Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind staffers are sharing a letter asking the US government to “deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development”

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Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign

A civil litigation case against eBay, filed by the founders of a Massachusetts-based news site that covers ecommerce, has just been settled. The gist of it: The company and former execs have to own up to—and pay up for—perhaps the most disturbing harassment campaign ever led by a

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Instacart's CTO says AI made the company stop worrying about tech debt

Instacart is posing the provocative question: What if most of the work your engineers do today should, in fact, be done by machines? At VB Transform 2026, CTO Anirban Kundu argued that dev teams continue to waste their time on draining, repetitive, high-volume work; this should be absorbed by AI

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Claude found mathematical flaws in two cryptographic algorithms that years of expert review missed

TL;DR Claude Mythos found mathematical weaknesses in HAWK (halving key strength) and reduced-round AES (200-800x faster attack). Both discovered mostly autonomously. No production systems affected. Each cost ~$100K. Anthropic announced on Monday that Claude Mythos Preview has discovered mathematical weaknesses in two cryptographic algorithms. The first substantially weakens HAWK,

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Europe gets its AI enforcement powers on Sunday. The unit wielding them has 36 people.

The European Commission gains sweeping new powers on Sunday to police how the world’s most advanced AI labs handle systemic risk, as the AI Act reaches its second anniversary. The EU’s AI Office will be able to demand documentation, conduct evaluations, and request access to frontier models, with