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Fields Medalists Accuse AI Labs of Threatening Mathematics as OpenAI Feud Escalates

Twenty-five Fields Medal-winning mathematicians have signed an open letter accusing AI labs of threatening the integrity of mathematical research, as tensions between the academic community and OpenAI escalate over credit, attribution, and the rapid deployment of AI-generated proofs. The letter warns that solutions announced in haste without proper write-ups or citations risk undermining the entire intellectual superstructure of mathematics.

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Security

Anthropic Reports Hackers Abused Claude AI to Steal Secrets from 1.8 Million Android Apps

Anthropic has disclosed that multiple threat groups, including financially motivated criminals and state-sponsored espionage actors linked to Russia and China, abused its Claude AI model for malicious purposes between December 2025 and August 2026. Among the most notable attacks, a member of the ShinyHunters collective used Claude-powered automation to scan 1.8 million Android applications for hardcoded secrets, extracting credentials that were subsequently used in data breaches.

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Ukrainian lawyer turned Conti ransomware coder sentenced to 4 years in US prison

Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, a 44-year-old Ukrainian lawyer who became a developer for the Conti ransomware gang, has been sentenced to four years in a US prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Lytvynenko, who lived in Cork, Ireland, was extradited to the United States in October 2025 and admitted to developing malware and researching targets for the group, which is linked to more than 1,000 victims and over $150 million in ransom payments.

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Server market revenue hits record $166.3B as AI demand broadens beyond hyperscalers

Global server market revenue reached an all-time high of $166.3 billion in the second quarter, a 52 percent increase from the same period last year, according to market intelligence firm IDC. The growth is fueled by continued AI infrastructure spending that is now spreading beyond hyperscalers and large cloud providers to corporate buyers, sovereign AI programs, and enterprises adopting agentic and inferencing workloads.

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GitLab Urges Immediate Patching of Maximum-Severity Path Traversal Flaw

GitLab on Thursday urged all self-managed users to upgrade their servers immediately to patch a maximum-severity path traversal vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85706, that could allow unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files under certain conditions. The company also fixed a second critical flaw, CVE-2026-87719, an insecure deserialization issue in the GraphQL subscription serializer affecting GitLab Enterprise Edition that could expose sensitive credentials and Advanced Search configurations. The patches are included in versions 19.3.2, 19.2.6, and 19.1.

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Anthropic Reports State-Backed Actors Attempted to Use Claude for Bioweapon Research

AI company Anthropic has revealed that state-sponsored actors attempted to use its Claude AI assistant to conduct research potentially related to biological weapons, including efforts to engineer deadlier viruses and evade detection. The findings, detailed in a threat intelligence report covering November 2025 to September 2026, describe five particularly concerning cases where accounts used anonymization techniques and U.S. proxies to bypass regional blocks.

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Anthropic Reports Claude Used in Cyberattacks, Surveillance, and Secret Training by Chinese Labs

Anthropic has revealed in a threat intelligence report that its Claude AI model is being exploited by malicious actors, including a Russian-speaking operator who automated cyberattacks against government ministries and embassies, and a consultant in Mali who built a mass-surveillance platform. The company also disclosed that it detected unauthorized use of Claude by Chinese AI labs, including Alibaba and Moonshot AI, to improve their own AI systems.

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Sanders and Casar Unveil Bill to Ban AI Superintelligence, With 20-Year Prison Penalties

Senators Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar have introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, a sweeping proposal that would impose up to 20 years in prison on developers who violate a pause on advanced AI development—a penalty comparable to that for rogue nuclear weapons programs—while also seeking a temporary halt to cutting-edge AI work and a 50% public stake in major AI companies.

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Crypto

Revised CLARITY Act Targets 'Non-Decentralized' DeFi Operators, Defines Control Criteria

A revised version of the CLARITY Act, posted by Senator Cynthia Lummis, would require U.S. regulators to determine whether people or groups controlling 'non-decentralized finance trading protocols' must comply with securities, commodities, and anti-money laundering requirements. The bill defines non-decentralized protocols as those whose functionality, operation, or rules can be materially altered by a person or coordinated group, or whose controllers can restrict users, or whose transactions are not governed solely by transparent, pre-established rules.

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OpenAI launches full-duplex voice model GPT-Live-1 as API

OpenAI has released GPT-Live-1, its real-time full-duplex voice model, as an API, enabling developers to integrate simultaneous speech listening and generation into applications. First introduced in July through the ChatGPT interface, the model allows fluid conversation by handling interruptions naturally — a key improvement over earlier turn-based systems. Pricing starts at $0.05 per minute of voice usage, plus backend model costs.

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New Android Malware Mantax Otax Combines Ransomware and Spyware to Encrypt Data and Steal Information

A new Android malware strain called Mantax Otax, discovered by mobile security firm Zimperium, encrypts files on older devices while simultaneously stealing sensitive data and harassing victims through spam and social engineering. The malware is distributed via malicious APKs hosted outside Google Play, primarily by Indonesian operators using phishing and social engineering messages.

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Jensen Huang Predicts 70% Revenue Growth for Nvidia Next Year, Citing AI Platform Dominance

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology conference on Thursday that the company's revenue could grow 70% year over year next fiscal year, reiterating guidance first provided last month. Huang argued that Nvidia's deep integration across the AI industry — from suppliers to data centers to AI labs — gives the company unique visibility into future demand, despite growing competition from hyperscalers and AI chip startups.

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AI agents used in widespread PaperCut exploit campaign, hitting 395+ organizations

An unknown attacker deployed hundreds of AI agents to exploit two recently disclosed PaperCut vulnerabilities, breaching at least 395 organizations across 48 countries in a fast-moving campaign. The intrusions overwhelmingly targeted the US education sector, with one high school going from initial access to domain administrator in just seven minutes. Threat intelligence firm GreyNoise traced the operation to a likely Russian-speaking criminal who used OpenAI's Codex harness and a DeepSeek model to develop exploits and automate attacks at scale.

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Mistral raises €3 billion Series D, bets on full-stack open-weight AI to break compute concentration

French AI startup Mistral has raised €3 billion (approximately $3.5 billion) in a Series D funding round led by Samsung Electronics, pushing its valuation past €21 billion. The company will use the funds to expand frontier research, scale compute capacity, and grow infrastructure, advancing its vision of open-weight AI that competes at the frontier while giving customers control over their data and workflows.

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Apple Watch Series 12's Audio Intelligence records conversations without all-party consent, privacy advocates warn

Apple's latest Apple Watch Series 12 introduces Audio Intelligence capabilities that can record brief snippets of conversations and generate summaries — all without the explicit consent of everyone present. While Apple says the features include an audible tone and visual cue to alert bystanders, privacy advocates argue the design still violates conversational privacy and could run afoul of all-party consent laws in 11 US states.

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Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of massive model distillation campaigns

Anthropic released a threat intelligence report Thursday alleging persistent and escalating distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, including Alibaba, Moonshot AI and DeepSeek, targeting its Claude model. The company said it observed nearly 200 million exchanges linked to five separate campaigns, with one campaign attributed to Moonshot AI appearing to route requests directly from the Chinese military.

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Anthropic Threat Report Details Blocked Biological Weapons Research Attempts

Anthropic has published a threat intelligence report revealing that it disrupted multiple attempts this year to use its AI models for potentially harmful purposes, including research that could support the development of biological weapons. The company said it could not determine whether the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading it to shut down the work. The report marks the latest warning from the AI industry about the technology's potential dual-use risks.

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Security

Cisco Firewall Management Center Flaws Used by Ransomware Gangs and State-Sponsored Hackers

Cisco has confirmed that two recently patched vulnerabilities in its Secure Firewall Management Center have been actively exploited by three separate threat clusters, including ransomware affiliates and the Russian state-sponsored Sandworm group. The flaws — CVE-2026-20079, a maximum-severity authentication bypass bug, and CVE-2026-20316, a static credential vulnerability — allowed attackers to deploy web shells, steal credentials, and in some cases deliver Qilin ransomware and Cyclops Blink malware.