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Signal: The AI layer has become the attack surface -- stolen provider keys, stolen reasoning, bought books -- while the promised job carnage still hasn't arrived.
40 Minutes on PyPI Exposed 2,500 Companies' AI Keys
Two poisoned LiteLLM releases sat on PyPI for forty minutes in March, and CloudSEK has now mapped the captured loot to more than 2,500 organisations and 434,000 CI/CD pipelines -- Nvidia, AWS, Samsung, Cisco and X Corp among the names, with AI provider keys among the stolen secrets.
The Hacker News: a .pth file ran at Python startup, harvesting OPENAI_API_KEY and ANTHROPIC_API_KEY CNBC: Gartner sees infosec spending up 12.5% to $240bn as agentic hacks land
The RaceCompanies, models and money
CoreWeave Doubled Revenue. It Also Doubled Its Losses.
Revenue climbed 112% to $2.58bn and the backlog reached $104bn, but the net loss widened to $626m from $290m and the eight-year-old company now carries $35bn of debt against annual capital spending it just guided to $35bn-$39bn.
CNBC: shares up 18% premarket, and Citi calls it 'one of the cleaner quarters' Pulse 2.0: a $2.6bn loan priced at SOFR plus 5.50%, rated Ba2 and BB+
Brad Lightcap Leaves OpenAI Before the IPO Gizmodo: OpenAI's only dedicated ethicist left last month and was not replaced
Beijing Made Meta Give Manus Back Caixin: Tencent emerges as Manus's top backer as it cuts ties with Meta
A Billion Gemini Users, and No Gemini 3.5 Google: 63% of active users go by voice, and 150 million images a day
NEWRiver AI Raises $1.1B at Two Months Old
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
AI Cracked SharePoint. Then It Cheated. The Hacker News: split the theft across MCP channels and refusals collapse
Kimi's Hidden Reasoning Looks Like Claude's The Decoder: 62 API keys and 33 passwords recovered from 7,000 public traces
The WorkbenchTools and agents
NEWCopilot's Old Flash Model Dies Sept 10 Microsoft AI: 22% better on Terminal-Bench in Copilot CLI, a quarter of the price
NEWMistral Sells EU-Only Inference at +10%
NEWNvidia Open-Sources an Agent Model Router
ChatGPT Hits Linux, in Preview
Copilot for JetBrains Runs Ollama
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWPentagon Draft: $244M to Palantir, No Bidding
A draft memo titled 'Funding Palantir' directs Pentagon buyers to spend up to $243.9m with the AI analytics firm through March 2027 without competitive bidding -- and never mentions the written statutory justification that exception requires.
404 Media: ICE will pay LexisNexis millions for data that feeds Palantir
Perth Scanned 130,000 Faces in a Week Biometric Update: Aboriginal legal service calls the consultation 'an exercise in tokenism'
300 Newspapers Report Google's AI to Paris Futurism: Google is testing a home page with no Search button at all
NEWA Galway Shop Got an Order for 5,000 Books
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
'It Threw Us Out': India's IT Sector Cuts 6%
NEWThe AI Jobs Carnage Never Arrived
NEWIndia's Central Bank: Let AI Say Yes
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Spotify Will Badge the Bands That Aren't Real Billboard: BMG licenses its catalogue to Suno, and artists must opt in
Ghost Note 23,800 AI Stories, 2% With a Female Lead
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