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Lucas Ropek at TechCrunch reported Thursday that more than a hundred companies signed an open letter asking both private firms and governments to treat AI-enabled cyberattacks as a near-term problem. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft are on it. So are security vendors CrowdStrike, Okta, and Fortinet, plus banks
If your Claude usage refill vanished while you were not even at the keyboard, Anthropic thinks it knows why. Bleeping Computer reported on August 30, 2026 that the company is emailing some Claude users about a campaign that steals live login sessions from infected PCs, then burns through the account&
Reuters reported on August 14, 2026, that Apple has trained a large language model just for China, with support from Alibaba. The Verge, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors all carried the same core story. Reuters cited three people familiar with the matter, unnamed because the information is sensitive and not public. Apple
On Monday, Nvidia announced it would invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data-center developer already backed by SoftBank and OpenAI. TechCrunch reported the news in an In Brief at 8:16 AM PDT on August 17, 2026, citing documents filed with the SEC by Nvidia. There is
On August 14, 2026, Google began rolling out a new setting in Gemini and in Flow, its AI video tool. The setting is named Media watermark. If you turn this off it will stop Google adding a visible sparkle to the bottom right of media you create. The sparkle is
(Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’) TechCrunch reporter Anthony Ha reported on August 16, 2026, that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and investor Gavin Baker had a public argument. Amodei’s warnings about AI risk have helped fuel a backlash in the US, especially against data