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The Blind Spots of Agentic Pentesting and How to Close Them (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago

AI infrastructure startup Modal raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $1.2B, and passes $1B ARR (www.axios.com)
13 days ago Startup AI

Sources: the EU is negotiating with China to lift sanctions on an unnamed Chinese company in exchange for China lifting sanctions on a German ASML supplier (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago China Germany

Berkshire Hathaway invests an additional $330M in Bending Spoons, taking its stake to 4%, after investing $600M during Bending Spoons' July IPO; BSP jumps 40%+ (www.ft.com)
13 days ago IPO Berkshire

Jensen Huang announces $2B in new European Nvidia investments, including in French startups Doctolib and Genesis AI, adding to $8B invested over the past year (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago France Europe Startup AI Nvidia

Booking Holdings launches Vayo, a travel startup that uses AI agents to track booking confirmations, price drops, and more, with a planned $100M investment (www.geekwire.com)
13 days ago Startup AI

Google plans to acquire power from AEP's Cheyenne Fuel Cell under a 20-year deal; AEP will invest ~$4B in the Wyoming fuel cell project using Bloom's tech (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago Google

Memo: Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or ~1,000 jobs globally across product, tech, legal, and HR, its biggest layoffs since 2022, amid slowing growth (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago Netflix Layoffs

Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro review: gorgeous screen, Android apps, and nice design and build quality, but Amazon's bloatware is pervasive and Alexa+ is subpar (www.theverge.com)
13 days ago Android Amazon

GlobalFoundries plans to build two “essential chip” plants in Malta, New York, backed by up to $21B from Japan; the US will take a 4% stake in GlobalFoundries (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Japan New York Malta

Harmonic Security, which uses small language models to inspect employee interactions with AI tools, raised a $50M Series B, taking its total funding to $76M (siliconangle.com)
13 days ago AI

US law enforcement and intel agency docs: since 2021, the FBI, DHS, and NYPD have viewed AI as both a facilitator of violent extremism and a target for attacks (www.theguardian.com)
13 days ago Intel AI FBI

The EU Commission's AI Office launches formal AI Act probes into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI agent hacks; experts say the AI Act includes an R&D exemption (www.euronews.com)
13 days ago AI

Bengaluru-based Scimplify, which uses AI agents and 500+ partner manufacturing facilities to accelerate chemical production, raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago AI Manufacturing

Microsoft: Recent Windows updates may trigger Remote Desktop failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago Microsoft

Get a lifetime of Headway summaries for just $50 for one more day (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago

Hirudo Android malware replaces banking apps to evade security checks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago Android

Anthropic Reinvents Source Control As Claude Floods the World With Code (developers.slashdot.org)
13 days ago

Analysis: AI safety groups and individual donors have spent $48M in the midterm election cycle across bipartisan races to back candidates favoring AI regulation (www.axios.com)
13 days ago AI

Inside the making of Rockstar's GTA VI, which analysts expect to sell 40M copies and make $3B+ in revenue in its first four months; Rockstar now has 4,711 staff (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago

Ukraine's drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Yandex's web crawlers, not Russian political bot operations, as Zelenskyy celebrated “less division” (www.theverge.com)
13 days ago Russia Drone Ukraine

China's industrial dominance is driven by competitive local governments that act like venture capital firms, making it a continent-sized Silicon Valley (worksinprogress.co)
13 days ago China

CoreWeave says it is targeting insurers' “unlimited” capital, as the AI cloud provider seeks cheaper ways to fund the tens of billions it is spending on chips (www.ft.com)
13 days ago AI

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI security and agentic safety research (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago AI Nvidia

Ukraine says SpaceX has restricted Starlink by cutting military-grade service at speeds exceeding 100mph, disrupting drone missions, and it received no warning (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago Drone Ukraine SpaceX

Google DeepMind and Google Cloud plan to provide up to 200 European scientific researchers with access to their frontier AI models and $3M in compute credits (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago Europe Google AI

Skydance's Discovery+ Prices Increase By Up to 20% (news.slashdot.org)
13 days ago

Ukraine's drone attacks severely damaged three of Yandex's six data centers, disrupting Russia's tech ecosystem, centered on one vast, state-aligned company (www.ft.com)
13 days ago Russia Drone Ukraine

A look at a coordinated theft of ~$100M in crypto using hardware backdoors planted in Ledger wallets sold by Malaysia-based authorized reseller CryptoBilis (www.zetter-zeroday.com)
13 days ago Malaysia

ASML says it cannot fully meet AI-driven demand for its chipmaking tools in 2027 and 2028, and is seeing “strong interest” in orders for 2029 and 2030 (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago AI

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