Anthropic Is Closing a $30 Billion Round at a $900 Billion Valuation — Past OpenAI
Anthropic is set to close a funding round of more than $30 billion at a valuation above $900 billion — enough to leapfro...
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An LLM Agent Drove This Real Intrusion: Marimo RCE to Database Dump in Under an Hour
On 10 May an internet-exposed marimo notebook was breached through CVE-2026-39987 — and then an autonomous LLM agent too...
The AI SOC arms race lands in ASEAN: Flocks, Claude, and the agentic security stack of mid-2026
On 6 May 2026, ThreatBook launched Flocks and SafeSkill into an AI SOC category that already includes Claude-backed Acce...
Two Supply-Chain Incidents This Week: Megalodon and the Laravel-Lang Composer Compromise
Megalodon pushed 5,718 malicious commits into 5,561 GitHub repos in six hours. Four Laravel-Lang Composer packages were...
Laravel-Lang Supply Chain Attack — Hundreds of Versions Backdoored Across Four Repos in a Composer-Autoload Trick
On 22 May 2026, an attacker rewrote version tags across the Laravel-Lang ecosystem to deliver a 5,900-line PHP credentia...
Instructure Reaches Agreement With ShinyHunters After Canvas Breach Exposes 275 Million Records Across 8,809 Schools
After ShinyHunters stole 3.65TB of data from 8,809 schools using the Canvas LMS, Instructure reached an agreement with t...
Exchange Server Zero-Day CVE-2026-42897 — Crafted-Email XSS in OWA Exploited in the Wild
Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-42897 on 14 May 2026 — an XSS spoofing flaw in Exchange OWA exploited via crafted email. CV...
Singapore Asks Critical-Infrastructure Boards to Review Cybersecurity as Frontier AI Cuts Exploit Development From Months to Hours
On 5 May 2026, Singapore's CSA wrote to the boards of all CII owners expecting a review of cyber-risk posture against AI...
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the ChatGPT Default — What Changes for the 800 Million Weekly Users
OpenAI swapped GPT-5.3 Instant for GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's default on 5 May 2026. What's actually different, what b...
Microsoft Credits AI With Finding Bugs in May 2026 Patch Tuesday — and the Industry Should Pay Attention
Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 118 to 138 CVEs across Windows, Office and Azure — and credited AI-assisted...
Megalodon Campaign Backdoors 5,561 GitHub Repos in Six Hours — Inside a Mass GitHub Actions Supply-Chain Attack
An automated campaign called Megalodon pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repos on 18 May 2026, exfiltrating...
Google Bets the Gemini App on Agents With 3.5 Flash and 24/7 Spark Assistant
At Google I/O 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash shipped with 4× the speed of frontier rivals and a new agent called Spark that runs...
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