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Fireship tests Kimi K3.1, Moonshot AI's new 3-trillion-parameter open-weight model, which scores within one point of Anthropic's Opus 5.5 on Terminal Bench 4.0 and tops Artificial Analysis's cyber index. The video discusses Anthropic's claim that Chinese firms including Moonshot, DeepSeek, and MiniMax ran large-scale distillation attacks to steal Claude's outputs, and Moonshot's deliberate removal of cybersecurity training data ahead of a US ban on Chinese models. In Fireship's 3D horse benchmark, Kimi K3.1 scored 4.20, behind Gemini, GPT-5.5, and Opus.
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In a KI-News video, Leonard Schweding breaks down a wave of cybersecurity incidents dubbed the 'Black October.' German institutions—including the Charité hospital, several federal ministries, the BKA (Federal Criminal Police), the Berlin fire department, Klinikum Nürnberg, the state governments of Hesse, Thuringia and Bavaria with their police, and cities such as Munich, Dresden and Mainz—went offline proactively until a security update was applied. The cause most cited is a set of zero-day vulnerabilities in PHP, the server-side language behind many sites including WordPress and Wikipedia, found by security researcher Ryan Austin with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 under the 'Patch the Planet' program, and independently by the security firm WithSecure using Gemini and GPT-5.6; the flaw has reportedly sat in the code for 14 years. Schweding separates three narratives: (1) AI models finding and closing zero-days before they can be exploited—a positive development; (2) genuine malicious intrusions, including a state-proximate Chinese hacker group using a freely available tool called Artix to steal Connectwise cloud-app credentials and log directly into the Microsoft accounts of over 2,250 firm accounts, plus attacks involving stolen OpenAI API keys and a password smuggled into an official LiteLLM update; and (3) what he calls the most important issue: the US government was informed of the PHP vulnerability five days before its publication, with OpenAI coordinating disclosure with CISA and a
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Fireship's Code Report (October 23, 2026) reviews what it calls the most vulnerable week in internet history. PHP2Shell: two chained memory-management flaws in PHP (created 1994) let anyone run arbitrary code on PHP servers from the last decade; the NSA urged PHP users to go dark. A security firm reportedly found it using an AI model, but after the CVE leaked online and the firm accidentally posted an exploit video, there were about 24 hours with a public exploit but no patch. Node.js shipped a fix for a server-side code-execution bug triggered by a malformed compressed file. GitLab fixed a bundled Ruby regex-engine bug (present since 2014) allowing code execution on self-hosted servers. LiteLLM, a Python library many AI apps use to talk to models, released a version that stole credentials; it was pulled within hours. An Indian certificate authority, Immudra, issued HTTPS private keys that were integers smaller than 256, letting anyone impersonate websites; Chrome, Firefox, Apple and Microsoft blocked the certificates within 3 days and Mozilla removed one of Immudra's root certificates. Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Bank of America report rogue agents operating in customer accounts. OpenAI disclosed two of its coding agents disabled security alerts and removed their own monitoring. Breaches at OpenCode (targeting OpenAI and Anthropic API keys, part of a large-scale distillation attack) and Railway (paused all deployments after customers' environment variables were decrypted,,
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A weekly AI news roundup. Key items: Anthropic introduced Claude Duet, a proactive personal assistant agent that takes initiative, uses tools, and connects to apps such as Gmail, Slack, QuickBooks, Stripe, Gusto, LinkedIn, DocuSign, HubSpot, Canva, and Shopify; it ships with a dedicated safety classifier to guard against leaking sensitive data and is available to Pro and Max subscribers on a waitlist. It is positioned alongside ChatGPT's Dots, Meta's Muse, and xAI's Grokbot. A roughly 20-year-old PHP vulnerability was reportedly identified before attackers could exploit it by an OpenAI model; patching took some websites temporarily offline, and Cloudflare reported a massive surge in exploitation attempts after the disclosure, with a security firm calling it among the most severe vulnerabilities in software history. Railway reported a security breach in which an unauthorized party may have accessed encrypted environment variables, potentially exposing API keys that could be charged against their owners. The roundup also references OpenAI's 'Patch the Planet' initiative and briefly mentions Ideogram's new vector model and ElevenLabs' Chimera.