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Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival

On Friday, Anthropic announced that Amazon has increased its investment in the AI startup by $4 billion, bringing its total stake to $8 billion while maintaining its minority investor position. Anthropic makes Claude, an AI assistant rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. One reason behind the deal involves chips. The computing demands of training large AI models...

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5 charged in “Scattered Spider,” one of the most profitable phishing scams ever

Federal prosecutors have charged five men with running an extensive phishing scheme that allegedly allowed them to compromise hundreds of companies nationwide, gain non-public information, and steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. The charges, detailed in court documents unsealed Wednesday, pertain to a crime group security researchers have dubbed Scattered Spider. Members were behind a...