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Security researchers in OpenAI's bug bounty program hacked OpenAI in July and accessed its “monorepo” on GitHub, using Opus 4.8 for cybersecurity and Opus 5 — A bug-hunting independent security research team was able to access OpenAI's internal code system, exposing growing risks in automated cyber threats
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Sources: SK Hynix subsidiary Solidigm weighs building a NAND flash memory factory in the US; SK Hynix is also in talks with Intel to make memory chips in Ohio — Chipmaker SK Hynix's (000660.KS) subsidiary Solidigm is considering building a NAND flash memory chip factory in the US … | Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese DRAM leader CXMT is preparing to expand into NAND flash memory, competing with Samsung, SK Hynix, and domestic rival YMTC amid memory shortages — Chinese chipmaker CXMT (688825.SS) is preparing to enter the booming flash memory chip market dominated by Samsung Electronics … | Reuters: |
Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI startup set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into disease treatment — Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science.
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
The US Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it sent hundreds of millions to the IRGC and helped Iran operate a Strait of Hormuz toll booth — Iran has spent this year charging tankers between $1 million and $2 million to cross the Strait of Hormuz … | Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: |
The US CFTC exempts “passive software” providers from broker registration if they never hold user assets, expanding crypto and prediction market online trading — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission moved to expand crypto and prediction market trading via online platforms …
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| Linda Pasquini / Reuters: |
A German court rules that Meta is liable for fake ads posted by third parties on Instagram and Facebook and orders it to remove such content and pay damages — A German court has ruled that Meta (META.O) is liable for fake advertisements posted by third parties on its Instagram and Facebook platforms … | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
PrismML releases Bonsai 2 27B, which compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB, small enough for smartphones, while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's benchmark scores — If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be — not because it's raised gobs of money (it hasn't yet …
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Paris prosecutors open at least one criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving using smart glasses to film women in public without their consent — Paris prosecutors have opened a criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving smart glasses, while French data protection authorities …
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| Jason Shubnell / The Block: |
World rolls out World Money, a self-custodial financial “super app” in 150+ countries that combines stablecoin payments, trading, earning, and virtual accounts — - World is rolling out World Money, a financial “super app” spanning stablecoins, investing, yield, and global payments in more than 150 countries.
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NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training “an astonishing theft” — Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content
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| Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: ECB President Christine Lagarde personally asked Greece to block Binance's MiCA license in June, aiming to protect the bank's “digital euro” project — ECB leader personally intervened to keep crypto's biggest player, which pleaded guilty to financial-crime violations in U.S., from operating in EU
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Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code — A new experience for Claude projects, now available in beta in Claude Code — https://claude.com/blog/projects- redesigned
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated — AI systems are becoming exponentially more powerful and have begun to automate more of the process of building themselves.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's credit cards; Axis Bank is the fourth-largest credit card issuer in India — Apple (AAPL.O) is poised to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's (AXBK.NS) credit cards, three sources familiar with the matter said …
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