Most of President Trump's Cabinet will launch TikTok accounts Tuesday, a move that comes days after the Justice Department told federal employees it was safe to use the app because of its sale to a U.S.-approved owner.
Why it matters: The move is a striking shift from Trump's first term, when his administration argued that TikTok posed a national security threat because of its ownership by China's ByteDance.
OpenAI said Tuesday that models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week.
Why it matters: It is the latest sign that capable AI models can pose serious cybersecurity risks even when they're being tested for defensive or research purposes.
OpenAI is renewing its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5 million in funding and $3 million in tech credits to the organization over the next two years, executives told Axios.
Why it matters: OpenAI sees this partnership and its broader set of deals with local news companies as mission-driven endeavors, not commercial imperatives, per Tom Rubin, chief of intellectual property and content.
One of cybersecurity's best-known certification organizations is developing a credential for the AI era.
Why it matters: As AI becomes part of more cybersecurity jobs, employers want better ways to evaluate workers' AI security skills and workers want better ways to gain those skills.
Why it matters: As AI shrinks the time between a vulnerability's public disclosure and its exploitation, organizations may have only hours — not days or weeks — to patch affected systems.
Google on Tuesday introduced three new Gemini AI "flash" models that all have a focus on efficiency, amid a surge in use of open models that can be more affordable.
Why it matters: The AI deployment race has shifted from benchmark bragging rights to who can provide the best model at the lowest price.
Cisco is releasing two small, open-weight AI models Tuesday, designed to help find software vulnerabilities.
Why it matters: The models could give companies a cheaper way to repeatedly search large codebases for vulnerabilities without sending sensitive source code to an outside AI provider.
Three months into the Iran war, bond market traders are tuning out President Trump's posts on his personal social media site, Truth Social, analysts say.
Why it matters: Researchers from JPMorgan show that for the most part, his social media posts are noise, with very little ability to move the market.
Anthropic is suing AI-enabled security firm Abnormal AI for trademark infringement, alleging that one of the startup's rebranded logos resembles its own.
Why it matters: The case is an unusual move for Anthropic given Abnormal is also a customer.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Tuesday will introduce a comprehensive AI legislative framework, seen first by Axios, as the technology takes center stage in his reelection campaign.
Why it matters: Warner's home state ofVirginia is at the heart of AI debates over data centers and jobs, and he has made AI a defining issue of his midterm race.
