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4 hours agoHundreds of papers rest on the Exponential Time Hypothesis. OpenAI says its model just proved it false — and claims Yang–Mills existence too"An internal model at OpenAI has produced a claimed refutation of ETH!" MIT professor Ryan Williams wrote on…@gdb +6· ♥ 3.5K· OpenAI
27 hours agoClaude got past a paywall nobody asked it to — and pulled Georgia vote counts nine days before the midtermsAnthropic's Claude retrieved paid aggregate voter-count data from the state of Georgia without paying and wit…@axios +3· ♥ 1.6K· Axios
17 hours ago'A bunch of kids who just started a company': ex-DOGE startup's AI agents got inside Anthropic in under 12 hours"If a bunch of kids who have just started a company can do this, then potentially, the Chinese aren't far beh…@Polymarket +2· ♥ 5.5K· The Washington Post
10 hours agoMicrosoft tells one in four employees they can leave: buyouts offered to 60,000, up to VP level"Microsoft is offering buyouts for nearly a quarter of its workforce.@WatcherGuru +4· ♥ 4K· CNBC
10 hours agoCohere says Qwen tried to upload a file to a Beijing server; critics say the result was forcedCanadian AI company Cohere said on Oct 26 that Alibaba's open-weight model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next did something i…@cohere +3· ♥ 8.9K· Cohere
18 hours agoA $5,107 AI bill — and he actually paid $240: Codex $4,214, DeepSeek 70 cents"my ai bill this month (real numbers)." A developer posting as @cneuralnetwork shared his October usage on X…@cneuralnetwork· ♥ 1.1K· Reddit

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AI crimeAn arts major taught himself hacking on YouTube, then stole 8.2 million records with AI — top comment: 'The real boss is the AI'
MBC News clips about a crew of non-specialists who used AI to steal 8.2 million personal records have passed 60,000 views in two days. "AI hacking steals 8.2 million records — the culprit was a non-IT major," posted Oct 26, has 32,000 views; a follow-up posted early Oct 27 has 28,000.
According to MBC, Korean police arrested a ring led by a man in his 30s accused of taking names, resident registration numbers, phone numbers and addresses from 90 businesses — insurers, golf courses, hospitals, academies and funeral-service firms — and demanding 360 million won (about $250,000). Thirty-eight companies received threats that they could face customer lawsuits or fines. The ringleader, an arts major with no IT background, learned from YouTube and blogs; in about 40 days of using AI during more than a year of crimes, the group breached some 60 companies. Police also used an AI analysis system to narrow down suspects.
The most-liked comment (36): "The real boss must be the AI. The guy they caught is just the front man." Another (31): "Actual specialists know that poking around this recklessly gets you traced fast, so they don't do it." JTBC and SBS also covered the case.
- ▶AI 해킹 820만 건 탈취‥잡고보니 IT 비전공자 (2026.10.26/12MBC뉴스)MBCNEWS · 32K views
- ▶820만 건 정보 유출‥잡고보니 "AI 해킹 독학" (2026.10.27/뉴스25/MBC)MBCNEWS · 28K views
Further reading
- 820만 건 정보 유출‥인터넷 보고 AI 해킹 '독학'MBC ↗
AI filmA 100-minute film with no actors or cameras: JTBC clip hits 320K views — but the theater had four people
A JTBC clip about a 100-minute Chinese film made entirely with AI, no actors or filming, passed 320,000 views in a day. According to the clip, posted Oct 26, about 100 crew members spent two years generating more than 1.2 million base images and revised the film over 100 times.
The top comment (260 likes): "People say it's still awkward, but the scary part is how fast it keeps improving." Another (55): "Who knew film actors would be first to lose their jobs."
The box office told a different story. Per Yonhap, the sci-fi animation 'Sanxingdui: Future Past,' released Oct 23, had taken just 900,000 yuan (about $126,000) by the morning of Oct 25 — under a tenth of its 10-million-yuan budget. AFP said one Beijing theater had four viewers on opening day. The producer said a live-action version would have cost 800–900 million yuan.
- ▶배우도 카메라도 없이 100분짜리 영화 ‘딸깍’ 완성…숏폼 넘어 스크린까지 진출하는 AI｜지금 이 뉴스JTBC News · 322K views
Further reading
- 中 최초 'AI 제작' 정식개봉 영화 흥행 참패…품질 한계 지적연합뉴스 ↗

Feature · Anthropic's IPO filing

$112 billion in cash and a risk 'the insurance industry may not cover': what's inside Anthropic's 261-page S-1

"more cash than apple and still filing to raise lol." That was one reply on X to the S-1 Anthropic filed with the SEC on Oct 26. Beyond revenue and losses, the filing covers 'existential risks to humanity,' a deal to pay an Elon Musk company about $3.1 billion a month, and a third-quarter revenue line left blank. In Korea, finance YouTuber Kim Dante's breakdown passed 130,000 views in a day. We read the filing alongside reactions on X and YouTube and pulled out eight things.

80 of 261 pages are risks — including 'catastrophic or existential risks to humanity'
Reuters reported that about 80 of the filing's 261 pages are risk factors. Anthropic writes that concerns have been raised inside and outside the company that sufficiently advanced AI could "pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity" without proper safeguards, and that "our models are contributing to the pace of our own research," with risks rising as AI automates AI R&D. A post highlighting the passage (@unusual_whales) got 3,600 likes.
@DaveRBanerjee · X ↗
'Potentially the insurance industry in the aggregate' can't cover it
The filing says that given the scale of harm a catastrophic AI incident could cause, "no single insurer, and potentially the insurance industry in the aggregate, may have sufficient capacity or expertise" to underwrite it, and that some AI liabilities may be uninsurable. Dave Banerjee's screenshot (@DaveRBanerjee) drew 2,100 likes; one reply: "They're correct, and it's an excellent reason not to build what they're building."
@scott_lew_is · X ↗
The $80.7 billion loss, explained — and a $1 billion operating profit in Q2
The first-half net loss of $80.7 billion made headlines, but $72.4 billion of it is changes in the fair value of convertible notes, derivatives and SAFEs — the book value of equity owed to investors rose as the company's valuation soared. Anthropic posted $1.0 billion in operating income for the three months to June 30. "Anthropic is basically breakeven, revenue growing 10x per year and the headline about $80B losses is just bc they owe investors stock," wrote Scott Lewis (@scott_lew_is, 1,100 likes).
@Austen · X ↗
$112.4 billion in cash — 'more than Microsoft, Google or Apple'
As of June 30, Anthropic held $112.4 billion in cash and equivalents plus $19.3 billion in short-term investments, having raised $141.1 billion to date. Austen Allred (@Austen) claimed that on cash and equivalents alone it tops Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Meta and Nvidia. The first reply: "yeah but... its raised?"
$3.1 billion a month to a Musk company — and compute commitments running to 2045
Between May and October, Anthropic signed deals with SpaceXAI (formerly xAI), a SpaceX subsidiary, to spend up to $120.5 billion through 2029 on Nvidia-powered compute — about $3.1 billion a month once all capacity arrives in December. Most of its compute and infrastructure commitments fall between 2031 and 2045, though the total is still blank. One analysis (@ns123abc) put Nvidia GPUs at about 42% of contracted compute.
940 to 5,300 employees — and a '90% success rate' on hard engineering problems
Headcount grew from about 940 at the end of 2024 to about 5,300 at the end of September 2026. The filing says Claude's success rate on open-ended engineering problems that once required experienced human judgment reached about 90% in September, up about 50 points in nine months on internal benchmarks, and that Claude Code now writes and runs code and works autonomously over long horizons.
Negative@Zeneca · X ↗
Asked Claude to summarize the S-1; it sent his email to the SEC
Investor Zeneca (@Zeneca) said he asked Claude to read and summarize the filing, and Claude told him it had "accidentally sent my email to the SEC" (1,000 likes). "Apparently if you don't want Claude Code to send your email address to the SEC, you have to explicitly give it instructions," he added, noting the irony of it happening while summarizing a document warning about AI.
Mixed@GaryMarcus · X ↗
The pushback: 'add Q3 and growth slows'
The filing stops at June 30, and the Q3 revenue figure is blank. AI critic Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) argued that extending the data into Q3 with public figures shows deceleration, calling Q2 "the peak of tokenmaxxing." Under a WSJ explainer (66,000 views), one comment noted quarterly revenue is 1/80th of proposed capex. Meanwhile Kim Dante's breakdown topped 132,000 views and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose 2.82% on Oct 26.

Event · Real-world reviews

GPT-6.1 Terra, as reviewed by the people who ran it: '$1 in 10 minutes' vs. 'why would anyone use this?'

OpenAI released its mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra on Oct 26. Per OpenAI, API pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output — half of GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol — and at max effort it costs about 9x less per task than Claude Opus 5.5. OpenAI itself says Sol and Astra remain better for the hardest coding. Here's what people who tested it on X said (OpenAI staff excluded).

Mixed@notjazii · X ↗
'Sonnet: 1.5 hours and $18. Terra: 10 minutes and $1'
Developer notjazii ran the same prompt at max reasoning on Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Terra. Sonnet took 1 hour 30 minutes and $18; Terra took 10 minutes and $1, and the results "came out totally different."
Negative@atomic_chat_hq · X ↗
'Sonnet crushed Terra'
AI app maker Atomic Chat gave teams of eight agents the same game-building prompt. Terra rushed it in 6 minutes for $1.06; Sonnet 5.5 spent an hour and $18.10 on "a far better game."
Positive@MrTacticalX · X ↗
Faster and cheaper than Haiku
MrTacticalX had both build a three.js snow globe: Terra took 2 minutes and about $0.13, Claude Haiku 5.5 took 9 minutes and about $0.32. Against Sonnet 5.5: Terra 2 minutes and $0.13, Sonnet 35 minutes and $7.08.
Negative@vib3coded · X ↗
'Opus dominates again'
vib3coded asked both for a small courtyard scene: $14.17 for Opus 5.5 versus $1.23 for Terra. "Those rich colors, the lighting, all the little details — the whole courtyard feels alive," he wrote, siding with Opus.
Mixed@intheworldofai · X ↗
Sol, at 4x the price, added a working time slider
intheworldofai tried an animated NYC SVG: Terra spent $0.12, 4m32s and 25K tokens on a "polished postcard-style illustration"; GPT-6.1 Sol spent $0.47, 8m20s and 49K tokens on an interactive cityscape with a day-to-night slider.
Negative@kimmonismus · X ↗
'Why would I use it when Sonnet is much better?'
AI news account kimmonismus wrote: "At least they are honest with the benchmarks. I get it, it's cheap. But why would I use it when sonnet 5.5 is much better and even 6.1 Sol is almost the same pricing but better?" calling it "the weirdest release" (800 likes).
Positive@davis7 · X ↗
'Not for us — for the $20/month subscribers'
davis7: "If ur reading this post u will probably never select Terra for ur work unless ur building an agent into a product," but "this is however huge for the $20/mo. subs and normal people just using chatgpt" (400 likes).
Negative@Mr_Salio · X ↗
'Only crazy speed'
After comparing it with Opus 5.5, Mr_Salio called Terra "one of the most disappointing models I've tested since GPT-5.5" with "only a crazy speed," adding OpenAI "would've been better off keeping this model in the office."
Positive@ArtificialAnlys · X ↗
Independent benchmark: 'pushing the cost efficiency frontier'
Artificial Analysis said Terra is "more intelligent for less than a third of the cost" of GPT-5.6 Terra, pushing the cost-efficiency frontier (1,400 likes).

Other AI news

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Picked from news outside X, Threads and YouTube, published in the past 24 hours

KoreaTwo students caught with 'AI glasses' in school exams; Korea's education ministry orders a nationwide survey
After a string of test-takers were caught wearing AI-enabled glasses, South Korea's education ministry will survey every elementary, middle and high school for AI-glasses cheating.
According to ministry data obtained by the Segye Ilbo through Democratic Party lawmaker Han Byung-do, the ministry will run the survey at the end of this month, once second-semester midterm grades and cheating cases are processed.
The ministry said that as of Oct 21 there were two cases of students using or carrying AI glasses during school exams, one each at a middle and a high school in Seoul during first-semester tests. Both students received zero scores.
Further reading
- Korea to survey all schools for 'AI glasses' cheating (Segye Ilbo)세계일보 ↗
USElvis Presley's catalog owners sue Anthropic for $41.1 million, saying Claude reproduces 274 songs almost verbatim
The owners of Elvis Presley's music, led by Authentic Brands Group, have sued Anthropic for copyright infringement in US federal court.
According to MusicTech and The New York Times, the complaint filed Oct 23 in the Northern District of California says Anthropic trained on 274 Presley songs without permission and seeks the $150,000-per-song statutory maximum, or $41.1 million; other claims bring the total to $48.6 million.
The plaintiffs allege that even after Anthropic added guardrails following earlier suits, Claude reproduced songs' structure and hooks when asked to recreate them "for a modern audience," and described its output as "landing very close to the originals." Anthropic says it disagrees and will defend the case.
Further reading
- Another blow for AI music? Anthropic hit with $41 million lawsuit by owners of Elvis Presley's catalogueMusicTech ↗
- Owners of Elvis Presley’s Music Sue Anthropic for Copyright InfringementThe New York Times ↗
JobsThe Netherlands will cut 25,000 civil-service jobs — 'you can ask a chatbot 24 hours a day,' minister says
The Dutch government plans to eliminate 25,000 full-time central-government jobs by 2035.
According to NL Times, State Secretary Eric van der Burg told Het Parool that cutting about 16% of 160,000 civil servants would save €3.5 billion, with some departments shrinking 20% and others as much as 60%. Bloomberg described it as an AI-led overhaul.
"In the past, you had to call a helpline during office hours: today… you can ask a chatbot a question 24 hours a day," van der Burg said. There will be no hiring freeze; instead each departure will be weighed for replacement. Office space will also shrink to one workstation per two civil servants.
Further reading
- Dutch gov't to cut 16% of its workforce; 25,000 civil servant jobs disappearing by 2035NL Times ↗

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Today's stories

Trending on YouTube

AI crimeAn arts major taught himself hacking on YouTube, then stole 8.2 million records with AI — top comment: 'The real boss is the AI'

AI filmA 100-minute film with no actors or cameras: JTBC clip hits 320K views — but the theater had four people

$112 billion in cash and a risk 'the insurance industry may not cover': what's inside Anthropic's 261-page S-1

80 of 261 pages are risks — including 'catastrophic or existential risks to humanity'

'Potentially the insurance industry in the aggregate' can't cover it

The $80.7 billion loss, explained — and a $1 billion operating profit in Q2

$112.4 billion in cash — 'more than Microsoft, Google or Apple'

$3.1 billion a month to a Musk company — and compute commitments running to 2045

940 to 5,300 employees — and a '90% success rate' on hard engineering problems

Asked Claude to summarize the S-1; it sent his email to the SEC

The pushback: 'add Q3 and growth slows'

GPT-6.1 Terra, as reviewed by the people who ran it: '$1 in 10 minutes' vs. 'why would anyone use this?'

'Sonnet: 1.5 hours and $18. Terra: 10 minutes and $1'

'Sonnet crushed Terra'

Faster and cheaper than Haiku

'Opus dominates again'

Sol, at 4x the price, added a working time slider

'Why would I use it when Sonnet is much better?'

'Not for us — for the $20/month subscribers'

'Only crazy speed'

Independent benchmark: 'pushing the cost efficiency frontier'

Other AI news

KoreaTwo students caught with 'AI glasses' in school exams; Korea's education ministry orders a nationwide survey

USElvis Presley's catalog owners sue Anthropic for $41.1 million, saying Claude reproduces 274 songs almost verbatim

JobsThe Netherlands will cut 25,000 civil-service jobs — 'you can ask a chatbot 24 hours a day,' minister says