Hackers Get Paid

Summary

Instructure cut a deal with ShinyHunters to return stolen Canvas data, without disclosing the terms. eBay rejected GameStop's $56B bid as "neither credible nor attractive." OpenAI launches Daybreak for cybersecurity, Amazon employees game AI usage targets, and Mira Murati's first model drops. Instructure reaches a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas…

Key takeaways

• Instructure quietly paid off Shiny Hunters hackers to recover data from 275M+ Canvas users, highlighting the growing enterprise risk of ransomware negotiations in EdTech.
• Amazon's internal AI token-use leaderboards are driving 'token maxing' behavior among developers—a cautionary tale about how productivity metrics can create perverse incentives in AI adoption.
• Thinking Machines Lab (Mira Murati) released its first model using 200ms 'time-aligned micro-turns' to natively handle real-time multimodal interaction, claiming it outperforms GPT Real-Time 2 and Gemini Live.

Why this matters

As enterprises race to mandate AI adoption and negotiate with threat actors, the gap between AI deployment metrics and genuine business value is widening—creating compliance, security, and ROI risks that B2B leaders must address with governance frameworks rather than usage targets.

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Show notes

Instructure cut a deal with ShinyHunters to return stolen Canvas data, without disclosing the terms. eBay rejected GameStop's $56B bid as "neither credible nor attractive." OpenAI launches Daybreak for cybersecurity, Amazon employees game AI usage targets, and Mira Murati's first model drops. Instructure reaches a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas edtech platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without saying what it gave in return (NYT) eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover of

Themes

• openai