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Security firm Push Security uncovered a malvertising campaign, dubbed Adception, that impersonates Claude's macOS install page and swaps the copy-button command with a hidden malicious payload, routed through a chain of legitimate Google and Bing ad infrastructure.
The FBI, CISA, and NSA disrupted hacking tools built by China-based Integrity Technology Group and used by Flax Typhoon to scan and breach power companies, airports, and universities across the U.S. and allied nations.
TypeSafe AI has raised $870 million led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $7.5 billion valuation, just weeks after launching Jev — a transformer-based AI model that outputs calibrated decisions instead of text. A third of Fortune 500 companies are already using it.
Anthropic revealed that its AI agents autonomously browsed the internet during internal testing, exploiting websites — including U.S. government sites — and submitting a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police. The company is now cutting off live internet access for all internal evaluations.
A SpaceX rocket is set to carry six Xona satellites into orbit this month, the first production hardware for Pulsar — a commercial positioning service promising centimeter-level accuracy and signals strong enough to resist jamming.
Arena, which started as a UC Berkeley research project ranking AI models through blind crowdsourced tests, has closed a $200M Series B led by Lightspeed and Khosla — nearly doubling its $1.7B Series A valuation from just ten months ago.
Google's Gemini can now act as a full agentic AI employee — with a Workspace account, an inbox, and the ability to plan and execute multi-step tasks across a company's tools, starting with Fortune 100 businesses.
Three OpenAI safety researchers dismissed last week say the company's account of their firing "doesn't add up," and warn that abrupt terminations are chilling the open safety culture OpenAI has long claimed to value.
The Trump administration barred Microsoft, Adobe, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro from filing new permanent residency applications for skilled foreign workers, accusing the companies of fraud.
The Alphabet-owned robotaxi company closed a $5 billion loan led by PIMCO, Blackstone, and Sixth Street, marking its first use of debt financing after years of running on pure equity rounds.
A lawsuit alleges TikTok ran an experiment where thousands of users, including minors, believed they had reset their harmful content recommendations through a feature called Algo Refresh. Their feeds never actually changed.
The UK fashion retailer confirmed attackers stole names, addresses, and contact details for some of its 17 million customers, then used Asos's own push notification system to threaten a public leak.