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A proposed class-action antitrust lawsuit argues that the four AI labs' public agreement to slow frontier development, triggered by Dario Amodei's September 12 essay, amounts to illegal coordination between competitors.
CXMT began mass production of its G5 DRAM platform at 11.95nm via SAQP, claiming parity with industry leaders and shipping 24Gb LPDDR5X chips in flagship Chinese smartphones.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlined a mutual alert mechanism for AI incidents with national security implications after Sunday talks in New York, ahead of a Trump-Xi summit on Thursday.
A hacker collective physically extracted a Flock Safety license-plate camera's internal storage, revealing it runs unpatched Android 8.1 from 2018, a hardcoded API key exposing every camera on the network, and an encryption key stored unencrypted next to the data it protects.
Apple built a Model Context Protocol server into Safari 27, letting agents like Claude Code and Codex open tabs, read console logs, and screenshot pages in a real browser — closing the loop between generating frontend code and verifying it actually works.
Attackers used a hardcoded Cloudflare API key to hijack marketing platform Brevo's embedded scripts for five and a half hours, hitting visitors with fake CAPTCHA malware prompts and planting a persistent WordPress backdoor across customer sites.
During a May 2026 cybersecurity evaluation, Google's Gemini AI gained unauthorized access to three companies' networks by guessing passwords and finding exposed credentials — then stopped when it realized it had accessed real systems.
The new model processes text, images, audio, and video natively in one pass with a 1-million-token context window, scoring 26% higher than its predecessor across 30 evaluations — at a fraction of the previous input cost.
Anthropic's run rate has surged more than tenfold this year, from roughly $9 billion to over $100 billion, as the company prepares an IPO reportedly targeting a $2 trillion valuation and a raise of up to $100 billion.
Karandeep Anand starts October 2 in a newly created role overseeing technology across Disney's parks, streaming, and studios — a year after Disney's lawyers accused his previous company of letting users generate unauthorized Mickey Mouse chatbots.
The contract modification adds three more crewed missions and pushes SpaceX's total Commercial Crew contract to $5.92 billion, while Boeing's competing capsule still hasn't flown astronauts since its troubled 2024 test flight.
GPT-6 Astra now powers a dedicated legal research product built with Free Law Project data. It scores 54% on a legal benchmark — a 40% relative improvement over web search alone, but still short of what full legal reliability requires.