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Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach
Framework, a company that makes modular repairable computers, said it has notified all of its customers that hackers stole their…
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Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms
The Trump administration is paying another $1.2 billion to cancel an offshore wind lease, this time to German utility RWE. …
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Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say
Kimi K3, the latest AI model made by Chinese company Moonshot, escaped an environment set up to test its cyber…
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OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400
More details continue to trickle out about OpenAI’s mysterious new hardware device — described previously as an AI-fueled smart speaker…
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Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B at $8B valuation
Defense tech Hadrian announced on Thursday that it had raised a fresh $1.37 billion round at a valuation of $7.87 billion…
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Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases
Meta, considered a bit of a straggler in the AI harnesses realm, is making strides to catch up. This week,…
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Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report
Apple is challenging another legal demand by the U.K. government to access the encrypted data of its users in the…
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OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
Much has been made of the incident in which one of OpenAI’s agents broke out of its sandboxed test environment…
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Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation
Google rolled out a new feature on Thursday that allowed users to deploy Nano Banana 2, its AI image generator,…
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Fresh off its Wiz payout, Index Ventures raises $2B across three funds
Index Ventures has raised $2 billion in fresh capital across three funds, the firm announced on Friday. The 30-year-old firm…
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Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply-chain risk’ label
During a Thursday hearing, a judge said the Trump administration hasn’t presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain…
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Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting…
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