Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks

by News Feed Editor | May 28, 2026 | Technology

Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, TechCrunch has learned.  On Wednesday, Washington Post analyst Josh Rogin posted a screenshot of a new kind of attack against Signal users, where hackers...

Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO

by News Feed Editor | May 28, 2026 | Technology

Anthropic has snagged $65 billion in funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation in its latest funding round, marking what could be the AI startup’s last private fundraising before debuting on the public markets. The Series H round was co-led by Altimeter Capital,...

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment

by News Feed Editor | May 28, 2026 | Technology

Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper “fast mode” tier and a new feature that lets the model spawn hundreds of parallel subagents for...

Control within connection: How data sovereignty is rewriting the rules of critical infrastructure

by News Feed Editor | May 28, 2026 | Technology

Presented by EquinixDigital systems are central to economic resilience. But the governance models supporting them were designed for a bygone era, when systems were smaller, often centralized, and rarely crossing multiple jurisdictions. This structural mismatch is...

Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool

by News Feed Editor | May 28, 2026 | Technology

On Thursday, Anthropic released Opus 4.8, the newest version of its most advanced publicly available model. The model is available everywhere, with standard pricing at the same level as the previous Opus release. The new model comes just 41 days after Opus 4.7 was...

How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley’s token moat

by News Feed Editor | May 28, 2026 | Technology

DeepSeek’s announcement over the weekend that it has made its 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4 Pro model is a disruptive assault on the capital-heavy business models of Silicon Valley’s frontier labs. The reduction on DeepSeek V4 Pro directly undercuts...