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More than 100 technology, cybersecurity and financial companies warned this week that AI-enabled cyberattacks could turn far more widespread as increasingly capable models make sophisticated hacking cheaper and faster to run, according to The420.in. The warning lands as Israel, a country that treats its banks, hospitals, telecom networks, electricity grid and water supply as inseparable…
An autonomous AI agent swarm broke into 21 Taiwanese government systems, cracked 85 user accounts and pulled 2,500 personnel records over four days in July 2026, without a human operator directing the attack step by step. Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs confirmed the intrusion on August 13, 2026, and researchers at the Israeli AI security…
Venture investors spent the past 12 hours buying control points rather than another layer of generic AI applications. The largest deal in this edition, Tripo AI’s roughly RMB 3 billion financing, targets 3D-native foundation models and the compute and data stack […] The post Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 1, 2026: Andreessen Horowitz; General…
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used…
After long delays, JLR’s biggest gamble with its Range Rover brand is here with huge performance, range, and off-road EV skills. It’s mighty pricey, but the US gets a cheaper model.
Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing…
Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood’s biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also…
JioHotstar will only have entertainment content when it launches in the UK, Canada, and Singapore.
More than 200 companies have now signed to an August 27 letter about improving cyber defenses in the age of AI. Buried in it are three metrics every one of them endorse under its own logo: coverage, containment speed, and whether fixes work. The post The Collective Cyber Defense letter wrote your next vendor questionnaire…
The Federal Ballot Mail Portal is described by a federal official as one of several IT systems that will be used to potentially deny thousands of mail-in ballots or more to states. The post Whistleblower says USPS deploying new, ‘untested’ IT systems governing mail-in ballots appeared first on CyberScoop.
