🤖 New Yorker digs into Sam Altman with 18-month investigation

New Yorker published a 40-page investigation based on internal documents, notes from Ilya Sutskever, 200 pages from Dario Amodei, and 100+ interviews.

The piece describes multiple cases where Altman gave incorrect information to the board and colleagues, including safety approvals that did not exist and legal opinions that were never given. Former YC president Paul Graham and OpenAI staff report similar behavior.

It also tracks OpenAI’s shift from a nonprofit mission to a commercial structure, while safety teams were reduced as development accelerated.

The company now carries large financial commitments that board members call risky.

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📱 Meta launches Muse Spark as first model from new Superintelligence Labs

Meta released Muse Spark as part of a broader rebuild of its AI efforts, led by Alexandr Wang after a $14.3B investment in Scale AI. The model is already available on the web and in the Meta AI app.

Muse Spark uses multiple agents working in parallel to solve complex tasks in a planned Contemplating mode. It performs well on visual STEM tasks and is positioned for use cases like health queries and interactive problem solving.

The product requires a Meta account to use and is expected to expand across Meta apps. The company is also considering more advanced models and future open source releases.

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🔍 NYT points to Adam Back as Satoshi Nakamoto in new investigation

The New York Times published a longread arguing that Bitcoin’s creator may be British cryptographer Adam Back.

The case is built on linguistic patterns, forum activity timelines, and early work that outlined key ideas behind Bitcoin.

The article highlights matching writing quirks, similar views on spam, and Back’s absence from Bitcoin discussions until 2011, right when Satoshi disappeared.

It also notes a later message from Satoshi supporting Back during a key block size debate.

The evidence is indirect, but the timing and overlap in ideas form the core of the argument.

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🛡 Anthropic says Claude Mythos found thousands of zero-day bugs across major systems

Anthropic reports its unreleased model Claude Mythos discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in operating systems and browsers within days, working largely автономously.

Examples include a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD enabling remote crashes, a 16-year-old bug in FFmpeg missed by millions of test runs, and a Linux kernel exploit chain giving full server control.

The company says the model can now find and exploit vulnerabilities at the level of top specialists. To prepare defenses, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, giving 40+ companies access and $100M in credits to secure their systems first.

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🤖 OpenAI holds back Spud model, limits access to select companies

OpenAI is finishing a new model called Spud but will not release it broadly. Access is expected to be restricted to a small group of companies due to concerns around autonomy and cyber capabilities.

Earlier reports said the model was strong enough to trigger internal changes. OpenAI created a new AGI Deployment unit to handle how Spud is used in products, replacing parts of the product integrations team.

The company is also exploring a “super app” built around the model, combining ChatGPT, Codex, and the Atlas browser.

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🕯 Traders place $950M bet on oil drop hours before Iran ceasefire

Investors sold about 8,600 oil futures contracts worth ~$950M just hours before a U.S.–Iran ceasefire was announced. The move came shortly before crude dropped ~15% to below $100.

Such large single trades are rare. Positions are usually spread across exchanges to avoid moving the market, not executed in one block after settlement.

A similar trade happened in March, when $500M was sold minutes before another policy shift on Iran.

Oil markets are seeing record volumes and volatility, with daily trading now exceeding 1M lots.

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🤖 Anthropic explores building its own AI chips amid compute shortages

Anthropic is considering developing in-house AI chips as demand for Claude continues to grow. The company currently relies on a mix of Nvidia GPUs, Google TPUs, and Amazon hardware.

Ongoing shortages of accelerators are pushing Anthropic to diversify its infrastructure and reduce dependence on external vendors.

OpenAI is pursuing similar plans, turning custom AI chips into a clear industry direction.

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Charlie Munger: “The whole trick of the game is to have a few times when you know that something is better than average and to invest only where you have that extra knowledge.”

“And if you get just a few opportunities, that's enough.”

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🚨 US Treasury warns banks after Anthropic’s Claude Mythos tests

The US Treasury held an urgent meeting with executives from Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and the Fed over the capabilities of Claude Mythos.

Officials described the model as highly effective at finding and exploiting security flaws, with early tests showing thousands of potential attack paths across banking systems.

Banks were told that human security teams are falling behind and that rapid AI adoption in defense is now required to keep up.

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⚖️ Harvey hits $200M+ ARR in 3 years by targeting top law firms first

In 2022, the founders tested GPT-3 on 100 legal questions from Reddit. 86 answers passed review by real lawyers. They sent results to Sam Altman and secured a seed check with early GPT-4 access.

Instead of starting with small firms, they went straight to Allen & Overy while still a 4-person team. The first 50 enterprise clients came through referrals, driven by trust networks in the legal industry.

About 20% of Harvey’s 460 employees are lawyers, helping close deals through peer credibility. The company is now shifting from selling licenses to enabling firms to build AI workflows and sell them via revenue share.

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💸 Top seed rounds jump to $174M valuations in Q1 2026

The top 5% of seed rounds reached $174M valuations in Q1 2026, up from $62M a year earlier. The 90th percentile also climbed from $50M to $94M.

The surge is driven by AI infrastructure, new LLMs, chips, and data center startups. Median valuations are rising slower, but the top end is heating up fast.

Early-stage pricing is starting to reflect infrastructure-scale bets.

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🚨 Second incident in days near Sam Altman’s home as two suspects arrested after shooting

Police responded around 2:56 a.m. to reports of shots fired in San Francisco’s Russian Hill. Investigators traced a vehicle linked to 25-year-old Amanda Tom and detained her with 23-year-old Muhamad Tarik Hussein on Taylor Street.

A search warrant at a residence uncovered three firearms. Both were arrested and booked for negligent discharge. No injuries were reported, and the investigation remains active.

This is the second incident targeting the same area within days. Earlier, a 20-year-old suspect allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s home.

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