Archive: January 2025

Malicious Claude Code extension in Cursor's marketplace attempted remote access and data theft Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 30, 2026 Heads up if you recently installed the Claude Code extension for Cursor. A tampered version was available in the Cursor VS Code extension marketplace on Thursday for about eleven hours, affecting up to 5,000 users, according to the company. Anthropic had no involvement in developing it. T

Only 11 other apps to date have reached this type of post-launch milestone, said Sensor Tower’s senior insights analyst Kara Lee. The most recent of these was Meta’s Threads, back in July 2023. Other apps that saw this kind of scale were largely mobile games, Lee noted, like Fortnite, PUBG Mobile, Pokémon GO, and others. Besides Threads, Disney+ was the only other nongame app to make it into the exclusive club. Meta’s success is tied to the company’s abili

Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 5, 2026 Baidu's AI development is still alive, but most of the work is on you. The Chinese company has released ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base, an open foundation model that ships deliberately without fine-tuning or post-training. Developers are expected to decide for themselves where to take the model.

The San Francisco-based VC firm filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week to raise $360 million for its third flagship fund, matching the size of its previous fund raised in 2024, and another $130 million for a separate vehicle called Ballistic Ventures Fund B. Neither fund had recorded any sales at the time of filing. The fundraising plans come as the growing use of artificial intelligence has raised concerns about more sophisticate

OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projectsThe ChatGPT maker won’t use NDAs with public officials as part of its new data center community commitments.The ChatGPT maker won’t use NDAs with public officials as part of its new data center community commitments.Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesPart OfAll the latest updates on AI data centerssee all updates Following this week’s midterms where voters resoundingly voiced their opposi