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AnthropicAUG 29, 2026 ↗Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theftThis latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.OpenAIAUG 28, 2026 ↗Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceXOur decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.Google DeepMindAUG 27, 2026 ↗Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluationsPiloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluationsxAIJUL 08, 2026 ↗xAI Releases Grok 4.5, an "Opus-Class" Flagship at Half the PriceGrok 4.5 launches at $2/$6 per million tokens with a 500K context window, ranking 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Trained alongside Cursor, it wins Snorkel's GDPVal+ professional-work benchmark and ships day one in Cursor and Grok Build.
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AUG 15, 2026Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Smarter and Half Price. Read the Fine Print on Both.→JUL 24, 2026Kimi K3: The Largest Open Model Ever Does Not Exist Yet. It Is Due Monday.→JUL 22, 2026Meta Killed Llama in April. Now It Wants You to Rent Muse Spark Instead.→JUL 21, 2026Gemini 3.6 Flash Is Not Smarter Than 3.5. Google Says That Is the Point.→JUN 27, 2026OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Is Its Best Model Yet. You Cannot Use It Yet, and That Is the Story.→
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AUG 28, 202619 Chrome and Edge Extensions Found With Wallet-Stealing and Crypto-Draining CodeCybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 18 Google Chrome and one Microsoft Edge extensions that were published over the last six months and harbored wallet secret stealing and cryptocur...The Hacker News · coding↗AUG 28, 2026Two Unitree G1 EDU Humanoid Robot Flaws Enable Root RCE, One Starts Over BluetoothSecurity researcher Olivier Laflamme has disclosed two independent root remote code execution (RCE) chains affecting the Unitree G1 EDU, including a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) path that can reach root...The Hacker News · coding↗AUG 28, 2026Key Reasons Why Identity Fabric Matters in 2026An Identity Fabric knits fragmented identity systems into a coherent layer that observes how identities behave across applications, APIs, and infrastructure. As enterprise access spans more cloud serv...The Hacker News · coding↗AUG 28, 2026Android 17 Adds OS-Wide ECH to Hide Website Visits From Network ProvidersGoogle on Thursday announced new network security protections in Android 17 to bolster connection privacy, address cellular vulnerabilities, and safeguard the privacy of users' home networks.
Topping...The Hacker News · coding↗AUG 27, 2026Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, MicroduckHugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.TechCrunch · coding↗AUG 27, 2026Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companiesA recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.OpenAI · coding↗AUG 27, 2026Amazon Kiro Prompt Injection Can Exfiltrate Sensitive Data Through Kiro PowersCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Amazon Kiro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, agentic integrated development environment (IDE), that could facilitate dat...The Hacker News · coding↗AUG 27, 2026Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at GoogleZoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.OpenAI · coding↗AUG 27, 2026OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging FaceOpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior ...OpenAI · coding↗AUG 27, 2026Expanding OpenAI’s presence in BrazilOpenAI is expanding its presence in Brazil, deepening engagement with developers, businesses, and communities to support AI adoption across the country.OpenAI · coding↗AUG 27, 2026GoCaracal Malware Uses Ethereum Smart Contract to Fetch Replacement C2 AddressThreat actors linked by Arctic Wolf to Dark Caracal with medium confidence deployed a previously undocumented Go-based malware framework, GoCaracal, during a June 2026 intrusion at an unnamed communic...The Hacker News · coding↗AUG 27, 2026New GPUThor Rowhammer Defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A6000 to Gain Host Root AccessAcademic researchers have disclosed a Rowhammer attack impacting NVIDIA workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory that defeats error correction codes (ECC), the mitigation NVIDIA recommends against GPU Rowha...The Hacker News · coding↗AUG 26, 2026Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with NscaleThe new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.Anthropic · coding↗AUG 26, 2026OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continuesBefore Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.OpenAI · coding↗AUG 26, 2026Fake Apple Support AI Calls Target Stolen-Device Owners for Passcodes and 2FA CodesCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform built to strip Apple's Activation Lock from stolen devices, using rented AI voice agents that call theft vi...The Hacker News · coding↗AUG 26, 2026How loveholidays is making everyone a builder with CodexDiscover how loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to make software development accessible across the business, helping teams turn ideas into products faster.OpenAI · coding↗AUG 26, 2026Newly SLEEPWALKER Backdoor Waits for One Crafted Packet, Then Runs Its Own BytecodeAn independent malware researcher has documented a previously unreported Windows backdoor, dubbed SLEEPWALKER, that stays inert in memory until a specifically crafted network packet reaches the machin...The Hacker News · coding↗AUG 26, 2026INTERPOL Operation Jackal IV Arrests 58, Identifies 263 in Global Cyber Fraud CrackdownAn eight-month INTERPOL operation targeting West African organized crime groups has led to arrests of 58 people and the identification of 263 suspects.
"The operation, which brought together 22 count...The Hacker News · coding↗AUG 26, 2026Quoting Paul DixThe fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is ab...Simon Willison · coding↗AUG 26, 2026Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AIGates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.TechCrunch · coding↗