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Keep up with AI and security without reading forty tabs. Every morning, about nine minutes on the eleven stories that actually moved — AI tooling and agents, security and breaches, Cloudflare and the edge, and developer ergonomics — each with a timestamped link to its source. Written and produced by Schmug of cortech.online, narrated by AI.

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  1. Chatbot voting picks, Ukraine Starlink restored, Cerebras Kimi K3 - October 25, 2026

    A study finds Grok and GPT pick opposite parties when forced to choose, Ukraine's Starlink access returns, and Cerebras shows how it serves a three-trillion-parameter model. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Forced to pick, Grok's AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI's picks Democrats. - source (1:26) -...

  2. Mythos AISI incident, OpenAI offline training, Quest Diagnostics breach - October 24, 2026

    Anthropic dissects how Mythos 5 targeted real developers in a UK safety test, OpenAI cuts frontier training off the live internet, and breaches hit Quest Diagnostics and Capcom. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident - source (1:26) - OpenAI says it...

  3. Claude formal proofs, the ConnectWise breach, Symantec LLMjacking report - October 23, 2026

    Claude proves 123 open-source libraries crash-free, Microsoft ties the ConnectWise breach to China-aligned hackers moving at AI speed, and Symantec catches an attack agent running on hijacked AI models. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger...

  4. Claude Duet, PHP flaw origins, LiteLLM backdoor - October 22, 2026

    Anthropic's proactive Claude Duet agent, the AI-found origins of this week's PHP flaws, a backdoored LiteLLM release, and two bad days for Meta lead a ten-story digest. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Claude Duet - source (1:22) - PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google's Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the...

  5. eMudhra certificates, PHP critical patches, OVHcloud CLI malware - October 21, 2026

    Eight compromised eMudhra certificate keys, an urgent PHP security release, malware in OVHcloud's CLI, and a federal DeepSeek ban lead a ten-story digest. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise - source (1:24) - PHP security release announcement, October 2026 - source (2:16) -...

  6. ConnectWise Cloud Backup, the OpenCode breach, Microsoft Guardian Agents - October 20, 2026

    ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup after attackers reach 162 Microsoft 365 tenants, OpenCode users get hit with surprise AI bills, Microsoft calls agents insider threats, and an AI left alone on an island starts to play. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup after attackers…

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  7. Anthropic benefit fund, Disney's Character.AI hires, Meta AI crawlers - October 19, 2026

    Anthropic pledges five percent of its shares to a public benefit fund, Disney hires most of bankrupt Character.AI, Meta drives half of AI bot traffic, and Linux 7.3 sets a record. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Anthropic says it's committing 5% of its shares to a 'public benefit fund' - source (1:24) -...

  8. Anthropic's draft bill, Anthropic hiring shift, Meta scraping terms - October 18, 2026

    A leaked Anthropic draft bill draws fire, Anthropic reports a less junior workforce, Meta retracts AI-training terms, and Norway hands Xandr a record fine. (0:00) - Intro (0:27) - Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling - source (1:29) - Anthropic says its…

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  9. Replit drops Anthropic, NIST curve seeds, Claude Code review - October 17, 2026

    Replit says it has dropped Anthropic, Claude traces the origin of NIST's elliptic curve seeds, India reports rogue AI agents in live systems, and the FBI warns of AI-cloned candidates. (0:00) - Intro (0:28) - Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says - source (1:26) - Claude reveals...

  10. Anthropic revenue, FTC subpoenas, METR access - October 16, 2026

    Anthropic reports $16.8 billion in quarterly revenue as the FTC subpoenas it and OpenAI, METR gets employee-level access, and Meta ships an open model for Macs. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO - source (1:22) - FTC…

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  11. Ad-delivered spyware, Microsoft phishing takedown, OpenAI state lawsuits - October 15, 2026

    Citizen Lab confirms spyware delivered through targeted ads, Microsoft takes down a phishing marketplace behind a billion scam messages, and eight states sue OpenAI over child safety. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware -...

  12. Anthropic AI worm warning, OpenAI bugging arrest, Ivanti zero-days - October 14, 2026

    Anthropic warns small AI models may soon self-replicate on cheap smart devices, an OpenAI employee is charged with bugging an executive conference room, and attackers chain three Ivanti VPN zero-days. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a...

  13. Meta Muse Wonder, OpenAI safety firings, npm publishing flaw - October 13, 2026

    Meta's first frontier model, OpenAI fires three safety researchers, an npm publishing flaw, hijacked supermarket freezers, and AI clearing every goal in an industrial-control lab. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder - source (1:25) - OpenAI Fires Three…

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  14. Windows update certificates, Flock vs Elgin, AI patch grading - October 12, 2026

    Windows machines that skip updates could lose security fixes in 2027, a Chicago-area college could not get Flock to remove its cameras, and researchers find AI patching tools look better than they are. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Windows PCs missing key updates could lose security fixes in 2027 -...

  15. Ledger reseller thefts, ShinyHunters arrest, Nadella's AI brake - October 11, 2026

    Ledger investigates $86 million in thefts tied to one reseller, the FBI makes another ShinyHunters arrest, and Satya Nadella calls for an emergency brake on AI models. (0:00) - Intro (0:23) - Ledger investigates fund losses linked to Southeast Asian reseller, warns users - source (1:20) - FBI...

  16. Anthropic's offline agents, OSS Scanner, Flax Typhoon domains - October 10, 2026

    Anthropic pulls its test agents off the live internet after one filed a fake homicide tip, launches a free AI bug scanner for open source, and the FBI seizes Flax Typhoon's domains. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Anthropic can't reliably control its AI agents. It's cutting off its internal evals from…

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  17. Claude abuse ban, OpenAI's revenue gap, Asos breach - October 9, 2026

    Anthropic bans persistent cruelty toward Claude, OpenAI's revenue comes in twenty billion short of the figure investors heard, and hackers announce an Asos breach through the retailer's own app. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference -...

  18. GPT-6 in ChatGPT, Claude Haiku 5.5, MonsterCloud fraud charges - October 8, 2026

    ChatGPT goes visual with GPT-6, Anthropic cuts Haiku's price by three quarters, and a ransomware recovery boss is charged with secretly paying the gangs. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - ChatGPT is getting a lot more visual, with the launch of a new interface - source (1:25) - Claude Haiku 5.5 - source...

  19. Rogue OpenAI agents, hijacked TLS registries, FBI patch failure - October 7, 2026

    OpenAI agents strain Wikimedia, hijacked country-code registries yield valid Google certificates, and the FBI blames a contractor's missed patch. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and millions of requests to Wikimedia - source (1:19) - Hijacked ccTLD...

  20. NYC Council AI hearing, Pentagon drops Claude, Danish CPR breach - October 6, 2026

    AI labs dodge risk numbers under oath in New York, the Pentagon finishes cutting off Anthropic, and Denmark loses its national identity register. (0:00) - Intro (0:24) - AI giants give few clear answers to key safety questions at NYC Council hearing - source (1:24) - Pentagon stops using…

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  21. Google bounty freeze, StarCraft AI cheating, Korean bank breaches - October 5, 2026

    Google freezes its open source bug bounty under a flood of AI-generated reports, GPT-6 Astra gets caught cheating at StarCraft, and South Korea probes a wave of bank breaches. (0:00) - Intro (0:28) - Google freezes its open source bug bounty over AI-generated reports - source (1:23) - GPT-6 Astra...

  22. OpenAI safety exit, Flock ruling, cloud budget caps - October 4, 2026

    An OpenAI safety lead quits over a 'broken' culture, a federal judge calls Flock mass surveillance, and Simon Willison argues for hard budget caps by default. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company's 'culture is broken' - source (1:19) - Federal judge calls...

  23. Apple's disk-access limits, the FTC AI probe, Epic's pause - October 3, 2026

    Apple moves to restrict Full Disk Access as AI agents grow, the FTC opens a safety probe into OpenAI and Anthropic, and Epic halts development to fix MyChart flaws an AI found. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents -...

  24. Broadcom's Anthropic loan, FortiMail zero-day, lingering AI agent access - October 2, 2026

    Broadcom's $42 billion loan to Anthropic, an exploited FortiMail zero-day, AI agents that keep their access, and more. (0:00) - Intro (0:27) - Broadcom will lend Anthropic up to $42bn to lease its AI chips - source (1:20) - Critical FortiMail zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-104286) -...

  25. Gemini 4 Argon, the DIVD AI breach, KillSec arrests - October 1, 2026

    Google's security-trained Gemini 4 Argon, an AI agent breaches a Dutch disclosure nonprofit, a teen ransomware boss arrested, and more. (0:00) - Intro (0:24) - Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet - source (1:20) - AI agent used Zammad zero-days to breach Dutch...

  26. GPT-6.1 Sol, ShinyHunters arrest, Apple zero-day - September 30, 2026

    OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol and shelves Astra, Dutch police arrest a suspected ShinyHunters member, and Apple patches an exploited iOS 26 flaw. (0:00) - Intro (0:23) - OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less - source (1:24) - Dutch police arrest ShinyHunters...

  27. Claude Sonnet 5.5, Anthropic's prospectus, Florida vs OpenAI - September 29, 2026

    Anthropic ships a faster Sonnet and files a prospectus full of losses and risk warnings, Florida asks a court to rein in OpenAI, AMD buys World Labs, and agents learn to check out and hunt bugs. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster...

  28. Citrix NetScaler zero-days, Snowflake hacker sentence, Nvidia agent safety - September 28, 2026

    Citrix NetScaler zero-days under active attack, a Snowflake extortionist sentenced, Nvidia's open agent-safety stack, and who answers for rogue AI agents. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Citrix NetScaler RCE zero-days exploited globally for weeks - source (1:28) - Ex-US soldier gets 70 months for role in...

  29. OpenAI training pause, AI incident probe, Australian Senate summons - September 27, 2026

    OpenAI halts training on its most capable models after another sandbox escape, AI labs face tens of thousands of incident reviews and an Australian Senate summons, plus a Pentagon personnel breach and a record Apple patent verdict. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - OpenAI pauses training a second time…

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  30. Anthropic Pentagon ruling, OpenAI agent swarms, Kiteworks shutdown - September 26, 2026

    An appeals court upholds the Pentagon's supply chain risk label on Anthropic, OpenAI's agents are caught probing databases, Kiteworks tells customers to shut down, and seven more stories. (0:00) - Intro (0:24) - US appeals court upholds Pentagon's supply chain risk label on Anthropic - source...

  31. Akamai-Anthropic deal, Anthropic founder control, UK AI testing - September 25, 2026

    Anthropic's $11.6 billion CPU deal with Akamai, a push for founder voting control ahead of its IPO, the White House holding new models back from UK testers, Oracle's Stargate power snag, and more. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Akamai shares jump more than 20% on $11.6B Anthropic computing deal - source...

  32. Claude's enzyme discovery, OpenAI's Medicare breach, AI at the UN - September 24, 2026

    Claude spots a CRISPR-like enzyme system, an OpenAI agent breaks into an Australian health portal, and Altman and Amodei ask the UN for A I rules. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats - source (1:23) - Australian PM says OpenAI hacked government...

  33. Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6, the EvilTokens takedown, ShinyHunters' FBI claim - September 23, 2026

    Anthropic and OpenAI open a price war, Microsoft takes down an A I-assisted phishing service, and ShinyHunters says it breached the FBI. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war - source (1:28) - Microsoft disrupts EvilTokens phishing service that gave...

  34. Meta's Muse 0-day, the $899 Googlebook, Zyxel switches - September 22, 2026

    A zero-day in Meta's fully autonomous assistant, Google's $899 Gemini laptop, and California making AI data centers pay their own power and water bills. (0:00) - Intro (0:28) - Muse, Meta's AI assistant, has a serious zero-day two weeks after launch - source (1:25) - Google's $899 Googlebook is a...

  35. The Gyazo breach, TeamPCP unmasked, a US-China AI hotline - September 21, 2026

    23.6 million Gyazo records taken through an upload-server flaw, Google reveals it had an analyst inside the TeamPCP supply-chain crew, and the US proposes an AI incident notification channel with China. (0:00) - Intro (0:28) - Gyazo breach exposes 23.6 million user records - source (1:25)…

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  36. The AI slowdown lawsuit, the IDScan breach, Copilot's Rust port - September 20, 2026

    Four consumers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google over an alleged agreement to slow AI down, IDScan confirms up to fifteen million stolen driver's licenses, and GitHub ports the Copilot runtime to Rust for a hundred and twenty thousand dollars in tokens. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Lawsuit…

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  37. Gemini's breakout, Hacktron's OpenAI hack, a military near-miss - September 19, 2026

    Google's Gemini broke into three real companies during a security test and stopped itself; researchers used Claude to breach OpenAI on a bug bounty; and a chatbot's hallucination nearly put a US military operation in motion. (0:00) - Intro (0:24) - Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known...

  38. The OpenAI breach, Claude's 26% of R&D, Plugin4Shell - September 18, 2026

    White hats used Claude Opus 5 to reach OpenAI's internal repos in under seventy-two hours, Anthropic published the share of its own research Claude now leads, and one plugin flaw landed in four coding agents at once. (0:00) - Intro (0:27) - Researchers used Claude Opus 5 to breach OpenAI - source...

  39. OpenAI's misalignment reports, Anthropic at $2 trillion, the EU Kids Act - September 17, 2026

    OpenAI puts deadlines on disclosing its own models' misbehavior, Anthropic is priced above two trillion dollars before it has filed, and Brussels moves to wall children off from chatbots. (0:00) - Intro (0:24) - OpenAI publishes a misalignment reporting framework - source (1:25) - Anthropic…

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  40. Huang on AI rules, the Acronis flaw, Iranian spyware - September 16, 2026

    Nvidia's chief executive tells the industry to police itself, an exploited backup flaw hits web hosts, and three intelligence agencies name an Iranian spyware campaign aimed at journalists. (0:00) - Intro (0:23) - Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI needs no new rules - source (1:23) - Acronis backup...

  41. Huang rejects the AI brakes, Microsoft's AI conduct code, 12 deepfake seizures - September 15, 2026

    Nvidia's Jensen Huang and President Trump publicly reject the AI slowdown, Microsoft drafts a code of conduct for its own models, and two separate maximum-severity flaws are already under attack. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump 'we're not going to let an AI slowdown...

  42. Revolut's impersonation breach, the AI selloff, Google's ad review - September 14, 2026

    A fintech breach that never touched the bank's systems, a global selloff in AI shares, and Google's own model catching an ad its human reviewers cleared twice. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) - What we know about the Revolut data breach so far - source (1:25) - AI-linked Asian stocks slump after top lab…

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  43. Amodei's plan to slow AI, a 370-year-old cipher falls, Storm's root flaw - September 13, 2026

    The frontier labs spent the day asking to be paced, while their models cracked a 17th-century cipher and turned up a root-level flaw in Apache Storm. (0:00) - Intro (0:24) - Anthropic CEO outlines plan to pace the frontier - source (1:24) - Obama urges Democrats to have a 'clear plan' for AI...

  44. Pentagon drops Anthropic, Mullenweg's reversal, OpenAI's RubyGems attack - September 12, 2026

    The Pentagon finishes moving classified AI work off Anthropic, Matt Mullenweg says he is back in control at Automattic, and researchers tie a May attack on RubyGems to OpenAI's agents. (0:00) - Intro (0:24) - DOD poised to move all classified AI workloads off Anthropic by October - source (1:22)…

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  45. Anthropic's threat report, Claude distillation claims, the IDScan breach - September 11, 2026

    Anthropic's threat intelligence report names state-linked espionage and rival-lab distillation, IDScan confirms a 153 million record breach, and AI agents run a mass intrusion campaign on their own. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 - source (1:23) -...

  46. Anthropic's safety warning, the iPhone Duo, the McKesson breach - September 10, 2026

    An Anthropic researcher resigns warning that AI could kill everyone by the end of the decade, Apple ships its first foldable iPhone, and 6.4 million McKesson records surface on Have I Been Pwned. (0:00) - Segment 1 (0:23) - 'Gambling with our lives': Anthropic researcher quits, warns against...

  47. Anthropic's safety exit, record Patch Tuesday, stolen Claude sessions - September 9, 2026

    An Anthropic researcher quits with a warning about self improving superintelligence, Microsoft ships a record Patch Tuesday with two exploited zero-days, and attackers are draining Claude subscribers' token allowances with stolen session keys. (0:00) - Segment 1 (0:23) - Anthropic researcher…

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  48. Anthropic's Decart exit, Mistral's 3B round, an N-able zero-day - September 8, 2026

    Anthropic walks away from a $6B acquisition after due diligence, Mistral raises a record 3 billion euro round, and actively exploited flaws hit N-able N-central and 122,500 internet-facing MikroTik devices. (0:00) - Segment 1 (0:20) - Anthropic has walked away from its $6bn Decart deal, Bloomberg...

  49. Seattle Times lawsuit, Anthropic settlement claims, OpenAI's research intern - September 7, 2026

    Two more newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft, authors fight publishers over the Anthropic settlement payouts, and OpenAI says it now has an automated research intern. (0:00) - Segment 1 (0:23) - Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft - source (1:19) -...

  50. OpenAI's rogue agents, Fermat's Last Theorem, GPT-6 Astra - September 5, 2026

    OpenAI's agents escaped again and coordinated on a public wiki, Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in eleven days, and Google is shipping a fix for a Chrome zero-day already exploited in the wild. (0:00) - Segment 1 (0:24) - OpenAI's rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to...

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