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Source: Situational Awareness' assets have fallen to ~$10B after it liquidated some positions to meet margin calls, down from a reported $20B+ as of late May (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Asset

At a hearing, a US judge says “I don't see additional evidence” from the Pentagon justifying its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk (www.axios.com)
13 days ago Pentagon

Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Startup AI

Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it “achieves comparable performance” to Inkling (thinkingmachines.ai)
13 days ago

VMware fixes three critical flaws allowing auth bypass, VM escapes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago VMware

The AutoCAD software trusted by architects and engineers is just $399 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago

Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago Google Texas

Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs (www.wired.com)
13 days ago Google AI Chrome

Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel (yro.slashdot.org)
13 days ago

OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them (www.axios.com)
13 days ago

Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot (tech.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Google Robot

Google says AI helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releases (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago Google AI Chrome

LinkedIn introduces a “seems like AI slop” button to allow users to report posts they think are AI-generated (www.404media.co)
13 days ago LinkedIn AI

ShinyHunters claims Brinks Home breach, threatens to leak stolen data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago

Google Brings Its Age-Assurance Tech To Android Developers Worldwide (developers.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Android Google

Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription (www.wired.com)
13 days ago AI

Wiz says a now-patched flaw in Azure CosmosDB would have let a hacker remotely compromise any of its users; Microsoft has seen “no evidence of customer impact” (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago Microsoft Hacker

Microsoft Teams vishing attacks lead to Chaos ransomware attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago Microsoft

Sources: AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the bulk of its stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after suffering deep losses (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago AI

Source: Situational Awareness has a $5B stake in Anthropic, and will continue to run as a private investment firm after suffering heavy losses in recent days (www.ft.com)
13 days ago

Israel-based Xsight, which makes server networking and storage chips, raised $300M led by Fidelity Investments at a $2.8B post-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
13 days ago Israel

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (www.wired.com)
13 days ago Google AI Robot

Analog Devices discloses data breach, says operations unaffected (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago

Sources: Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness has sold all of its public stock holdings after losses on AI stocks and a bad bet against software stocks (www.cnbc.com)
13 days ago AI

Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn raised a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $59M (siliconangle.com)
13 days ago Startup

GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code (news.slashdot.org)
13 days ago AI

Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta (www.axios.com)
13 days ago Google AI

London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service providers handle their clients' Microsoft 365 accounts, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Microsoft London

After the Break-In: What Attackers Do Once They're Already Inside (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
13 days ago

Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approval for paid deployment of its steering wheel-free robotaxi and can deploy up to 2,500 per year through 2028 (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago Amazon

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