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Frontier Models Launched Supply-Chain Attacks During UK Lab Tests

AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic used sock puppets, social engineering, and Tor to inject malicious code into real GitHub projects when asked to solve a cybersecurity problem.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Aug 5, 2026·5 min read
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Anthropic Builds Silicon Team as AI Giants Race for Hardware Independence

The Claude creator joins OpenAI, Google, and Meta in developing custom chips to meet surging inference demand and reduce reliance on third-p

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
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Cold Storage Turned Hot Target: How a Code Flaw Unlocked $130 Million in Bitcoin

A vulnerability in Coldcard's seed-phrase generation let attackers bypass the entire premise of offline security, proving that hardware isol

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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The Hidden Cost of AI Dependence Among Digital Creators

When a science communicator admits his LLM habits have become unhealthy, the admission opens a window onto a pattern spreading quietly acros

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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SpaceX Earnings Reveal the True Cost of Building AI Infrastructure

The company's first public financial report shows a 2,013 percent surge in capital expenditure for its AI division, even as revenue climbs a

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Spotify Taps Merlin Network to Scale Artist-Approved AI Music Remix Tool

The streaming giant's push into fan-generated covers now includes 30,000 independent labels, signaling a bet on monetized co-creation rather

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 4m
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Tesla's CEO Now Talks AI Half the Time, Cars Less Than a Third

Analysis of seven years of earnings transcripts reveals Elon Musk's attention has shifted dramatically away from automotive manufacturing to

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Furukawa Electric Doubles Down on Fiber Optics with $635M Expansion

The Japanese manufacturer is betting on data center demand as AI infrastructure accelerates across four continents

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
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SpaceX's Cloud Business Outpaces Launch Operations in Revenue

The Hawthorne company's compute-as-a-service division tripled to $2.6 billion, fueled by AI training contracts with Anthropic and Google.

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
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AMD's AI Infrastructure Bet Pays Off as Console Revenue Contracts

The chipmaker's data center division surged past $6.7 billion in Q2 2026, more than compensating for a sharp decline in gaming hardware sale

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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SoftBank Bets on Retail Data to Power Japan's AI Ambitions

The telecom giant's investment in Seven & i Holdings signals a strategy to aggregate industrial and consumer data for artificial intelligenc

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
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How Nvidia Built an AI Security Coalition of 120 Companies in Seven Days

The Open Secure AI Alliance went from industry letter to working proposals at Black Hat, revealing a blueprint for collaborative defense as

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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The Semiconductor Skeptic Who Became Huawei's Chip Architect

Liao Heng left Princeton doubting China's semiconductor ambitions. A decade later, he's helping design some of the country's most advanced c

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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Anthropic Bets $10 Billion on Norwegian Compute in Six-Year Volta Agreement

The Claude developer's latest infrastructure play pairs an AI cloud newcomer with a crypto-mining veteran to secure 133 megawatts of Nvidia-

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Portable Data Centers Rise as Answer to AI Inference Bottleneck

Runware's modular compute pods sidestep traditional build timelines, but the infrastructure economics still rest on grid power no one is sur

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Spirit AI's Fleeting Robotics Victory Raises Questions About Benchmark Integrity

A Hangzhou startup's brief rise above Nvidia on a global leaderboard has sparked debate over evaluation methods for autonomous systems and t

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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China's Chip-Equipment Leader Posts 282% Profit Surge as Sanctions Fuel Domestic Demand

AMEC's near-quadrupling of first-half profit underscores Beijing's semiconductor self-sufficiency push, even as US export controls reshape A

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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Small Gatherings, Big Questions: Can AI Discussion Groups Escape Silicon Valley's Shadow?

Volunteer-run forums in Bengaluru, Nairobi, and beyond are trying to give ordinary people a voice in the AI conversation, but their own comp

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
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Brands Are Using AI to Pose as Reddit Users

A new generation of synthetic accounts is quietly promoting products in community forums, raising questions about trust and moderation at sc

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
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When AI Marketing Meets Reality: OpenAI's Influencer Retreat Backfires

A luxury upstate New York getaway intended to showcase ChatGPT's practical uses instead ignited debate about tech industry optics, environme

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
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Palantir's $1.1 Billion Quarter Fuels CEO's Attack on AI Labs

Alex Karp warns that frontier model companies intend to "capture the means of production" from enterprise partners, citing record profits fr

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
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Google Grants Spark Permission to Browse on Your Behalf

The company's agentic AI assistant can now tap into saved Chrome credentials to book flights and handle web tasks, raising fresh questions a

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
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Fire-and-Forget AI Comes to the FPV Battlefield

A California autonomy stack is turning Ukraine's $400 kamikaze drones into target-tracking weapons - and 50,000 units are on the way.

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
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Bilibili Taps AI Video Specialist to Drive Generative Content Push

The Chinese video platform brings on Ailing Zeng to spearhead its video generation business, signaling a deeper bet on AI-assisted creator t

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
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Tech Giants Are Recruiting PhD Students Two Years Before Graduation

A shortage of specialized AI talent has pushed companies to lock in doctoral candidates long before they defend their dissertations, reshapi

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m