Governments and businesses around the world scrambled to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in PHP, a popular programming language.

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As artificial intelligence bots spread, we are increasingly glimpsing how these digital entities interact and what they talk about with one another.

OpenAI said that the employee had placed a device built to evade detection and that he had planned to secretly record meetings in other sensitive spaces.

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Advances in self-driving technology have made it easier to traverse distant worlds.

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By pinpointing when it begins in young humans, scientists hope to better understand what consciousness is, and how it arises, in all of us.

The new artificial intelligence model is the second the company has released this year. OpenAI and Anthropic made similar updates a few months ago.

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