$535 of Claude Bought a Working PLC Exploit

Forescout's Vedere Labs pointed Claude Code at a WAGO controller and got working pre-authentication code execution on live hardware - $535.74 and eight and a half hours for the final stage, and a second session permanently bricked the device.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

Token Prices Halve, and Two IPOs Are Waiting

Silicon Data's index for what a million tokens actually trades at hit 97 cents Monday, less than half its summer high and driven by Chinese open-weight models - and OpenAI and Anthropic have both filed confidentially to go public.

AfterQuery Hits $3.2B in Five Months

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

Astra Finds Unknown Flaws Using Less Compute

OpenAI restarted training on 28 August after a two-week pause and now says Astra spots more vulnerabilities than any model it has shipped while using less compute - the one thing that has ever limited who can run an attack at scale.

Atlas Won Every Benchmark World Labs Ran

The WorkbenchTools and agents

Gemini Picks Which Frames It Pays For

The FightLaw, policy and power

US at G20: An AI Regulator Would Be a Disaster

The ministerial opened Tuesday with Trump's science chief calling a US AI agency a disaster and Musk warning of a significant power shortfall next year, Zuckerberg and Hassabis alongside him - and no G20 power to bind anyone.

Judge: HHS Cited Studies That Don't Exist

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

2,000 Sydney Staff Strike Over AI

Waymo Opens 3 Cities, Days Before Cybercab

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

AI Picks the Road to Alpha Centauri