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A $40,000 compute run claimed Google's first full-chain bug bounty of the year for a flaw affecting roughly a billion users, showing defenders can now match attacker-grade tooling.
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6 days and $40,000 of compute with GPT-5.6 Sol to find a critical vulnerability in Chrome, claiming Google’s first full-chain reward in 2026 for a vulnerability that would affect an estimated 1 billion users. Highlights the opportunity for defenders to utilize these tools to secure their software to unprecedented levels:Read original on X
OpenAI just got a problem no better model can fix. For $8 a month, Elon now sells his AI, an AI coding editor, and X Premium on one bill. Microsoft ran this exact play in 1995 and erased an 80% market leader in four years without ever building the better browser. The victim was Netscape. It owned the browser market, Microsoft made Internet Explorer free with every copy of Windows, and by 1999 Netscape was selling itself to AOL. Nobody ever found a counter to it. Today's version is buried in Cursor's reply, where almost nobody will scroll. Paid plans get twice the coding usage on Grok models, and third-party models move to API pricing "to make room for more Grok usage." Inside the most popular AI coding editor, that means same keystrokes, same tab-complete, one model subsidized by a $1.25…Read original on X
cursor just got nerfed into oblivion but nobody is talking about it for some reason this new pricing model completely kills the usage allowance for third party models any non grok model (gpt, claude, etc) is billed as extra usage genuinely zero reason to pay for this sub nowRead original on X
AI model finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six days
AI model finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six days
AI model finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six days
AI model finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six days
AI model finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six days
AI model finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six days
GPT-5.6 Sol finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six days
GPT-5.6 Sol finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six days
GPT-5.6 Sol finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six days
GPT-5.6 Sol finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six-day hunt
GPT-5.6 Sol finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six-day hunt
GPT-5.6 Sol finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six-day hunt
GPT-5.6 Sol finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six-day hunt
OpenAI model finds critical Chrome vulnerability in six days
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It would be a second AI lab claiming a result against the same decades-old complexity conjecture.
One claimed result would show the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false, a central conjecture in complexity theory.
Businesses can automate more office work when a cheaper model scores the same on real tasks.
Price cuts are pulling large AI spending contracts away from Anthropic and intensifying competition between the labs.