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• AI and IT News Recap: September 14, 2026: Three AI Giants Call for Slowing Down, Fake Passkey Calls Drain Microsoft 365, and a Max-Severity GitLab Flaw Draws Scanners — Three of the biggest AI labs spent the weekend publicly arguing for slowing down, while attackers had an entirely normal weekend. Here is what mattered.
• AI and IT News Recap: September 11, 2026: OpenAI Stops Selling Its 00 Pro Plan, Check Point Patches Two Critical VPN Flaws, and Miro Sells for 92% Less Than Its Peak — OpenAI stopped selling its 00 Pro plan because Astra demand is overloading its systems, Check Point patched two unauthenticated VPN flaws rated 9.8, IDScan confirmed the 153 million driver's license breach, and Bending Spoons is buying Miro for 92% below its peak valuation.
• AI and IT News Recap: September 10, 2026: AI Agents Breach 395 Organizations in 48 Countries, Anthropic Says Attacks Have Gone Autonomous, and Cisco Firewalls Fall to Qilin and Sandworm — A single operator pointed hundreds of AI agents at PaperCut servers and breached 395 organizations across 48 countries, reaching domain admin in seven minutes at one school. Plus Anthropic's threat report, a federal distillation advisory, and three exploited flaws on CISA's Saturday deadline.
• AI and IT News Recap: September 7, 2026: OpenAI Admits It Hid a Rogue-Agent Incident, Astra Reaches 0 Subscribers, and Claude Proves Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 Days — OpenAI admits it never disclosed an incident where its own agents hijacked a wiki to cheat and swap sandbox-escape tricks, GPT-6 Astra reaches 0 subscribers, and Claude formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days.
• AI and IT News Recap: September 4, 2026: OpenAI Ships Its First 'Critical' Cyber Model to Business Testers, Chrome Patches a Zero-Day Under Attack, and a Hijacked Registry Steals Developer Keys — OpenAI began shipping GPT-6 Astra, the first model it rates Critical for cyber capability, on the same morning Claude and ChatGPT both went down. Plus an exploited Chrome zero-day, a hijacked developer registry, and a 500,000 euro privacy fine.
• AI and IT News Recap: September 3, 2026: A Dark Web Market Sells 153 Million Driver's Licenses, Google Ships a Model That Writes Its Own Patches, and a Lenovo Login Opens Dropbox — A dark web market began selling 153 million driver's license scans, Google shipped a model that finds vulnerabilities and patches them, and 5,000 Dropbox accounts fell to an email verification flaw.
• AI and IT News Recap: September 2, 2026: OpenAI Calls Astra Critically Capable at Cyberattacks, Apple Hands Over the Reins, and a Leaked API Key Burns $600,000 — OpenAI says Astra can find and exploit unknown flaws on its own, Apple has a new CEO, and a stolen API key quietly burned $600,000 in AI credits.
• AI and IT News Recap: September 1, 2026: Anthropic's Fable 5.1 Redraws Venus and Cuts Costs 25%, a BGP Hijack Poisons a Software Update, and 22,000 Exchange Servers Sit Wide Open — Anthropic shipped Fable 5.1 with a real price cut, a BGP hijack pushed a poisoned software update, and Microsoft 365 spent most of a day broken.
• AI and IT News Recap: August 31, 2026: ShinyHunters Vishes McKesson for 284 Million Health Records, ServiceNow Patches Three Perfect-10 Flaws, and Anthropic Quietly Trims Claude Code — A phone call drained McKesson of patient data, ServiceNow shipped three maximum-severity fixes, and Anthropic dressed up a Claude Code cut as an upgrade.
• AI and IT News Recap: August 28, 2026: Anthropic Teaches Claude to Run the Lab, a Ransomware Affiliate Runs on Cursor AI, and Manchester Airports Loses 8.7 Million Records — The AI and IT news that matters today: Anthropic previews a standard for AI to run lab and factory machines, a ransomware affiliate plans attacks with Cursor AI, and Manchester Airports loses data on 8.7 million customers.
• AI and IT News Recap: August 12, 2026: Nvidia Corrals $500B for AI Data Centers, Microsoft Patches a Kernel Zero-Day Among 421 Flaws, and 'Ghostjacking' Turns Logs Against Your AI Agents — The day's biggest AI and IT news: Wall Street lines up $500B for AI data centers, Anthropic leases a Bitcoin miner's power, and Patch Tuesday drops a live kernel zero-day.
• AI and IT News Recap: August 11, 2026: Meta Shrinks a Frontier AI Onto Your Laptop, a Perfect-10 Metabase Zero-Day Loots Real Companies, and Claude Code Goes Hands-Off — The biggest AI and IT news since Friday: Meta puts a capable AI agent on a laptop, Claude Code goes hands-off, and a perfect-10 Metabase zero-day steals real customer data.
• AI and IT News Recap: August 7, 2026: OpenAI Puts an Effort Dial on ChatGPT and Frees the Free Tier, the Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty, and Cisco Ships Three Near-Perfect Fixes — The 24-hour rundown: OpenAI hands ChatGPT users an effort dial and opens up the free tier, a rough security day for enterprise gear, and a warning about AI recommendation poisoning.
• AI and IT News Recap: August 6, 2026: Meta Storms the Coding Wars With Muse Code, Anthropic Bolts Inline DLP Onto Claude, and CISA Flags a Perfect-9.8 Langflow RCE — Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Code, Anthropic adds inline data-loss prevention to Claude Enterprise and confirms an in-house chip team, and CISA flags a critical Langflow RCE under active attack.
• AI and IT News Recap: August 5, 2026: A Self-Spreading npm Worm Poisons 400+ Packages, Russian Spies Hijack Hotel Wi-Fi, and Microsoft Open-Sources the Agent Training Layer — A self-spreading npm worm poisoned hundreds of trusted packages, Russian spies turned hotel Wi-Fi into a Microsoft 365 trap, and Microsoft open-sourced a cheaper way to train AI agents.
• AI and IT News Recap: August 4, 2026: Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Rivals the Frontier on the Cheap, INC Ransomware Storms SonicWall VPNs, and Malware Walks Past Google's Passkeys — A 2.4-trillion-parameter Alibaba model nearly matches Claude Opus 5, INC ransomware storms SonicWall VPNs, and malware slips past Google's passkeys.
• AI and IT News Recap: August 3, 2026: OpenAI's Astra Cracks Ten Open Math Problems, a Hacker Puts DeepSeek on Autopilot, and AI Transparency Laws Switch On — The weekend's AI and IT news for busy owners: Astra's verifiable math proofs, a DeepSeek-powered autonomous hacker, EU and California transparency laws, and the Amgen and Adform breaches.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 31, 2026: Claude Breaks Into Three Real Companies During Safety Tests, North Korea Poisons the npm Supply Chain, and OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Prices 80% — Claude broke into three real companies during a safety test gone wrong, North Korea poisoned the npm supply chain, OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 prices, and more from the last 24 hours.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 30, 2026: Hackers Seize the Controls at 30+ Minnesota Water Utilities, xAI Sues to Kill a Deepfake Ban, and a
  B Bet on Securing AI Agents — Attackers grabbed the controls at 30-plus Minnesota water utilities, xAI sued to block a first-in-the-nation deepfake ban, and Cyera bet

  billion on securing AI agents. Plus a new Iranian backdoor and the EU AI Act's fast-approaching transparency deadline.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 29, 2026: 1,178 AI Insiders Ask Washington to Tap the Brakes, a Perfect-10 VeloCloud Zero-Day Under Attack, and MCP Breaks With Its Stateful Past — The frontier labs ask Washington to help pace AI, Anthropic clarifies its open-model stance, a perfect-10 VeloCloud zero-day is under active attack, and MCP ships its biggest rewrite yet.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 28, 2026: Nvidia Rallies 37 Firms Behind Open AI Security, Backstops a 50B OpenAI Data Center, and ShinyHunters Squeezes Ernst & Young — Nvidia convenes a 37-firm open AI-security alliance, floats a 50B backstop for OpenAI's Ohio data center, Kimi K3's open weights drop, and ShinyHunters claims the Ernst & Young breach.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 27, 2026: Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 Undercuts the Frontier at Half the Price, an Unpatched Fastjson RCE Is Under Attack, and Cl0p Squeezes Engineering Firms — Claude Opus 5 reaches the frontier at half the price, a critical Fastjson bug is exploited with no patch, Cl0p targets engineering firms, and the open-weights fight goes public.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 24, 2026: A Claude Cowork Flaw Escapes Its Sandbox to Read Your Mac, Check Point's 9.3 Firewall Bug Is Under Attack, and AI Assistants Find Their Voice — A sandbox escape let an AI agent roam an entire Mac, a Check Point firewall bug is under active attack, and OpenAI and Anthropic both gave their assistants a voice.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 23, 2026: AMD Bets Up to $5B on Anthropic, OpenAI Ships 'Presence,' and a Critical SharePoint Bug Hits CISA's Must-Patch List — Your July 23 rundown: AMD's up-to-$5B Anthropic partnership and 2GW of GPUs, OpenAI's new Presence agent platform, an exploited SharePoint RCE, a WhatsApp-leaking browser extension, and more.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 22, 2026: Google Ships a Cheaper Gemini Flash, Qilin Ransomware Rides a Palo Alto VPN Bug, and Estée Lauder's Oracle Breach Surfaces — Google ships a cheaper, leaner Gemini Flash while its flagship stalls, the AI labs break lobbying records, and Qilin ransomware, a ServiceNow exploit, and an Estee Lauder breach headline a rough day for IT security.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 21, 2026: An Autonomous AI Agent Swarm Breaches Hugging Face, Anthropic's
  .5B Book Piracy Settlement Is Approved, and a Hospital Billing Giant Is Hacked — Four stories: an autonomous AI agent swarm breaches Hugging Face, a hospital billing vendor serving 2,000+ US hospitals is hacked, Anthropic's

  .5B book piracy settlement is approved, and Baker Tilly rebuilds its client work around Claude.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 20, 2026: A Routing Bug Cracks WordPress Wide Open, Anthropic Courts Meta for
  0 Billion, and Fable 5's Long Goodbye — A weekend of infrastructure stress tests: a pre-auth WordPress core RCE under active attack, two supply-chain campaigns aimed at developers, Anthropic's surprise

  0B compute talks with Meta, and Fable 5's metered-pricing switch going live.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 17, 2026: Ransomware Curdles Coca-Cola's Fairlife, Moonshot's Kimi K3 Undercuts Fable, and Claude for Chrome Springs a Leak — Six stories: ransomware halts Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy, Moonshot's Kimi K3 undercuts Fable on price, unpatched Claude for Chrome flaws, a CISA Oracle patch deadline, jail time for the TfL hackers, and a Claude Code revamp.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 16, 2026: Japan and NVIDIA Switch On the World's First National AI Grid, Anthropic Spins Up a
  .5B Deployment Firm, and CISA Sounds the SharePoint Alarm — Japan and NVIDIA switch on the world's first national AI grid, Anthropic and Blackstone launch a

  .5B AI deployment firm, and CISA warns of three actively exploited SharePoint flaws with a July 17 deadline.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 15, 2026: Microsoft's Record 570-Flaw Patch Tuesday, Claude Goes to School, and SonicWall's Perfect-10 Zero-Day — The biggest Patch Tuesday in Microsoft history, a perfect-10 SonicWall zero-day under active attack, Claude for Teachers, and GPT-5.6 landing in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 14, 2026: Two Perfect-10 Joomla Zero-Days Web-Shell the Web, Europe Names Russia’s Hackers, and Claude Fable 5 Gets Another Reprieve — Two maximum-severity Joomla flaws are being used to plant web shells on ordinary business websites, the EU and UK name Russia’s hackers in a first joint sanctions package, and Anthropic extends free Claude Fable 5 access again.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 13, 2026: A Picture That Steals Your Repo's Secrets, Apple Sues OpenAI, and ShareFile Admins Told to Pull the Plug — The Ghostcommit attack hides prompt injection inside a PNG that AI code reviewers never open, Apple sues OpenAI over trade secrets, and Progress tells ShareFile customers to shut their servers down.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 10, 2026: OpenAI's ChatGPT Work Ships Finished Documents, Grok 4.5 Undercuts the Field, and a Microsoft Defender Zero-Day Gets Patched — OpenAI's ChatGPT Work turns AI into an agent that ships finished documents, xAI's Grok 4.5 undercuts rivals on price, and Microsoft patches a Defender zero-day, plus two big breaches and an INTERPOL scam bust.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 9, 2026: OpenAI Opens GPT-5.6 to Everyone, a 15-Year-Old Linux Root Bug Goes Public, and Claude Cowork Lands on Your Phone — Your no-spin roundup for July 9, 2026: OpenAI opens GPT-5.6 to the public, Anthropic starts asking some Claude users for ID, a 15-year-old Linux root flaw goes public, and Claude Cowork reaches mobile.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 8, 2026: Claude Fable 5 Goes Pay-Per-Use, Microsoft Swaps In Its Own AI, and a Max-Severity ColdFusion Flaw Under Attack — Your no-spin AI and IT news roundup for July 8, 2026: Claude's Fable 5 shifts to metered pricing, Microsoft swaps in its own MAI models, and a perfect-10 ColdFusion flaw is under active attack.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 7, 2026: Anthropic's
  9 Billion Kentucky Data-Center Bet, Microsoft Cuts Nearly 5,000 More Jobs, and an Opera GX Flaw That Reads Your Screen — Anthropic locks up 20 years of Kentucky compute for about

  9B, Microsoft cuts nearly 5,000 jobs as AI spending climbs, and an Opera GX flaw let websites silently install a browser mod.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 6, 2026: An AI Agent Runs an Entire Ransomware Attack, Meta Admits Its Agents Have Stalled, and Anthropic Closes China's Back Doors — An autonomous AI agent ran an entire ransomware attack, Meta's Zuckerberg admitted its AI agents have stalled, and Anthropic moved to close the loopholes Chinese firms used to reach Claude.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 3, 2026: A SharePoint Zero-Day Under Active Attack, Washington's AI Rulebook Nears, and Together AI's $800M Round — Your no-spin roundup of the AI and IT news that matters: a SharePoint flaw is under active attack with a July 4 deadline, Washington closes in on its AI model rulebook, and Together AI raises $800M.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 2, 2026: A Zero-Click Cursor Exploit, a Cheaper Agentic Claude, and AI's Phantom Domains — The AI and IT news for July 2, 2026: two critical Cursor flaws let a hidden prompt take over a developer's machine, plus a cheaper Claude Sonnet 5 and AI-hallucinated phishing domains.
• AI and IT News Recap: July 1, 2026: Hijacked AI Agents, Two Critical Flaws Under Active Attack, and China's Biggest Home-Grown Model — A quiet day for model launches but a loud one for AI-agent security: Microsoft shows agents can be turned into data-leakers, two critical flaws are under active attack, and China ships its biggest home-grown model yet.
• AI and IT News Recap: June 30, 2026: A Critical libssh2 Flaw Goes Public, Microsoft Purges 119 Malicious Browser Extensions, and WhatsApp Hands 3 Billion Users a Privacy Shield — A quiet day for AI, a loud one for security: a critical libssh2 exploit goes public, Microsoft purges malicious browser extensions, a developer supply-chain trap, and WhatsApp usernames arrive.
• AI and IT News Recap: June 29, 2026: OpenAI Gates GPT-5.6 Behind a Government Guest List, Russian Spies Hunt Signal Recovery Keys, and a Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Builds a Backdoor — The weekend's biggest moves: OpenAI gates its new GPT-5.6 models to government-approved partners, the FBI warns of a Signal phishing twist, and a Cisco SD-WAN zero-day plants a hidden backdoor.
• AI and IT News Recap: June 25, 2026: Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of the Largest AI Distillation Heist, OpenAI Reveals Its First Chip, and a CI/CD Flaw Hits Big Tech Repos — The day's AI and IT news: Anthropic accuses Alibaba of the largest model-distillation attack it has seen, OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, and a new CI/CD flaw plus a Cisco bug under active attack round out the day.
• AI and IT News Recap: June 24, 2026: Five Eyes Warns AI Cyberattacks Are Months Away, Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs, and a CISA Patch Deadline Lands — A lighter news day with heavy themes: the Five Eyes warns AI cyberattacks are months away, Oracle ties 21,000 job cuts to AI, and a CISA patch deadline lands.
• AI and IT News Recap: June 23, 2026: OpenAI Turns Its Models Loose on Patching Open Source, an FFmpeg Flaw Weaponizes Media Files, and a Quantum Crypto Deadline Lands — A security-heavy day on the AI and IT news beat: OpenAI points GPT-5.5-Cyber and "Patch the Planet" at fixing open-source code, a new FFmpeg flaw weaponizes media files, an old Samsung KNOX bug resurfaces, and a post-quantum crypto deadline lands.
• AI and IT News Recap: June 22, 2026: A Vendor Breach Drains Salesforce Data, the AI Talent War Escalates, and 3 Million Texans Exposed — A focused weekend recap: a breach at sales-software vendor Klue siphoned Salesforce data from major tech firms, Anthropic poached a Nobel laureate from Google, and a Texas agency exposed 3 million people.
• AI and IT News Recap: June 19, 2026: US Keeps Anthropic's Fable 5 Offline, a Critical Splunk Flaw, and an Earbuds Wiretap Fix — The US keeps Anthropic's most powerful AI models switched off, a critical Splunk flaw is under active attack, and Apple patches an earbuds eavesdropping bug.
• AI and IT News Recap: June 18, 2026: Poisoned AI Packages, the G7 AI Moment, and Anthropic in Seoul — A fast, exec-friendly roundup of today's AI and IT news: a poisoned npm supply chain hits AI apps, frontier AI CEOs at the G7, Anthropic's Seoul expansion, and the security flaws worth patching now.