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ChatGPT hit 1.2 billion weekly active users, up 200 million in two months, per Big Technology.
Consumer product lead Adam Fry says search volume is already about 20% of Google's.
ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M over the past two months, and its search volume is ~20% of Google's (@kantrowitz / Big Technology)
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Apple Q4: $114.48B revenue, up 12% YoY, beating the $113.39B estimate.
iPhone carried it at $57.58B (+17%). Services grew 10% to $31.57B but just missed its $31.58B est.
Per Apple and 9to5Mac, via Techmeme.
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I can mix Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions and API keys and they can talk to each other spawn sub agents mixed all in one UI!
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JUST IN: Gemini 4 Carbon hits 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro and ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis v5.
Two weeks after Argon: 54.8% on ExploitGym, 71.0% on CWE-bench. Defenders get it before everyone else.
Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, our latest frontier model.
Carbon delivers improved performance across domains — ranking #1 on v5.0 of the @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index and sets a new state-of-the-art in cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.
It’s rolling out starting this week to cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program, with expanded access coming soon 🧵
JUST IN 🤖: OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra matches GPT-6 Astra at one-tenth the price per token and finishes tasks 3×+ faster on average, per OpenAI.
Standard API prices are 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra. Live now in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API.
JUST IN 🤖: OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra matches GPT-6 Astra at one-tenth the price per token and finishes tasks 3×+ faster on average, per OpenAI.
Standard API prices are 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra. Live now in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API.
Anthropic's S-1: $80.7B net loss on $16.3B of H1 2026 revenue, per Bloomberg.
A year earlier it was a $13B loss on $1.2B. Net revenue retention: 900%.
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
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PHP2Shell, GitLab's perfect 10, HTTP2Shell in Node.js, the Railway breach, Plex2Shell, the Linux ksmbd leak and AI-powered attackers: the security week that shook the internet, explained.
youtu.be/4tTAQuc5IrU
How PHP2Shell works: a lot of websites run on PHP, and these bugs in how it cleans up memory between visitors can let a stranger's requests run their code on the server.
🚨 Organizations should immediately patch critical PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. These vulnerabilities enable unauthenticated #RCE and affect PHP installations serving web requests. Learn more: 🔗 go.dhs.gov/5Hi
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