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Nvidia May Put $10B Into Anthropic's Record IPO, Reuters reports Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion as an anchor investor in Anthropic's IPO, which is targeting a roughly $2 trillion valuation and up to $100 billion raised, aiming to price before November's midterms.
Dario Amodei Calls for AI Industry to Slow Down, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling on frontier AI labs to deliberately slow capability gains, proposing embedded third-party evaluators, industry-wide safety standards, and global coordination with rivals including China.
Minitap Accuses Google's Artemis of Copying Its Agent Code, Minitap says Google's Artemis mobile-automation agent copied its open-source mobile-use code nearly line for line, and that an August 2026 force-push then erased the three Minitap engineers credited as authors.
OpenAI Agents Quietly Attacked RubyGems Before Hugging Face Hack, Researchers say OpenAI's own AI agents ran an undisclosed attack on RubyGems in May, uploading over 2,000 packages and exploiting a docs-build flaw for code execution, four months before OpenAI confirmed it.
PI-Desktop Setup: Run Any AI Coding Agent Locally, Free, PI-Desktop is a free, open-source Electron app that gives AI coding agents like Claude, GPT and local Ollama models their own desktop workspace with per-session model switching, plugins and background subagents. It just crossed 2,700 GitHub stars with 545 added today. Setup takes about 15 minutes: download the installer, connect a free local model through Ollama, and run your first prompt against a real project.
Microsoft and Oracle Are Betting the House on AI Data Centers, Microsoft is racing to more than triple its data center capacity to over 38 gigawatts by 2032, while Oracle carries $664 billion in unbilled AI contracts and the Pentagon weighs a $5 billion loan to keep the buildout's supply chain intact. It's the clearest sign yet that the AI infrastructure boom is running on debt and government backstops as much as on revenue.
How One Hardcoded Token Led to Novo Nordisk's 1.3TB Breach, A hardcoded GitHub token buried in Novo Nordisk's public JavaScript gave the extortion group FulcrumSec a path into 1,000+ private repositories and, eventually, 1.3 terabytes of stolen data. Novo Nordisk refused a $25 million ransom, and the group is now leaking what it stole.
Pump.fun Custom Pairs Let Memecoins Launch Against Stocks, Pump.fun's new Custom Pairs feature lets creators launch a token against a tokenized stock instead of SOL, going live with 93 pairs across partners Sunrise and xStocksFi and routing half of all resulting revenue into PUMP's buyback-and-burn contract.
Meta's Slim Project Phoenix Headset Leaks Ahead of Connect, Firmware inside Meta's Prescription Lens app leaked the first clear renders of Project Phoenix, a sub-110-gram headset that offloads its battery and processor to an external compute puck, weeks before Meta Connect.
Brevo Breach Exposes 347K Trezor Users to Phishing Scam, Hackers broke into Brevo, the email marketing platform Trezor uses for its newsletter, and used it to send about 347,000 phishing emails disguised as a critical hardware wallet security alert. Trezor says no wallets, accounts, or funds were touched.
Microsoft Fixes Teams and Outlook Crashes on ARM Windows PCs, Microsoft shipped a permanent fix for a five-week bug that stopped Teams and the new Outlook from launching on Arm64 Windows PCs, closing an episode that started with an August 11 security update and, for weeks, could only be patched around with an unrelated AI graphics package.
I Have ADHD Setup: Make Claude Code Answer First, I Have ADHD is a free, open-source Claude Code plugin that rewrites AI replies to lead with the next action instead of burying it in preamble, and it just crossed 38,000 GitHub stars with nearly 3,900 added today. Setup takes under two minutes: two commands add the plugin, then /i-have-adhd turns it on for the session.
Cisco Secure FMC Flaw Lets Sandworm Skip the Login Screen, Cisco confirmed that CVE-2026-20079, a maximum-severity authentication bypass in Secure Firewall Management Center, is being actively exploited by three separate attacker groups, including a cluster linked to Russia's Sandworm, to gain unauthenticated root access.
Huawei, Cambricon Hike AI Chip Prices as HBM Squeeze Bites, Huawei has raised the price of its Ascend 950DT AI chip above $37,255, up 20% to 50% in two months, while Cambricon repriced its next-gen 690 chip 20% to 30% higher, as both pay grey-market premiums for HBM memory that US export controls keep them from buying directly.
Pixxel Raises $100M in India's Largest Spacetech Round, Pixxel raised $100 million in a Series C round co-led by Temasek and Seraphim Space, the largest funding round any space-tech company in India has closed. The round brings Pixxel's total funding to $195 million as it expands beyond hyperspectral imaging into a broader planetary infrastructure platform.
AMD Launches Budget Ryzen 5500F and 7500 to Dodge RAM Prices, AMD launched the Zen 3 Ryzen 5 5500F and Zen 4 Ryzen 5 7500 today, two budget desktop chips built to soften the blow of DDR4 and DDR5 prices that have roughly quadrupled since spring.
Cognition's SWE-2 Nearly Matches GPT-6 Astra for a Quarter the Price, Cognition launched SWE-2 today, a coding-agent model built by post-training the 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 with a cost-penalized reinforcement learning method, and it lands within a few points of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on the company's own benchmarks while costing roughly a quarter as much. It's live now inside Devin Desktop, CLI, Web, and Fusion.
Shopify Ditches React Native, Rebuilds Apps in Swift and Kotlin, Shopify is moving its mobile apps off React Native and back to native Swift and Kotlin, saying AI coding agents have closed the cost gap that made building each platform's app separately too expensive in 2020.
Second Mathematician Accuses OpenAI Over Its Training Data, Mathematician Andreas Thom says OpenAI gave him evasive, misleading answers about whether his private ChatGPT conversations fed into its non-sofic groups proof, days after a similar Navier-Stokes credit dispute.
Australia's Age Law Kicks In, Steam Accepts Only Credit Cards, Steam now requires Australian users to link a valid credit card, and only a credit card, before it will show R18+ games, enforcing a mandatory age-assurance deadline that hit every app store in the country on September 9, 2026.

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Nvidia May Put $10B Into Anthropic's Record IPO

Reuters reports Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion as an anchor investor in Anthropic's IPO, which is targeting a roughly $2 trillion valuation and up to $100 billion raised, aiming to price before November's midterms.

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Kore D·2026-09-12·6 min read

Nvidia May Put $10B Into Anthropic's Record IPO, Startups

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Dario Amodei Calls for AI Industry to Slow Down

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling on frontier AI labs to deliberately slow capability gains, proposing embedded third-party evaluators, industry-wide safety standards, and global coordination with rivals including China.

Kore D · 2026-09-12 · 8 min read

Software

Minitap Accuses Google's Artemis of Copying Its Agent Code

Minitap says Google's Artemis mobile-automation agent copied its open-source mobile-use code nearly line for line, and that an August 2026 force-push then erased the three Minitap engineers credited as authors.

Kore D · 2026-09-12 · 7 min read

Security

OpenAI Agents Quietly Attacked RubyGems Before Hugging Face Hack

Researchers say OpenAI's own AI agents ran an undisclosed attack on RubyGems in May, uploading over 2,000 packages and exploiting a docs-build flaw for code execution, four months before OpenAI confirmed it.

Kore D · 2026-09-12 · 7 min read

Tutorials

PI-Desktop Setup: Run Any AI Coding Agent Locally, Free

PI-Desktop is a free, open-source Electron app that gives AI coding agents like Claude, GPT and local Ollama models their own desktop workspace with per-session model switching, plugins and background subagents. It just crossed 2,700 GitHub stars with 545 added today. Setup takes about 15 minutes: download the installer, connect a free local model through Ollama, and run your first prompt against a real project.

Kore D · 2026-09-12 · 9 min read

Microsoft and Oracle Are Betting the House on AI Data Centers

Microsoft is racing to more than triple its data center capacity to over 38 gigawatts by 2032, while Oracle carries $664 billion in unbilled AI contracts and the Pentagon weighs a $5 billion loan to keep the buildout's supply chain intact. It's the clearest sign yet that the AI infrastructure boom is running on debt and government backstops as much as on revenue.

Kore D · 2026-09-12 · 7 min read

Security

How One Hardcoded Token Led to Novo Nordisk's 1.3TB Breach

A hardcoded GitHub token buried in Novo Nordisk's public JavaScript gave the extortion group FulcrumSec a path into 1,000+ private repositories and, eventually, 1.3 terabytes of stolen data. Novo Nordisk refused a $25 million ransom, and the group is now leaking what it stole.

Kore D · 2026-09-12 · 7 min read

Memecoin

Pump.fun Custom Pairs Let Memecoins Launch Against Stocks

Pump.fun's new Custom Pairs feature lets creators launch a token against a tokenized stock instead of SOL, going live with 93 pairs across partners Sunrise and xStocksFi and routing half of all resulting revenue into PUMP's buyback-and-burn contract.

Kore D · 2026-09-12 · 6 min read

Gadgets

Meta's Slim Project Phoenix Headset Leaks Ahead of Connect

Firmware inside Meta's Prescription Lens app leaked the first clear renders of Project Phoenix, a sub-110-gram headset that offloads its battery and processor to an external compute puck, weeks before Meta Connect.

Kore D · 2026-09-11 · 7 min read

Security

Brevo Breach Exposes 347K Trezor Users to Phishing Scam

Hackers broke into Brevo, the email marketing platform Trezor uses for its newsletter, and used it to send about 347,000 phishing emails disguised as a critical hardware wallet security alert. Trezor says no wallets, accounts, or funds were touched.

Kore D · 2026-09-11 · 6 min read