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CrowdStrike to shell out nearly $500M for 2 AI security startups as the market for securing agents takes off

CrowdStrike said it will buy Fiddler AI, which makes AI agent observability software, and Dreadnode, which helps companies automate AI security testing.

7 minutes ago - 17:56

Netflix will show you themed recommendations through a new ‘AI Discover’ tab

Netflix's TV app is getting a new "AI Discover" tab where the company will show experimental, AI-powered features to help you find new shows and movies to watch. The first of these experiments surfaces content based around themes, like "Something Light," "Family Movie Night," or "Quick Watches." When you pick a theme, Netflix will show […]

36 minutes ago - 17:28

AI isn't on the ballot, but it's still being tested

Americans are casting their votes in an election that could reshape Washington's power structure. The results could serve as a litmus test for AI.

45 minutes ago - 17:19

Google says students in schools that ban AI won't have access to Search

This is another example of how closely Google Search is tied to the company's AI products.

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53 minutes ago - 17:10

Anthropic is still grappling with the economics of compute

At a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.

57 minutes ago - 17:07

Binance Reveals How Fake Job Interviews and AI Tool Abuse Led to $6.43 Billion Theft

Binance on Tuesday said the record-setting theft of $6.43 billion in assets from the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange was the culmination of a "sophisticated, multi-stage campaign" that involved the use of a tampered Homebrew installation and recruitment-themed social engineering attack targeting two of its engineers. "It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,"

1 hour ago - 16:55

AI Is Changing How Semiconductor Fabs Work — and Engineers Are Moving Faster Because of It

Demand for advanced chips is rising. The processes to build them are getting more complex. And the margin for error is shrinking. For engineers, understanding how a process change will behave, how a material will interact with a new step, how a defect maps back to a root cause are critical, challenging steps in semiconductor […]

2 hours ago - 16:00

Google Warns LLMjacking Attacks Are Costing Some Enterprises Up to $1 Million in Cloud Charges

Google on Monday warned that threat actors are hijacking enterprise access to Large Language Models (LLMs) to fraudulently leverage expensive computing resources and AI services. The tactic is called LLMjacking, a form of resource hijacking adapted for the LLM era, where an attacker obtains an API key through phishing, source code leaks, misconfigured environments, or exposed client-side code

2 hours ago - 15:41

Apple restricts dating apps and AI companions to users 18 and up

Apple's new App Store rules will require 18+ ratings for dating apps and AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.

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2 hours ago - 15:38

Apple is all in on AI — its own and everyone else’s

Apple's latest earnings show how it's continuing to capitalize on the AI boom without busting its budget on the infrastructure spending consuming its competitors. Overall, Apple posted its best-ever fiscal year for revenue and earnings per share. iPhone and Mac sales continued to grow strongly in the fourth quarter. iPhone revenue rose 17.5% from a […]

2 hours ago - 15:27

OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers ‘compute campuses’

People hate data centers. They're loud, resource-hungry eyesores that are so profoundly unpopular they have managed to achieve the near-impossible in today's polarized political landscape: genuine bipartisan opposition. But what about "compute campuses"? Those sound lovely, right? OpenAI seems to be gambling that a quiet rebrand could be all it takes to defuse the growing […]

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3 hours ago - 15:00

Here's Why You Shouldn't Use AI to Vote

From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.

3 hours ago - 14:45

Elon Musk, angry voters, and the AI backlash: What's at stake in the 2026 midterms

From inflation and AI backlash to Elon Musk's record spending on Republicans, here's what's at stake in the 2026 midterm elections.

7 hours ago - 11:01

‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers

Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.

7 hours ago - 11:00

Wharton economist says his views on AI have 'radically shifted'

Wharton Associate Professor of Finance Sylvain Catherine says AI tools can boost the economy, but the AI race risks a "wild level of uncertainty."

7 hours ago - 10:51

Wall Street braces as voters head to high-stakes polls

Vote will set the trajectory for everything from AI to public spending

7 hours ago - 10:27

A new way of measuring AI models suggests China's threat to OpenAI and Anthropic may have been overblown

Chinese AI models fell behind US rivals after Artificial Analysis revamped its tests, raising questions about open-weight AI's performance.

8 hours ago - 10:00

Apple's latest watchOS 27 beta enables Siri Recap and Live Rewind audio features

First revealed at the company's event in September, Apple's AI-powered Apple Watch features are finally landing in beta.

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8 hours ago - 09:21

Yvonne Bajela is bringing $17M in fresh capital to Europe’s startup scene

Evertrue Capital announces $17M debut fund to back early stage AI and fintech.

10 hours ago - 08:01

Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AI

Discover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.

10 hours ago - 08:00

Cities Worldwide Build and Scale AI Services With NVIDIA Physical and Agentic AI

Cities generate enormous amounts of data from cameras, sensors and operational systems, but turning it into useful action — for planning, maintenance and public services — remains a challenge. Physical and agentic AI offer new ways to close that gap, from digital twins for infrastructure planning to vision and service agents, while keeping local governments […]

11 hours ago - 07:00

Taiwan’s AI stock boom is making early-stage startups a harder sell

Taiwan's AI stock boom could be making it harder for young startups to win their first funding checks.

13 hours ago - 05:01

The AI problem we feared is not the AI problem we got

Lay-offs are low by historical standards but young people may still need help finding a foothold in the labour market

13 hours ago - 05:00

Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses

Google's Dreambeans, its latest AI experiment, now supports 13 Indian languages.

14 hours ago - 03:30

Apple may try to increase revenue by doing…something with third-party AI apps

Apple hinted at ways that it could spur revenue through third-party "opportunities" during its Monday night earnings call.

16 hours ago - 01:49

Ukraine’s new pocket-sized gadget turns Russian drones’ cameras against them

A Kyiv startup’s pocket-sized, 10-ounce receiver lets Ukrainian troops watch the video feeds of Russian drones, though Russian moves toward digital video and AI-guided drones that emit no signals could make the victory short-lived.

16 hours ago - 01:12

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens

Y Combinator Garry Tan has, in the past, jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter Isaacson’s podcast, The Builders, set to publish on Tuesday, Tan put a price tag on his passion.

17 hours ago - 24:35

Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts

The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.

18 hours ago - 23:13

Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI

RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.

19 hours ago - 22:14

Claude's new AI report card tool gives companies a closer look at costs — and flags 'inefficiencies'

The "smart reports" tool for Claude Enterprise users is designed to analyze a sample of a team's transcripts and group work into categories.

20 hours ago - 21:15

Best Dyson Vacuum Deals (2026): Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai, Dyson V16 Piston Animal

Black Friday is still weeks away, but you don’t have to wait for a good sale on Dyson vacuums.

21 hours ago - 21:00

Anthropic's colossal pay packages cost the company more than $100,000 a month per employee

Anthropic's expenses on personnel topped $322,000 per worker last quarter, an amendment to its S-1 filing shows. The company's IPO is expected soon.

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22 hours ago - 20:00

New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.

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22 hours ago - 19:19

Why some websites are blocking AI agents from accessing the web

AI agents can be a great tool to help make purchases for you online - but it can become a frustrating problem if the website you're using blocks their access.

23 hours ago - 19:00

Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones

Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to recreate existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware. Retro gaming is currently being overrun with AI-made decompilations, recompilations, and ports, but while Anthropic will still let people use Claude Code to make games, it doesn't want people to […]

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23 hours ago - 18:56

John Deere built an AI assistant to stop farmers from drowning in decades of field data

John Deere's JD AI assistant, unveiled at the Farm Progress Show, helps farmers analyze data swiftly, enhancing decision-making.

23 hours ago - 18:30

Claude’s new rules against game cloning won’t stop the AI copying boom

The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.

23 hours ago - 18:05

OpenAI pitches data center power plants as a way to protect nearby areas

In an announcement on Monday, OpenAI says it will pilot its "Grid Protectors Program" at an upcoming data center in Effingham County, Georgia, where the company promises to free up to 1,000 megawatts of power during extreme weather or emergencies, enough to power air conditioners in around 700,000 homes. The announcement comes as opposition to […]

yesterday, 18:01

Preparing our next security sprint to harden OpenAI

OpenAI is preparing its next internal security sprint with Cathedral Systems to test and strengthen its defenses using AI.

yesterday, 18:00

Rewarding defenders with bigger bug bounties

OpenAI is raising Security Bug Bounty rewards and introducing report quality, loyalty, and priority campaign bonuses for independent security researchers.

yesterday, 18:00

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