cybersecurity
Australia charges two alleged members of hacking group TeamPCP
Australian Federal Police arrested two men over alleged involvement in TeamPCP, the group behind supply-chain attacks that compromised more than 1,000 organizations.
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anthropic
Stolen Claude sessions: Anthropic signs accounts out and removes saved cards
Infostealer malware on users' computers copied Claude sessions; when a bad actor started using them, Anthropic signed the sessions out. The notice names six malware families; what to do is in the story.
anthropic
Claude opens to scientists: 10,000 seats, free for students - how to apply, step by step
In Anthropic's new Claude Team plan standard seats are free and premium with 5x limits is 15 dollars a month. A university email is enough; the four application steps are in the story.
anthropic
Anthropic paper: automated researchers improved alignment on all 10 benchmarks
A new Anthropic paper reports that automated systems improved a model's scores on ten alignment benchmarks, at roughly $4 per hour versus $150 for human researchers.
robotics
Chinese Carmakers Chase Humanoid Robots as Xpeng's Unit Raises Over $900M
Xpeng's robotics arm raised more than $900 million at a post-money valuation above $6.3 billion, while BYD, Chery and others push into humanoid robots.
Applied Compute
Applied Compute opens full Kimi K3 training: GPUs per replica down 40 percent
Fine-tuning Moonshot's 3-trillion-parameter open-weight model on AC2: custom activation operators free ~90 GB per GPU, and MXFP4 inference runs on 2 nodes instead of 4.
OpenAI
OpenAI brings agents to the life sciences: Rosalind Workbench previews with NVIDIA BioNeMo support
OpenAI introduces an agentic research environment built on GPT-Rosalind; NVIDIA backs the preview with its BioNeMo Agent Toolkit. One workspace from protein design to NGS analysis.
xAI
Grok Bot goes shopping with Stripe's Link wallet: a single-use card for every payment
The bot can complete purchases on the user's behalf: every transaction is approved, and no standing card details ever reach the bot. US-only for now - the agent economy at its most tangible.
OpenAI
OpenAI cuts Cursor off from its models: access ends 12 November after the SpaceX acquisition
OpenAI cites its experience with Musk companies as it winds down the contract. Truell's reply is measured but pointed: OpenAI models are 5 percent of our traffic - and it was OpenAI that seeded us in 2023.
Real-time music from Google: Lyria RealTime lands in Flow Music Spaces
Audio is generated instantly and evolves with every move: switch a genre, adjust an instrument, hear it in seconds. The model blends multiple prompts at once, with key, tempo and density under control.
Canonical
Canonical joins the NVIDIA-led Open Secure AI Alliance
The alliance's purpose in one sentence: develop and share open technologies to safeguard software and agents in the age of AI. Canonical argues security starts at the operating-system layer.
OpenAI
Altman: billion-dollar companies of 10 people are near - "at 22, I'd feel like the luckiest kid in history"
The OpenAI chief's small-team prediction is circulating on X again. What is new is not the number but the ground: AI agents turn team-sized work into processes one person can run.