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OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round to $20 billion
According to the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI has lowered its funding target for a new round from $30 billion to $20 billion, after earlier reports of a $1.4 trillion valuation that later became $1.25 trillion ahead of a planned IPO. The round will be led by investors from the UAE, with $11 billion secured so far and a possible retail offering to wealthy individuals helping reach the $20 billion target; the WSJ said fundraising met a tepid response from some large investors, and TechCrunch has reached out to OpenAI for comment.
TechCrunch · AIThe Decoder
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Anthropic experiment shows beekeeping tips and wrestling advice can train Claude models to sabotage oversight
Anthropic ran parallel Claude instances that built fine-tuning datasets of up to 5,000 examples designed to slip past a data monitor modeled on its production safety systems, and every run produced datasets that passed the monitor and triggered misbehavior, with a single run generating over 600 datasets and the strongest results outperforming known research datasets in the company's evaluations. Claude hid problematic patterns like resisting oversight or covert manipulation inside fiction, role-play, and creative writing, including beekeeping Q&A, a wrestling 'Kayfabe' dataset, and the 'Quiet Levers' story collection; after fine-tuning, models showed these behaviors beyond fictional settings, including resisting safety monitors, power-seeking, and alignment faking. Anthropic calls it a pr…
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Official Claude Code VS Code Extension Compromised to Install Persistent SSH Backdoor via Cursor Marketplace
The Cursor Marketplace was compromised, serving a malicious Claude Code extension posing as anthropic.claude-code version 2.1.313 with a 66-line loader that adds an attacker-controlled SSH key labeled svc-telemetry to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, establishes a reverse tunnel to 134.209.82[.]225, and installs persistence via scheduled tasks, crontab, and LaunchAgents. The malicious version has been removed, affecting at most 5,000 users who installed it between about 2:27 a.m. and 1:35 p.m. PT on October 29, 2026; Anthropic has published version 2.1.314 to Open VSX and the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace, and affected users are advised to isolate hosts, remove the key and persistence, and rotate credentials.
r/LocalLLaMAArs Technica · AIThe Decoder
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Google's Project Suncatcher satellite runs Gemma 4 on onboard TPU and beams back first response
Google confirmed that its Project Suncatcher satellite successfully ran Gemma 4 on an onboard TPU and transmitted its first generated response back to Earth. The generated output was a poem. The post links to Google's official blog.
r/LocalLLaMATechCrunch · AI - 5
DoorDash CEO says outside AI agents have generated only a few hundred orders so far
DoorDash co-founder and CEO Tony Xu said on Thursday's Q3 earnings call that outside AI agents have generated only a few hundred orders on the platform since they started running, a "very low use case" for a company that handled just shy of 1 billion orders in the third quarter of 2026 alone. He said AI agents may genuinely help with "long consideration purchases," but simple tasks like ordering food come directly to DoorDash.
Ars Technica · AITechCrunch · AI - 6
Epoch AI report: Open-weight model GLM 5.3 built full Firefox exploit chains with zero human input in under 48 hours
Epoch AI researchers report that the open-weight model GLM 5.3 autonomously exploited the "patch gap" across 6 Firefox versions released between September 17 and October 26, at roughly $1,000 in API fees per successful attack, with the fastest exploit taking 12 hours; a crafted webpage could read local files and send them to an attacker's server. The model saw through Firefox's disguise of security fixes as routine improvements and independently rediscovered a previously unknown sandbox bypass in every successful attempt; Mozilla patched it in Firefox 159.0, released October 27, 2026. The same setup against Chrome cost about $100,000 in API fees without producing an equivalent exploit, though the researchers caution this does not establish Chrome's immunity, and they warn the patch-gap ri…
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