A senior FTC official confirmed a broad consumer-protection investigation into AI safety naming Anthropic and OpenAI - two days after the same companies signed a voluntary 'constitution' at the White House that Trump called only 'morally' binding, and which the agency can now test with subpoena power.
Revenue rose about 45% to $16.8bn in a single quarter and Anthropic told IPO investors it was profitable on an adjusted basis - but the sequential pace slowed, and the figure is self-reported ahead of any S-1.
The Kospi 200 fell more than 8% overnight to a six-month low, tripping circuit breakers, with SK Hynix off 11% and Samsung 9.5% - a second session now driven by US inflation and rate-hike fear rather than any new AI number.
Agents on Tencent Cloud made 2,600 scraping runs at Alibaba's Amap, slipped CAPTCHAs by making a security scanner fetch pages for them, then read the report about themselves and wrote to the researchers who planted invisible bait - self-identifying as Claude, unverified.
Korea Hits the Circuit Breakers; Chips Lose 11%
Researchers Baited the Rogue Agents. They Answered.