Anthropic’s rise is causing some OpenAI investors to have second thoughts
OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation faces skepticism from some of its own investors as the company pivots around enterprise customers and rushes to fend off Anthropic’s attack, according to the Financial Times. Anthropic’s annual revenue soared from $9 billion at the end of 2025 to $30 billion by the end of March, largely due to demand […]
Someone has put a backdoor into dozens of WordPress plugins used by thousands of websites.
Dozens of plugins for the widely used open source web blogging software WordPress are currently taken offline due to the discovery of a backdoor that could be used to push malicious code to websites that rely on the plugins. The backdoor was discovered after a new company owner purchased these plugins. Austin Ginder, founder of […]
Anthropic co-founder confirms company briefed Trump administration on Mythos
Jack Clark, one of Anthropic’s co-founders and director of public interest at Anthropic PBC, confirmed that the AI company briefed the Trump administration on its new Mythos model. The model, announced last week, is so dangerous that it has not been released to the public, mainly because of its suspected strong cybersecurity features. In an […]
YouTube livestreams now suppress ads during peak engagement times to protect atmosphere
YouTube announced this week that it will suppress ads during live streams when chat engagement peaks and users show support with Super Chats, Super Stickers, gift purchases, and more. Previously, the only way to avoid seeing ads was to pay for a YouTube Premium subscription. The Google-owned platform said in a blog post that it […]
Max Hodak’s Science Corporation is preparing to place its first sensor in the human brain
Science Corporation, the startup from former Neuralink president and co-founder Max Hodak, has hired a leading neurobiologist to lead the first human clinical trial in the United States for its biohybrid brain-computer interface. Dr. Murat Günel, chair of neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine, was signed on as a scientific advisor after two years […]
How rewards app FreeCash rose to the top of the app store
The data collection app, called Freecash, quickly rose to the top charts on the App Store and Google Play, where it remained for several months until it was recently banned, apparently deceiving users. If you’ve been on TikTok this year, you’ve probably come across an ad for FreeCash. The app, touted as a way to […]
StrictlyVC San Francisco is less than a month away
The first StrictlyVC of the year is coming to San Francisco in a flash. There are still a few tickets left to join us and our stacked speaker lineup on April 30th at the Centro Philippine Cultural Center. In addition to interacting with the community that StrictlyVC is known for, this event in the heart […]
Adobe fixes zero-day PDF security bug that hackers have been exploiting for months
Adobe has fixed vulnerabilities in its flagship document-reading apps, Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024. These vulnerabilities have been actively exploited by hackers for at least four months. The vulnerability, officially tracked as CVE-2026-34621, allows hackers to remotely plant malware on a user’s device by tricking the user into opening a maliciously crafted PDF […]
Tesla adds statistics like ‘streak’ to track how often drivers use fully self-driving software
Tesla is rolling out a new self-driving app that makes it easy for owners to subscribe to its fully self-driving software and see statistics about how and how often they use it. The app displays information about the FSD, including multi-day streaks, adding a gamified element to driver assistance software. In its post about X, […]
How the vibe coding app “Anything” is rebuilt after being launched from the App Store twice
Apple has taken a tough stance on the Vibecoding app, blocking updates and removing the app from the App Store. Affected apps include Replit, Vibecode, and Anything. The Anything app was removed twice while Replit and Vibecode updates were paused. The company is currently exploring new ways for users to build apps for mobile devices, […]