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Firefox 150 Patches 271 Bugs Found by Claude Mythos
Firefox 150 ships with fixes for 271 security vulnerabilities uncovered by an early version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, as Mozilla declares AI has tipped the balance from offense to defense
Anthropic's Project Deal Shows AI Agents Trade Money
Anthropic’s pilot Project Deal turned its internal staff into buyers and sellers represented by AI agents, completing 186 real transactions worth over $4,000. The experiment revealed that agents power
UNC6692 Leverages Teams Phishing and Cloud Malware
A new UNC6692 campaign uses Microsoft Teams impersonation and a modular malware suite to infiltrate enterprises without exploiting vulnerabilities, leveraging cloud services for delivery, command‑and‑
Cohere to Acquire Aleph Alpha in $20B AI Deal
Cohere is acquiring Germany’s Aleph Alpha to form a $20 billion sovereign AI venture backed by Schwarz Group, aiming to serve regulated industries with a Canadian‑German company that runs on STACKIT c
Vatican Bans AI-Generated Homilies, Issues Framework
The Vatican has rolled out an AI framework that bans AI‑generated homilies and sets guardrails for other AI uses, moving faster than most legacy institutions in shaping AI governance. By establishing
Govee Uplighter Floor Lamp: 3 Lights in 1 for $180
A tech reviewer credits the $179.99 Govee Uplighter Floor Lamp with helping her reclaim her bedroom after two years of broken Ikea lamps and caregiving burnout, though a random shutoff bug prompted a
US Phones Lag Chinese Rivals on Cameras, Batteries
US smartphone buyers are stuck with phones that lag behind Chinese competitors in cameras and batteries, as Apple, Samsung, and Google show no plans to adopt silicon-carbon cells or match rapid Chines
Citizen Lab finds two SS7/Diameter spying schemes
Citizen Lab exposed two covert location‑tracking campaigns that hijack SS7 and Diameter flaws across 2G‑5G networks, using telecom infrastructure and invisible SMS to monitor users worldwide, and reve
Fast16 Malware 2005 Targets Engineering Software
Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne uncovered fast16, a Lua‑based Windows malware dating to 2005 that could corrupt high‑precision engineering calculations, predating the Stuxnet worm by at least five year
WUPHF Launches AI Office with Markdown Wiki
A new tool called WUPHF creates a shared, 24‑hour collaborative workspace for AI agents, combining a web‑based office, per‑agent notebooks, and a markdown‑backed wiki that functions as a knowledge gra
Musk sues Altman for $134B over OpenAI nonprofit pledge
Elon Musk has filed a $134 billion lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, accusing him of breaking a promise to keep the organization nonprofit. The case, set to start Monday in Northern California, a
Oracle Secures $16B for Michigan Data Center, $14B
Oracle clinched a $16 billion financing package for its massive Michigan data‑center, with Bank of America underwriting $14 billion in bonds. The campus will serve as the backbone for OpenAI’s enterpr
VT Code Launches Rust Coding Agent With 21+ LLM Providers
VT Code, a Rust-built local-first coding agent, launches with support for 21+ LLM providers, open protocols, and Xiaomi's MiMo V2.5 Pro as its default model featuring a 1M-token context window.
Anthropic Starts Project Deal, Claude Bots Trade Items
Anthropic has launched Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where its Claude AI models buy, sell, and negotiate employees’ personal belongings. The initiative builds on the company’s recent Opus 4.7
BetTRLabs R&D Platform Launches Bengaluru Leads Hiring
BetTRLabs is reshaping Indian consumer product development with an AI‑driven R&D platform that cuts lab costs and speeds time‑to‑market. At the same time, AI hiring surges in Bengaluru and spreads to
Stash Enables Persistent Memory for Any AI Agent
Stash introduces a persistent cognitive layer that lets AI agents retain user‑specific facts across sessions, positioning itself as a cross‑model alternative to the platform‑locked memory of Claude.ai
DeepSeek V4 launches optimized for Huawei, not Nvidia
DeepSeek released a preview of V4 on April 24, its open-source flagship with a 1-million-token context window, marking its first model optimized for Chinese chips like Huawei's Ascend over Nvidia.
Claude 4.7 Routinely Ignores Stop Hooks
A user reports that since the Claude 4.7 update, the model routinely ignores stop hook rules that previously worked reliably — even after Claude acknowledges the behavior and diagnoses its own root ca
Framework Linux Laptop Outpaces Windows Model
Framework’s Linux-configured Laptop 16 is selling out faster than its Windows counterpart, a trend highlighted by PCWorld. The company’s CEO, speaking to Ars Technica, frames the push as a response to
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, touts coding gains
OpenAI released GPT-5.5, its latest flagship model, touting major gains in coding and multi-step task execution, with rollout to paid ChatGPT tiers and Codex beginning Thursday as the company trades r
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