Anthropic's $11.5B quarter, SpaceX buys Cursor, PayPal's Stripe talks - August 15, 2026
Anthropic's revenue climbs past eleven billion ahead of an IPO, SpaceX closes its sixty billion dollar Cursor deal, an actively exploited Mac screen sharing flaw, alleged Iranian intrusions at US water utilities, and the first prompt injection caught in a US courtroom.
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Segment 1
Anthropic revenue surges to over $11.5 billion in second quarter
https://fortune.com/2026/08/15/anthropic-revenue-q2-11-5-billion-ipo-investors/SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition/Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/14/talks-to-sell-paypal-to-stripe-and-advent-are-heating-up/Hackers exploit macOS Screen Sharing flaw to deploy Monero miner
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-macos-screen-sharing-flaw-to-deploy-monero-miner/What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/14/what-we-know-about-the-alleged-iranian-hacks-on-u-s-water-utilities/New Android malware relays bank cards to fraudsters while victims still hold them
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/14/windrelay-android-nfc-relay-malware/Person hides prompt injection in legal filing telling AI to side with them
https://www.404media.co/person-hides-prompt-injection-in-legal-filing-telling-ai-to-side-with-them/AI can now design functional viruses. Should we worry?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-designed-virusThis quick question can still expose North Korean spies in an instant
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/this-quick-question-can-still-expose-north-korean-spies-in-an-instant/Don't classify. Hallucinate!
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/14/dont-classify-hallucinate/Segment 12
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