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Cracken, a San Francisco-based applied AI lab focused on offensive cybersecurity, has launched a self-serve version of its proactive security platform. Enterprise security teams and individual practitioners can now create an account and start testing their own organisations against real attack paths without a procurement cycle or sales call. It is the first time the […]
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Ore Energy, an Amsterdam-based startup building grid-scale iron-air batteries, has raised $43 million in Series A funding to scale a technology that can store renewable electricity for up to 100 hours. The round was led by Plural and HV, with participation from Positron Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to $61 million. The batteries work […]
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Anthropic has named Mariano-Florentino Cuellar its first chief global affairs officer, hiring a veteran policy hand at a moment when the AI company’s relationship with the US government remains deeply strained. Cuellar will report to Anthropic president Daniela Amodei and work from the company’s San Francisco headquarters, a spokesperson told Reuters. His job will include […]
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Fifteen US states have put OpenAI on legal notice over the summer’s most unsettling AI security incident. They wrote to chief executive Sam Altman. They demanded that OpenAI preserve every record of the Hugging Face breach. That demand includes something strange. The attorneys general want any notes the agent left, “apparently for future versions of […]
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For years, software supply chain attacks focused on compromising widely used applications after they had already been deployed. Increasingly, however, attackers are shifting their attention further upstream, targeting the open-source packages developers rely on every day. The latest example arrived when Upwind became the first to identify and publicly report a malicious release of the […]
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Two former Nubank executives have raised $85m to build an AI wealth adviser in Brazil. Their backers call it the largest seed round in Latin American history. The startup, Decade, came out of stealth on Tuesday with money from Greenoaks, Benchmark and Diffusion, and a striking promise: to create “a new generation of millionaires.” The […]
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Bending Spoons has agreed to buy Airtable for $1.285bn. Its chief executive is selling the deal as a long-term bet. “Airtable is a pioneering brand reshaping how teams organize data and manage critical workflows,” said Luca Ferrari, the Italian company’s CEO and co-founder. He added that Bending Spoons is “committed to investing in Airtable for […]
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The race to modernize cross-border payments is increasingly shifting toward emerging markets, where businesses continue to face high costs, settlement delays, and fragmented financial infrastructure despite growing international trade. Australian fintech Stables is the latest company looking to capitalize on that opportunity. Stables has announced a collaboration with Access Bank South Africa to explore new […]
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