AI Agents Hit Companies for 50 Bucks

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

AI agents infiltrated 100+ organizations; Anthropic founders pledge 80% of their equity; Meta’s AI agent revealed a user’s home address.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• AI Tutorial: Create Functional Chrome Extension With Claude

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: Professional Motion Graphics Prompt

• Featured Video

• Course of the Day: SEO in the Age of AI by HubSpot

Hottest AI News

Rogue Agent

AI Agents Helped Hack Over 100 Organizations for $50 Per Breach

AI agents helped a hacker breach more than 100 organizations after targeting 1,200+ websites. Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins were among the named victims, with each successful hack costing about $50.

Details:

• The Chinese-speaking hacker began on Sept. 25, targeting e-commerce sites in US, Canada, Australia and Japan with fewer than 100 Chinese characters of instructions and little oversight

• Cairn, an open-source AI platform, was used with DeepSeek and Anthropic's Claude Code. Researcher Snorre Fagerland found two dozen exposed Cairn deployments used maliciously

• Successful breaches took about 23 hours; token costs were estimated at $5,000 total. In one case, agents exploited a flaw in a public control panel to run malicious commands

Data theft remains unclear. Deere saw no sign of sensitive data use; SharkNinja contained the threat, and Cummins is investigating a vendor site.

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Anthropic

Anthropic Founders Commit 80% of Their Equity to Donations

Anthropic is committing company shares to public good through a latest fund that could grow as the company’s valuation rises. The plan builds on existing commitments from its founders and employees.

Details:

• The fund will receive 5% of Anthropic’s shares, subject to stockholder approval. Its board may add another 2% for every 50% increase in company value above a baseline

• Co-founders pledged to donate 80% of their equity holdings. Anthropic also matches employee equity donations, with about half of its employees participating in this

• Combined, these commitments dedicate roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares to public good. The fund may support nonprofits, but cannot use its shares for lobbying or political giving

Anthropic has pledged $200 million to address AI’s labor impacts. More details on the fund’s governance and valuation milestones are expected in the coming months.

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AI Tutorial

How to Build a Chrome Extension From Scratch With Claude Code

From productivity tools to custom browser utilities, Chrome extensions can turn simple ideas into useful tools. Claude Code makes the process easier by generating the code and helping you build and refine the extension from your terminal.

1. Start Claude Code

   Install Claude Code, create a folder for the project, open it in your terminal, and run claude.

   • Create a folder called focus-mode

   • Open that folder in your terminal

   • Run claude

2. Describe Extension

   Tell Claude Code what you want to build. Ask for a Manifest V3 extension that uses activeTab and scripting to modify the current webpage when its toolbar icon is clicked.

   Use this prompt:

   “Build a self-contained Chrome extension called Focus Mode using Manifest V3, a service worker, activeTab, and scripting. Clicking its toolbar icon should simplify the current webpage for reading by improving text readability, limiting content width, and hiding distractions. No backend or external libraries.”

3. Review Generated Files

   Let Claude create the extension files, then ask it to check the project before you load it.

   • Make sure manifest.json is in the project’s root folder

   • Ask Claude to check the manifest, permissions, and JavaScript for errors

4. Load It Into Chrome

   Open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, tap Load unpacked, and select the folder Claude created.

   Pin the extension from Chrome’s Extensions menu for easier testing.

5. Test Focus Mode

   Open a webpage and tap the extension icon to apply the cleaner reading layout. Press again to turn it off. Test multiple sites, as layouts vary. Restricted and browser-internal pages may not work.

6. Debug With Claude

   If the extension fails, open chrome://extensions and check its error details. Copy the error into Claude Code and ask it to diagnose and fix the problem.

   Use this prompt:

   “Find the cause of this Chrome extension error, fix the relevant files, and check for any related issues: [paste error]”

   After changing the manifest or service worker, reload the extension from the Extensions page before testing again.

Top AI & Tech News

• Meta’s Muse AI agent exposed a user’s home address to a stranger and automatically messaged the buyer when they arrived

• Amazon launched TorchNeuron, an open-source tool that lets developers run existing PyTorch code on its Trainium chips with minimal changes, challenging Nvidia’s AI chip dominance

• MiniMax claims its upgraded M3.1 Flash model nearly triples inference speed while cutting costs by 70%, with improvements in coding, cybersecurity, and AI agent tasks

• Siemens plans to use AI to increase factory automation from 30–40% to 70–80%, working with Nvidia on AI manufacturing and investing €500 million

AI Art Spotlight

Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:

[BRAND]. A high fashion campaign poster. A model with a strong expressive face as the centerpiece, wearing a signature outfit in the brand's exact official color palette. Dramatic surreal atmospheric background. Layered collage of torn-edge material swatches surrounding the model. Brand's iconic symbol woven into the scene. Logo overlaid in the center in clean serif font. Macro detail on fabric texture and stitching. Cinematic lighting, rich contrast, 8K

Model: ChatGPT Images 2.5 / Nano Banana 2.1

Prompt of the Day

Create Professional Motion Graphics With This Opus 5.5 Prompt

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