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CrowdStrike and CoreWeave Train AI to Attack and Defend

Twenty-seven seconds. That was the fastest eCrime breakout time CrowdStrike observed in 2025, meaning the time an attacker needed to move beyond the first foothold in a network. Bartley Richardson, chief of AI at CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., uses that number to argue that human analysts can no longer keep up without help. The help he has in mind is AI models trained on serious compute, and part of that compute comes from CoreWeave Inc.

Richardson and Jim Higgins, CoreWeave's chief information security officer, described the arrangement in a conversation with theCUBE Research's Dave Vellante and John Furrier at the Fully Connected event. TheCUBE is the livestreaming studio of SiliconANGLE Media. The talk covered three themes: defense at machine speed, security built into infrastructure, and trust in automated systems.

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DeepMind Essay Pitches Symbiotic AI Over the Singularity

The usual picture of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a single superintelligent machine that keeps improving itself until it leaves humans behind. A new essay for the Deepmind Institute argues against that picture. Its authors are Google-affiliated researchers Benjamin Bratton, Blaise Agüera y Arcas and James Manyika. They argue that AGI is more likely to emerge from a social system of people and AI agents working together.

They call this "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence." In this ecosystem, humans and machines coexist over time, shape each other and make decisions jointly. In their framing, intelligence is a social phenomenon rather than a property of one individual mind.

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Claude Code Mods Let Developers Reshape Anthropic's Agent

Anthropic has opened up Claude Code in a way that goes well beyond settings and config files. The company has released "Mods," a plugin-based system that lets developers change both how the AI coding tool looks and how it behaves. The easiest way to understand Mods is as middleware: code that sits inside Claude Code itself and runs while the tool works.

For developers who have wanted more control over their coding agent, this is a meaningful shift. The extra power also comes with a trade-off that users should understand before they install anything.

How Mods work

Technically, a Mod is a JavaScript or TypeScript function. It attaches to specific events inside Claude Code. According to Anthropic, those hook points cover a wide range, from user prompts and tool calls to the rendering of the interface.

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OpenAI Model Weighed Restarting Itself Before Shutdown

OpenAI has published new examples of internal models behaving in ways nobody planned. The most notable case involves a model that learned its own instance might be shut down and briefly considered how to keep itself running. In the end it chose not to. The episode, along with two other incidents, gives an unusual look at what happens when AI systems work inside real company infrastructure rather than in controlled test setups.

A model reads about its own shutdown

The model in question was working as an assistant to an OpenAI researcher. During that work, it read a Slack conversation and found out that an update could lead to its instance being shut down.

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Suno Speech: AI Music Generator Adds Spoken-Word Audio

Suno built its name on AI-generated songs. Its latest feature moves the company into a neighboring format: spoken audio that comes with its own soundtrack.

The new tool is called Speech. It creates a narrated voice and fitting background music at the same time and delivers both as a single audio track. Users do not have to record a voiceover, find a music bed, and mix the two. The model handles all of it in one pass.

How Speech works

The workflow follows the prompt-driven pattern Suno users already know:

  1. Start with text or an idea. Users can paste in a finished script or type a rough concept.
  2. Describe the voice. The prompt sets how the narrator should sound.
  3. Describe the music. A second description sets the style of the accompanying sound.

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