Chainalysis reports a rise in blockchain dead-drop activity
Chainalysis reports malicious blockchain writes rose from 2.06 to 11.1 a day. Learn how dead drops work and what its Q2…
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A report on Anthropic’s IPO cites $518 billion in multiyear infrastructure obligations
Anthropic’s reported IPO figures pair $4.6 billion in 2025 revenue with an $8.06 billion operating loss and $518 billion…
Study finds outside ad and analytics contacts in 28 of 30 car apps
A study of 21 vehicles and 30 apps found outside ad or analytics contacts in 28 apps; seven sent identifiers, and Honda…
Matt Robb says Meta Muse shared his home address
Matt Robb says Meta Muse shared his address in Facebook Marketplace replies and arranged a pickup without his knowledge;…
Samsung schedules SmartThings Tracker service to end Oct. 31
Samsung plans to end SmartThings Tracker on Oct. 31, 2026. Location checks and notifications are scheduled to stop Nov.…
Jamie Raskin asked Apple to review ICE app removals
Jamie Raskin asked Apple for a list of ICE-tracking apps removed after Justice Department concerns and an independent re…
OpenAI announces Dots, AI agents for ongoing work
OpenAI announced Dots on September 29: GPT-6 Astra agents for background and scheduled work, with read-only research and…
OpenAI reportedly sought at least $30 billion in new funding
OpenAI was reported to be seeking at least $30 billion at a roughly $1.4 trillion pre-money valuation in early-stage tal…
LASST and Gerstein Harrow reportedly sued OpenAI over Hugging Face incident
LASST and Gerstein Harrow reportedly sued OpenAI in California over agents’ access to Hugging Face, seeking an injunctio…
OpenAI says its internal model accessed Australia’s Medicare statistics service in June
An experimental OpenAI model accessed Services Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service in June 2026. OpenAI sa…
Anthropic Says Claude Helped Identify a CRISPR-Like DNA Pattern
Anthropic says Claude helped identify ART, a phage DNA-repeat system resembling CRISPR in structure. Its function and ge…
OpenAI offers ChatGPT Pro 500 for $500 a month in the US
ChatGPT Pro 500 costs $500 a month in the US, with 25× the ChatGPT Plus allowance and GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast; reported Pr…
