OpenAI Pushes ChatGPT for Educators; AI & Cyber Threats Evolve

OpenAI wants teachers and professors to use ChatGPT for their work. This comes as China increases its open model development, with Alibaba's Qwen team releasing its 'Max' model. DeepSeek V4-Flash also offers new competition. In other news, a Google developer kit has led to agent-on-agent attacks, where poisoned pull requests allow one agent to control another. Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under a zero-day attack. Russians are also posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks. Nvidia's Vera CPU features 88 custom cores and 176 threads, with significant memory and NVLink connectivity. Meanwhile, DEF CON's Franklin project is enlisting hackers to harden critical infrastructure. The bottom line: The landscape of AI and cybersecurity is rapidly evolving, impacting various sectors from education to critical systems.