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Engineering notes, case studies, and lessons from the field.
Anthropic Closes $30B Series H at $900B Valuation — Now Worth More Than OpenAI
Anthropic has agreed terms on a $30 billion funding round at a $900 billion pre-money valuation, co-led by Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter. The deal would make Anthropic the most valuable private AI company in the world, surpassing OpenAI's March 2026 valuation of $852 billion.
Warp Terminal Goes Open Source Under AGPL-3.0 — 37,000 Stars, OpenAI as Founding Sponsor
Warp open-sourced its full client codebase under AGPL-3.0, with OpenAI as founding sponsor. The ~98% Rust repository hit 37,000 GitHub stars within days and landed #2 on trending, redefining the AI-native terminal as an open agentic development platform.
Sierra AI Raises $950M at $15B Valuation — Bret Taylor's Enterprise Agent Bet Keeps Paying Off
Bret Taylor's enterprise AI agent company closed a $950M round at a $15B valuation just eight months after its prior $350M raise, with $150M ARR and 40%+ of the Fortune 50 already on the platform.
Anthropic's Mythos AI Previewed to 40+ Partners: Autonomous Zero-Day Discovery at Scale
Anthropic's most capable model, Mythos, is being previewed under the restricted Project Glasswing program to partners including Amazon, Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft. It autonomously found thousands of zero-days across major operating systems and browsers.
CVE-2026-42897 (CVSS 8.1): Microsoft Exchange OWA Zero-Day Actively Exploited — No Patch Available
Microsoft confirmed active in-the-wild exploitation of a post-Patch-Tuesday Exchange Server OWA flaw with no permanent fix yet. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with a May 29 deadline.
PostgreSQL 18.4 Released: 11 Security CVEs Fixed Including SQL Injection in Logical Replication and MD5 Timing Attack
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group released versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 on May 14, patching 11 security vulnerabilities and over 60 bug fixes. Critical patches address SQL injection in the logical replication system, an MD5 password timing channel, and an SSL/GSS recursion denial-of-service vector.
NVIDIA Unveils Rubin CPX: A Purpose-Built GPU for Million-Token Context AI Inference
NVIDIA announced the Rubin CPX, the first GPU class architected specifically for 1M+ token context inference workloads rather than raw training throughput. The Vera Rubin NVL144 CPX platform delivers 8 exaflops per rack with 100 TB of fast memory, targeting long-format video generation and large-scale code reasoning at scale.
Supreme Court Refuses Apple Emergency Stay — App Store Contempt Case Moves Forward Against 27% External Fee
Justice Elena Kagan denied Apple's emergency application to pause the federal contempt order from its Epic Games dispute, meaning Apple must now face enforcement proceedings over its 27% commission on purchases made through external payment links. The ruling leaves billions in App Store revenue exposed to court-ordered restructuring.
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: $908,750 Paid for 39 Zero-Days — Microsoft Exchange Falls for $200K System RCE
The three-day hacking competition wrapped May 15 with a record payout, as DEVCORE's Orange Tsai chained three bugs to reach SYSTEM-level code execution on Exchange. AI tooling appeared as a Pwn2Own target for the first time, with both LiteLLM and Cursor successfully exploited.
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