Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
There’s a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.
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Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China
Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.
How to Use Ideogram 4.0: 12 Steps, $0.03 an Image [2026]
Ideogram AI shipped its first open-weight flagship model, Ideogram 4.0, on June 3, 2026, and the release changed the calculus for anyone building with an ideogram ai image generator. Instead of locking the best version behind a closed API, Ideogram published a 9.3-billion-parameter diffusion transformer under an Apache 2.0 license, alongside a hosted API that…
Microsoft Edge update adds Apple sign-in and scam protection, but officially ends Edge Drop and real-time video translation
Microsoft Edge’s latest update introduces Apple account sign-ins, automatic scam notification blocking, and new Copilot admin controls. It also officially retires Edge Drop and real-time video translation.
The three layers of agentic AI security: A defense-in-depth architecture for autonomous agents
Presented by Nutanix Autonomous systems that can reason, make their own decisions, and execute actions across an environment introduce a category of risk that application-level controls were never built to contain. Treating that risk as a single problem produces incomplete architectures, says Oscar Wahlberg, senior director of product management at Nutanix."The guardrails to catch a…
How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems
Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in the Swedish tech ecosystem.
Save hundreds on a TCL mini-LED TV with quantum dots and high refresh rate
Amazon and Best Buy have the TCL QM7L mini-LED TV on sale for as low as $797.99 for the 55-inch model, a $200 discount from the usual price. We spotted scaling discounts on larger sizes as well, although Amazon already listed low stock on the 65-inch version. While OLED televisions are great for deep black…
Mice, a Caved-In Ceiling, and Cloudy Water: The GSA’s New Office Is Falling Apart
“Do we need to look at the ceiling before going to the bathroom? Can we actually trust the water is safe to drink?” asks one GSA worker.
Germany’s President Warns on Extremist Games, 350K [2026]
Germany’s head of state used the opening of the world’s biggest games trade show to deliver a message the industry didn’t fully expect: praise wrapped around a warning. Speaking at the gamescom congress in Cologne on August 27, 2026, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told an audience of developers, publishers and trade visitors that video games are…
The Offbeat Market Everyone Is Betting On: ‘Steam Frame Under $750?’
The offbeat market everyone is betting on: ‘Steam Frame under $750?’ A small Manifold market asking whether Valve’s next virtual reality headset will launch below $750 has drawn some of the platform’s heaviest 24-hour trading, even as the crowd prices the answer at just 1% implied probability of YES as of August 28, 2026. The…