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JetBrains told everyone to patch. It didn’t patch itself.
JetBrains failed to patch its own TeamCity server, exposing its Cadence cloud service to attackers who accessed credentials, source code, and AWS accounts.
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.
LM Studio built a judge for AI commands. Then the judge started agreeing with the defendant.
LM Studio says Auto Review clears most shell commands without another model call. Variables, tool quirks, and prompt injection make the rest harder.
Alibaba just released Qwen3.8-Flash: “An early preview of the architecture in Qwen4”
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash previews the architecture behind Qwen4 and outscores larger rivals on a key coding benchmark. It also runs on a single consumer GPU, one developer says.
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.
Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 goes open weight, but its new license aims at hyperscalers
Z.ai put the GLM-5.3 weights on Hugging Face, but dropped the MIT license. Providers above $10 billion in revenue now need a security review.
Nvidia is paying $12.9 billion to keep open models on its chips
Ollama put Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi inside Claude Desktop. Nvidia’s reported Hugging Face acquisition is a bet that the open-model ecosystem will keep running on CUDA.
When Agents Take Over the System of Record: 40GB Nobody Typed, a Renewal Agent Built in Half a Day, and Why Our Agents Love Clay: The Agents #013
Episode #013 of The Agents is here! Same setup as always: three humans, 20+ agents in production, an 8-figure B2B + AI business. This week was about what happens when agents take over the system of…
50% of the Work Created in Linear Is Now Created by Agents. A Year Ago It Was 3%.
Linear published its tender offer news this week: $99 million of secondary at a $2.5 billion valuation, up from $1.25 billion at the Series C last year. Accel and 01A participated, with Salesforce …
Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.
Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.
Weekly Dose of Optimism #208
Pancreatic Cancer Drug, Airbound, Radiant & Antares, MHS, Hugging Face + Extra Doses
Sector Snapshot: Space Tech Startup Funding Orbits New Highs
So far this year, a record $20.3 billion in global seed- through growth-stage funding has gone to companies in space- and satellite-related sectors, per Crunchbase data. That’s already by far the highest annual tally on record, and we’ve still got four months left in 2026.