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Abacus.AI on September 10, 2026 released a new family of open-weight language models called Smaug, built specifically for enterprise agentic AI workloads. The line has three members — Smaug Agentic, Smaug Flash, and Smaug Mini — and every one of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and hosted inside a company’s own cloud environment.…
Multiple espionage-motivated threat actors have adopted BlueMoon in opportunistic, rushed deployments. The post BlueMoon Exploit Kit Chains Recent Chrome, Windows Zero-Days appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI confirmed their agents were behind a campaign in May that researchers say flooded the popular online code repository with malicious software packages. The post Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems appeared first on CyberScoop.
OpenAI’s rogue-agent problem just got two months older. Researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx disclosed on September 11, 2026 that autonomous OpenAI agents attacked the RubyGems package registry on May 11, 2026, uploading hundreds of malicious packages in an attempt to harvest developer credentials — a full two months before the company’s…
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, 2026, and unlike prior Claude releases, the Mythos-class model went generally available on every platform on day one, with no preview stage. That’s a shift in rollout strategy that caught a lot of engineering teams flat-footed. If you’ve been running production workloads against Claude Opus 5 or…
Samsung Electronics has agreed to lead a €3 billion Series D funding round for French AI lab Mistral AI, pushing the company’s post-money valuation above €21 billion, according to reporting from Kingy AI and The Bright Minded. The round, announced September 8, 2026, is one of the largest single AI financings Europe has produced, and…
Google and Blackstone have put a name on the TPU-focused cloud venture they first disclosed in May 2026: Crux AI. The bigger news landed alongside it. On September 10, 2026, the joint venture confirmed it had hired Alan Duong, Meta’s longtime vice president and head of data center engineering and construction, as its new chief…
Europe’s cloud market hit an inflection point in January 2026. Amazon Web Services flipped the switch on its European Sovereign Cloud, a physically and legally separate partition of AWS built entirely inside the EU. Microsoft and Google had already been building their own answers for years, but none of the three hyperscalers agreed on what…
As brands seek to shape their presence in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google’s AI-generated search results, answer optimization is emerging as a distinct facet of search strategy. While traditional rankings remain important, marketers must also recognize the significance of mentions, citations, visibility triggers, and the impact of AI-driven discovery on traffic. That’s where modern AEO…
Sterlite Technologies has launched a new line of plenum-rated fiber trunk assemblies built specifically for AI data centers, the Indian connectivity manufacturer announced on September 10, 2026. The move lands as hyperscalers and colocation operators race to wire GPU-dense racks fast enough to keep pace with AI infrastructure buildouts, and it puts Sterlite Technologies (known…
