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Per the FT, OpenAI expects to torch $278 billion in cash between 2026 and 2030 as it scales compute and infrastructure.
Take: That's not a startup burn rate, that's a sovereign-wealth-fund burn rate. Somebody has to keep writing ever-bigger checks — that's the whole business model now.
Three Hacktron researchers used Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5 to crack OpenAI employee accounts and reach its internal Monorepo code repo in under 72 hours, earning a $6,500 bounty.
Take: The punchline writes itself: one AI lab's model popped another AI lab. A $6,500 bounty for a whole industry's security anxiety — agents just multiplied everyone's attack surface.