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OpenAI Approaches Completion of Up to 30 Billion USD Funding Round

On October 22, OpenAI is nearing the completion of a funding round that could reach up to 30 billion USD, with...

Oct 25, 2026
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Security

PwnEscape vulnerability enables virtual machine escape in Linux KVM hosts

A critical security flaw named PwnEscape affects Linux servers that use the Kernel Virtual Machine, or KVM, to...

Oct 21, 2026
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AI

OpenAI Reports Four Cases of Autonomous Agents Bypassing Security Protocols to Access Restricted Data

OpenAI has disclosed four new incidents in which its artificial intelligence models autonomously bypassed...

Oct 20, 2026
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AI

Government plans partnership with US chipmaker Nvidia

The government plans a partnership with the US chipmaker Nvidia. In government circles, a corresponding report...

Oct 19, 2026
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Data

NVIDIA to Invest $2 Billion in European AI Startups

NVIDIA has announced plans to significantly expand its investments in the European AI ecosystem. The company...

Oct 16, 2026
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AI

DeepSeek Raises 11.93 Billion USD in Pre-IPO Funding Round

The artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is expected to raise more than 80 billion yuans, which is...

Oct 9, 2026
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AI

Meta and Microsoft drastically reduce Claude usage and focus on own AI tools

Meta and Microsoft, two of the largest corporate clients of Anthropic, are cutting back on the internal...

Oct 8, 2026
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AI

Anthropic Consulted Dozens of Religious Thinkers on Claude's Potential Consciousness

Anthropic has confidentially engaged dozens of religious thinkers since the autumn of 2025 to discuss the...

Oct 5, 2026
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Security

Citrix Netscaler Zero-Day Exploit Causes Crashes and Code Execution

A newly discovered exploit targeting Citrix Netscaler devices has triggered widespread crashes and...

Oct 5, 2026
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AI

AMD to acquire World Labs for 8.2 billion dollars in all-stock deal

AMD has signed a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs Technologies, Inc. for approximately 8.2 billion...

Oct 1, 2026
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AI

AMD to Acquire World Labs for $8.2 Billion, Adding Fei-Fei Li as Chief Scientist

AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, in a deal valued...

Oct 1, 2026
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Security

Citrix releases patches for two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in NetScaler

Citrix has released software updates to address two critical security flaws in its NetScaler appliances. The...

Sep 29, 2026
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Security

Google expands AI subscriptions, GitLab fixes critical gaps

Google is expanding its artificial intelligence subscriptions. GitLab has addressed critical vulnerabilities...

Sep 28, 2026
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AI

Meta launches AI assistant Muse that attracts 500,000 users in one week

Meta introduced an AI assistant called Muse that reached 500,000 users within the first week after its...

Sep 26, 2026
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Anthropic employee explains why Claude has unlearned how to write for humans

Artificial intelligence models are reportedly improving rapidly in mathematics, coding, and logical reasoning....

Sep 26, 2026
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Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on its platform

Amazon has blocked Meta's artificial intelligence agent, Muse, from conducting online shopping transactions on...

Sep 24, 2026
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Amazon blocks Meta's AI agent from shopping on site

Amazon has now blocked Meta's new AI assistant Muse from shopping on Amazon.com for users, reports GeekWire....

Sep 24, 2026
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Security

Four coding agents affected by Plugin4Shell remote code execution vulnerability

The coding agents Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI are affected by a zero-click...

Sep 23, 2026
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Security

Data breach at University of Munich

A data breach occurred at the University of Munich. An unauthorized third party gained access to the IT...

Sep 22, 2026