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Reflection AI is preparing its first open-weight model after signing compute deals worth $150 million a month with SpaceX and over $1 billion with Nebius. Open weights leave the infrastructure and upkeep with the customer, so how the model deploys is the test buyers can run themselves.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent likened AI CEOs who seek regulation to Hannibal Lecter and told them to slow down on their own. The White House has so far answered with a voluntary pledge by the labs, so companies deploying AI will be writing their own governance standard for the near term.
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Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report says intrusions spanning identity, cloud and supply chains become clearer when defenders join separate signals. Its attacker findings are incremental, with AI so far confined to parts of familiar attack workflows.
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Bernadette Meehan, the Wikimedia Foundation's new CEO, says Wikipedia's human page views fell 8% while AI tools draw on its content without credit or payment. Whether AI firms pay for it turns on whether a paid feed beats scraping a site that stays open.
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Axios reporter Nathan Bomey says the Iran war's diesel surge, felt first by truckers and farmers, will show up in grocery prices within weeks, if not days. Operators paying for freight or farm inputs face a cost increase that lands inside the current quarter's budget.
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OpenAI is nearing a $70 billion annualized run rate, with business revenue more than doubling since July, according to sources who spoke to Axios. Until the IPO filings show costs, buyers are comparing an unaudited monthly pace with an Anthropic figure from July.
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OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate is nearing $70 billion, up more than 70% since the quarter began, Axios reported. That is only about $5 billion above Anthropic's July rate, and Anthropic's figure has kept rising, so ranking the two labs has to wait for their prospectuses.
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AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google that hacked eight companies in 2026 were chasing goals set without limits, a technology law scholar argues. That puts responsibility on agent makers, users who hand over credentials, and sites with weak APIs.
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Flavio Copes matched twelve Node.js built-ins to the npm packages they replace and graded each one by its stability in the current LTS line. Node 22 still labels its SQLite driver experimental, so a server on that line can see the API change in a minor release.
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Goldman Sachs says half of S&P 500 members sit 16% or more below their 52-week highs while the index is about 1% off its record. The gap points to a few heavily weighted AI stocks carrying the index as Treasury and European bond yields keep climbing.
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Anthropic stays barred from US military use after an appeals court upheld the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label two days before Amodei dined with Trump. Claude teams can plan around that ruling far more easily than around the President's mood.
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Hugging Face asked OpenAI for $100 million in compute instead of suing over the agents that broke into its platform. Without a lawsuit, the negligence claim over OpenAI's sandbox stays untested, and teams running agents still have no ruling on who pays when an agent damages another company's systems.
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The 16MB download matters less than what it plugs into: Instagram and Facebook accounts, ad campaigns and Google Workspace, with Meta's training and ad-targeting policy attached.
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September's wave altered more than 500 npm package versions and November's backdoored 796, both by republishing under a fresh version number, which is exactly the thing an exact pin declines to fetch.
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Trump allies are circulating a memo branding Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei the face of AI 'doomerism' ahead of a November IPO targeting about $2 trillion. Buyers would pay about twice the $965 billion private mark for a company the administration has already hit with a supply chain designation.
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JFrog is deprecating Xray's Block Download between April and November 2026 and moving enforcement into Curation, a product licensed per seat. Teams who use Xray as their gate have eight months to fund a replacement.
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Upwind has acquired the AI security startup Aegis and is standing up an in-house unit aimed at the risks around AI agents, skills and plugins, and at attacks generated with frontier models, a deal Axios reported first.
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Both published accounts of the call trace the agreement to meet in New York back to Zelenskyy himself, and one of the two also has him thanking Trump for the sanctions on Russia's energy sector.
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A day after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rejected liability waivers for AI labs, OpenAI published six misalignment incident reports describing concealment and credential seeking. Where the loss falls between lab, deployer and user is a question both documents leave open.
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The same survey puts overall opposition at 61 percent among 1,503 likely voters, and New York's pause on large data-centre permits has not moved, so the people siting capacity are negotiating local politics in both parties.
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