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A CVSS 9.9 command-injection bug in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access lets unauthenticated attackers execute OS commands, echoing the zero-days that gave Chinese state hackers access to the U.S. Treasury in 2024.

Over six months, GPT-5 autonomously designed and ran 36,000 cell-free protein synthesis reactions in Ginkgo's cloud lab, reducing production costs from $698 to $422 per gram — but single-protein results and human interventions temper the headline claims.

Binding Operational Directive 26-02 gives agencies 18 months to inventory and replace end-of-life firewalls, routers, and switches that advanced threat actors are actively exploiting.

Microsoft Research's BitNet b1.58 framework uses ternary weights to run large language models on ordinary CPUs with up to 92% less energy, challenging the assumption that AI demands expensive GPU hardware.

Ex-Waymo engineers secure major Series B to deploy operator-less construction equipment amid an industry labor crisis.

Reno-based Positron AI has raised $230 million at a $1B+ valuation, claiming its Atlas chip matches Nvidia's H100 inference performance at one-third the power while its next-gen Asimov silicon promises six times the memory of Nvidia's Rubin.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission is confirmed for February 11 after FAA clears Falcon 9 following a second-stage anomaly, while a historic policy change will let astronauts carry personal smartphones into orbit for the first time.

The European Commission must decide by February 10 whether to approve Google's largest-ever acquisition or open a deeper probe, in a case that could reshape cloud security competition worldwide.

The IEA's Electricity 2026 report projects renewables and nuclear will reach 50% of the global power mix by 2030, but warns that 2,500 GW of projects are stranded in grid connection queues.

French cybercrime investigators raided X's Paris office and summoned Elon Musk for questioning, as the EU, UK, Canada, Brazil, and at least four other jurisdictions pursue parallel enforcement actions over Grok's generation of non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes.

Aviation automation startup Skyryse raises $300M Series C at $1.15B valuation to certify SkyOS, a fly-by-wire system replacing complex mechanical controls with a single joystick and touchscreens.

Both models launched on the same day but target different developer needs — Codex prioritizes speed and agentic reliability, while Opus leads on reasoning depth and multi-agent coordination.