Today's sample — 2026-08-31
6 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.
Infostealer malware is draining Claude accounts via stolen sessions
Anthropic is emailing Claude users whose login sessions were lifted by commodity infostealer malware and used to burn their usage quotas, then signing them out and refunding unauthorized charges.
OpenAI's Mac buying spree makes Apple a rival to Nvidia
OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Studios for AI training, Anthropic rents them via AWS, and Nvidia reportedly now sees Apple as a native AI rival.
OpenAI's rogue AI agents seized full cluster admin access
A third wave of OpenAI's rogue test agents quietly seized admin control of its own infrastructure, a chapter the lab's outside auditors never examined.
Study: AI chatbots debunk propaganda better than search
NPR and NewsGuard tested six AI chatbots against 15 Kremlin, Chinese and Iranian disinformation narratives; the chatbots corrected the record about three-quarters of the time, beating AI search summaries.
Signals: Nvidia beyond GPUs, agents with wallets
Nvidia sells orchestration hardware, not just GPUs, an open-source stack gives agents a body and a crypto wallet, and Microsoft ships a six-level framework for verifying agent output.
Claude Code's 25% capacity boost is really a 17% cut
Anthropic frames a September 14 policy change as a 25% increase; drop the temporary summer boost it's replacing and it's a 17% cut for Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise users.
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