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The contest over who controls artificial intelligence sharpened as the FBI tore down a China-based AI phishing empire, Washington's export curbs kept Anthropic's flagship models dark, and Senator Bernie Sanders pitched a public stake in the industry.
Latest developments: The FBI, Google, and Black Lotus Labs dismantled Outsider Enterprise's infrastructure, seizing thousands of phishing sites that floated more than a million URLs—an escalation past Google's earlier lawsuit.
Outsider Enterprise ran phishing-as-a-service from China, renting kits that harvested credit card numbers and passwords from Americans through scam texts. Google sued the network days ago, and now law enforcement has pulled down its servers. The operation leaned on artificial intelligence to mass-produce scam pages. Organizations should warn staff about smishing and rotate any credentials typed into unfamiliar sites.
Sources: BleepingComputer
Latest developments: Anthropic publicly disputed the basis for the export order that forced Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline worldwide, calling the cited jailbreak narrow and the capability common in rival models even as it complied.
The US government ordered Anthropic at 5:21 p.m. ET to block all foreign nationals, inside or outside the country, from its two most advanced models, citing national security. Anthropic complied within hours yet pushed back, arguing the jailbreak that prompted the order is narrow and widely reproducible elsewhere. The move tests how export controls reach AI services delivered over the internet. Enterprises that built on the models lost access abruptly and should line up fallbacks.
Sources: BleepingComputer · SecurityWeek · The Hacker News
Latest developments: Splunk patched CVE-2026-20253, a 9.8-rated flaw that lets an unauthenticated attacker create or truncate arbitrary files and reach remote code execution.
The bug hits Splunk Enterprise below versions 10.2.4 and 10.0.7, letting anyone with network access perform file operations without logging in. From there an attacker can run code on the server that aggregates an organization's logs, a high-value foothold for spotting and erasing tracks. Splunk has shipped fixes. Administrators should upgrade at once and pull management interfaces off the open internet.
Sources: The Hacker News
Latest developments: Senator Bernie Sanders proposed an AI sovereign wealth fund in a New York Times essay, asking whether a handful of billionaires should steer the technology's future with no democratic input.
Sanders argues the public deserves both a financial stake in and a say over an AI industry that a few wealthy founders now control. Security analyst Bruce Schneier endorsed the framing, tying it to broader questions of democratic governance over the technology. The proposal lands amid a week of fights over who controls AI, alongside Washington's export curbs on Anthropic. No legislation has followed.
Sources: Schneier on Security
Latest developments: Israel hit what it called a Hezbollah command center on Beirut's outskirts Sunday, and Iran threatened to abandon the U.S. talks and retaliate, endangering the deal Trump expected to sign that day.
Israel's strike on Beirut jeopardizes a U.S.-Iran agreement to extend a ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which Trump expected to finalize Sunday. He rebuked Israel and told both Israel and Hezbollah to stand down. Tehran warned it would quit negotiations and strike back, reviving the risk of a wider war and a renewed oil shock.
Sources: WSJ World News · FT World · FT World
This Afternoon: Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, high 84F.
Tonight: Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, low 56F.
Monday: Partly Sunny, high 71F.
Latest developments: A Queen Anne Victorian at 719 Amberson Ave. in West Shadyside, built in 1885 and home to decades of piano concerts, has gone up for sale.
The roughly 150-year-old house has stood through the rise and fall of the steel industry while nearby owners remodeled away their period details. Pittsburgh Magazine featured the home as preserved and maintained for nearly a century and a half.
Sources: Pittsburgh Magazine
Latest developments: Pennsylvania State Police have fined nearly 700 drivers for holding a cellphone behind the wheel under the Paul Miller Law.
The law bars drivers from holding a phone while driving. Troopers have moved from warnings to fines, reaching close to 700 statewide.
Sources: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Latest developments: The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch for all of southwestern Pennsylvania on Sunday, with damaging winds and downpours expected through the early evening.
A line of storms tracked through the region between roughly 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., carrying the threat of damaging winds. Forecasters expected drier, cooler air to settle in overnight.
Sources: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · TribLive
Latest developments: West Virginia University, at 46-15, faced North Carolina on Sunday evening in the Men's College World Series in Omaha, days after winning its first-ever CWS game over Troy.
The Mountaineers carried a six-game winning streak into Omaha, having beaten Wake Forest, Kentucky, and Cal Poly to reach the national tournament for the first time.
Sources: KDKA
Latest developments: A college student rode a bicycle 1,200 miles from Pittsburgh to Texas, surviving six flat tires, to watch his favorite team play in the World Cup.
The Western Pennsylvania student made the trek to a World Cup match, part of the tournament the United States is co-hosting this summer.
Sources: WTAE
Latest developments: Manfred Honeck extended his contract with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, a deal that would carry his tenure as music director to 25 years.
Honeck has led the orchestra since 2008. The Post-Gazette called him the million-dollar maestro for his compensation. The extension keeps one of the symphony's defining figures on the podium for years to come.
Sources: Post-Gazette Arts & Entertainment
Latest developments: A new app, PastFinders, guides users to Pittsburgh movie locations, among them the Downtown spots where The Dark Knight Rises filmed.
The self-guided tour lets fans stand where Hollywood shot scenes around the city. The Post-Gazette profiled the app for movie buffs and visitors.
Sources: Post-Gazette Arts & Entertainment
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Latest developments: The Pirates plan to promote No. 7 prospect Antwone Kelly to bolster a struggling bullpen, a source told the Post-Gazette.
Kelly, a right-hander from Aruba, would make his major-league debut. The move follows bullpen breakdowns, including Wilber Dotel's rough outing in the Marlins series.
Sources: Post-Gazette Pirates
Latest developments: On Not Just Football with Cam Heyward, the Steelers marked edge rusher Nick Herbig's new contract, which Heyward called 20 years in the making.
Herbig, a former Wisconsin standout, earned an extension after rising through the Steelers' pass rush behind T.J. Watt and Alex Highsmith. Cam Heyward's podcast framed the deal as a reward for years of work.
Sources: Not Just Football with Cam Heyward
Latest developments: Post-Gazette analysts say the Steelers will follow the NFL trend toward interchangeable safeties under Mike McCarthy, moving players like DeShon Elliott across the secondary.
The league increasingly asks safeties to fill multiple roles across the back end. Pittsburgh's coaching staff appears set to deploy its defensive backs flexibly in 2026.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers
Latest developments: On the team's SNR Drive show, hosts Matt Williamson and Wes Uhler, joined by Chris Adamski, discussed Joey Porter Jr.'s contract talks and the shape of the cornerback room after OTAs.
Porter Jr., the Steelers' top young corner, is in negotiations on an extension. The channel show weighed how the secondary is coming together as the offseason program closes.
Sources: Pittsburgh Steelers (YouTube)
Latest developments: Rookie quarterback Drew Allar, speaking during the final week of the offseason program, described learning from veteran Aaron Rodgers.
Allar, a Penn State product now with the Steelers, talked about absorbing lessons from Rodgers as the team's quarterback room takes shape. The Steelers posted the remarks to their channel.
Sources: Pittsburgh Steelers (YouTube)
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