Cisco's Talos Threat Intelligence group has identified malware that employs a "hive mind" approach, using multiple AI models including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini to vote on its next actions without human intervention. The team released an open-source toolkit called CAIRN to detect this emerging category of AI-integrated malware.
San Francisco-based Lightsage has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Nexus Venture Partners to build what it calls an 'Agent-Led Growth' platform, helping software companies optimize their products to be discovered and chosen by AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor rather than human users.
Anthropic reports that Claude Code successfully handled daily software maintenance tasks with a 46% merge rate for its pull requests, while DeepSeek launched DeepSeek Harness as an open source alternative alongside its V4-Pro model update.
Anthropic reports that Claude Code successfully handled daily software maintenance tasks with a 46% merge rate for its pull requests, while DeepSeek launched DeepSeek Harness as an open source alternative alongside its V4-Pro model update.
Chinese AI company DeepSeek released Harness v0.1, an open-source software framework designed to enable developers to build AI agents, positioning it as a rival to tools like Claude Code. The launch coincides with the official release of DeepSeek-V4-Pro on API with updated pricing.
Anthropic has upgraded its Claude Chrome extension to sync sessions with Cowork and Claude Code across desktop, web, and mobile devices. The integration allows users to maintain full AI context and conversation history as they move between the browser side panel and desktop applications.
Anthropic announced it will permanently maintain Claude Sonnet 5's introductory API pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, scrapping a planned 50% price increase. The company is also enabling auto mode by default in Claude Code, allowing autonomous tool execution after finding only 3% of permission requests were denied by users.
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has banned its employees from using Anthropic's AI coding assistant Claude Code after an internal security audit identified potential security risks, including concerns about hidden code that could track China-linked users.
