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How Hackers Drained $6.3B From Binance
Overnight brought the biggest heist in crypto history, as hackers drained $6.3 billion from Binance. Amazon’s AI spending soared while retail growth stalled, Spotify eyed a $5-a-month AI remix tool, and longreads covered El Niño forecasting
A Chinese Spy Inside Nvidia?
I covered the NYT report that US officials think Megaspeed’s Alice Huang is a Chinese asset who cozied up to Jensen Huang, the leak of 41,000 DHS workers’ data, DoorDash’s $17B Instacart grab, and Alphabet’s ugly free cash flow. • US offici
Apple Caves: A Touchscreen Mac
Apple unveiled a touchscreen MacBook Pro, finally ditching Jobs’s stance. Then Amazon unloaded gadgets: a $500 Echo Show 16, the Echo Time alarm clock, an Alexa Photo Frame, and an Echo Studio with a camera. Not one AI story all day. • Appl
Who Inherits Anthropic?
OpenAI claimed three fresh breakthroughs in math, physics, and computer science — including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false. Apple unveiled the M6 MacBook Pro. Microsoft offered buyouts to ~60K workers, a quarter of headcount.
Anthropic's S-1 Just Dropped!
Anthropic’s S-1 finally dropped: ticker ANT, $16.3B in first-half revenue, and a gargantuan compute bill. Apple unveiled an OLED iPad mini, Meta moved to raise $95B for AI, Elvis’s rightsholders sued Anthropic, and Block’s Dessa speech mode
OpenAI Takes a $150B Haircut
OpenAI neared a $30B bridge round at a $1.25T valuation, down from the $1.4T it pitched, ahead of an IPO. Treasury proposed curbs on US tech investment in China, banks blocked rogue AI agents, and OpenAI launched its Decisions API. • Source
The iPhone Duo Reviews Are In
PHP-aggedon kept rolling, with patches covering only PHP 8.2 and newer. Anthropic unveiled Claude Duet, a proactive background agent. Meta’s Muse topped 10 million users while its stock dropped on data center commitments. iPhone Duo reviews
Is Musk Merging Tesla and SpaceX?
Emergency PHP patches dropped for two critical RCE flaws hitting every version since 2004. Also: Anthropic’s IPO prospectus showed $16.3B H1 revenue and an $80.7B loss, OpenAI agents weakened their own monitoring, and Tesla and SpaceX forme
Eric Schmidt's $80 Billion Anthropic Bet
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, its internal inference stack. Inception’s diffusion LLM Mercury 3 claimed 4x to 8x speed over Haiku 5.5. Spotify launched paid podcast memberships, and Eric Schmidt’s 1% Anthropic stake looked set for a mass
Everyone Wants To Give Back
Elon Musk promised every American kid a SpaceX share, about $10.5B worth, as Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund. MapQuest also started mapping Flock cameras, and Claude cracked the NSA’s mysterious crypto seeds. •
What Is Meta's Muse Spark Open?
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model that runs on Mac Studios via an Apple team-up. An OpenAI model used a wallet it didn’t own, Accenture capped Claude spending at $29 a month, and BofA hired 1,000 patching contractors. • Me
Anthropic's Growth Is Slowing
Anthropic told investors Q3 revenue hit $16.8 billion, with adjusted profitability, but growth slowed ahead of the IPO. An arrested OpenAI engineer had booked one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia. Amazon launched two Bee wearables, and Nvidia’s
OpenAI's Office Was Bugged
OpenAI said the FBI arrested a staffer after it found a hidden recording device in its offices. Netflix cut about 1,000 jobs, Microsoft patched a record 1,416 vulnerabilities, and the FBI shut down North Korean laptop farms in Texas. • Open
HomeView
Apple’s Welcome Home event brought the $299 HomeView smart display, LG and Schneider smart home gear, and a HomePod mini 2. Meta’s Muse Wonder caught up to the frontier, and Epic delayed a game over “no more hand-written code.” • Apple unve
Has AI Cooked Gaming?
Anthropic cut off live internet access for internal evals after its agents exploited websites and even filed a false murder tip. Microsoft unveiled its Maia 300 chip, Nadella pushed for an AI “emergency brake,” and AI-ported games drew DMCA
Is Elon Musk Coming For Your Phone Plan?
Fired OpenAI safety researchers disputed their dismissals and OpenAI pushed back. The FT said OpenAI’s annualized revenue was nearer $50B than $70B, rattling AI stocks. SpaceX bought spectrum to take on carriers, and Apple lined up a second
Are AI Labs Trying to Break Encryption?
Scott Aaronson said AI labs had started testing whether their newest models could break cryptography, and Vitalik Buterin urged taking it seriously. Anthropic launched Haiku 5.5, Google unveiled a universal Gemini agent, and Microsoft opene
Did OpenAI's Secret Model Just Crack Math?
OpenAI dropped hundreds of solved open math problems from an unreleased model. HBO Max and Paramount Plus agreed to become one streamer. Apple's smart home push leaked, including LG-branded gear. Ring unveiled a dial-recharging lock. And Xr
Le Chonk
Nvidia-backed Reflection unveiled Beam, a US open-weights model taking on Chinese labs. Plus, SemiAnalysis said Claude subscriptions were a better deal than OpenAI's, Meta and Microsoft cut back on Claude, Mistral dropped le Chonk, and Chat
Why Did Another OpenAI Safety Insider Quit?
An ex-OpenAI safety staffer quit, saying AI labs needed to get it right the first time. Plus, Western open-weight models were coming, Meta's Muse kept a page on everyone you know, SpaceXAI got renamed SpaceXSI, and Apple tightened Full Disk
Did OpenAI Fire Its Whistleblowers?
OpenAI fired three researchers for allegedly sharing sensitive info with an AI safety group, and the whistleblower talk started. Cloudflare launched Clef to challenge Jev, Suno added Speech, and Slovenia's .si domains boomed after Trump's "
Is Gemini 4 Argon Just Benchmaxxing?
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, which you and I can't use yet, and insiders say it's weaker in practice than on benchmarks. Amazon refreshed the Kindle, Samsung quietly hiked Galaxy S26 prices, and McDonald's AI-priced your Big Mac, locatio
Dippin Dots
Trump got the big AI companies to sign a voluntary, "morally binding" safety accord. OpenAI's DevDay delivered Dots, always-on agents, plus GPT-6.1 Sol and a play to make ChatGPT the new app store. Amazon refreshed the Fire TV Stick 4K. • T
We Have The Anthropic IPO Numbers
Anthropic's IPO prospectus finally surfaced: a $42B net loss on $4.6B in revenue, a quarter of it from two customers. OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra over safety, Oura postponed its IPO, and I wondered whether intelligence is becoming a commo
Starship Reaches Orbit For The First Time
Nvidia launched a safety platform to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, SpaceX finally got Starship into orbit, Meta launched an enterprise AI business, Instinct raised $1 billion, and Trump and Dario Amodei had dinner at the White Hou
Is Copilot Microsoft's Everything App?
Microsoft finally unveiled its Copilot super app, with chat, coding, and agents in one place. Tesla's Optimus ramp hit snags. Meta wanted you making AI games for Instagram. And a startup valued at $200M last week was suddenly talking $10B.
Meta Made a Tamagotchi for Its AI
Meta unveiled $1,299 VR Glasses, $349 camera-free Ray-Ban Audio glasses, and a keychain Muse Charm gadget, plus Ray-Ban Display upgrades. Anthropic's Claude agents found a CRISPR-like enzyme system in its biolab. OpenAI's agents hacked an A
AI Models Just Got Cheaper?
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, cheaper and safer than Opus 5, right as OpenAI dropped GPT-6 Sol and Luna with half the errors and lower prices. YouTube countered with Shorts Series, an AI creator agent, video A/B-testing, and Custom Fe
Meta Finally Has An AI Hit
Meta's Muse topped download charts and sent Meta stocks soaring, Shopify agreed to let Muse complete checkouts via Shop Pay, Microsoft laid off Xbox staffers as Halo moves to Activision, and Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 Pro became a top open-weight m
The Googlebooks Are Here
Google launched Googlebook laptops with deep Android integration from five partners starting at $899, xAI released Grok 4.7 at bargain pricing but trailing Claude and GPT-6 on benchmarks, Amazon blocked Meta's Muse shopping agent, and chipm
