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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft AI Tour at TikTok Entertainment Centre in Sydney on April 23, 2026.George Chan | Getty ImagesMicrosoft on Monday talked up a new artificial intelligence model for spotting cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The move marks the company’s first major push to rejuvenate its cybersecurity business since it brought back Google executive Hayete Gallot to run the unit.When paired with OpenAI’s general-purpose GPT-5.4, Microsoft’s MAI-Cyber-1-Flash outperforms Anthropic’s Mythos 5, Google’s 3.5 Flash Cyber and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Cyber on the CyberGym benchmark, the company said.”We have world-leading performance at 50% of the cost,” Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of…
The plans for technical education reform will build on local initiatives like the MBacc, or Greater Manchester Baccalaureate, which was announced in 2023 by the now prime minister when he was the city’s mayor.Launched there in September 2024, it has provided a framework for pupils to pick GCSE subjects in both academic and technical subjects which align with growing local industries, like green energy or digital.The government said it would be working with regional mayors, local leaders, schools, colleges and employers to deliver its plans nationally.Education Secretary Lucy Powell said the announcement “marks the start of a real shared effort…
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Microsoft said MDASH with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash received a 96 percent score on CyberGYM, a standard benchmark test. The rating is 12 points higher than Anthropic’s Mythos and also beats Google Gemini and OpenAI GPT. The new MDASH costs half as much to use as the previous MDASH offering. The second tool Microsoft announced on Monday is named Project Perception. It too is a collection of specialized AI agents that perform red-, blue-, and green-team functions for finding vulnerabilities, investigating them to determine their risk, and taking corrective actions, respectively. Microsoft said the platform selects the models to use based on the…
Senator Mitch McConnell and Former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao on Sunday, July 26, 2026.Source: Office of Mitch McConnell.Sen. Mitch McConnell is recovering from his debilitating fall last month but still has not been cleared to return to work, the congressional physician’s office said Monday, more than six weeks since the Kentucky Republican was last seen in public.Doctors from the Office of the Attending Physician, or OAP, are meeting with the 84-year-old senator at a rehab facility every day, “discussing all aspects of his rehabilitation care,” the office said in a statement shared by McConnell’s staff in a press release.The release…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman walks through the Hart Senate Office Building following meetings on Capitol Hill, in Washington, June 3, 2026.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersOpenAI is in discussions with Nvidia about a backstop of up to $250 billion that would help fund its ambitious plans to lease a massive new artificial intelligence data center, CNBC confirmed. The backstop would let OpenAI raise debt for a 10-gigawatt data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, on the strength of Nvidia’s credit, according to a person familiar with the discussions who asked not to be named because the details are confidential. The guarantee would…
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for Prime Minister Andy Burnham to bring in emergency legislation in order to stop the early release of hundreds of prisoners.Burnham announced last week that he was pausing the scheme, which would have seen about 700 prisoners freed in the first phase in September, following a backlash from survivors and victims.But the Conservatives claim the government’s review will not stop offenders being released. The scheme was part of a bid to stop unprecedented overcrowding, which Labour claims was caused by Conservative governments failing to build new prisons.A Labour spokesperson said: “It’s this government that…
A fleet of Tesla Cyber trucks is parked at charging stations outside the SpaceX launch production facility in Starbase, Texas, U.S., July 20, 2026. Steve Nesius | ReutersWhat’s one trillion between a trillionaire and his biggest fans?SpaceX has now erased more than $1.2 trillion in market cap since its high price of $225.64 in June – almost exactly the value of Elon Musk’s other company, Tesla, whose shares just fell to near one-year lows. On Monday, SpaceX fell for the 13th session out of the last 16, shedding more than 1% to end at $113.50.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconSpaceX in…
Investing.com — stock slid 6.5% in after-hours trading today after the offshore drilling contractor released its second-quarter 2026 financial results following the market close, revealing a sharp earnings miss and a significant reduction to its full-year revenue outlook. The company posted adjusted earnings per share of just $0.01 for the quarter, falling well short of the analyst consensus of approximately $0.19, while also reporting a net loss of $37 million — a stark reversal from net income of $43 million in the same period a year earlier. Although Q2 revenue of $720 million modestly topped the consensus estimate of roughly…