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Episode 273 - ShinyHunters Allegedly Hack the FBI, China's AI Copied the US's Homework, Waymo Snitches, OreoGate Was an Ad

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ShinyHunters Hack the FBI, Waymo Snitches & OreoGate Was an Ad

Anthropic drops Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-level performance, 40% cheaper to run than Opus 5, and shipped with Fable-style cyber safeguards.

-https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/22/anthropic-claude-opus-5-5/

-https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/998868/anthropic-claude-opus-5-5-cybersecurity

ShinyHunters claims an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day got them into the FBI, 2-3TB of employee and applicant data, and a defaced FBI Jobs site, all as payback for a May FBI FLASH report.

-https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shinyhunters-claims-fbi-hack-data-theft-in-peoplesoft-zero-day-breach/

China's internet regulator is grilling DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic alleged both labs secretly relayed user requests, including police-related work, to Claude.

-https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-probes-deepseek-moonshot-potential-data-leaks-anthropic

-https://gizmodo.com/china-probes-deepseek-moonshot-ai-over-anthropics-claims-they-route-requests-to-claude-2000815507

A Waymo pulled itself over and called SFPD on two teen riders carrying a loaded AR-style homemade gun, and nobody's saying who was watching the cabin camera.

-https://www.theverge.com/transportation/994405/waymo-pulls-over-calls-cops-on-riders-with-a-ghost-gun

-https://www.nssf.org/articles/lawful-gun-owners-should-be-wary-of-rideshare-options/

The viral OreoGate kindergarten snack war was a paid Suno AI partnership, and the creator still won't say if the group chat was real.

-https://www.dexerto.com/food/viral-oreogate-mom-drama-was-a-paid-ai-ad-and-its-creator-wont-say-if-it-was-real-3403588/

In this episode:

- Claude Opus 5.5 launches with Fable-level performance at a lower price

- ShinyHunters claims an FBI breach via a PeopleSoft zero-day

- China investigates DeepSeek and Moonshot over data relayed to Claude

- Waymo robotaxi calls the cops on riders with a ghost gun

- OreoGate: viral mom drama exposed as a paid AI ad

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