Financial Times : Effective Altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to “effective giving” — Expected IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI are set to mint a new generation of philanthropists wedded…
Read sourceFinancial Times : Sources: OpenAI's repeated exec reshuffles and departures have frustrated some staff as it prepares for an IPO; it disbanded its “preparedness” team in July — Executive exits and safety team changes unsettle staff as the ChatGPT maker prepares for a…
Read sourceMichael Martina / Reuters : Source and letter: the US plans to tell 35 partner countries they'll be excluded from the US-led Pax Silica initiative if they also join China's rival framework — The U.S. is preparing to tell dozens of countries they must pick sides in the…
Read sourceEcho Wang / Reuters : Sources: Anthropic projects 2028 revenue of ~$190B-$200B, vs. a revenue run rate of $47B in May, as bankers and investors price the company ahead of an IPO — As Anthropic prepares for what could be one of the biggest IPOs on record, Wall Street is looking…
Read sourceAnissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal : Sources: Nvidia has reworked a deal to finance an OpenAI Ohio data center campus so that it would initially guarantee only half of its planned $250B backstop — Under new proposed terms, the chip maker would initially backstop only half of…
Read sourceBloomberg : SpaceX closes its $60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup — SpaceX has completed a $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor, a key part of Elon Musk's bid to gain…
Read sourceIt could soon become easier to identify AI-generated content, even if it's not the usual "It's Not X, it's Y" type of post you'd come across on LinkedIn and other socials. [...]
Read sourceReuters : Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users — Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Friday its open-source GLM-5.3 model had neared Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5…
Read sourceAnthropic will soon offer a watermark detection API that lets third parties check whether text was written by Claude. The technology builds on Google's SynthID method and tweaks the randomness during word selection without affecting text quality, Anthropic says. The approach…
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Read sourceOpenAI's Computer History records clicks, keystrokes, and app switches on Mac and turns them into a searchable timeline for ChatGPT and Codex. The data is stored locally as unencrypted Markdown files. OpenAI says it's not used for AI training, but memories that feed into chats…
Read sourceAI agents using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol were given six days, $3,000 in API credits, and GPU access to independently write AI research papers. The original authors of unpublished NeurIPS papers rated the results as "Reject." According to the study, conducted with…
Read sourceUS groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
Read sourceOpenAI is launching "Ultrafast," a new inference mode that delivers GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second, powered by Cerebras hardware from their $10 billion partnership. Together with "Standard" and "Fast," Ultrafast creates a three-tier pricing structure that…
Read sourceAnthropic is testing whether Claude Code can handle daily maintenance of the company's own apps, from crash fuzzing to dead-code removal. In a few weeks, the AI created 388 pull requests, and 46 percent were merged after human review. Claude Code inventor Boris Cherny sees this…
Read sourceScreen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
Read sourceFour cybercriminals were arrested in Brazil, and three others were charged in Europe over allegations that they exploited a vulnerability at a service provider, allowing them to withdraw funds from Commerzbank customers' bank accounts. [...]
Read sourceThe Netherlands' National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning that hackers are actively exploiting a macOS authentication bypass vulnerability after public exploit code emerged. [...]
Read sourceGoogle Workspace attacks do not always begin with phishing. Stolen OAuth tokens can provide another path into Gmail, Drive, and connected systems. Material Security explains why organizations need defenses that cover the entire Workspace attack chain. [...]
Read sourceA maximum-severity SAP Commerce Cloud remote code execution vulnerability patched three days ago is already being targeted in attacks, according to threat intelligence company Defused. [...]
Read sourceOil giant Shell has confirmed it is investigating a potential security incident after the Clop ransomware gang claimed it stole 89GB of data. [...]
Read sourceThe ShinyHunters extortion group stole personal information from 1.6 million RingCentral accounts after hacking the company in July, according to the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. [...]
Read sourceZhipu AI has released GLM-5.3, a model that, according to its own benchmarks, is the most powerful open-weights coding model, with a 50 percent improvement over its predecessor through post-training alone. Trained for cybersecurity, GLM-5.3 helped security teams find 2,436…
Read sourceAn Akira ransomware affiliate disabled the endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution on a compromised system by restarting the machine into Safe Mode with Networking. [...]
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