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OpenAI has introduced GPT-Live, a new real-time conversational product pushing the boundary between chatbot and live assistant. Details are still thin, but the direction is clear — OpenAI wants these interactions to feel less like querying a database and more like talking to someone who's actually present.
Shifting to security, researchers at Proofpoint have caught what they believe are Chinese state-sponsored actors breaking into university mail servers across the United States and Canada. The targets are telling — physics and engineering departments, the kinds of faculties where sensitive research lives. The attack vector was Roundcube, a widely-used open-source webmail platform with known vulnerabilities that apparently too few institutions have patched.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of law, money, and power, a federal judge has approved a one-point-five million dollar settlement between the SEC and Elon Musk over his disclosure of his Twitter investment stake. The judge's own language was striking — whether the outcome is fair, the opinion read, is for our citizenry to decide at the ballot box. That's not the kind of judicial sign-off you see every day.
Stay curious, stay skeptical. Tech Beat out.
