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A cybersecurity disclosure published this week has put a hard number on something the industry has warned about for years: AI agents can now run an entire hacking operation, start to finish, for about the price of a fast-food meal. Gambit Security said on September 22 that a Chinese-speaking, financially motivated operator used three open-source…
The auto repair business was historically paper-based. Work orders were written on clipboards, parts were ordered by phone, and customers received an email notification when someone remembered to call to let them know their car was ready. It’s been an eye-opening 10 years. For background, see our recent coverage. Today, a growing share of the…
Running Windows inside a virtual machine used to mean giving up your GPU’s real performance. Not anymore. GPU passthrough, built on IOMMU and VFIO, hands a physical graphics card directly to a guest VM so it renders games, CUDA workloads, or CAD software at close to bare-metal speed. This tutorial walks through the full 2026…
Three separate corners of the AI trade converged into a single trading story on September 24 and 25, 2026. Meta’s Muse AI agent kept pulling chip stocks higher, Akamai disclosed an $11.6 billion, seven-year compute commitment from Anthropic, and Oracle sent a force-majeure notice tied to its Project Jupiter data center campus in New Mexico.…
Four major AI labs shipped new flagship models inside the same three-week window this September: OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 (and the access-restricted Claude Mythos 5.1), Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, and DeepSeek’s open-weight V4.1 Flash. That pace is exactly why a growing number of engineering teams stopped hardcoding a single provider into their…
Blackstone Real Estate has closed on a 134,200-square-foot research building at 350 Cobalt Way in Sunnyvale, California, paying $95 million for a property leased entirely to Nvidia through August 2036, according to The Business Journals. County records reviewed by The Registry put the actual transfer price at $99.6 million, a gap that reporters attribute to…
Venture capital today is clustering around companies that control a hard bottleneck rather than simply adding another application layer. The largest checks in the latest 12-hour window went to an enterprise-security browser, a brain-computer interface company, an alternative pharmacy-benefits platform, […] The post Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 24, 2026: ARK Invest, Evolution…
Oracle sent a force majeure notice to the developer, has removed one key development partner and faced local resistance in Project Jupiter.
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