EVA Tech BriefIT/DevOps

2026-05-21 - 7:30 PM PKT

Frontier LLMs

Anthropic Expects First Profitable Quarter, Revenue Doubling to $10.9B

Anthropic told investors it will deliver its first operating profit in Q2, with revenue more than doubling to around $10.9 billion. The company also signed a massive $45B deal with SpaceX for computing resources to support Claude, paying $1.25B/month through May 2029.

OpenAI Preparing IPO, Altman Offers Tokens-for-Equity to Every YC Startup

OpenAI is reportedly preparing to file for an IPO, with a listing possible soon. Meanwhile, Sam Altman offered to invest in every single startup in the current Y Combinator batch - trading API tokens for equity.

GPUs and Silicon

Nvidia Posts Record $81.6B Quarter With 85% Growth, Eyes $200B AI CPU Market

Nvidia reported record quarterly revenue of $81.6 billion with 85% year-over-year growth. CEO Jensen Huang identified a 'brand new' $200 billion market: CPUs designed specifically for AI agents. The company also revealed $43 billion in startup holdings.

Cloud and Infra

Google Cloud Suspends Railway's Account Without Warning, Sparks Outrage

GCP suspended Railway's account without warning, causing a major outage for the popular deployment platform. The incident triggered 115+ points on Hacker News questioning why Google doesn't provide public statements for high-profile account suspensions.

Pakistan Tech

NCERT Issues Critical Advisory: WinRAR Vulnerability Targeting Pakistan

Pakistan's National Cyber Emergency Response Team issued a critical cybersecurity advisory about a high-severity WinRAR path traversal vulnerability actively being exploited to breach computers across Pakistan.

GAC Aion & Hyptec Electric Vehicles Officially Launched in Pakistan

Lucky Motor Corporation launched GAC's electric vehicle lineup in Pakistan, introducing multiple EV models from the Aion and Hyptec brands.

Security

GitHub Internal Repos Breached Via Poisoned VS Code Extension

GitHub confirmed a security incident after an employee installed a compromised Nx Console VS Code extension. The supply chain attack led to exfiltration of approximately 3,800 internal repositories. GitHub says the breach was contained to internal repos only.

Critical Drupal RCE Flaw (CVE-2026-9082) and SonicWall VPN MFA Bypass

Drupal released patches for a 'highly critical' RCE vulnerability in its database abstraction API (CVSS 6.5). Separately, threat actors are brute-forcing SonicWall Gen6 SSL-VPN credentials and bypassing MFA to deploy ransomware tools.

Dev Tools

xAI Buying $2.8B in Gas Turbines for Data Centers Despite Active Lawsuits

Elon Musk's xAI will spend $2.8 billion on natural gas turbines over three years for its data centers, revealed in SpaceX's IPO filing. This comes while xAI faces active lawsuits over its existing data center generator operations.