces starting in October.
Ringg routes 7 million monthly calls through OpenAI's GPT-5.6 and GPT-4.1 models, resolving up to 65% without a human agent. Shifting some real-time workloads to GPT-5.6 Luna cut model costs by about 90%, Ringg says.
OpenAI is giving Ukraine's government access to its Daybreak cyber defense program to help protect civilian infrastructure. The country's CERT-UA team handled nearly 6,000 incidents in 2025.
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS with generative voice design and line-by-line direction. Both arrive in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, with consumer and enterprise access to follow.
