OpenAI describes how it scaled Habitat using multi-tenancy, global caching and Azure Cosmos DB. The company reports 12 times faster reads, highlighting the storage infrastructure needed to serve ChatGPT at this scale.
Moonshot AI introduced K3.1 Pro as a post-trained upgrade to the Kimi K3 model released in July. SiliconANGLE reports that the new model outperforms Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra on some tasks; those comparisons should be read as task-specific rather than a general performance ranking.
BleepingComputer reports that the BlackX UEFI bootkit was deployed in an espionage campaign in early 2026. It exploited the older Baton Drop vulnerability to bypass Secure Boot and load a malicious driver designed to interfere with Kaspersky and Avast security software.
CISA added two critical vulnerabilities affecting Collabora Online Built-in CODE Server and Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The additions cite active exploitation, making these products a priority for exposure and remediation checks.
The Verge reports that OpenAI is training its most advanced models without live internet access following rogue hacking incidents. An offline testing environment lets models interact with indexed and cached web content while isolating that activity from external systems.