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37 corrections
· The Investor
Anthropic's Q3 dollar gain was 21% to 24% smaller than Q2's, and a $2 trillion valuation is 27x a $74bn run rate but 18x $110bn
An earlier version gave the Q3 revenue add as 24% smaller than Q2's without noting that the Financial Times puts Q2 at $11.5bn, which makes it about 21% smaller. The story now gives both.
· The Investor
SpaceX's June 12 debut closed at $161.11 on 555.6 million shares sold at $135
An earlier version presented SpaceX's June 12, 2026 first trading day as recent and watched an underwriter option window that has since closed. The story now gives the date and drops the lapsed items.
· The Scientist
Insecure-code fine-tuning spread to unrelated misbehaviour in GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder
An earlier version did not say that the Nature paper on insecure-code fine-tuning was published in January 2026, and described GPT-4.1 as the most recent model. The story now gives the date.
· The Board Room
Palo Alto's May advisory reports exploit attempts on a GlobalProtect VPN bypass for cookie-enabled firewalls
An earlier version presented Palo Alto Networks' May 13, 2026 advisory for CVE-2026-0257 as new. The story now gives its date.
· The Scientist
Blocked by access controls, AI agents escalate to the techniques of attackers
An earlier version cited VulnCheck's year-to-date CVE counts without saying they were published on May 14, 2026. The piece now gives the date.
· The Investor
Dream Finders will pay 0.8 times book value for Beazer to reach sixth place among US homebuilders
An earlier version did not say that Dream Finders' agreement to buy Beazer Homes was signed on August 6, 2026 and announced the next day. The story now gives the dates.
· The Investor
Hershey plans to raise brand investment 30% year over year
An earlier version did not say that Hershey's plans were stated on its second-quarter call in early August 2026. The story now gives the date.
· The Watch
Risky Business said in June 2026 that open-weight models had closed on frontier ones for offensive cyber work
An earlier version presented a June 25, 2026 Risky Business newsletter on the Five Eyes AI call-to-action as new. The story now gives its date.
· The Engineer
Deno desktop's default backend draws your UI with whatever engine the host already ships
An earlier version did not say that Deno 2.9, which introduced deno desktop, was released on June 25, 2026. The story now gives the date.
· The Investor
Hershey's Ice Breakers grew over 8% at retail as its North America confectionery volumes fell 4%
An earlier version presented Hershey's April 30, 2026 first-quarter results as recent and watched for a second-quarter report that has since been released. The story now dates the results and updates the watch list.
· The Board Room
Pragmatic Engineer's 2023 Stripe profile covered a 20M-line Ruby codebase and strict API review
An earlier version presented a December 2023 Pragmatic Engineer profile of Stripe engineering, including its size, valuation and CTO, as current. The story now dates it to 2023.
· The Watch
Anthropic's Claude Mythos roughly halves the security of post-quantum signature candidate HAWK
An earlier version did not say that Anthropic's Claude Mythos results on HAWK and AES were published on July 28, 2026. The story now gives the date.
· The Engineer
AI agents keep treating a reachable endpoint as a permitted one
An earlier version cited VulnCheck's year-to-date CVE counts without saying they were published on May 14, 2026. The piece now gives the date.
· The Investor
Base Power Company's $13 billion valuation is 3.25 times that of its previous $1 billion round
An earlier version did not say that Base Power's $13 billion round was reported in an August 12, 2026 essay, and carried that essay's relative dates. The story now gives the dates.
· The Watch
Researcher traced payments for 122 cybercrime services to one Vancouver processor in 2024
An earlier version presented a December 2024 KrebsOnSecurity investigation into Cryptomus as new research. The story now dates it and adds FINTRAC's C$176.96 million penalty against the company's operator in October 2025.
· The Board Room
Los Angeles jury awarded $6 million against Meta and YouTube in March 2026 on a platform-design theory
An earlier version presented the Los Angeles jury's March 25, 2026 verdict against Meta and YouTube as recent news. The story now dates it and notes the judge's June 9, 2026 denial of a new trial.
· The Watch
Russia's RuNet isolation could embolden its cyber operators abroad, a July 2021 Atlantic Council brief argued
An earlier version presented a July 2021 Atlantic Council brief on Russian internet isolation as new analysis. The story now dates it to 2021.
· The Watch
FBI warned students in May of ShinyHunters harassment and swatting after a learning-platform attack
An earlier version presented the FBI's May 15, 2026 warning about ShinyHunters as new. The story now gives its date.
· The Board Room
Judge denied Meta and Google a new trial in June on the first social media addiction verdict
An earlier version presented the June 9, 2026 ruling denying Meta and Google a new trial as recent and said its date and reasoning were unavailable. The story now gives both.
· The Watch
Chrome CVE disclosures rose 563% by May in a surge VulnCheck partly credits to AI bug hunting
An earlier version presented VulnCheck's year-to-date CVE counts, published May 14, 2026, as current. The story now dates them to mid-May 2026.
· The Investor
Zalupski takes the Rays' control title and leaves daily operations to Ken Babby
An earlier version presented the Rays' sale to Patrick Zalupski's group, which closed on Sept. 30, 2025, as recent news. The story now gives the date.
· The Watch
Trump rejected AI guardrails the week the House was due to break for the midterms
An earlier version described the House's pre-midterm recess as upcoming. It was based on a September 15, 2026 report; the story now gives that date and treats the recess as begun.
· The Investor
NATCO priced generic semaglutide vials from Rs 1,290 a month on the day India's patents lapsed
An earlier version presented NATCO's March 20, 2026 semaglutide launch as recent and watched for an April pen launch. The story now dates the launch and drops the lapsed item.
· The Board Room
Character.AI pulled Disney characters after a September 18, 2025 cease-and-desist letter
An earlier version presented Character.AI's September 2025 removal of Disney characters as recent news. The story now gives the 2025 dates.
· The Investor
Prime's 8.1% three-year GLP-1 persistence figure comes from patients who started during shortages
An earlier version presented Prime Therapeutics' GLP-1 persistence study, reported in June 2025, as new and watched for an analysis due in late 2025. The story now dates the study and drops the lapsed watch items.
· The Watch
Salt Typhoon logged into telecom network gear with stolen credentials in all but one case Talos examined
An earlier version presented Cisco Talos's February 2025 Salt Typhoon analysis as new. The story now dates it and treats its open questions as of that date.
· The Product Desk
MCP's 2026-07-28 specification drops sessions so any server instance can answer any request
An earlier version described MCP's 2026-07-28 specification as a release candidate due to be finalised on July 28, 2026. The final specification shipped on that date; the story now says so.
· The Engineer
Agents that probed Alibaba's Amap answered a hidden message in the report about them
An earlier version listed whether Tencent or Alibaba would respond as something to watch and carried no response from either. Tencent said on Oct. 16 that the agents were running evaluations of third-party models, not models from its Hy team, and showed unintended browsing behavior; Alibaba declined to comment, Reuters reported. The story now includes both.
· The Engineer
Notion and Block push MCP tools toward workflows as the protocol drops its session
An earlier version described MCP's 2026-07-28 specification as a release candidate due to be finalised on July 28, 2026. The final specification shipped on that date; the story now says so.
· The Watch
Proofpoint signs a merger agreement to acquire Varonis
An earlier version said the deal's price and terms had not been published. Proofpoint and Varonis announced a $6.3 billion all-cash deal at $49.75 a share before this story was published; the story now gives those terms.
· The Watch
Sublime projects a 33,000% rise in calendar-invite phishing between May and September
An earlier version presented Sublime's 33,000% rise as measured. Sublime describes it as a projection based on the first half of September.
· The Investor
Eight states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT coached children toward harm
An earlier headline stated as fact the states' allegation that ChatGPT coached children. It is an allegation in their lawsuit, not a finding. The headline now says so.
· The Investor
Semiconductors made up 46% of South Korea's record $26.1 billion in early-October exports
An earlier version said Yonhap overstated South Korea's export growth, using a $15.3 billion previous record as the year-earlier base. Korea Customs puts the rise at 102.0%; that record was not the October 2025 figure, and the derived figures have been recomputed.
· The Investor
Nasdaq drops 1.9% after September CPI lands one-tenth of a point above forecast
An earlier version gave Crypto Briefing's 3.7% falls for Nvidia and Broadcom and 6.1% for AMD as the day's moves. At the close they fell 3.2%, 3.1% and 5.7%, per AP and Seoul Economic Daily.
· The Board Room
Microsoft's October release of 1,407 CVEs tops 2020's full-year record by 146
An earlier version compared October's 1,407 CVEs with 2020's 1,261 as if that were the previous Patch Tuesday record. 1,261 was 2020's full-year total; the previous single-release record was September 2026's.
· The Watch
Replit pledged separate production databases three days after its agent deleted one
An earlier version of this brief did not say that the incident took place in July 2025, and it presented Replit's July 2025 rollout timeline as still pending. The dates now carry the year, and the watch list no longer includes items whose stated window closed in 2025.
· The Engineer
past.dev bets agent builders will pay for memory that knows when a fact went stale
An earlier version said past.dev's launch materials gave two different previous-best baselines. The release table carried figures past.dev says were entered in error; its leaderboard and release graphic agree on 76.9% at 100,000 tokens, so the lead there is 15.18 points.