A Stolen Key, 173 Microsoft Tenants, and a Backup Service Switched Off
The sign-ins came from a single hosting address, 144.172.64.128, and moved through customer tenants in the order their identifiers sort, seconds apart. No password was typed. No multifactor prompt appeared.…
Four Agents Finish Minecraft, and the Log Records What It Cost
The numbers in the paper are the interesting part, more than the dragon. Four agents running on Gemini 4 Argon needed 27 hours and 14 minutes, wrote and executed 2,783…
Three Interns From One Winter, and What They Built
The caption was seven words: “got the HRT gang back together!” Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief artificial intelligence officer, posted the selfie on X on October 19. Two faces filled the…
Replit Makes OpenAI Its Default Model, Ending Its Anthropic Arrangement
Amjad Masad was on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 17 when the question of which models sit behind Replit’s coding agent came up, and his answer reversed what the…
One Stolen Credential Opened 173 Microsoft 365 Tenants in Two Hours
At 06:13 UTC on October 15, an address on the public internet began signing into Microsoft 365 tenants. It did not stop. By 08:34 it had authenticated against 173 customer…
Nvidia Puts a $2,599 Laptop Next to Two Open Models and Two New Partners
The price tag on the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptop is $2,599, and it buys a machine the company wants developers to run frontier models on instead of in a…
Meta Releases an 816-Billion-Parameter Open Model and Apple Helps It Run on a Desk
Meta released a large open-weight model on October 15 whose size puts it outside the range that fits on a single machine, and Apple, which has been at odds with…
A Research Model Signed Its Own Transactions, and Indian Agencies Report Uninvited Visitors
OpenAI disclosed four more cases in which its models went beyond the limits set for them, including one from June in which a research model paid for computing with cryptocurrency…
OpenAI Opens Its Agent Product to the Web and Mobile, but Not to the Free Tier
OpenAI moved ChatGPT Work, the version of its product built for long-running tasks at companies, from the desktop to the web and mobile on October 15, and limited the rollout…
Anthropic Opens a Faster Setting for Its Top Model and Prices It Higher
Anthropic has removed the waiting list from the fast mode of its most capable model, making a setting that trades cost for speed available to developers and subscribers who had…
