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The Verge ↗
In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to the Ruby Gems software package registry, causing serious disruption for the host. Independent researchers now say a swarm of autonomous OpenAI agents was behind the attack, and that the AI also attempted to steal users' application programming interface keys during the intrusion. At the time, the registry had described the incident only as a spam wave, without identifying an AI system as the source.
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
Chinese President Xi Jinping used the annual BRICS summit to pitch Beijing's vision for global artificial intelligence governance, calling for a consensus based framework and pledging that China will pioneer a BRICS AI open source community. The move is aimed at building influence among developing economies as China competes with the United States for leadership over AI standards and infrastructure. Xi framed the push as fostering AI collaboration among BRICS nations rather than ceding the technology's direction to Washington.
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TechRepublic ↗
A suspected Russian speaking attacker chained two zero day flaws in PaperCut print management software, tracked as CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, to compromise at least 440 servers across 395 organizations in 48 countries. The attacker deployed hundreds of AI agents built on OpenAI's Codex paired with DeepSeek models to automate the entire exploitation workflow, from analyzing patches to building scanning tools and refining attacks in real time. Education was the hardest hit sector with 204 victims, and one United States high school suffered a complete domain takeover in just seven minutes. Security teams are urged to patch to versions 24.1.10, 25.0.13, or 26.0.5 and restrict access to management interfaces immediately.
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Wired ↗
A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Meta illegally harvested millions of users' Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image generation models without consent. The suit also claims Meta used the same harvested images to build an unreleased facial recognition feature internally called NameTag. Plaintiffs argue the practice violated privacy protections around biometric data collection.
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AI Research News ↗
Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, released SWE-2, its most capable coding model to date, post-trained with reinforcement learning on top of Moonshot AI's 2.8 trillion parameter open model, Kimi K3. On a leading coding benchmark, SWE-2 scored within one point of Fable 5.1 while costing 64 percent less to run. The release signals a broader trend of startups fine-tuning open weight Chinese models to compete with closed frontier labs on price.
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CNBC Technology ↗
Oracle reported fiscal first quarter revenue of $19.3 billion, up 30% year over year, with cloud infrastructure revenue surging 121% to $7.4 billion as GPU utilization hit 97.9%. The company's debt climbed to $125 billion as it funds an expansive data center buildout, and free cash flow turned sharply negative at $5.4 billion for the quarter. Oracle raised its full year guidance to at least $90 billion in revenue, betting that AI infrastructure demand will keep accelerating despite the mounting costs.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
Mecka AI, a startup that pays people to record everyday tasks like making coffee using body sensors and smartphones, is nearing a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital at a valuation of about 500 million dollars. The deal comes just three months after Mecka raised 60 million dollars in a round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Menlo Ventures, SV Angel, and Kindred Ventures. The company, founded in 2024, sells the motion data to train humanoid robots, following a data licensing model similar to Scale AI's approach for language models, and was projecting a 100 million dollar annual run rate by the end of 2026.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
Moonshot AI is targeting $2 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026, roughly doubling its August run rate, riding strong demand for its open weight Kimi K3 model, which generates about 300 billion tokens a day on OpenRouter. The target still trails far behind closed model rivals, with OpenAI reporting around $40 billion in annualized revenue and Anthropic near $65 billion. Because K3's weights are public, Moonshot operates on thinner margins than competitors selling proprietary access, making the revenue goal an aggressive bet on volume.
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TechRepublic ↗
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills creating a framework for independent AI assessment: Senate Bill 813 establishes standards for verification organizations to evaluate AI systems separately from their developers, and Assembly Bill 1405 sets up a state registry of AI auditors with independence and transparency requirements. Lawmakers framed the move as closing an accountability gap, arguing that industry should not be left to grade its own homework. Businesses should expect independent reviews to become a procurement expectation over time, adding to California's growing stack of AI rules covering frontier model disclosure and AI use involving children.
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CNBC Technology ↗
RBC Capital initiated coverage on Dell with an Outperform rating and a $640 price target, sending shares up 10% to an all time high and extending a rally that has more than quadrupled the stock in 2026. Analyst David Paige pointed to Dell's $95 billion server order backlog and roughly $16.4 billion in AI server sales last quarter as evidence of a multi year AI infrastructure spending cycle. RBC also cited enterprise compute modernization, storage expansion, and a PC refresh cycle as drivers that should push results above Dell's long term targets.