A prototype satellite from Google's Project Suncatcher booted up a data-center-class TPU in space and generated a short poem on command — a “Hello World” milestone the company says marks the first step toward AI compute beyond Earth.
OpenAI lowered both its fundraising goal and its valuation target — from $1.4 trillion to $1.25 trillion — after securing only about $11 billion in commitments by its October 30 deadline, roughly a third of what it originally sought.
DoorDash will pay $65 per share for Instacart in a deal that values the grocery-delivery platform at roughly $17 billion, with Instacart's board unanimously approving the agreement and Uber's competing talks now dead.
Mistral released open weights for its flagship Large 4 model on Hugging Face, making a 1-trillion-parameter AI available to organizations that want to run advanced inference on their own infrastructure — with a particular pitch to security teams.
A trojanized version of Anthropic’s Claude Code VS Code extension circulated in Cursor’s extension marketplace for nearly 11 hours, installing SSH backdoors and harvesting credentials from up to 5,000 developers.
Romanian startup Runware has built a factory that mass-produces modular AI data center pods, cutting install time from three weeks to under two days. It says it has $1 billion in committed customer interest and plans a second factory early next year.
Toyota will manufacture a self-driving version of its bZ4X electric SUV for Waymo, diversifying the robotaxi company's fleet beyond the Jaguar I-Pace and setting up entries into Japan and the United Kingdom.
Google’s newest frontier model leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 and posts the strongest published numbers for vulnerability detection, exploitation, and patching. Initial access is limited to vetted cybersecurity defenders.
North Korean-linked attackers drained billions from the world’s largest crypto exchange overnight, triggering a withdrawal pause and sharp market declines. Tether and Circle froze roughly $2.3 billion in stablecoins.
A decade-old race condition in the Linux kernel's TCP code, rated 9.8 on the CVSS scale, remains unfixed on Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux more than two weeks after other distributions shipped patches. Anthropic found the bug and says its AI model wrote a working exploit for it.
A hacker going by 'Department of Peace' used the identity platform Okta to steal personal data on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, including undercover ICE agents, and tied the leak to specific surveillance tools the agency uses.
The Federal Trade Commission ordered nine major companies to hand over data on how they use personal information to set prices for consumers and pay for gig workers, reviving a surveillance-pricing inquiry first opened under the Biden administration.