The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation has opened a probe into comma.ai's aftermarket driving-assistance hardware following five crashes involving vehicles using the devices. NHTSA says the incidents involved drivers striking stopped or slow-moving vehicles, resulting in three deaths across two crashes and 11 injuries across four of the five incidents. Comma.ai, founded by George Hotz, sells the openpilot system and hardware that owners install themselves to add advanced driver-assist capability to their cars.
A new Epoch AI report by Emberson and Roodman finds that the price of achieving a given level of AI performance has dropped roughly 47% per quarter over the past three years, a 13-fold annual decline. The report cites OpenAI's o3, which cost about $0.30 per question to score 75% on GPQA Diamond in January 2025, compared with a much newer model reaching similar scores for a fraction of a cent by mid-2026.
OpenAI has expanded its influencer marketing, more than doubling sponsored Instagram posts for ChatGPT from 61 in June to 141 in August, according to HypeAuditor data cited by Business Insider. The company is reportedly pitching parenting, fitness and tech creators, urging them to frame ChatGPT as useful for everyday life and business rather than address AI safety worries directly.
A GitHub project called jevper reimplements the documented 'System One' wire format used by the Jev interface, letting developers run typed questions (choice, score, noul) against any OpenAI-compatible model instead of the hosted TypeSafe API. It works with self-hosted llama.cpp servers or other duck-typed clients, requiring no dependency on typesafe-sdk or openai at runtime, and is installable via pip as a Python 3.10+ package.
Cybersecurity startup Gambit says a financially motivated threat actor has been using open-source AI agent tools since July to attack online retailers at scale, breaching at least 27 companies in a five-day span and launching over 100 attacks. The operation reportedly stole more than 600,000 valid card records from two companies and planted skimmer malware on five others, using three tools—Strix for scanning, Cairn for exploitation, and Hermes, powered by Claude Opus 4.6, for orchestration and tactical decisions.
US safety regulator NHTSA has launched an investigation into Comma.ai's aftermarket openpilot driver-assistance system following five reported crashes, two of them fatal, resulting in three deaths and up to 11 injuries. The agency says the incidents involved the system failing to detect or respond to slow or stopped vehicles ahead in the same lane, and notes some crashes may have involved modified 'forked' versions of the software, including one fatal Louisiana crash running a fork called FrogPilot.
OpenAI will provide Ukraine's government with free access to its Daybreak AI cyber defence system, aimed at protecting civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and power plants from cyber-attacks. The deal also gives Ukraine access to OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol model, and comes after CERT-UA recorded nearly 6,000 cyber-attacks against the country in 2025.
QuestDB, the open-source time-series database company, posted a job listing for a Pre-Sales Engineer based in North America. The role covers technical validation throughout the sales cycle for its Enterprise product. QuestDB says its open-source repository has passed 17,000 GitHub stars and it recently won Best Trading Analytics Platform at the TradingTech Summit Europe.
A report catalogs cases where users exposed themselves by relying on ChatGPT, including engineers leaking company data, litigants citing fake court cases, and a man poisoning himself following bad dietary advice. It notes that unlike conversations with doctors, lawyers or therapists, ChatGPT chats aren't legally privileged and can be subpoenaed, leaked, or preserved even after deletion.
The Una Watch, previously offered for $350 during its Kickstarter campaign, is now priced at $199. It features a 1.2-inch MIP LCD display, up to 10 days of battery life, and an open-source design covering its SDK, housing, and circuit boards, allowing users to repair or modify it themselves.
Cryptomator is an open-source tool that creates encrypted vaults on a user's device, encrypting individual files and their filenames with AES-256 before they sync to services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, pCloud, Nextcloud and ownCloud. It also works offline for local drives, USB storage and network folders, and has apps for Android and iOS. Users can create a recovery key to reset a lost vault password, since Cryptomator itself cannot decrypt files or recover passwords.
OpenAI and Anthropic each released new AI models on the same day, continuing a pattern of frequent announcements. Much of this apparent acceleration reflects companies repackaging capabilities from earlier flagship models into new versions at different price points, rather than pure leaps in underlying capability.
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