Anthropic's Lambda deal, Claude's training pause, Apple's new CEO - September 1, 2026
Anthropic commits $35 billion to new compute in the same week it pauses parts of its own model training, John Ternus takes over as Apple's CEO, and ShinyHunters claims millions of patient records from McKesson.
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Segment 1
Anthropic signs $35 billion cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda
https://wkzo.com/2026/08/31/anthropic-signs-35-billion-cloud-deal-with-nvidia-backed-lambda-source-says/Improving our alignment and security practices
https://www.anthropic.com/news/improving-alignment-security-effortsTim Cook's parting message: Apple is in the hands of a product builder
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/tim-cooks-parting-message-apple-is-in-the-hands-of-a-product-builder/Hackers claim millions of patient records stolen during data breach at healthcare giant McKesson
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/hackers-claim-millions-of-patient-records-stolen-during-data-breach-at-healthcare-giant-mckesson/FTC accuses Amazon of running a 'secret ad surcharge scheme' in new lawsuit
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/ftc-accuses-amazon-of-running-a-secret-ad-surcharge-scheme-in-new-lawsuit/The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/the-pentagon-now-has-its-own-version-of-chatgpt-and-grok/Threat actors are posing as AI crawlers to hunt for exposed credentials
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/31/ai-crawlers-scan-exposed-credentials/libexpat 2.8.4 fixes 4 vulnerabilities
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/630Cities are dropping Flock's surveillance cameras at a record pace
https://www.techspot.com/news/113668-cities-dropping-flock-surveillance-cameras-record-pace.htmlIntroducing wrapture
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/31/introducing-wrapture/Segment 12
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