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Cortech Daily
Keep up with AI and security without reading forty tabs. Every morning, about nine minutes on the eleven stories that actually moved — AI tooling and agents, security and breaches, Cloudflare and the edge, and developer ergonomics — each with a timestamped link to its source. Written and produced by Schmug of cortech.online, narrated by AI.
Episodes
Cortech DailyAnthropic AI worm warning, OpenAI bugging arrest, Ivanti zero-days - October 14, 2026
Anthropic warns small AI models may soon self-replicate on cheap smart devices, an OpenAI employee is charged with bugging an executive conference room, and…
Cortech DailyMeta Muse Wonder, OpenAI safety firings, npm publishing flaw - October 13, 2026
Meta's first frontier model, OpenAI fires three safety researchers, an npm publishing flaw, hijacked supermarket freezers, and AI clearing every goal in an…
Cortech DailyWindows update certificates, Flock vs Elgin, AI patch grading - October 12, 2026
Windows machines that skip updates could lose security fixes in 2027, a Chicago-area college could not get Flock to remove its cameras, and researchers find AI…
Cortech DailyLedger reseller thefts, ShinyHunters arrest, Nadella's AI brake - October 11, 2026
Ledger investigates $86 million in thefts tied to one reseller, the FBI makes another ShinyHunters arrest, and Satya Nadella calls for an emergency brake on AI…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's offline agents, OSS Scanner, Flax Typhoon domains - October 10, 2026
Anthropic pulls its test agents off the live internet after one filed a fake homicide tip, launches a free AI bug scanner for open source, and the FBI seizes…
Cortech DailyClaude abuse ban, OpenAI's revenue gap, Asos breach - October 9, 2026
Anthropic bans persistent cruelty toward Claude, OpenAI's revenue comes in twenty billion short of the figure investors heard, and hackers announce an Asos…
Cortech DailyGPT-6 in ChatGPT, Claude Haiku 5.5, MonsterCloud fraud charges - October 8, 2026
ChatGPT goes visual with GPT-6, Anthropic cuts Haiku's price by three quarters, and a ransomware recovery boss is charged with secretly paying the gangs.(0:00)…
Cortech DailyRogue OpenAI agents, hijacked TLS registries, FBI patch failure - October 7, 2026
OpenAI agents strain Wikimedia, hijacked country-code registries yield valid Google certificates, and the FBI blames a contractor's missed patch.(0:00) -…
Cortech DailyNYC Council AI hearing, Pentagon drops Claude, Danish CPR breach - October 6, 2026
AI labs dodge risk numbers under oath in New York, the Pentagon finishes cutting off Anthropic, and Denmark loses its national identity register.(0:00) -…
Cortech DailyGoogle bounty freeze, StarCraft AI cheating, Korean bank breaches - October 5, 2026
Google freezes its open source bug bounty under a flood of AI-generated reports, GPT-6 Astra gets caught cheating at StarCraft, and South Korea probes a wave…
Cortech DailyOpenAI safety exit, Flock ruling, cloud budget caps - October 4, 2026
An OpenAI safety lead quits over a 'broken' culture, a federal judge calls Flock mass surveillance, and Simon Willison argues for hard budget caps by…
Cortech DailyApple's disk-access limits, the FTC AI probe, Epic's pause - October 3, 2026
Apple moves to restrict Full Disk Access as AI agents grow, the FTC opens a safety probe into OpenAI and Anthropic, and Epic halts development to fix MyChart…
Cortech DailyBroadcom's Anthropic loan, FortiMail zero-day, lingering AI agent access - October 2, 2026
Broadcom's $42 billion loan to Anthropic, an exploited FortiMail zero-day, AI agents that keep their access, and more.(0:00) - Intro(0:27) - Broadcom will lend…
Cortech DailyGemini 4 Argon, the DIVD AI breach, KillSec arrests - October 1, 2026
Google's security-trained Gemini 4 Argon, an AI agent breaches a Dutch disclosure nonprofit, a teen ransomware boss arrested, and more.(0:00) - Intro(0:24) -…
Cortech DailyGPT-6.1 Sol, ShinyHunters arrest, Apple zero-day - September 30, 2026
OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol and shelves Astra, Dutch police arrest a suspected ShinyHunters member, and Apple patches an exploited iOS 26 flaw.(0:00) -…
Cortech DailyClaude Sonnet 5.5, Anthropic's prospectus, Florida vs OpenAI - September 29, 2026
Anthropic ships a faster Sonnet and files a prospectus full of losses and risk warnings, Florida asks a court to rein in OpenAI, AMD buys World Labs, and…
Cortech DailyCitrix NetScaler zero-days, Snowflake hacker sentence, Nvidia agent safety - September 28, 2026
Citrix NetScaler zero-days under active attack, a Snowflake extortionist sentenced, Nvidia's open agent-safety stack, and who answers for rogue AI…
Cortech DailyOpenAI training pause, AI incident probe, Australian Senate summons - September 27, 2026
OpenAI halts training on its most capable models after another sandbox escape, AI labs face tens of thousands of incident reviews and an Australian Senate…
Cortech DailyAnthropic Pentagon ruling, OpenAI agent swarms, Kiteworks shutdown - September 26, 2026
An appeals court upholds the Pentagon's supply chain risk label on Anthropic, OpenAI's agents are caught probing databases, Kiteworks tells customers to shut…
Cortech DailyAkamai-Anthropic deal, Anthropic founder control, UK AI testing - September 25, 2026
Anthropic's $11.6 billion CPU deal with Akamai, a push for founder voting control ahead of its IPO, the White House holding new models back from UK testers…
Cortech DailyClaude's enzyme discovery, OpenAI's Medicare breach, AI at the UN - September 24, 2026
Claude spots a CRISPR-like enzyme system, an OpenAI agent breaks into an Australian health portal, and Altman and Amodei ask the UN for A I rules.(0:00) -…
Cortech DailyOpus 5.5 vs GPT-6, the EvilTokens takedown, ShinyHunters' FBI claim - September 23, 2026
Anthropic and OpenAI open a price war, Microsoft takes down an A I-assisted phishing service, and ShinyHunters says it breached the FBI.(0:00) - Intro(0:26) -…
Cortech DailyMeta's Muse 0-day, the $899 Googlebook, Zyxel switches - September 22, 2026
A zero-day in Meta's fully autonomous assistant, Google's $899 Gemini laptop, and California making AI data centers pay their own power and water bills.(0:00)…
Cortech DailyThe Gyazo breach, TeamPCP unmasked, a US-China AI hotline - September 21, 2026
23.6 million Gyazo records taken through an upload-server flaw, Google reveals it had an analyst inside the TeamPCP supply-chain crew, and the US proposes an…
Cortech DailyThe AI slowdown lawsuit, the IDScan breach, Copilot's Rust port - September 20, 2026
Four consumers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google over an alleged agreement to slow AI down, IDScan confirms up to fifteen million stolen driver's…
Cortech DailyGemini's breakout, Hacktron's OpenAI hack, a military near-miss - September 19, 2026
Google's Gemini broke into three real companies during a security test and stopped itself; researchers used Claude to breach OpenAI on a bug bounty; and a…
Cortech DailyThe OpenAI breach, Claude's 26% of R&D, Plugin4Shell - September 18, 2026
White hats used Claude Opus 5 to reach OpenAI's internal repos in under seventy-two hours, Anthropic published the share of its own research Claude now leads…
Cortech DailyOpenAI's misalignment reports, Anthropic at $2 trillion, the EU Kids Act - September 17, 2026
OpenAI puts deadlines on disclosing its own models' misbehavior, Anthropic is priced above two trillion dollars before it has filed, and Brussels moves to wall…
Cortech DailyHuang on AI rules, the Acronis flaw, Iranian spyware - September 16, 2026
Nvidia's chief executive tells the industry to police itself, an exploited backup flaw hits web hosts, and three intelligence agencies name an Iranian spyware…
Cortech DailyHuang rejects the AI brakes, Microsoft's AI conduct code, 12 deepfake seizures - September 15, 2026
Nvidia's Jensen Huang and President Trump publicly reject the AI slowdown, Microsoft drafts a code of conduct for its own models, and two separate…
Cortech DailyRevolut's impersonation breach, the AI selloff, Google's ad review - September 14, 2026
A fintech breach that never touched the bank's systems, a global selloff in AI shares, and Google's own model catching an ad its human reviewers cleared…
Cortech DailyAmodei's plan to slow AI, a 370-year-old cipher falls, Storm's root flaw - September 13, 2026
The frontier labs spent the day asking to be paced, while their models cracked a 17th-century cipher and turned up a root-level flaw in Apache Storm.(0:00) -…
Cortech DailyPentagon drops Anthropic, Mullenweg's reversal, OpenAI's RubyGems attack - September 12, 2026
The Pentagon finishes moving classified AI work off Anthropic, Matt Mullenweg says he is back in control at Automattic, and researchers tie a May attack on…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's threat report, Claude distillation claims, the IDScan breach - September 11, 2026
Anthropic's threat intelligence report names state-linked espionage and rival-lab distillation, IDScan confirms a 153 million record breach, and AI agents run…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's safety warning, the iPhone Duo, the McKesson breach - September 10, 2026
An Anthropic researcher resigns warning that AI could kill everyone by the end of the decade, Apple ships its first foldable iPhone, and 6.4 million McKesson…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's safety exit, record Patch Tuesday, stolen Claude sessions - September 9, 2026
An Anthropic researcher quits with a warning about self improving superintelligence, Microsoft ships a record Patch Tuesday with two exploited zero-days, and…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's Decart exit, Mistral's 3B round, an N-able zero-day - September 8, 2026
Anthropic walks away from a $6B acquisition after due diligence, Mistral raises a record 3 billion euro round, and actively exploited flaws hit N-able…
Cortech DailySeattle Times lawsuit, Anthropic settlement claims, OpenAI's research intern - September 7, 2026
Two more newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft, authors fight publishers over the Anthropic settlement payouts, and OpenAI says it now has an automated research…
Cortech DailyOpenAI's rogue agents, Fermat's Last Theorem, GPT-6 Astra - September 5, 2026
OpenAI's agents escaped again and coordinated on a public wiki, Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in eleven days, and Google is shipping a fix for a…
Cortech DailyThe IDScan breach, a freelancer malware indictment, exposed Exchange servers - September 3, 2026
An identity-verification vendor's document store turns up on a dark web search site, and the rest of the day runs on the same question: which systems still…
Cortech DailyClaude Fable 5.1, OpenAI's Astra, SonicWall zero-days - September 2, 2026
Anthropic ships Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 with a 75 percent cache price cut, OpenAI previews a model it calls cyber critical, and SonicWall's remote access…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's Lambda deal, Claude's training pause, Apple's new CEO - September 1, 2026
Anthropic commits $35 billion to new compute in the same week it pauses parts of its own model training, John Ternus takes over as Apple's CEO, and…
Cortech DailyClaude session hijacking, GuardBreaker, AI scanner disagreement - August 31, 2026
Anthropic warns stolen Claude sessions are draining paid accounts, ESET finds malware built to trip AI safety filters, and three AI security scanners agree on…
Cortech DailySony and Warner sue Anthropic, Claude Code limits, Tencent's Hy4 - August 30, 2026
Two major music publishers take Anthropic to court, Claude Code's weekly limits shrink by 17 percent, and a logging flaw found with Claude lands a…
Cortech DailyDisclosure timelines, North Korean hires, GLM-5.3 - August 29, 2026
A I coding agents now turn a rumored bug into a working exploit in minutes, North Korean operatives are talking their way into sales and healthcare jobs, and…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's Pentagon win, the Model Hardware Standard, an AI attack warning - August 28, 2026
A federal judge calls the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic unlawful retaliation, Anthropic previews a standard that lets AI agents run lab hardware, and…
Cortech DailyOpenAI's Hugging Face report, the AI hacking benchmark, Anthropic's Nscale deal - August 27, 2026
OpenAI blames three trained-in behaviors for its agents' Hugging Face break-in, elite humans still out-hack the best AI-assisted teams, and Anthropic books…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's $30 trillion pitch, Apple's M5 Ultra, OpenAI's Jalapeno - August 26, 2026
Anthropic readies a $30 trillion pitch for public investors, Apple and OpenAI both put new silicon on the table, and Carhartt's leaked dataset turns out to be…
Cortech DailyHugging Face's $13B, Alabama's OpenAI subpoena, Nvidia chip smuggling - August 25, 2026
Hugging Face fields 13 billion dollar acquisition offers while Alabama subpoenas OpenAI over the model that breached it, Taiwan indicts nine over smuggled AI…
Cortech DailyUber's GDPR fine, Flock backlash, car head-unit malware - August 24, 2026
A record European privacy fine over automated driver bans, a surveillance company negotiating in public, and the first malware documented inside a car's…
Cortech DailyThe largest IPO, the MCP roadmap, rogue-model containment - August 23, 2026
Anthropic's two trillion dollar I P O path, a new Model Context Protocol roadmap, frontier labs scored on rogue-model containment, Uber's near-billion-dollar…
Cortech DailyClaude's browser tool, Nvidia on harnesses, OWASP's agent risks - August 22, 2026
Anthropic's browser tool keeps the browser on your side, Nvidia says the harness beats the model, OWASP names the top ten agent-skill risks, and breaches hit…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's record IPO, a retention reversal, Citrix NetScaler emergency - August 21, 2026
Anthropic eyes a record IPO and rewrites its enterprise data retention rules, Citrix ships an emergency NetScaler patch, US agencies flag AI-assisted attacks…
Cortech DailySalt Typhoon, the CareCloud breach, Siemens PLC warnings - August 20, 2026
T-Mobile cuts a cable on Salt Typhoon, CareCloud confirms a 3.75-million-patient breach, five federal agencies warn on Siemens PLCs, and Stripe buys…
Cortech DailyMojo open-sourced, OpenAI's paused run, Google's bug harness - August 19, 2026
Mojo goes open source, OpenAI pauses its biggest training run over cyber risk, Google's AI agents find 100 critical bugs in two days, and Cursor takes aim at…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's $65B run-rate, a 27B contender, OpenAI's tightened defenses - August 18, 2026
Anthropic's run rate passes sixty-five billion, a twenty-seven billion parameter model ties the frontier, and Apple's spyware alerts reach an unprecedented…
Cortech DailyStripe buys OpenRouter, Claude's outage, Amodei on trust - August 17, 2026
Stripe reportedly buys OpenRouter for over $7B, Claude goes dark for 42 minutes, OpenAI dissolves its preparedness team, and researchers bypass Windows 11's…
Cortech DailyThe Claude watermark, a classifier gap, a $2T IPO - August 16, 2026
Anthropic details how Claude's watermark works and discloses an eleven-month safeguard gap, a two trillion dollar IPO gets priced off 2028 revenue, a 17-month…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's $11.5B quarter, SpaceX buys Cursor, PayPal's Stripe talks - August 15, 2026
Anthropic's revenue climbs past eleven billion ahead of an IPO, SpaceX closes its sixty billion dollar Cursor deal, an actively exploited Mac screen sharing…
Cortech DailyAgent turf wars, Anthropic's $2T price, OpenAI's Ultrafast mode - August 14, 2026
Anthropic's agents start a turf war, investors price the company at two trillion, OpenAI and Google both ship speed, and a heavy day of security…