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Security firm Gambit recovered the attacker's staging server, reconstructing a campaign that used Hermes, Strix, and Cairn — none built as malware — to compromise a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline, and dozens more, for under $18,000 total.
The Standards Authority for Frontier AI, modeled after FINRA, would run third-party safety testing and incident reporting for frontier models — filling a gap after the companies' public-private regulatory push stalled.
A new Selling Partner plugin lets Amazon sellers manage inventory, pricing, and listings directly through Claude or Amazon's own Quick assistant, with persistent memory and always-on automation added to Seller Assistant.
A six-year inquiry into Web & App Activity, Location History, and Location Accuracy found Google failed to meet GDPR's lawfulness, transparency, and accountability standards — the fourth-largest DPC fine to date.
The Chinese AI startup's annualized revenue doubled in a few months despite a steep price hike, as it prepares a second funding round at a $75 billion valuation and a Shanghai Stock Exchange listing.
A new framework covering Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE commits Microsoft to cloud and AI infrastructure through 2030, plus $400 million for subsea and terrestrial connectivity.
The Portuguese-British company behind AI surveillance drones used in Ukraine closes a $580M Series D led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford — one of Europe's largest defense-tech raises ever.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei stood before the UN Security Council to argue that AI, if left unchecked, could threaten humanity — and called for binding international standards.
CLOSEDQUORUM is the first documented Windows implant to hand tactical command-and-control decisions to a panel of commercial AI models — DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and Gemini — instead of a human operator.
At Connect 2026, Meta unveiled camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses starting at $349, a 100-gram VR headset with a 5K micro-OLED display, and Muse Charm, a keychain-sized AI assistant with its own 5G connection.
Ten years after development began, SpaceX assembled the full Starship-Super Heavy stack at Starbase this week, with an FAA-cleared launch window opening as soon as September 28 for Flight 14.
A federal court let Microsoft seize 50 websites and disable 150+ domains behind EvilTokens, a subscription phishing service that used AI to compromise more than 12,000 inboxes across 10,000 organizations.