OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman. Altman was interviewed recently by Fortune editor in chief Alyson Shontell; amidst the fallout from the OpenAI-HuggingFace hack, as well as broader discussions about AI safety, Shontell asked whether OpenAI still feels pressure … Read more

ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

For the people behind the attacks, ClickFix now makes their job much easier. Prior to ClickFix, they would have needed to install the malware (tracked as Lorem Ipsum, security firm BlueVoyant said recently) using resource-intensive infrastructure, including SEO-manipulated and malvertised download portals, Microsoft-trusted signing certificates, and continuously rotated domains for delivering Microsoft Installer packages. “The pivot … Read more

Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute

President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging — perhaps futilely — the president to adopt a “Data Center Health Protection … Read more