Cybercriminals are exploiting demand for AI coding tools by pushing fake Gemini CLI and Claude Code installation pages into search results, using the sites to deliver a fileless PowerShell infostealer aimed at developer workstations. The campaign, active since early March 2026, marks a sharper turn in financially motivated attacks against software teams as AI assistants become embedded in daily coding workflows. The attackers are not merely imitating […]
Anthropic PBC is moving towards closing a funding round that could exceed $30 billion at a valuation above $900 billion, a transaction that would place the Claude maker among the world’s most valuable private companies and intensify the capital race reshaping artificial intelligence. The San Francisco-based company is expected to complete the round as soon as next week, though final terms could still change. The deal, if […]
Google and Blackstone have agreed to create a $5 billion TPU-powered cloud company, widening the battle for artificial intelligence infrastructure as enterprises seek alternatives to graphics processing units that dominate AI training and inference. The US-based venture will offer data centre capacity, operations, networking and Google Cloud’s Tensor Processing Units through a compute-as-a-service model. Blackstone is making the initial equity commitment, with the first 500 megawatts of […]
Binance has launched a SpaceX-linked pre-IPO perpetual futures contract, giving crypto traders synthetic exposure to one of the world’s most closely watched private companies before any public share sale is completed. The product began trading on May 21 under the SPCXUSDT ticker, marking Binance’s first move into a new class of pre-listing derivatives tied to private-market valuations. The contract is settled in USDT and tracks Space Exploration […]
Washington is testing rival artificial intelligence models across a small group of Defence Department power users as it seeks a workable replacement for Anthropic’s Claude, deepening a high-stakes contest over military AI, supplier risk and control of advanced software inside classified US systems. The review involves 25 heavy users of AI tools inside the Pentagon, with officials comparing how competing models respond to identical tasks and how […]
SpaceX is pitching its planned public listing as a bet on artificial intelligence as much as rockets, telling prospective investors that AI services could open a $26.5 trillion market opportunity and transform the company from a launch-and-satellite operator into a global computing platform. The shift marks a striking turn for Elon Musk’s space company as it prepares for what could become the largest stock-market debut on record. […]
Meta Platforms has told employees it does not expect further company-wide layoffs this year after cutting about 8,000 jobs and shifting thousands more workers into artificial intelligence projects. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg delivered the assurance in an internal memo on Wednesday, the same day the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner carried out one of its largest reorganisations since the post-pandemic technology downturn. The cuts affect about 10 […]
OpenAI and Anthropic have pushed their rivalry deeper into corporate technology budgets by launching dedicated enterprise deployment ventures aimed at turning powerful AI models into production systems for businesses. The moves mark a shift from selling access to chatbots and application programming interfaces towards embedding engineers, consultants and workflow specialists inside companies that want AI to reshape operations rather than sit on the edge of office software. […]
Security researchers uncovered 47 previously unknown vulnerabilities at Pwn2Own Berlin, underscoring persistent weaknesses in enterprise software, artificial intelligence tools, operating systems and virtualisation platforms even when products are fully patched. The three-day competition, held from May 14 to May 16 alongside OffensiveCon in Berlin, awarded $1,298,250 in cash prizes. The event placed some of the world’s most widely used corporate technologies under controlled attack, with researchers targeting […]
SpaceX is moving towards a record-breaking stock market debut that could value Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence empire at about $1.75 trillion, placing public investors before one of the most ambitious and complex listings ever attempted on Wall Street. The company is preparing to list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX as early as June, with plans that could raise roughly $75 billion. Such a […]
Claude has overtaken ChatGPT in paid adoption among US businesses for the first time, marking a shift in the enterprise artificial intelligence market as companies move beyond experimentation and begin choosing tools for daily operations. Payments data covering more than 50,000 businesses showed Anthropic’s Claude products used by 34.4 per cent of firms in April, ahead of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and related services at 32.3 per cent. Overall […]
A Bitcoin holder’s claim that Anthropic’s Claude helped unlock a college-era wallet containing 5 BTC has stirred fresh debate over artificial intelligence, digital forensics and the vast store of cryptocurrency believed to be stranded behind forgotten passwords. The pseudonymous user, posting on X, said access was regained after more than a decade of failed attempts to recover an old wallet created during college years. At current market […]
Jurors in Oakland are set to begin deliberations on Monday in a closely watched trial over whether OpenAI’s leadership broke charitable-trust obligations as the maker of ChatGPT shifted from its nonprofit origins into a profit-seeking artificial intelligence powerhouse. The nine-person jury will consider claims brought by Elon Musk against OpenAI, chief executive Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman after three weeks of testimony that exposed deep divisions […]
Microsoft Edge, Windows 11 and AI infrastructure tools were breached on the opening day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, underscoring how quickly security researchers are finding weaknesses across browsers, operating systems and enterprise artificial intelligence platforms. The contest, staged alongside OffensiveCon in Berlin on 14 May, produced 24 unique zero-day vulnerabilities and $523,000 in rewards on its first day. The results placed DEVCORE at the top of the […]
OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative designed to use frontier AI models and Codex Security to find software flaws, generate fixes and verify remediation before attackers can exploit weaknesses in code. Daybreak marks a sharper push by the ChatGPT maker into defensive cybersecurity, where AI systems are being positioned not merely as coding assistants but as tools for secure-by-design software development. The service is built around […]
Alphabet is preparing its first yen-denominated bond sale as the Google parent broadens its financing base to support a sharp increase in artificial intelligence spending, underscoring how the world’s largest technology groups are moving beyond domestic debt markets to fund the infrastructure race. A term sheet shows the planned multi-tranche offering may include notes with maturities of three, five, seven, 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 years, […]
Mac users searching for Claude downloads are being targeted through sponsored Google results that lead to legitimate-looking Claude shared chats carrying malicious installation instructions, exposing a weakness in how trusted platforms can be misused to deliver malware. The campaign centres on users looking for Claude or Claude Code for macOS. Instead of relying only on fake websites, the attackers are placing paid search ads that display the […]
Dubai-founded OTT Cybersecurity LLC has secured a place in Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program, giving its Lyrie. ai platform formal recognition within a controlled framework for dual-use cybersecurity work involving advanced AI systems. The company also released the Agent Trust Protocol, an open cryptographic standard designed to verify the identity, authority and integrity of AI agents as they operate across digital systems. The protocol is being positioned as […]
Cybercriminals have used artificial intelligence to identify and weaponise a previously unknown software flaw, marking a significant escalation in the use of AI for offensive cyber operations. The attempted campaign targeted a widely used open-source, web-based system administration tool and centred on a zero-day vulnerability that could bypass two-factor authentication when valid user credentials were already available. The operation was disrupted before it could be used […]
Cybercriminals are using fake Claude Code installation pages to push a PowerShell-based information stealer at developers, marking a sharper turn in attacks that exploit the rush to adopt AI coding tools. The campaign impersonates Anthropic’s Claude Code, a command-line assistant used by software teams to write, review and debug code. Victims are drawn through sponsored search results or cloned documentation pages that resemble legitimate installation guides. Instead […]
Mac users searching for Claude installation help are being targeted by a malvertising campaign that turns Google-sponsored results and legitimate Claude shared-chat pages into a malware delivery route. The campaign, disclosed on 10 May by security researcher Berk Albayrak, uses search ads that appear to point to Anthropic’s real claude. ai domain. Users looking for terms such as “Claude mac download” are led to a shared Claude […]
Windows users seeking Claude-branded desktop tools have been targeted by a fake Anthropic-themed website distributing Beagle, a previously undocumented backdoor delivered through a DLL sideloading chain that gives attackers remote control over infected machines. The campaign used the domain claude-pro[.]com to imitate Claude’s official interface and lure visitors into downloading a supposed Claude-Pro Relay installer aimed at developers working with Claude Code. The fraudulent site copied the […]
Matein Khalid The last four years were a succession of black swans that could have easily derailed the bull market on Wall Street but did not though the short term corrections on Nasdaq were both savage in their intensity. These black swans include the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Powell’s U-turn from “inflation is transitory” to the swiftest, most brutal Fed interest rate tightening policy since Paul Volcker, […]
Anthropic has struck a major compute agreement with SpaceX that will give its Claude artificial intelligence platform access to more than 300 megawatts of capacity and over 220,000 Nvidia graphics processors, marking one of the largest infrastructure moves yet in the race to support commercial AI demand. The deal, announced on May 6, gives Anthropic use of all compute capacity at SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data centre within […]
