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Anthropic’s Mythos found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. The Fed chair called the banks.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across major software. The Fed chair and Treasury secretary called bank CEOs to discuss the threat.
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A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.

GCHQ-backed Intruder launched AI pentesting agents that replicate manual pen testing in minutes. CEO Chris Wallis presents the technology at KnowBe4's KB4-CON 2026.
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The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. Court documents show the stake is now worth two billion.

Court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial show the University of Michigan invested $20M in OpenAI before ChatGPT. The stake now has a target redemption of $2B.
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Google built a 99 dollar AI health coach. Whoop responded with real doctors.

Google launched the $99 screenless Fitbit Air and $9.99/month Gemini health coach. One day later, Whoop responded with on-demand video consultations with licensed clinicians.
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NHTSA says the Tesla Model Y is the first car to pass its new safety tests. The agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Teslas for crashing.

The Trump administration announced the Tesla Model Y passed NHTSA's new ADAS safety benchmark. The same agency is investigating 3.2 million Teslas for Full Self-Driving crashes.
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The Pentagon published 162 UFO files on war.gov/ufo. Two-thirds are redacted. The government says it is being transparent.

The Pentagon released 162 UFO files on war.gov/ufo, including unexplained Apollo 17 photos and military sighting videos. Of the files, 108 are partially redacted.
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Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day

Cloudflare cut 20% of its workforce after AI usage rose 600% in three months. Q1 revenue beat estimates at $640M but the stock fell 24% on the restructuring news.
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Sony forecasts 11% profit lift and $3.2bn buyback as music and sensors offset PS5 memory shock

Game and Network Services, Sony’s largest revenue segment, is where the memory shock lands. Hardware sales for FY26 are forecast to fall about 6% year-over-year, and Sony has now told suppliers and ...
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AWS was hit by overheating in northern Virginia, knocking Coinbase offline and rattling CME

AWS shifted traffic away from the affected zone and warned that fully restoring the remaining services would take longer than expected. Amazon Web Services said on Thursday that one of its data ...
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Rocket Lab’s revenue grew 64 per cent, its backlog hit 2.2 billion dollars, and its stock hit a record. Neutron still has not flown.

Rocket Lab reported record Q1 revenue of $200M, a $2.2B backlog, and a $30M Anduril hypersonics deal. The stock surged 30% but Neutron has still not flown.
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PR & Media lessons from EU-Startups Summit 2026: what works, what does not

Founders looking for media coverage at this year's EU-Startups Summit in Valletta got a fairly direct briefing from the people who decide what gets published.
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Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday, lost $394 million on Thursday, and went dark on Friday because a data centre overheated

Coinbase went offline for seven hours after an AWS data centre overheated in Virginia. The outage capped a week of 700 layoffs and a $394M quarterly loss.