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BEHIND THE SCENES HARDENING FIREFOX WITH CLAUDE MYTHOS PREVIEW

Mozilla recently announced that it had identified and fixed an unprecedented number of latent security bugs in Firefox with the help of Claude Mythos Preview and other AI models. This post goes into detail about how the team approached this work, what it found, and advice for other projects on using emerging capabilities to harden against attacks. Many of the bugs discovered would need to be combined with other exploits to achieve a full-chain compromise.

OPENAI LAUNCHES NEW REALTIME VOICE AND TRANSLATION AI MODELS

OpenAI's API now supports live voice agents, instant translation, and streaming transcription. Its new GPT-Realtime-2 model offers GPT-5-class reasoning for spoken conversations. GPT-Realtime-Translate, designed for live multilingual voice products, supports speech input in over 70 languages and output in 13 languages. GPT-Realtime-Whisper can transcribe audio as people speak, making it ideal for live captions, meeting notes, and other situations where speech needs to be converted into structured text during the conversation.

CLOUDFLARE TO SLASH 1,100 JOBS DUE TO AI-DRIVEN RESTRUCTURING PLAN

Cloudflare plans to slash 1,100 jobs as part of a restructuring plan that it claims will define how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in an agentic AI era. The company says it will become even faster and more innovative by embracing an agentic AI-first operating model. The layoffs are expected to be substantially complete by the end of the third quarter. Cloudflare expects to incur charges between $140 million and $150 million for the layoffs.

ELON MUSK TRIED TO HIRE OPENAI FOUNDERS TO START AI UNIT INSIDE TESLA

OpenAI claims that Elon Musk was always happy to commercialize the lab as long as he remained in charge. Musk had tried to hire OpenAI's founding team to lead a new AI lab within Tesla in 2018. The deal would have brought Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever to the company, with Altman becoming a board member or OpenAI becoming a Tesla subsidiary. The claim contradicts Musk's accusations of Altman stealing the charity by converting the company into a for-profit.

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