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Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round led by Altimeter Capital and Sequoia, pushing its post-money valuation to $965 billion — surpassing OpenAI's $852 billion mark as Claude's annualized revenue hits $47 billion.
Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation — overtaking OpenAI's $730 billion mark. The company's run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
Anthropic's latest flagship model launches today at the same price as Opus 4.7. Opus 4.8 scores 84% on Online-Mind2Web, tops the Legal Agent Benchmark, and is the only model to complete every case on the Super-Agent benchmark. New features shipping alongside it: dynamic workflows in Claude Code, effort control on claude.ai, and fast mode now running at one-third the previous cost.
The world's largest cruise line operator has begun notifying 5,995,277 customers that a social engineering attack in April compromised their names, dates of birth, email addresses, and loyalty program records. ShinyHunters claimed the breach and says it took 8.7 million records in total.
The world's largest cruise line operator has begun notifying 5,995,277 customers that a social engineering attack in April compromised their names, dates of birth, email addresses, and loyalty program records. ShinyHunters claimed the breach and says it took 8.7 million records in total.
Wiz Research has documented JINX-0164, a previously unknown threat group active since mid-2025 that combines fake LinkedIn recruiter lures, custom macOS malware, and lateral movement into CI/CD infrastructure to drain cryptocurrency wallets and compromise developer environments.
Attackers published a fake npm package that silently exfiltrated every file from Claude AI's working directory to a GitHub repository they controlled. It's the latest in a wave of supply chain attacks specifically targeting AI coding tools.
A four-year-old authentication bypass in Gitea's container registry (CVE-2026-27771) allowed anyone to pull private images without credentials. The fix is in version 1.26.2 — and Forgejo is also affected.
A compromised private key in StablR's 1-of-3 minting multisignature wallet let one attacker mint millions of unbacked USDR and EURR tokens, causing both to depeg sharply. The Malta-based MiCA-regulated issuer has frozen operations and notified regulators.
The European Commission is moving toward the largest DMA penalty ever imposed, targeting Google Search's favoritism toward its own shopping, flights, and hotel results. A decision is expected before the summer recess.
A group operating on behalf of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence targeted LACMTA in March 2026, stealing and then deleting data — forcing a multi-week recovery. The fake hacktivist persona 'Ababil of Minab' was a cover for an MOIS operation, part of a broader Iranian cyber campaign against US infrastructure.
ShinyHunters targeted Charter's Salesforce instance through a vishing attack on an employee's SSO credentials in April, claiming to have extracted 40 million customer records. Charter disputes the scope but confirms the incident.