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Anthropic announces Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that will use its Claude Mythos Preview model to help find and fix software vulnerabilities — Today we're announcing Project Glasswing1, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser — Earlier today we announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new general-purpose language model. This model performs strongly across the board …
More: Anthropic, Help Net Security, and Cointelegraph
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| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic says it will make Claude Mythos Preview available to 40+ organizations that maintain critical software and doesn't plan to make it generally available — Anthropic on Tuesday released a preview of its new frontier model, Mythos, which it says will be used by a small coterie of partner organizations for cybersecurity work.
More: CNN and Fortune
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LinkedIn: Anthropic and Bennie Seybold
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic's Project Glasswing launch partners include AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks — ZDNET's key takeaways — AI found thousands of hidden bugs in critical systems. — Tech rivals unite to secure shared infrastructure risks.
More: Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Cyber Daily, Yahoo Finance, Barron's Online, and CNBC
X: @linuxfoundation and @hackinglz
| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations — The program comes as the tech industry races to secure software before similar AI-powered offensive capabilities become too much for defenders to handle.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, above 53.4% for Opus 4.6 — Anthropic on Tuesday announced Project Glasswing, a sweeping cybersecurity initiative that pairs an unreleased frontier AI model …
More: Gizmodo, HPCwire, and CNBC
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| Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: |
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Forums: r/ClaudeAI, r/popculturechat, and r/inthenews
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license — Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? — Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful …
More: Z.ai, Z.ai on Hugging Face, TestingCatalog, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The FBI, the NSA, and other US agencies warn that Iran-linked hackers targeted industrial control devices used in critical US water and energy infrastructure — As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
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Forums: r/PrepperIntel and r/pwnhub
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
FBI: US victims lost ~$21B to cybercrime in 2025, up 26% YoY, driven by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches — U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise …
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| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and Sam Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board — Tesla billionaire also seeks Sam Altman's removal from OpenAI nonprofit's board in amendment to suit over for-profit conversion| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic — Russian government-linked hackers are compromising popular internet routers to steal passwords for email accounts and other online services … | Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, under the GENIUS Act — Quick Take — The FDIC voted to propose a rule that would set forth standards for stablecoin issuers, including requirements involving reserve assets.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years — Anthropic PBC has hired a senior leader from Microsoft Corp. to lead its push to establish the infrastructure needed to support growing adoption … | Jude Joffe-Block / NPR: |
Letter: ICE officials confirm they are using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers — Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using spyware tools that can intercept encrypted messages as part of the agency's efforts …
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Forums: r/politics and r/technology
| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help produce processors for robotics and data centers — Intel (INTC.O) said on Tuesday it would join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, Tesla (TSLA.O) and xAI.
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/intel
| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is resetting Codex usage limits “to celebrate 3M weekly codex users” and will reset them for every 1M new users until it reaches 10M — To celebrate 3 million weekly codex users, we are resetting usage limits. We will do this every million users up to 10 million. Happy building!
X: @ajambrosino, @andrewjiang, @scaling01, and @rahll
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources say Apple will announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays — Apple Inc.'s first foldable phone is on track to arrive during the company's normal iPhone launch period later this year …
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Forums: r/technology, r/apple, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Lance Whitney / ZDNET: |
Google updates Chrome with vertical tabs, a feature that Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have long offered, and a new full-screen layout in reading mode — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google has started rolling out vertical tabs in Chrome. — With vertical tabs, all your open web pages appear in a sidebar.
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| New York Times: |
An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto — One evening in the fall of 2024, my wife and I were sitting in traffic on the Long Island Expressway when, tired of listening …
More: New York Times and New York Times
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| Ana Faguy / BBC: |
Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 about his Epstein ties; Gates says he's “looking forward” to answering questions — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is set to testify before the US congress in June about his interactions …
More: People, Us Weekly, The Sunday Guardian, The Friday Times, Politico, and UPI. Forums: r/politics
| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Asus Zenbook A16 review: Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is speedy and 48GB of RAM is great for $1,599, but the chassis feels cheap and the battery life lags rivals — It's not all about what's on the inside. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation — PALO ALTO, California — The true impact of artificial intelligence on employment is yet to be felt even as the global tech … Sponsor Posts
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