AI
Fable 5.1: Cheaper to Run, Fewer False Flags, and It Wrote This Post
Claude Fable 5.1 keeps Fable 5's list price, cuts cache reads 75%, loosens cyber safeguards, and is the first Claude model whose text carries a watermark.
Technology
'Backwards and Poor': Trump Picks a Side in the Data Center Revolt
Technology
Five Hours and Counting: One Auth Config Takes Down Microsoft 365
AI
Nvidia's $12.9B Run at Hugging Face Puts the AI Commons in Play
Healthcare IT
McKesson Breach: 284 Million Rows, Unknown Number of Patients
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Technology
Three ServiceNow AI Platform Bugs Score 10.0
ServiceNow patched three unauthenticated AI Platform flaws rated CVSS 10.0. Hosted instances received fixes; self-hosted customers must verify their versions.
AI
OpenAI Plans to End Its Model Deal With SpaceX-Owned Cursor
OpenAI plans to end bundled model access in Cursor after SpaceX’s $60 billion takeover. Cursor says OpenAI is 5% of traffic, but the platform bargain is over.
Technology
California's Age Law Forgot Linux Exists. The Fix Passed 109–0.
California voted unanimously to exempt open-source operating systems from its age-verification law, after a year of warnings that Linux couldn't comply.
AI
$150,000 a Song: Sony and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic
All three majors' publishing arms are now suing the Claude maker. The new complaint names two co-founders personally and seeks up to $150,000 per song.
AI
'Not a Blank Check': Judge Voids the Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation of Anthropic unconstitutional — First Amendment retaliation dressed as national security.
AI
Bill Gates Says AI's 'Bad Stuff Is Imminent.' He Wants a Plan.
Gates says the industry is downplaying AI risks it privately fears, and proposes token taxes, 'Human Reserved' jobs, and new national and global institutions.
Geopolitics
65 Billion Barrels on Paper: The U.S.-Venezuela Oil Deal
Trump announced majority U.S. control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil. The structure is undisclosed, and the pump won't notice for years.
AI
OpenAI's Hugging Face Postmortem: 1,200 Agents, One Message Board
OpenAI's report on the July Hugging Face breach names the internal model behind it — IM1 — and describes roughly 1,200 agents that coordinated an attack through a message board no one built.
Technology
PaperCut Print Servers Are Under Attack, and One Patch Wasn't Enough
Two chained flaws in PaperCut NG/MF give unauthenticated attackers remote code execution, and they're being exploited now. The first emergency patch was bypassed, so a second shipped Friday. Here's what to do this weekend.
Technology
Nvidia's $96B Quarter: Compute Is Revenue, and Memory Is the Bill
Nvidia doubled revenue year over year, guided to $108 billion, and told analysts fiscal 2028 could grow 70%. The market cheered for a day — then read the fine print on memory costs and debt.