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AI
Five technology giants commit more than $3T to future spending
Capital
Baseten raises $2 billion as Tenstorrent secures $1.5 billion Series E
Security
Linux flaw enables remote root exploit on servers using Multipath TCP
Products
Salesforce's Rune acquisition agreement reportedly worth $375 million
Security
AT&T agrees to $177 million fund for two data breach settlements
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Security
Android exploit release exposes unpatched phones to text-triggered crashes
Security
Tradier notifies customers of data exposure at brokerage software vendor
AI
GARDEN preprint demonstrates reusable AI-designed rewards for cooperating agents
Infrastructure
Intel redirects planned PC chip capacity toward Xeon production
Products
Binance seeks licensed return to Malaysia through regulatory talks
Robotics
Neura opens Munich facility to train up to 100 humanoid robots
Science
Security benchmark finds combined static and AI reviews catch 101 of 108 flaws
Infrastructure
Judge rejects xAI bid to dismiss turbine pollution lawsuit
AI
Anthropic adopts shared crawler opt-out as Microsoft plans separate AI controls
Infrastructure
Firezone releases Rust WireGuard library supporting parallel encryption
AI
Memdoor reports 49 successful coding runs in small multi-agent test
Products
Five tech giants cut buybacks 83% as capital spending exceeds operating cash flow
Products
ICE and Trade.xyz plan US perpetual futures market
Products
S&P lowers Meta's credit outlook to negative over AI spending
Products
Renesas reports ¥435,917m quarterly revenue as margin guidance softens
Robotics
Meta reportedly builds humanoid prototype with Fourier
Security
DOJ charges five in alleged AI-assisted student aid fraud
Science
Bacterial fuel cell achieves 8.3-fold power-density gain over flat design
Products
Reddit plans login requirements to restrict scraping and personalize access
AI
Darkbloom warns Mac compute operators of falling inference revenue
Infrastructure
Jepsen finds 96 issues across tested ParticleDB versions
AI
Developers report Claude refusals on game development and reverse engineering
Security
Volta malware adds AI analysis to profile victims and prioritize targets
AI
Exin founder reports AI-controlled brain injection in a live mouse
Science
P2P preprint reports survey-response reconstruction at approximately $0.8 per survey
Science
WorldFlow preprint reports lower errors in predicting 3D motion
AI
GAAC preprint reports lossless cache compression and higher inference throughput
AI
Preprint finds hiding system labels improves AI judges of entity matches
AI
AgentNorm preprint reports better vehicle perception when collaborators' cameras degrade
AI
AgenticDS preprint reports better training-data search and downstream accuracy
AI
KARMA preprint reports advertising-agent gains without model retraining
Science
Preprint reports up to 32% decode energy savings from GPU clock control
AI
Rubricon preprint reports gains from automatically generated scoring criteria
Science
Preprint finds longer agent tasks can reverse smaller models' energy advantage
Science
Value Probes preprint reports roughly 50% higher peak AI audit scores
AI
Preprint finds agent improvement tests can strip away redundant safeguards
Science
Quantum drug-design preprint reports comparable performance with 110 generator parameters
AI
SCOPE preprint reports higher agent success with fewer training interactions
Science
ForeCritic preprint reports 4.4-7.5 times shorter ML agent task times
Products
Apple Maps obscures imagery of selected US space and military facilities
Infrastructure
Nvidia in talks to guarantee Nscale debt for West Virginia AI campus
AI
Prospero offers coding agents desktop control and remote execution
AI
SAP and Databricks plan additional AI and data tools for SAP customers
Products
Intel shares fall around 28% after weaker fourth-quarter outlook
AI
Blackstone reportedly lowers expected Anthropic credit rating to speculative grade
Security
Applebee's fixes app credential flaw that exposed customer data
Infrastructure
AI infrastructure spending pushes three technology giants into negative cash flow
Policy
VPN developers report renewed removals from Apple's Russian App Store
AI
Google plans changing ads during AI Mode sessions and international expansion
Capital
Crosby bids for Weil Gotshal's brand and internal data
Products
Spotify adds 6 million subscribers as marketing and compute spending rises
AI
Tests find chatbots citing error-prone voter information site
Security
ChatGPT share-link flaw could run attacker code in logged-in sessions
Infrastructure
CoreWeave, Nebius and Nscale reportedly lose effective bond market access
Policy
Google in talks on data security for Golden Dome software
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