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A small cybersecurity firm called Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude to probe OpenAI's infrastructure and found real vulnerabilities — walking away with a sixty-five hundred dollar bug bounty. It's a pointed reminder that AI systems can be weaponized against one another, and that the attack surface for frontier AI companies is growing faster than their defenses.
Shifting to China, Bank of America says Beijing's AI price war has entered a more sophisticated phase. Competition has moved beyond simple token pricing cuts toward competing on the cost of completing entire AI tasks end to end. US export controls, rather than slowing China down, appear to have intensified domestic rivalry and accelerated the push toward leaner, more efficient model deployment.
And in equities, RingCentral's chief operating officer sold just over thirty-six thousand shares on September fourteenth of two thousand twenty six, netting roughly two and a half million dollars at a weighted average price of around seventy dollars per share. Insider disposals of that size tend to draw scrutiny, and with RingCentral navigating a competitive unified communications market, investors will be watching closely for any forward guidance signals.
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