OpenAI raises $11 billion of a $30 billion target
Valuation came in at $1.25 trillion, short of $1.4 trillion, and OpenAI reportedly plans an IPO early next year.
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1,085 articles · newest firstMozilla plans staggered Firefox fixes to blunt AI patch-gap attacks
Mozilla says it now ships weekly, withholds regression tests, and will stagger sandbox-layer fixes so their patch windows do not overlap.
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Altman says scarce DRAM belongs in data centers, not PCs
He argues personal computers leave DRAM idle most of the time while cloud deals, including Stargate, reserve future supply.
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Operation Blackout targeted West African scam networks
The Justice Department says the effort led to dozens of arrests and removal of more than 3.7 million fake accounts.
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Altman says OpenAI will keep releasing AI math results
He says OpenAI holds more proofs than the hundreds already released and spent on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Talos finds NIK C2 Windows RAT that calls OpenAI from infected PCs
The Go implant runs more than 52 commands, bills the victim’s OpenAI key, and shows a lock screen without encrypting files.
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OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt AI training preference signal
Site operators can state one robots.txt preference for multiple providers; OpenAI says implementation is still months away.
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Essay says SOCs are unready for autonomous offensive agents
It cites OpenAI agents attacking Hugging Face and a GLM-5.3 browser exploit built in a day.
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Reddit will require login, testing first outside the US
Huffman says most unauthorized access is logged out; October search referrals fell by more than 1 million a week.
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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings agrees to acquire ADT
The cash price is $10 a share, and ADT put the deal’s enterprise value at $15.3 billion.
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Mistral releases open weights for trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4
Nicknamed Le Chonk, ML4 is on Hugging Face and Mistral's API, and the company claims 47 percent fewer tokens than GLM-5.3.
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Anthropic S-1 ties growth to huge long-term compute commitments
First-half 2026 revenue reached $16.3 billion, while non-cancelable purchase commitments alone total $265.6 billion.
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Attacker spoofed OpenAI and other AI bots to scan for secrets
One actor reached 48% of Cequence-protected organizations that saw AI bot traffic on one October day; nearly all requests failed.
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Hirundo says weight edits can remove Qwen3-Coder's pro-CCP bias
Even after the change, generated apps still failed a security benchmark more than half the time.
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Microsoft recorded $10 billion in quarterly revenue from OpenAI
That is nearly 11% of Microsoft’s $92.3 billion quarter; fiscal 2026 OpenAI revenue was $24.1 billion.
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Microsoft posts tenth straight record quarter at $92.3 billion
Net income rose 32% to $36.6 billion, Microsoft Cloud grew 30% to $63.9 billion, and OpenAI revenue was $10 billion.
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Wiz CTO discusses PHP critical-bug cleanup on Equity podcast
Schwartz says he joined OpenAI, Calif and the PHP team after two critical bugs forced some sites offline.
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Wiz CTO says PHP cleanup continues after critical bugs
Schwartz says AI tooling found bugs that sat in PHP for more than a decade, and some sites are still unpatched.
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Google AI Mode withholds direct answers on recent US election winners
The same questions get straight answers abroad, on a second try, and from Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude.
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OpenAI says Dots should reach more of Europe within weeks
Personal Pro accounts in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK remain locked out, while some business accounts already have access.
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Marissa Mayer's Dazzle demo draws criticism over AI and parenting
A TechCrunch column cites Altman and Zuckerberg remarks and a Pew finding that 50% of US adults expect AI to weaken relationships.
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Attacker impersonates 32 AI bots while scanning for credentials
CQ Prime says the scanner has run since late September, reached many Cequence customers in one day, and almost all requests failed.
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PHP2Shell cleanup will lag exploitation; Token Security argues identity limits matter more than CVSS
Censys counted 32.5 million internet-facing PHP services on vulnerable versions a week after patching, and CISA added both flaws to its KEV list on October 26.
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US banks block AI agents logged into customer accounts
Customers have shared bank usernames and passwords with agents, and several banks are steering tools toward read-only access.
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Mickens argues AI safety and hardware isolation at LABScon 26
He cites sandbox escapes and describes Guillotine, a hypervisor that isolates model CPU cores from hypervisor state.
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Cisco open-sources Project Quarry to flag rogue AI agents
Quarry scores full agent sessions, including tool use and MCP calls, and ships a YARA-like rule starter pack.
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Chrome 156 and Firefox 159 patch critical memory-safety flaws
Google shipped 52 fixes, four rated Critical, and Mozilla fixed 167 bugs; both credited AI-assisted bug finding.
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OpenAI staff essay sketches how AI could enter the org chart
The authors describe AI labor beneath, beside, or between employees and say the views are their own.
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CISA lists Brotli Node2Shell flaw as honeypots log attempts
CVE-2026-111497 hits Brotli 1.0.3 through 1.2.0; US civilian agencies must address it by November 10.
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Blog argues rapid disclosures leave defenders unable to keep up
A week of KVM, PHP, CA, and Brotli issues shows fixes arrive faster than inventory, assessment, and rollout.
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Researchers fault OpenAI for limiting access to claimed breakthroughs
OpenAI released an AI math write-up on Kakeya, will explain a computer-science claim through outsiders, and has not released the physics result.
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Anthropic IPO filing flags model misuse, export controls and FTC probe
The filing says Commerce restricted Mythos 5 and Fable 5 and that the FTC demanded safety and privacy information this month.
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VisionQuest review argues rogue-AI stories inflate model agency
The Verge uses the Marvel series to question reports of OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google agents breaking containment.
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OpenAI and Anthropic claim models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis
Computer scientists are reviewing claimed sub-exponential algorithms, including whether they weaken assumptions behind some cryptography.
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Anthropic proposes IPO structure meant to limit shareholder control
A long-term benefit trust would pick four of seven directors, while Founder LLC holds 50.1 percent of voting power.
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Judge limits Anthropic book piracy; Stanford authors sue again
Bartz paid about $3,000 per work; Cruz seeks up to $150,000 and an injunction on Claude training.
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Ex-Meta AI director launches Ndoc to challenge Office and Workspace
Ndoc is in an enterprise pilot and limited alpha; Patel plans a beta in weeks and a full launch next year.
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Apple adds an AI chatbot to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers
The beta assistant uses Apple and OpenAI models on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, with MCP support.
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Data center backlash becomes a 2026 campaign issue as tech PACs spend
Andreessen- and Brockman-backed Leading the Future has spent $45 million, while an Anthropic-backed group says it raised $80 million.
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Nvidia to invest $3 billion in Meta equity offering
Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion for AI infrastructure and run more agents on Nvidia Vera Rubin systems.
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