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AI Giants Warn It May Be Time to Slow Down

For years, leaders in the artificial intelligence industry have warned that increasingly capable AI systems could eventually become dangerous, all the while continuing to race to build them. Now, their sentiments have changed.

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AI Giants Report Advances in Mathematical Research

OpenAI has published what it says is an AI-generated solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems, while Anthropic has reported separate advances in research mathematics and formal proof generation.

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OpenAI's Astra Model Reaches Critical Cyber Threshold

OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its most capable broadly deployed model and the first system the company says has reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.

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Rubrik, CrowdStrike Expand Integration to Speed Identity Recovery

Cybersecurity companies Rubrik and CrowdStrike have announced an expanded identity-security integration intended to move compromised identity environments from threat detection through clean recovery with less manual intervention.

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Gartner: Hypervisor Replatforming Is Reshaping Storage and Virtualization Decisions

Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms reflects a broad infrastructure shift driven by hypervisor changes, cloud-style consumption economics, surging hardware costs, and AI.

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Montclair State U Partners with Dreamscape Learn on New VR Facility

New Jersey's Montclair State University has announced the completion of a new virtual reality learning facility developed in partnership with Dreamscape Learn. The 2,450-square-foot lab space is inside the College of Communication and Media building and will serve students pursuing careers in digital media, virtual reality, and content creation.

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Report: 83% of Organizations Need an Infrastructure Upgrade to Support Production-Grade Agentic AI

According to the latest infrastructure research from Google Cloud, enterprises are encountering a sizable infrastructure gap as agentic AI systems move from experiments and pilots into production.

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Educause President and CEO John O'Brien Announces Retirement

John O'Brien, president and CEO of Educause, has announced his intention to retire in August 2027.

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Nutanix Cloud Platform Updates Expand Capabilities for Production Agentic AI

Nutanix has announced Enterprise AI 2.8, adding agent governance and inference features.

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CSA's Top Cloud Threats: Identity, AI

Cloud Security Alliance's 2026 Top Threats report ranks identity first while adding two AI-related risks to its list of 11 leading cloud security concerns.