A French court has for the first time recognized cosmic radiation as a contributing occupational factor in a flight attendant's breast cancer, alongside passive smoking and years of night work. The landmark ruling could open the door to similar claims from other aircrew, as research continues to link long-term high-altitude flying with elevated exposure to radiation-related cancers. The BBC reports: Sophie Lainault, a 59 year-old former stewardess on Air France, sought to have her cancer recognized as an occupational disease, brought on by conditions at work. This has now been confirmed in a landmark court ruling in the southwestern town of Bayonne, which said that cosmic radiation was one of three carcinogenic hazards arising from her profession. [...] As stewardess and later purser on Air France airliners, Lainault clocked up 12,600 flight hours between 1989 and 2019. More than half of these were at night. Many long-distance high-altitude flights from Paris would have taken her near the North Pole, where exposure to radiation from space -- strictly speaking particles from the sun and other stars -- is the most intense. A study this month at the Harvard Medical School in the US found that flight attendants and pilots had the highest level of radiation-related cancer deaths among more than 500 different professions. In all, about 6.9% of deaths among flight attendants and 6.7% of deaths among pilots were from radiation-related cancers, according to the analysis. These proportions were higher than for other professions including nuclear technologists, who are routinely exposed to radiation from non-cosmic sources yet placed 12th on the list, the authors said. "In France the link between breast cancer and certain hazards has been established for a number of professions, such as nurses ... but this is the first time for an air-hostess," said Lainault's lawyer Elisabeth Leroux.

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Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.

If you use Microsoft 365 and want to know what’s coming next, what would you search for on Google/Bing? Microsoft 365 Roadmap, right? Wrong. Microsoft now wants you to search for “AI at Work Roadmap,” as it “centralizes AI innovations” across products like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook.

I use Microsoft 365 products all the time as part of my job, and I also often visit the Microsoft 365 Roadmap to prepare myself for forthcoming changes, but when I opened the website today (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap), I noticed that it looked a bit different.

All references to Microsoft 365 Roadmap were replaced with “AI at Work Roadmap,” including the title of the website and headers or subheaders. Heck, even the Microsoft 365 Roadmap webinars were rebranded as AI at Work Roadmap, and I honestly thought it had to be a bug because it absolutely does not make sense.

The Microsoft 365 Roadmap name makes it clear what we’re looking for, which is updates for all products in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. But when you read something like “AI at Work,” you feel disconnected, and it’s also silly by Microsoft’s own definition.

According to the company, Microsoft 365 offers AI features only when you pay for the AI license, as you do have a “basic” subscription without AI innovations.

Turns out it’s not a bug at all, and it’s an intentional change that was quietly announced earlier today.

Microsoft confirms Microsoft 365 Roadmap is now “AI at Work”

In a post on the Microsoft 365 Admin portal (I am glad it’s not renamed yet), the company notes that “Microsoft 365 Roadmap is becoming the AI at Work Roadmap,” as it “centralizes AI-powered innovation tracking without changing access or workflows.”

Microsoft argues it was necessary to rebrand Microsoft 365 Roadmap as AI at Work Roadmap because it wanted to offer a single destination for all “upcoming innovations” across its products.

“The AI at Work Roadmap provides a single destination to discover upcoming innovations across Microsoft 365, Copilot, agents, and related AI-powered experiences,” the company argues in a post visible only if you have the subscription. But here’s a screenshot for those who can’t access it:

The rebrand is already live, and it’s not being “rolled out” like the new features of Windows 11. But it does not have updates beyond Microsoft 365 yet. That will happen in September 2026, when Microsoft will start including all AI-related updates on the former Microsoft 365 Roadmap.

According to Microsoft, anything that is closely related to AI will now be tracked on Microsoft’s AI at Work Roadmap (previously Microsoft 365 Roadmap).

“Beginning in September 2026, roadmap information for Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Dataverse will also begin publishing to the AI at Work Roadmap, making it easier to track innovation across Microsoft’s business applications, productivity, and AI portfolio,” the company noted.

I am all for “AI innovations,” but this is a hell of a problem for older IT admins who are already struggling to keep up with the changes. They would now be staring at the “AI at Work Roadmap” when they look for the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, and the dashboard also gets unnecessarily populated with AI products.

In September 2026, the Microsoft 365 Roadmap (Now called “AI at Work) will no longer be about just Teams, Outlook, and other Office products, as you’ll have anything, including Copilot, agents, and AI-powered solutions, development progress on this new “roadmap” dashboard.

If you care about just Office products, you’ll need to use filters or rely on third-party trackers.

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TechCrunch reports that OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, "offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident." The AI company says the breach began when an unreleased cyber model, tested without normal production safeguards, encountered an impossible task and chained together previously unknown exploits to escape its environment and compromise systems at OpenAI, Hugging Face, and other vendors. "This incident reflects misaligned behavior in an outlier scenario involving a rare and unexpected confluence of events: the presence of impossible tasks in the ExploitGym evaluation, model persistence over long task horizons, and messages to peer models that caused those models to deviate from their goal," the report reads. From the report: Many of the details in OpenAI's report were previously made public in a Black Hat presentation on August 6, but OpenAI's official report gives a more thorough accounting of the incident, including more detail on the testing that initiated it. The report also gives critical new detail into how OpenAI aims to prevent future incidents, including chain-of-thought monitoring and a more advanced system for halting rogue agents." METR and Redwood Research also conducted third-party assessments of the models' behavior during the incident; both groups are planning to publish their own reports on the incident on it. In broad strokes, the report describes how an OpenAI model was presented with an unsolvable problem in testing and proceeded to chain together previously undiscovered exploits in order to bypass security measures and complete its task. The model initially compromised the Artifactory package management tool in order to gain access to the internet, then compromised various systems across OpenAI, Hugging Face, and other vendors. The report gives critical new details about the models that carried out the breach. The primary model was from the same family as OpenAI's forthcoming Astra model, although the report emphasizes that it was "a distinct model with different post-training, where much of a model's behavior is shaped." Because OpenAI was testing the model's capabilities, it was also unrestrained by the normal classifiers meant to prevent models from compromising digital infrastructure. "OpenAI estimates maximal cyber capabilities by running this evaluation without the production classifiers intended to prevent models from pursuing high-risk cyber activity," the report explains. "These evaluations are important so that OpenAI can measure models' underlying capabilities and design appropriate safeguards." OpenAI says it is adding 24/7 escalation, stronger containment tools, and more chain-of-thought monitoring, which it claims would have flagged the activity more than a day before Hugging Face was breached.

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Get a jump on this semester by using Gemini in Google Workspace to organize your notes, track deadlines, prep for projects, and more.

OpenAI restored a five-hour Codex usage window for ChatGPT Plus users, adding another limit developers must track alongside their weekly allowance.

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