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Character.AI Never Earned Back Its Compute Bill. Twenty Million Users' Chat Logs Are Now Part of the EstateCharacter.AI filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware with Disney lined up as a $20 million stalking-horse bidder. The affidavit shows a company whose best revenue month never came close to its compute spend — and a sale process in which twenty million people's conversations are an unresolved line item.Artificial intelligence
OpenAI's Intruder Did Not Go After the Weights. He Allegedly Went After the RoomThe Justice Department has charged an OpenAI engineer with hiding a recorder in the company's executive conference room. A year of frontier-lab security debate has been about model weights; the device that allegedly got inside was a microphone.Security
Ivanti's Zero-Day Chain Took Root on a Fully Patched VPN. Its Own Integrity Checker Said NothingIvanti disclosed CVE-2026-104935 and shipped fixes on October 13, the same day Volexity published its account of an actor chaining three flaws to root on an appliance running the newest available build. The Integrity Checker Tool did not detect it, there was no implant on disk, and the privilege escalation flaw in the chain is still unpatched.Security
Google Shipped Gemini 4 Argon With a Build That Has No Cyber Guardrails. The Price Expires in Seven WeeksGoogle released its flagship Gemini 4 Argon on 13 October at $2 and $10 per million tokens — rates that double on 30 November. The more consequential decision is expanding Fairwind, which hands vetted defenders a version of the model with its cyber guardrails removed.Artificial intelligence
Apple's New Home Hub Will Not Be Sold in the EU. Siri AI Is the ReasonApple announced HomeView, a new Apple TV 4K, a second-generation HomePod mini and a curated accessory lineup built by LG and Schneider Electric. The footnote that matters: HomeView is not available for sale in the European Union, because Siri AI is not available in iOS there.Apple
Meta's First Frontier Model Is Closed, and Its Best Version Is Not on the APIMeta shipped Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on 12 October with no weights, premium pricing and the better model locked behind a subscription. Every capability and safety number on the launch page is Meta's own.Artificial intelligence
Ledger's Genuine Check Passed. The Implant Was Sitting Next to the Chip It ChecksLedger has confirmed an unauthorized hardware implant in a wallet sold by an authorized reseller, with on-chain researchers estimating $86–93 million drained from more than 300 wallets. The device's own authenticity check could not have caught it.Security
Maia 300 Buys 36% More Compute and 2.5x the Memory Bandwidth. The Ratio Is the ArgumentMicrosoft's third custom AI accelerator, unveiled at the OCP Global Summit, adds 36% more compute and 2.5 times the memory bandwidth of Maia 200 — a deliberate bet that inference is memory-bound, not compute-bound. It will not be sold to Azure customers, which tells you what it is for.Engineering
Ahold Delhaize's Distribution Centres Stopped, Not Just Its Websites. In France, the Freezers Went the Other WayAhold Delhaize disclosed a network security issue on Monday morning, by which point work had already halted at several Albert Heijn distribution centres and US staff could not reach their schedules. The same weekend, attackers remotely warmed refrigeration cases in hundreds of French supermarkets — two unrelated incidents that both bypassed the customer database and went straight for the food.Security