OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, an agent that can operate across connected apps and files, use a browser and desktop computer, schedule tasks, and continue projects for hours. OpenAI said Work is rolling out first on web and mobile to Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users, with user and administrator controls governing connected resources and computer use.
The updated ChatGPT desktop app now includes Chat, Work, and Codex across every plan. OpenAI is merging the standalone Codex app into ChatGPT and beginning to retire its separate Atlas browser.
Featured source: OpenAI , Ars Technica .
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EU preliminarily finds Meta’s engagement design breaches the DSA
The European Commission preliminarily found that Facebook and Instagram breach the Digital Services Act because Meta did not adequately assess or mitigate risks from infinite scroll, autoplay, and engagement-oriented recommendations. Meta can respond before a final decision; an upheld finding could bring design orders and a fine of up to 6 percent of the company’s worldwide annual turnover.
Filed from: The Register , European Commission .
Microsoft reports a 25 percent rise in 2025 carbon emissions
Microsoft’s 2026 sustainability report says its carbon emissions increased 25 percent in 2025 to 34 million metric tons before selected interventions. The company attributed the increase mainly to data-center expansion and its decision to stop buying some non-additional, unbundled renewable-energy certificates, while retaining its stated goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030.
Filed from: The Verge , Microsoft report .
News publishers seek sanctions against OpenAI over ChatGPT log discovery
The New York Times and other news publishers asked a federal court to sanction OpenAI, alleging that it misrepresented its ability to search ChatGPT output logs during discovery in their copyright case. OpenAI disputes the allegations, and the filing is a sanctions motion rather than a ruling on the discovery dispute or underlying copyright claims.
Filed from: Ars Technica , Sanctions motion .
SAP support changes resolve EU antitrust investigation
The European Commission ended its investigation into SAP’s on-premises ERP support practices after making the company’s commitments legally binding. The ten-year commitments waive reinstatement fees, cap back-maintenance charges, and allow customers to divide software landscapes among support providers or leave an installation unsupported under specified conditions.
Filed from: The Register , SAP commitments .
Anthropic researchers describe a workspace-like layer in language models
Anthropic researchers published the Jacobian lens, a technique that identifies internal model representations they call the J-space and tracks intermediate concepts during multi-step reasoning. Their experiments found that editing those representations could alter answers and that suppressing the J-space reduced multi-step reasoning, while the authors explicitly did not claim that Claude is conscious.
Filed from: MIT Technology Review , Anthropic , Paper .
Phishers abused Meta’s Business Manager email infrastructure
Huntress documented a campaign that used Meta’s Business Manager partner-invitation feature to send phishing messages from noreply@business.facebook.com and direct targets to credential-collection pages. Later variants added a fraudulent Facebook Messenger chatbot and sent captured credentials, multifactor codes, contact details, and identity documents to Telegram; Meta added detections for URLs embedded in business or owner names, and Huntress said the attacks then subsided.
Filed from: TechRadar , Huntress .
Researcher says Defender patch introduced a disk-exhaustion path
Microsoft patched CVE-2026-50656 through an automatic Microsoft Malware Protection Engine update after the vulnerability allowed remote attackers to gain administrative control of Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems. The researcher who disclosed the flaw says the added defense-in-depth behavior can be abused through a custom SMB server to consume all available disk space, a claim Microsoft had not confirmed in the cited report.
Filed from: Ars Technica , Microsoft advisory , Researcher post .
Muse Spark 1.1 enters public API preview
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model for tool use, computer operation, coding, and long-running agent tasks, through a public preview of the Meta Model API. Meta says the model supports a one-million-token context window and parallel subagent orchestration; its evaluation report records high-risk pre-mitigation results in chemical, biological, and cybersecurity domains, with deployed mitigations reducing assessed residual risk to moderate or lower.
Filed from: Meta , Evaluation report .
Microsoft expects AI-assisted discovery to increase Windows security updates
Microsoft said customers should expect more fixes in Windows security releases as AI-assisted analysis identifies more vulnerabilities. Its scanning harness uses several model families to review critical binaries and debate candidate findings before Windows-specific validation, while AI-proposed fixes and regression-test selection remain subject to human code review.
Filed from: The Register , Microsoft .
India approves Dixon and Vivo smartphone-manufacturing joint venture
India approved a joint venture between Vivo India and Dixon Technologies after the additional review required for investments from countries sharing a land border with India. Dixon will own 51 percent and Vivo 49 percent of the venture, which will manufacture Vivo smartphones in India and may produce electronics for other brands after customary closing conditions are met.
Filed from: TechCrunch , Dixon filing .
Sunrun pilots distributed AI compute nodes in customer homes
Sunrun launched a pilot that places compute nodes in homes equipped with its solar and battery systems, compensates participating homeowners, and sells inference capacity to enterprise buyers. The company has not published the pilot’s node count, hardware, compensation rates, or customers and says it will assess performance, operational milestones, and homeowner experience before deciding whether to expand the program.
Filed from: The Verge , Sunrun .
Cloudflare adds cloud-region hints to Smart Tiered Cache
Cloudflare added public-cloud region hints to Smart Tiered Cache for origins on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Oracle Cloud. Customers can identify an origin’s region so Cloudflare can select primary and fallback upper-tier data centers when an anycast or regional front end obscures the backend’s location.
Filed from: Cloudflare .
GitHub assigns validated owners to every active internal repository
GitHub assigned a validated owner to every active repository in its primary internal organization and archived repositories that remained unclaimed. The company says it began with more than 14,000 repositories and completed the project with about 3,000 active repositories and 11,000 archived ones in under 45 days, using organization custom properties and a Kubernetes CronJob-backed app for enforcement.
Filed from: GitHub .
Fidji Simo leaves OpenAI’s full-time AGI role
Fidji Simo said she is leaving her full-time role leading OpenAI’s AGI organization and will become a part-time adviser while recovering from a chronic neuroimmune illness. OpenAI had reassigned product leadership to president Greg Brockman and distributed Simo’s business responsibilities among other executives during her medical leave.
Filed from: The Verge , TechCrunch .
From the Community
No leap second at the end of December 2026
The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service confirmed in Bulletin C 72 that no leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026, keeping the UTC-TAI difference at minus 37 seconds. The service issues Bulletin C every six months to announce or decline a time step.
Filed from: IERS Bulletin C 72 .
Cpp2Rust translates C++ into safe Rust
Cpp2Rust uses Clang’s abstract syntax tree to translate C++ into Rust and calls a runtime library that models raw-pointer behavior through checked operations. The project emits reference-counted safe Rust by default and includes an unsafe mode for debugging.
Filed from: GitHub , Paper at PLDI 2026 .
Ello describes a sub-second AI tutoring architecture
Ello published the architecture behind its real-time AI tutor for children aged four to nine. The system decouples generation from execution, runs an asynchronous planning agent while the child speaks or thinks, and lets a parallel safety classifier block execution without stopping generation.
Filed from: Ello .
fmetrics implements image and video fidelity metrics in C and Zig
fmetrics implements PSNR, SSIM, MS-SSIM, IW-SSIM, Butteraugli, and SSIMULACRA2 in C and Zig behind a C API. Its published 4K test results report PSNR at 7.5 times the speed of FFmpeg and SSIM at 4.5 times the reference implementation’s speed.
Filed from: GitHub .
Mitchell Hashimoto discusses Ghostty and terminal protocols
Mitchell Hashimoto described Ghostty’s origin as a personal project for learning GPU programming, desktop systems programming, and Zig. He also outlined prospective terminal protocols for multiple screens and interactive buttons that remain usable through scrollback history.
Filed from: Interview .
