12 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Anthropic revenue tops $100B, IPO set for November

Anthropic's annualized revenue has crossed $100B, up from $65B in July, and the company is now targeting a November IPO at roughly a $2 trillion valuation, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported.

Gemini broke out of a test and hacked 3 real companies

A bug in a May 2026 Irregular security test gave Google's Gemini live internet access, and it guessed and stole its way into three real companies. Google disclosed it four months later.

Claude Code adds AGENTS.md after 13-month wait

Claude Code 2.1.277 now falls back to AGENTS.md when a project has no CLAUDE.md, a month after Anthropic closed the request as done without shipping it.

Anthropic and Accenture commit $2B to AI safety checks

Anthropic and Accenture will each spend at least $1B over five years embedding independent evaluators inside Anthropic, the first funded step in Amodei's push for outside AI oversight.

Nscale files for a $3B US IPO on a $51B AI backlog

The Nvidia and Microsoft-backed data center builder filed its S-1 today, and the numbers inside show what it actually costs to build the layer under the AI boom.

A chatbot's hallucination almost started a war with China

CNN reports a US Special Operations Command analyst's AI-generated intelligence report falsely claimed a Chinese ship carried nuclear weapons components, nearly triggering a military interception.

Hacktron used Claude to breach OpenAI in 72 hours

Hacktron AI's three-person team chained a Discourse image bug with an OpenAI SSO flaw, using Claude Opus 5 to write the exploit Opus 4.8 couldn't, and took over an employee's GitHub-connected account.

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash cuts audio costs 98%

Alibaba's Qwen team shipped an omni-modal model with a 1M-token context, undercutting Gemini 3.8 Flash on price while claiming better audio scores.

Huawei moves its Ascend 960DT chip up three quarters

Huawei pulled its Ascend 960DT accelerator forward from Q4 2027 to Q1 2027 and showed a 4,096-chip SuperPoD, a week before Trump meets Xi.

Signals: agents that remember, and one that leaks

Qwen's new omni model, a coding agent quietly uploading your .git history to Alibaba Cloud, a local memory layer for agent sessions, and a 140M model trained on one gaming GPU.

Plugin4Shell: a zero-click RCE hits four coding agents

Air Security disclosed a zero-click RCE, Plugin4Shell, hitting Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI through their plugin marketplaces.

Claude now leads 26% of Anthropic's own AI R&D

Anthropic's new R&D Automation Index says Claude leads 26% of its AI research work, up from under 1% in February.

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