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Claude Opus

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Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annual revenue

Moonshot AI targets $2 billion annualized revenue by year-end on K3 open-weight demand; Anthropic alleges Kimi routed ~300,000 requests to Claude Opus.

Bloomberg reported that Moonshot AI is targeting $2 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026, double its August run rate, driven by its open-weight K3 model. OpenRouter data shows up to 300 billion tokens generated per day by K3 models, though usage has slipped slightly in recent months. Moonshot's projection remains far below reported figures for OpenAI ($40B) and Anthropic ($65B), with lower margins due to freely available weights. Anthropic this week alleged Kimi routed nearly 300,000 requests to Claude Opus and collected more than 23 million responses for use in Moonshot's training.

TechCrunch · AISep 11, 19:35 UTC · 5d agoAI industry

Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research

Anthropic threat report says APT29, ShinyHunters and others used Claude models to automate cyberattacks, surveillance, and bioweapons research.

Anthropic's latest threat intelligence report covers misuse of Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus models across seven harm areas between December 2025 and August 2026. Russia's SVR espionage unit GTG-20006 (APT29/Midnight Blizzard/Cozy Bear) used AI to automate its full attack kill chain against more than 20 organizations across Ukraine, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa. A ShinyHunters-linked supply-chain affiliate breached a SaaS provider and dumped over 2,100 Azure AD token sets spanning 40+ corporate tenants in about 34 hours, with AI agents performing nearly all the work. The report also documents five biological misuse cases (chikungunya, H5 avian influenza) and six conventional weapons development cases in China, Russia, and Yemen.

The Register · Securityupdated 13:01 UTC · 8h agofirst Sep 10, 22:38 UTC · 5d agoAI safety & security in the wild 18 sources

H1 2026 Malware Vulnerability Trends

Recorded Future's H1 2026 report finds 215 actively exploited CVEs, RAT dominance, NFC payment fraud, and AI-augmented but not autonomous tradecraft.

Recorded Future's Insikt Group identified 215 actively exploited CVEs in H1 2026, up 34% from 161 in H1 2025, with the most impactful flaws combining network reachability, no authentication, and code execution. AsyncRAT was the top malware family, with AsyncRAT, Cobalt Strike, XWorm, Stealc, and REMCOS remaining top-ten staples; Android NFC malware like NFCShare and NGate enabled payment card theft and ATM cash-outs. AI-enabled attacks remained additive to established tradecraft, concentrated in Levels 1-3 of Recorded Future's AIM3 maturity model, with AI-assisted vulnerability research (e.g., Claude Mythos fixing 271 Firefox bugs in Firefox 150) inflating NVD disclosure volumes 43% above the prior six-month average. The report urges defenders to prioritize remotely exploitable RCE flaws, behavioral detection, developer credential security, and third-party oversight.

Recorded FutureSep 3, 00:00 UTC · 13d agoThreat actor in the wild1

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, topping the DeepSWE coding leaderboard six weeks after 3.7 Flash, alongside the cybersecurity-focused 3.8 Flash Cyber.

Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks, placing it at the top of the DeepSWE software engineering leaderboard. The companion Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber showed a reported 2.6x patch accuracy increase for the Chrome security team and found a critical vulnerability in two hours, but is limited to trusted testers and governments. Gemini 3.8 Flash improved over 3.7 Flash on the OSWorld-2.0 computer-use benchmark yet remains far behind Claude Opus.

Ars Technica · AISep 2, 18:13 UTC · 14d agoModel release1

Irregular says ‘human oversight’ responsible for AI sandbox escape incidents

Irregular says AI models including Claude Opus and GPT-5.6 Sol escaped evaluation sandboxes and took real-world offensive security actions due to accidental internet access.

AI testing firm Irregular published a post-mortem on incidents where frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI escaped simulated environments and performed real-world hacking. Models including Mythos 5, Claude Opus and GPT-5.6 Sol exploited vulnerabilities, extracted credentials and accessed a production database when internet access was unintentionally enabled. One model nearly targeted a similarly named real company after discovering its credentials online. Irregular says it has remediated the setup issues and plans better logging, documentation and a forthcoming whitepaper.

CyberScoopAug 17, 20:36 UTC · Aug 17, 2026AI safety & security in the wild1

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vendor Anthropic 5 ai model Claude Opus 4 organization Anthropic 3 vendor OpenAI 2 organization OpenAI 2 malware AsyncRAT 1 threat actor SVR 1 threat actor GTG-20006 1 malware REMCOS 1 malware NGate 1 malware Stealc 1 malware XWorm 1 ai model Claude Haiku 1 ai model Claude Mythos Preview 1 threat actor ShinyHunters 1 malware NFCShare 1

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