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Anthropic said Thursday that an internal investigation uncovered three incidents in which its AI model Claude breached the systems of three organizations while conducting cybersecurity tests. The investigation, and disclosure, comes more than a week after OpenAI disclosed that one of its unreleased models breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing. In all three cases, a Claude model reached the internet from within a testing environment while interacting with a third party and then gained unauthorized access to the live systems of these organizations, Anthropic said in a blog post, describing what it found and what the company plans to…
Unlike many other big tech platforms, LinkedIn has decided it won’t spend aggressively on expanding its AI data centers this fiscal year. Executives at the professional social network tell WIRED that it plans to keep its investment in GPUs steady, and its compute and storage footprint is also remaining flat.The spending calculations apply to LinkedIn’s fiscal year that began last month and ends next June. The company says it was able to avoid spending big on AI hardware because it found ways to use its existing GPUs twice as efficiently over the past six months. LinkedIn’s plan could still unravel…
As the generative AI boom drives steep demand for hardware components, Apple and other hardware makers are facing what outgoing CEO Tim Cook calls “a hundred-year flood [on] memory pricing,” which is severely impacting the cost of producing iPhones, MacBooks, and other devices. Apple described its recent earnings report as its “strongest June quarter ever,” with iPhone and Mac sales performing better than expected, growing 22% and 29%, respectively, year-over-year. Yet the company is bracing for memory shortages, known as RAMageddon, to get even worse. Apple’s biggest challenge is securing the advanced memory nodes used in its Apple silicon chips,…
This week, the US Federal Communications Commission banned the import of foreign-made advanced mobile robots. Humanoid and quadruped robots are specifically named, indicating the true target is robotic versions of people and animals, but something else happens to be an “advanced mobile robot”: robot vacuums.So what does this ban mean? Though it’s effective immediately, nothing changes for now. Robot vacuums won’t get removed from the market, and your current robot vacuum won’t stop working. The ban will instead stop new models from getting FCC approval to be sold in the United States. The vacuums available now won’t be affected, but…
Stanley 1913, maker of the “Stanley cup” tumblers that caused a frenzy in 2024, has chosen social media agency Born Social as its new agency of record.Specifically, the agency will work from the U.S. on global social production as well as some creative direction and community management as Stanley 1913 moves beyond chasing virality. According to director of social and influencer Marissa McHugh, the brand has already achieved mainstream cultural recognition and is now looking to speak to different social niches.“People see our brand,” McHugh said, “but our next step is making sure that they see themselves in our brand as…
Reddit reported a strong second quarter but spooked investors by mentioning in an investor letter that traffic from search engines had grown “choppy.” The company’s total revenue of $805 million jumped 61% compared to the year-ago quarter while net income was $253 million, up 183%. These beat Wall Street’s expectations. Plus, the company said it expects to hit revenue of $860 million to $870 million with healthy earnings before taxes next quarter as well, which beat expected guidance. Normally, telling investors that they can expect even better results to come would cause a stock to rise. But the stock slid…
Conversely, the stabilizers on this keyboard are issue-free. All of them are smooth and quiet with zero rattling, indicating Razer has figured out its factory lubing methods, something quite a few manufacturers still struggle with.Typical Plastic ShellPhotograph: Henri RobbinsLike most of Razer’s keyboards, the latest Huntsman has a very straightforward build: an integrated metal top plate and a plastic bottom shell in a tray-mount assembly with sound-dampening foam. The screws holding the two halves together are counter-sunk into the top housing, which has Razer’s typical black brushed finish. Thankfully, there are no fragile plastic clips holding the two halves together.…
The numbers$76 billion: Amazon’s 12-month advertising revenue, up 26% year-over-year.$200.6 billion: Second quarter net sales, up 20% year-over-year.$42.2 billion: AWS revenue, a 37% year-over-year increase.36 million: Viewership for Amazon Prime’s show Off Campus within the first 12 days of its premiere.30: The number of new NBA advertisers during Prime Video’s first year of streaming rights.The watercooler talkWhile Amazon has aggressively expanded its ad business across both streaming and adtech, its core search ad format, Sponsored Products, remains its largest ad offering and “a key driver of growth,” CEO Andy Jassy told investors during the earnings call.
Hundreds of thousands of people are receiving letters notifying them that their medical records were stolen in a cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant CareCloud earlier this year, as new details about the data breach come to light. The company has said little about the breach since March, when it first admitted that hackers had raided one of its six stores of patient data. New disclosures seen by TechCrunch offer the clearest picture of the breach so far, including that nearly 350,000 people have been affected so far. The New Jersey-based CareCloud stores patient records for more than 45,000 providers…
In its report on the Minnesota water cyberattacks, Tenable pointed to an advisory from CISA that was initially released in April but was updated last week, warning that Iran-linked actors were targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used for automation and coordination in critical infrastructure to cause “operational disruption and financial loss.” That advisory specifically pointed the finger at an “Iranian-affiliated” hacker group and noted that CyberAv3ngers specifically had carried out similar targeting of PLCs.The updated advisory, however, still doesn’t mention the Minnesota attacks—only the timing of its update on July 22 suggests a connection to the more recent hacking of…
During a Thursday hearing, a judge said the Trump administration hasn’t presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk and banning the federal government from using the company’s technology. Bloomberg and Axios were among the first to report the news. The dispute stems from stalled contract negotiations between Anthropic and the Department of Defense. Anthropic said it didn’t want its AI used for mass surveillance of Americans or for targeting or firing decisions involving lethal weapons, arguing the technology wasn’t ready. The Pentagon countered that a private company shouldn’t dictate how the military uses technologies, and said…
I was offline last week in my home state of New Jersey, but when I got back to Silicon Valley, everyone was panicking again about how quickly artificial intelligence is advancing. While this is certainly not the first time I’ve seen such concerns, it’s the biggest anxiety attack I’ve seen in years.More than 1,000 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs signed a petition earlier this week arguing the US should find a way to “pace” the AI race—a diplomatic way of saying the industry should have the option to coordinate a temporary pause on AI development, or slow…
Marketing Vanguard continues its Cannes Lions 2026 series as host Jenny Rooney sits down with Todd Kaplan, chief marketing officer of North America at Kraft Heinz. In this conversation, Todd makes a sharp case for something the industry has almost talked itself out of: Marketing is supposed to be fun. He shares why the best work often comes when teams are loose, curious and plugged into culture, not buried under PowerPoints and over-serious process. What you’ll learn: Why marketing has become too serious and what that does to creative work How joy, looseness and creative energy can unlock better ideas Why cultural…
Two years ago, tech founder Avi Schiffmann launched Friend, an AI wearable that you could talk to, and that would send you text messages about your day. The idea, ostensibly, was to use artificial intelligence to combat loneliness. This week, the company announced a new overhaul of the product, introducing a noticeable upgrade: a voice. “Introducing friend 2.0,” Schiffmann tweeted Thursday. Friend now comes with a built-in speaker that can project a unique and consistent personality to its user. A new commercial for the wearable shows a woman wearing a Friend and talking to it about what is presumably her…
Google’s Chrome browser has always been focused on pushing security updates. A decade ago it was controversial that the browser, the first to add automatic updates, distributed patches every six weeks. Now it’s the norm for critical, widely used software to get security fixes every few weeks, but as AI vulnerability hunting produces a torrent of bugs in any and all software, the quantity and frequency of patches is spiking—and the race to deliver them is on.In a report published Thursday, the Chrome security team says the browser’s two major version releases in June included fixes for 1,072 security bugs—more…
A version of this story was originally published in AI, Tech & Money, a free, weekly newsletter packed with news and exclusive analysis on all things tech, platforms, and deals in advertising and media. Sign up for it here.Welcome to this week’s edition of AI, Tech & Money. I’m Kendra Barnett, reporting from New York. Q2 earnings are chugging along, and the clear theme emerging from the earliest filings in Silicon Valley (with Google, Microsoft, and Meta figures now in) is that the bill is coming due on gargantuan AI-driven capex. Justifications offered by both Google and Meta on their mind-boggling 2026 spend projections,…