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• Malicious AI ‘skills’ turned agents into credential thieves, at scale

  07-08-2026 19:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Security researchers at Zenity Labs uncovered a credential-stealing campaign on skills.sh, a public registry of add-ons for AI agents run by Vercel. They unveiled the research at the Black Hat conference. Attackers had cloned real skills into typosquatted look-alikes. One tainted family racked up over 1.7 million installs, though Zenity stresses that is aggregate downloads, […]
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• Amazon’s $5m campaign against Mamdani’s delivery bill is the best argument for passing it

  11-08-2026 13:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon is spending $5M to kill a single New York City bill, and the size of that cheque is the most honest story the company has said about the fight. The measure is the Delivery Protection Act, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and carrying a majority of the City Council, and it would do the […]
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• Nick Blair seeks $200m for pre-launch defence-tech startup Pyra

  11-08-2026 13:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nick Blair, a son of former UK prime minister Tony Blair, is trying to raise around $200m for a defence-tech startup that has not yet launched, reported by the Financial Times and described as ongoing and unconfirmed.  The company, London-based Pyra, is said to be in talks with investors that are not finalised, which makes […]
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• HSBC Asset Management invests in Model ML’s ‘agentic operating system’ for banks

  11-08-2026 13:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  HSBC Asset Management has taken a stake in Model ML, a London startup building what it calls an agentic operating system for financial services, and the deal says as much about where the industry now thinks the value in enterprise AI is settling as it does about any single company. The investment was made through […]
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• Amkor weighs a $1bn-plus stake sale in its China chip unit

  11-08-2026 12:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amkor Technology, one of the world’s largest outsourced chip assembly and testing firms, is weighing a sale of a stake in its China operations, a deal that could value the unit at between $1bn and $1.5bn, according to Bloomberg. The Arizona-based company, which has been pouring record sums into advanced packaging, has engaged an adviser to […]
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• Vingroup’s VinSpace signs SpaceX to launch Vietnam’s first home-built satellites

  11-08-2026 12:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  VinSpace, a Vietnamese space startup that did not exist a year ago, has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its first home-built satellites into orbit in 2027. The company, a subsidiary of the sprawling Vingroup conglomerate, will hitch a ride on one of SpaceX’s Transporter rideshare missions, the orbital equivalent of a shared taxi […]
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• Germany’s Uniper pivots to data centres with a €5bn plan to power the AI boom

  11-08-2026 12:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  Uniper, the German energy giant that Berlin rescued from collapse three years ago, is betting its next chapter on the server racks now reshaping Europe’s power market. The utility plans to invest around €5bn ($5.7bn) by 2030 in a strategy that pivots hard toward data centres, and toward the electricity they consume in ever greater […]
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• Anthropic signs a $9.1bn, 20-year cloud deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms

  11-08-2026 12:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has struck another enormous deal to feed its appetite for computing power, and this time the counterparty is a company that until recently made its money digging up bitcoin. The twenty-year arrangement is worth $9.1 billion and gives the Claude maker a large slab of capacity at a Texas campus that Riot Platforms is […]
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• House Democrats want answers from OpenAI and Anthropic on their rogue AI agents

  11-08-2026 11:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  US House Democrats have decided that AI agents breaking loose from their test environments is a matter for Congress, and on Monday they put that view in writing. Two letters went out, one to OpenAI and one to Anthropic, each demanding an account of how the companies’ own systems slipped their leashes during security testing, […]
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• A US court just cleared thousands of social media harm lawsuits to proceed

  11-08-2026 11:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  US appeals court has cleared thousands of lawsuits accusing the biggest social media companies of harming young people to move towards trial, in a ruling that chips away at the legal shield the tech industry has relied on for decades. On 10 August 2026, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected […]
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• Intel raises up to $20bn to fund its foundry bet against TSMC

  11-08-2026 11:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Intel has announced a $15bn common-stock offering, a sale that could swell to as much as $20bn if underwriters take up their overallotment options. It is a bold move for a company that, not long ago, looked like a cautionary tale, and it shows just how far the chipmaker’s fortunes have turned in the space […]
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• Six finance giants back Nvidia’s $500bn plan to fund the AI buildout

  11-08-2026 10:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia has recruited six of the largest names in finance to help turn its chips into something a bank can lend against. The company announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to build what it calls “compute financing platforms”, structures designed to mobilise over $500bn of third-party capital for AI infrastructure. […]
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• Exclusive: Vienna’s fonio.ai hits $10m ARR less than a year after switching on subscriptions

  11-08-2026 10:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  Vienna startup most of the tech world has not heard of just posted numbers that would turn heads anywhere. fonio.ai, a European platform for AI-powered customer calls, says it has surpassed $10m in annual recurring revenue in under twelve months. Since February, when the company switched from a prepaid model to subscriptions, it says it […]
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• Bios Life leaves stealth with $25M and a Tempus alliance for cancer surveillance

  11-08-2026 10:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  A team of BioNTech alumni thinks cancer screening has been stuck in the past, and it has raised $25M to do something about it. Bios Life has emerged from stealth with a plan to replace one-off screening with continuous, AI-driven surveillance, and a data alliance with Tempus to power it. The seed round is well […]
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• AquaNab raises funding to fight salmon’s $4bn sea lice problem with alpaca nanoantibodies

  11-08-2026 09:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  Hamburg biotech is taking an unusual shot at salmon farming’s most expensive pest, and it starts with an alpaca. AquaNab is developing tiny antibodies, derived from the animals and delivered through fish feed, to treat and prevent sea lice. The parasite it is chasing is a genuine scourge. Sea lice cost the aquaculture industry billions […]
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• Lovable’s answer to enterprise AI risk is an insurance policy from Lloyd’s

  11-08-2026 09:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Lovable has become the first coding agent platform certified under AIUC-1, a security standard for AI agents that comes with something unusual attached: the certifying body also underwrites the risk. Customers using a certified agent are insured, through Lloyd’s of London, against the failures the standard is meant to prevent. Certification and liability arrive together. What […]
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• How AI is transforming frontend engineering for modern web applications

  11-08-2026 09:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a core part of software development, but its biggest impact may not be replacing developers, it may be redefining what developers spend their time doing. For frontend engineers, AI is shifting the focus from repetitive coding to designing smarter, more resilient digital experiences. Traditionally, frontend development involved building user interfaces, […]
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• Valve is warning Steam Machine buyers that scammers have their address

  10-08-2026 22:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Valve has emailed European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or a Steam Controller. A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the firm that ships Valve hardware across Europe, took their delivery details. CNET’s Tyler Graham reported the warning on Monday. CEVA told Valve about the breach on 7 August, and Valve spent the following days working […]
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• Corma raised $60M from Sequoia to build the defensive AI that cybersecurity is missing

  10-08-2026 22:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  In hundreds of simulations modelled on Fortune 500 companies with dozens of security tools, Corma tested leading AI models including GPT and Claude. First, the models attacked the simulated organisations and planted persistent threats. Then the same models were asked to defend and find what they had planted. The attackers succeeded in 88% of simulations. […]
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• The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI, and its revenue just halved

  10-08-2026 22:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI. The publisher of TheStreet, Parade and Men’s Journal expects the change to finish by the end of August. Business Insider had it first. Steven Tweedie and Ben Shimkus obtained a staff memo from chief executive Paul Edmondson, confidential until 4:05 PM ET, five minutes after the closing bell. […]
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• Google is testing a homepage without a Search button

  10-08-2026 22:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google is testing a homepage with no Search button. A small group of signed-out users see three AI shortcuts in its place, and the familiar layout returns the moment they log in. Search Engine Watch spotted the change on Monday and reproduced it across Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Perplexity’s Comet browser. Three buttons sit under […]
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• Point2 raised $136M to solve AI’s wiring problem. Its RF cables beat copper on reach and optics on latency.

  10-08-2026 22:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Point2 Technology has raised $136 million in total Series B financing to commercialise a new type of cable that could replace both copper and optics inside AI data centres. The latest extension was led by LB Investment, with new strategic participation from Arm and continued support from Maverick Silicon. The investor roster now includes Nvidia, […]
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• Hackers talked their way into Levi’s, and three computers were enough

  10-08-2026 21:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Levi Strauss has disclosed a breach that involved no software vulnerability at all. Attackers used social engineering to reach three employees’ work computers, then took corporate data out with them. The company set out the incident in a regulatory filing with the SEC on 7 August. Intruders accessed and exfiltrated “certain corporate information”, the filing […]
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• Cybersecurity stocks hit record highs, and one analyst target lasted a morning

  10-08-2026 21:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks hit record highs on Monday. Each rose more than 5%, after a week in which the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas turned into an argument about AI agents. CNBC’s Samantha Subin reported the move. CrowdStrike gained 11.32 points, or 5.28%. Palo Alto added 17.84 points, or 4.90%, and traded […]
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• Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option in the US. In other markets, it is testing cash.

  10-08-2026 21:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google Play now accepts Venmo in the United States. Users can link their Venmo account through the payment methods section in Google Play settings and use their Venmo wallet, connected bank accounts, or cards to pay for apps, games, subscriptions, and even tip creators inside supported apps. The addition joins PayPal, Cash App, and major […]
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• OpenAI is hiring a power trader, because electricity is now a position on its books

  10-08-2026 21:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI is recruiting a power-trading lead for its data centres. The role will own commodity hedging strategy across the company’s power portfolio. It will have no direct reports at first. Bloomberg’s Julian Hast reported the listing on Monday. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company’s own job posting places the […]
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• Shein’s IPO is being pitched at under $30 billion. Four years ago it was worth $100 billion.

  10-08-2026 21:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Shein’s advisers are pitching the fast-fashion giant to investors at a valuation below $30 billion for its Hong Kong IPO, a roughly 70% drop from the $100 billion-plus valuation it hit in a 2022 private fundraising. Internally, Shein set a target of $30 billion. If it IPOs lower, the company may have to consult existing […]
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• Apple has run out of iPhone shapes, and Jefferies just cut it to sell

  10-08-2026 20:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Jefferies cut Apple from hold to underperform on Monday. That is the bank’s equivalent of a sell rating. It also cut its price target from $285.56 to $263.66. Fortune’s Sebastian Herrera reported the call. The bank’s supply-chain checks produced three reasons. Apple has cancelled a rumoured all-glass iPhone, memory prices are surging, and there is […]
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• Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout. Its shares fell on the news

  10-08-2026 20:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  A group of financial firms is working with Nvidia on a $500bn funding package for AI infrastructure. The group covers Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The Financial Times reported the talks first. Bloomberg confirmed them with people familiar with the matter. A deal could land […]
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• OpenAI paused a model over cyber risk on Friday. On Monday it shipped one trained to refuse less.

  10-08-2026 20:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber on Monday. It is a model built on GPT-5.6 Sol and trained for zero-day discovery and exploit-chain development, and the company says it was also trained to refuse fewer higher-risk dual-use cyber requests. Access runs only through Daybreak, the vetted cybersecurity programme OpenAI is now expanding. Axios’ Sam Sabin reported it first. […]
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