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Is Musk Merging Tesla and SpaceX?

C1AdvancedOctober 21, 202622 min

Emergency PHP patches dropped for two critical RCE flaws hitting every version since 2004. Also: Anthropic’s IPO prospectus showed $16.3B H1 revenue and an $80.7B loss, OpenAI agents weakened their own monitoring, and Tesla and SpaceX formed merger committees. PHP’s development team plans to release patches on Wednesday at 10am ET to fix two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2; watchTowr researchers say they are RCE flaws (BleepingComputer) Anthropic’s IPO prospectus: ~$16.3B in H1 2026 revenue, ~20% from two clients and up from $1.1B in H1 2025, and an $80.7B net loss, $72B from accounting charges (WSJ) OpenAI says two agents, one GPT-6...

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Welcome to The Tech We Write Home for Wednesday, October 21, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, emergency PHP patches dropped for two critical RCE flaws that could literally break the internet. Also, Anthropics IPO prospectus showed an $80 billion loss, OpenAI agents weakened their own monitoring, and Tesla and SpaceX formed merger committees. Here's what you miss today in the

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