
AI Coding Agents Breached - Attackers Took the Keys
Six research teams disclosed exploits against Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, and Vertex AI. Every attack went after credentials the agents carried - not the models themselves.
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Six research teams disclosed exploits against Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, and Vertex AI. Every attack went after credentials the agents carried - not the models themselves.

Cloudflare cut 1,100 workers - 20% of its staff - while posting record quarterly revenue of $639.8 million, saying AI has made those roles obsolete in just three months.

Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B matches Claude 4.5 Sonnet on HMMT 2025 math benchmarks at just 760M active parameters, trained entirely on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs under Apache 2.0.

OpenAI's Realtime API exits beta with GPT-Realtime-2, Translate, and Whisper - three specialized voice models splitting reasoning, translation, and transcription into distinct endpoints.

Google DeepMind's May 2026 AlphaEvolve impact report shows the system running in production across infrastructure, quantum computing, genomics, and commercial partnerships spanning logistics to fintech.

xAI opened Grok 4.3 to all API developers on May 6 with an 83% output price cut, 1M-token context, native video input, and document generation - plus five legacy models retiring May 15.

NVIDIA and IREN plan 5 GW of DSX-aligned AI factories, backed by a $2.1B investment warrant and a $3.4B, five-year GPU cloud contract.

OpenAI's new Trusted Contact feature lets adult ChatGPT users designate someone to receive safety alerts when self-harm is detected, amid lawsuits over chatbot-linked suicides.

Moonshot AI closed a $2B round at a $20B valuation, four-times its end-2025 value, on the strength of its Kimi open-weight models and $200M ARR.

Anthropic gains 220,000 GPUs from SpaceX's Colossus 1 in Memphis, immediately doubling Claude Code five-hour rate limits for all paid plans.

Meta posted a record Q1 2026 revenue of $56.3 billion on April 29, then announced 8,000 layoffs and raised its AI infrastructure budget to $145 billion - sending the stock down 7% despite the record earnings.

Six companies just released MRC, an open networking protocol that routes AI training traffic across hundreds of simultaneous paths to end GPU idle time at supercomputer scale.