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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 DailyClaude Personal Finance, METR's Anthropic report, freezer hacks - November 6, 2026
Claude gets read-only access to your bank accounts, METR finds Anthropic's progress doubling, and federal agencies warn of hacked refrigeration systems. (0:00)…
Cortech DailyOpenAI kernel exploits, the DreamHost breach, Meta buys Conductor - November 5, 2026
An unreleased OpenAI model finds 948 Linux kernel flaws, DreamHost confirms a months-long breach, Meta buys Conductor, and Uber says AI agents booked four…
Cortech DailyAnthropic FlashProve, CrowdStrike AI deals, XCPE botnet - November 4, 2026
Anthropic open-sources a way to prove which model answered, CrowdStrike buys two AI security startups, and Google takes down a 1.3 million-device TV box…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's $17B quarter, the RSI warning, Marvell buys Lumentum - November 3, 2026
Anthropic's amended IPO filing shows $17 billion in quarterly revenue and a warning about self-improving AI, Marvell buys Lumentum for $115 billion, Apple…
Cortech DailyClaude Code game-clone rule, Aur0ra ransomware, China AI export controls - November 2, 2026
Anthropic confirms a Claude Code rule against recreating existing games, a ransomware crew leans on AI agents, and China drafts export controls on frontier AI…
Cortech DailyAnthropic IPO jitters, DeepSeek Super-Agent, Claude watermarks - November 1, 2026
Anthropic's listing meets a hyperscaler cash crunch, DeepSeek ships a proactive coding agent, Claude models get watermarks, and seven more stories. (0:00) -…
Cortech DailyClaude extension backdoor, Linux kernel flaw, AI training opt-out - October 31, 2026
A poisoned Claude Code extension, an AI-found Linux root bug, a shared AI-training opt-out, and seven more stories. (0:00) - Intro (0:26) - Claude Code…
Cortech DailyBinance heist, AO3 outage, Volt Typhoon relays - October 30, 2026
A record 6.3 billion dollar crypto theft at Binance, a weeks-long AO3 outage, Volt Typhoon's Silent Train relays, Reddit's login wall, GM's data settlement…
Cortech DailyDHS staff leak, Apple eMudhra certs, school login hopping - October 29, 2026
A hacker leaks details on 40,000 Homeland Security staff, Apple's Mac developer tools still trust compromised certificates, and Microsoft finally puts a dollar…
Cortech DailyClaude drug discovery, the GPT-4o lawsuit, PHP2Shell attacks - October 28, 2026
Anthropic reports early drug-discovery results and buys a one-person biotech, parents sue OpenAI over GPT-4o medication advice, CISA confirms PHP2Shell…
Cortech DailyAnthropic S-1 filing, Cloudflare cache leak, GPT-6.1 Terra - October 27, 2026
Anthropic files to go public, Cloudflare discloses a cross-customer cache leak, OpenAI ships a cheaper model at its top cyber risk tier, and more. (0:00) -…
Cortech DailyClaude's Georgia paywall, Elvis lawsuit, Anthropic IPO numbers - October 26, 2026
Claude reaches past a Georgia paywall on its own, Elvis's rights holders sue Anthropic, its IPO numbers leak, and more. (0:00) - Intro (0:25) -…
Cortech DailyChatbot voting picks, Ukraine Starlink restored, Cerebras Kimi K3 - October 25, 2026
A study finds Grok and GPT pick opposite parties when forced to choose, Ukraine's Starlink access returns, and Cerebras shows how it serves a…
Cortech DailyMythos AISI incident, OpenAI offline training, Quest Diagnostics breach - October 24, 2026
Anthropic dissects how Mythos 5 targeted real developers in a UK safety test, OpenAI cuts frontier training off the live internet, and breaches hit Quest…
Cortech DailyClaude formal proofs, the ConnectWise breach, Symantec LLMjacking report - October 23, 2026
Claude proves 123 open-source libraries crash-free, Microsoft ties the ConnectWise breach to China-aligned hackers moving at AI speed, and Symantec catches an…
Cortech DailyClaude Duet, PHP flaw origins, LiteLLM backdoor - October 22, 2026
Anthropic's proactive Claude Duet agent, the AI-found origins of this week's PHP flaws, a backdoored LiteLLM release, and two bad days for Meta lead a…
Cortech DailyeMudhra certificates, PHP critical patches, OVHcloud CLI malware - October 21, 2026
Eight compromised eMudhra certificate keys, an urgent PHP security release, malware in OVHcloud's CLI, and a federal DeepSeek ban lead a ten-story digest…
Cortech DailyConnectWise Cloud Backup, the OpenCode breach, Microsoft Guardian Agents - October 20, 2026
ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup after attackers reach 162 Microsoft 365 tenants, OpenCode users get hit with surprise AI bills, Microsoft calls agents…
Cortech DailyAnthropic benefit fund, Disney's Character.AI hires, Meta AI crawlers - October 19, 2026
Anthropic pledges five percent of its shares to a public benefit fund, Disney hires most of bankrupt Character.AI, Meta drives half of AI bot traffic, and…
Cortech DailyAnthropic's draft bill, Anthropic hiring shift, Meta scraping terms - October 18, 2026
A leaked Anthropic draft bill draws fire, Anthropic reports a less junior workforce, Meta retracts AI-training terms, and Norway hands Xandr a record fine…
Cortech DailyReplit drops Anthropic, NIST curve seeds, Claude Code review - October 17, 2026
Replit says it has dropped Anthropic, Claude traces the origin of NIST's elliptic curve seeds, India reports rogue AI agents in live systems, and the FBI warns…
Cortech DailyAnthropic revenue, FTC subpoenas, METR access - October 16, 2026
Anthropic reports $16.8 billion in quarterly revenue as the FTC subpoenas it and OpenAI, METR gets employee-level access, and Meta ships an open model for…
Cortech DailyAd-delivered spyware, Microsoft phishing takedown, OpenAI state lawsuits - October 15, 2026
Citizen Lab confirms spyware delivered through targeted ads, Microsoft takes down a phishing marketplace behind a billion scam messages, and eight states sue…
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…
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 default…
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…
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) - Intro…
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 agents…
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 twice…
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…