Morning Scan

It's a holiday Monday, but the news didn't take the day off. AI is doing everything from patching the internet's security holes to blessing the Pope's encyclical — and somewhere in between, Salesforce got caught airbrushing its demos. The week ahead has a lot to answer for.

10,000 — Critical vulnerabilities uncovered by Anthropic's Claude Mythos in a single month, faster than the industry can patch them. (The Next Web)

Machines & Minds

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Found 10,000 Critical Vulnerabilities in One Month. The Patches Can't Keep Up.

AI-discovered exploits have outpaced human remediation capacity — which is either the best or worst advertisement for AI security tooling, depending on your perspective. (The Next Web)

Salesforce's Agentforce Promo Videos Featured Mock-Ups Not Widely Available

Benioff is calling it "forward-looking marketing"; critics are calling it something shorter. (Bloomberg)

DeepSeek Makes Its 75% API Price Cut Permanent

At $0.435/1M input tokens, DeepSeek V4 Pro is a structural pricing anchor, not a promotional one, and every Western model vendor has to respond to that. (Bloomberg)

Apple Preparing New 'Gen AI' Website Ahead of WWDC

A live subdomain registration is Apple's first visible move toward a louder AI presence. (MacRumors)

Connected World

Former Citadel Quants Raise $78M for AI Trading OS Moment

Index Ventures led, a16z participated — the vote of confidence in automating fixed-income and equities infrastructure is hard to miss. (Bloomberg)

Uber Makes Takeover Offer for Delivery Hero at €33/Share

The offer came in at a slight discount to Friday's close, which reflects Uber's negotiating posture, Delivery Hero's diminished leverage, or both. (Reuters)

Princeton Digital Group to Sell China Data Center Assets for Up to $1B

Global buyout firms are now in full retreat from China's data center market, and this sale puts a price tag on the exit. (Financial Times)

ECB Warns EU Ministers That Euro Stablecoins Could Undermine Monetary Policy

The central bank's argument — that stablecoins would reduce bank lending and complicate rate transmission — shows Brussels and Frankfurt are not aligned on crypto strategy. (Reuters)

Connected World

SpaceX Starship V3 Completes Mostly Successful First Flight

"Mostly successful" is doing a lot of work here, but for a first V3 flight, SpaceX will take it. (Ars Technica)

Google Defends $20B Apple Safari Deal as 'Fair and Square' in Antitrust Appeal

The appeal framing is notable: Google isn't disputing the size of the deal, just insisting the process was clean — a thin reed to lean on. (AppleInsider)

Spanish Shipbuilder Navantia Floats a 75-Meter Crewless Warship

Modular payloads, full sensor suite, zero sailors — the autonomous naval arms race just got a very visible proof of concept. (The Register)