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OpenAI Asking for Regulation After Its Own Hack Is the Most AI Story of 2026

There is a specific flavor of irony that only the AI industry produces, and this week served a generous portion of it. OpenAI — a company that spent its early years warning against heavy-handed regulation — sat before California lawmakers and argued for stricter AI safety rules. The reason it gave was

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OpenAI paused Astra for getting too good at hacking. Then it shipped it.

OpenAI paused Astra in August for crossing a critical cybersecurity threshold, then shipped it as GPT-6 Astra in September. Same skill, new framing.

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ChocoPoC: The Malware Hiding in GitHub PoC Exploits Targeting Security Researchers

ChocoPoC: The Malware Hiding in GitHub PoC Exploits Targeting Security Researchers A sophisticated supply chain attack is quietly targeting the people who find vulnerabilities first. Security researchers who clone proof-of-concept exploit repositories from GitHub have been hit with a stealthy Python-based remote access trojan called ChocoPoC — and the delivery mechanism

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16 Billion Credentials Leaked: Why Password-Only Auth Is Dead

If you have a password — and you almost certainly do — there is a reasonable chance it is now sitting in a dataset of 16 billion stolen credentials currently circulating on the internet. In mid-2025, researchers at Cybernews uncovered more than 30 exposed datasets containing over 16 billion username-password combinations, harvested

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OpenAI's Custom Chip Breakout, SpaceX's $80B Compute Empire, and Scattered Spider's Day in Court

The Week AI Infrastructure Hit the Silicon Ceiling While most of the tech world focused on yet another model release cycle, this week's most consequential moves happened behind the scenes — in chip fabs, data center construction sites, and courtroom dockets. OpenAI unveiled a custom inference chip designed to

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Meta's $900M CRED Bet, Ethereum's Foundation Crisis, and the AI Capital Rotation

Meta's $900 Million Bet on CRED Reshapes WhatsApp's Future In one of the most significant leadership shakeups in the messaging industry, Meta has invested $900 million into CRED — the Indian fintech giant founded by Kunal Shah — and simultaneously appointed Shah as the new Global CEO of

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SpaceX's $6.3B AI Compute Deal, Google's Talent Crisis, and Groq's $650M Comeback

The AI infrastructure wars just hit a new milestone. SpaceX has signed a $6.3 billion multi-year compute deal with Reflection AI, an open-source lab that will pay $150 million per month for access to Nvidia's latest GB300 chips at the Colossus 2 data center. Meanwhile, Google'