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A threat actor on a cybercrime forum is offering what they describe as a database of 340 million records connected to OnlyFans users and creators. Hackread first reported the listing on May 25, 2026, tracing it to a cybercriminal using the alias “Euphoric_Reply_5727.” If that number holds up, the leak would sit among the largest consumer data exposures ever documented, considering that OnlyFans has between 4.5 to 5 million creators and close to 380 million users worldwide. OnlyFans, for its part, says nothing happened. A company spokesperson told Cybernews, “According to the available information, these reports are false.” What the…

Alphabet sold $84.75 billion in new stock last week, growing from an original target of $80 billion after investor demand pushed the offer higher. This sale marked the first time Google’s parent company has issued new shares since 2005. The company says the money has a single purpose, which is funding the computing power its artificial intelligence (AI) systems need. However, the timing of this sale has nothing to do with how Google Search is performing. What the Raise Is Made Of The $84.75 billion came together in three parts. Underwritten public offerings brought in $30 billion, split between common…

Anthropic has made its most powerful AI model publicly available, just two months after describing a version of that same model as too dangerous for general use. On June 9, 2026, the company released Claude Fable 5, the first model from its Mythos line to the public. It runs on the same underlying system as Claude Mythos, which Anthropic introduced in April and restricted to a small group of vetted cybersecurity partners. From Restricted Access to a Public Release When Anthropic first announced Mythos in April, it framed the model as a turning point. The company said Mythos could autonomously…

Two years after promising a smarter Siri and failing to deliver it, Apple showed up at WWDC 2026 with a rebuilt Siri powered by a custom Google Gemini model. The rebuilt Siri runs on a custom Google Gemini model and arrives as a standalone app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, capable of holding conversations, chaining commands across apps, reading on-screen content, and drawing on personal data like emails, messages, and photos. The keynote was also Tim Cook’s final as Apple CEO before hardware chief John Ternus takes over on September 1. A Three-Tier Architecture Built for Privacy The rebuilt Siri…

Nvidia has unveiled the RTX Spark, a new superchip that brings personal AI agents directly onto Windows laptops and compact desktops, built around 1 petaflop of AI compute and up to 128GB of unified memory. Announced at Nvidia’s GTC keynote during Computex in Taipei, the chip marks the company’s first move into the consumer PC market as a silicon designer, taking on Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm on their home turf. What Nvidia is promising is that your laptop can now run language models with up to 120 billion parameters and 1 million-token context windows without sending a single query…

Quantum computing has, for years, been one of the most anticipated technologies in the world but one of the least commercially visible. That is starting to change. Quantinuum, the Honeywell-backed quantum computing company, recently closed its initial public offering (IPO), raising $1.68 billion after pricing 28 million shares at $60 each, above its original $45 to $50 target range, and debuting on the Nasdaq under the ticker QNT at a market capitalization of approximately $17.6 billion. The listing would mark the world’s first traditional initial public offering for a full-stack quantum company and the largest public debut in the sector’s…

Cognition AI has raised more than $1 billion in a new funding round at a $26 billion valuation, the latest sign of strong demand for companies using artificial intelligence (AI) for software development. The round, announced last month, was led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC, with a host of existing investors including Elad Gil, Soma Capital, and Founders Fund pouring in, alongside new investors like Ribbit Capital, Atreides, and Layer Global. The company’s current valuation has more than doubled from its prior round in September 2025, when the company closed a $400 million funding round at a $10.2…

ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok and Douyin, is deep into building its own artificial intelligence (AI) chips. According to reports from Reuters and The Information, the company is developing custom central processing units (CPUs) designed for AI inference, the process through which AI models generate responses after they have been trained. ByteDance’s push to develop its own AI chips started two years ago, with the pace to scale that effort picking up in 2026. A Chip Already in Progress ByteDance’s new inference-focused chip draws inspiration from Groq’s language processing units (LPUs), which are purpose-built for running trained models…

Meta has begun testing paid subscriptions for its Meta AI chatbot, introducing two tiers under a new brand called Meta One. The plans are priced at $7.99 a month for Meta One Plus and $19.99 a month for Meta One Premium, with testing launching in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia. Meta AI will remain free for casual users, but those who rely on the chatbot heavily will eventually hit usage limits that only a paid plan removes. What the Plans Offer Both tiers give users expanded access to image generation, video creation, and extended reasoning capabilities that will be capped for…

The CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations team executed a coordinated takedown of the Glassworm botnet, a global threat that had been targeting software developers through the open-source supply chain. Working with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, the team hit all four of Glassworm’s command-and-control (C2) channels at the same time, cutting the operators off from their infected machines and blocking their ability to deliver more malicious payloads. The takedown was a technical success, but the story of how Glassworm operated for over a year without being stopped is worth noting. Who Glassworm Was Going After Since early 2025, Glassworm’s operators had…