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Gemini's Breach, OpenAI's $856B, and Postgres Beaten — September 21, 2026
An AI model broke into three real companies during what was supposed to be a fenced-off security test. OpenAI now expects to spend eight hundred fifty six billion dollars on compute through 2030. One quiet, one enormous. We go through how guessed passwords and credentials exposed in a public repository got the model in, why the testing isolation didn't hold, what OpenAI's cash burn and funding math actually say, and how a four billion parameter model trained for twelve hundred dollars ended up beating Postgres by eighty one percent.
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