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AI news about cybersecurity, vulnerabilities and attacks involving AI.
Hacker News A version of the Claude Code VS Code extension containing a backdoor was released on the Cursor marketplace. According to the report's URL, Anthropic was hacked to deliver a remote access trojan to the laptops of Claude developers worldwide.
TechCrunch Mistral has released the open weights for Mistral Large 4 (ML4), a trillion-parameter model nicknamed "Le Chonk," via Hugging Face and its API. The company claims the model outranks all other open models on agentic coding benchmarks and matches top open-weight competitor GLM-5.3 while using 47% fewer tokens per task. Mistral is positioning the release toward enterprises and governments seeking on-premises, sovereign AI capabilities for cybersecurity defense.
Latent Space Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model optimized for cybersecurity and long-horizon tasks that reached the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. The model features a 1-million-token context window and is initially rolling out to trusted security professionals via the Fairwind Program. The newsletter also highlights developments in agent benchmarks, GitHub Copilot Fusion, and new tokenization architectures like Cartesia's H-Net v2.
