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Hand-Coded Attack Clears Marimo Flaw to SSH Bastion in Eight Seconds
A human operator moved from a vulnerable Marimo notebook to an SSH bastion host in eight seconds using a Python toolkit written and debugged by hand, according to cloud security company Sysdig. The...
Security Testing Misses the Chain: Why Isolated Technique Checks Leave Gaps
Security teams have become skilled at validating individual defenses: whether an EDR agent catches a payload, whether a phishing simulation fails, whether a SIEM rule fires on a specific technique....
This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door
The new SimpliSafe Video Doorbell Series 2 adds 2K resolution and dual band Wi-Fi. | Image: Simplisafe DIY home security company SimpliSafe is bringing its AI-powered proactive security feature to...
Startup Evvy raises $40M to accelerate precision diagnostics and medicine for women’s health
Evvy, an artificial intelligence startup that’s looking to enhance women’s healthcare, said today it has closed on $40 million in Series B funding to scale its precision diagnostics and care...
Startup Keewano launches agent-focused database and pulls in $12M in funding
Database startup Keewano today launched KeewanoDB, an event-oriented database designed to give artificial intelligence agents real-time context for analytics and decision-making. The startup also...
Agility Robotics says its new Digit 5 robot can work next to people without safety fences
Agility Robotics has unveiled Digit 5, the next version of its humanoid robot for warehouses and factories. The article Agility Robotics says its new Digit 5 robot can work next to people without...
Exclusive: Open Chinese models close gap with Silicon Valley’s frontier AI models
The performance gap between frontier AI models from US tech companies and the best open-weights models from Chinese companies has closed to just 4.4 months, according to a Mozilla report. That...
Salesforce debuts Koa, a specialized model built to reason about CRM data
Salesforce Inc. said today at its annual user conference Dreamforce that it has partnered with Nvidia Corp. to train and release Koa, a specialized artificial intelligence model that’s custom built...
Apple brings a fully revamped Siri built on Google's Gemini, but not to the EU
Apple is shipping its rebuilt "Siri AI" after years of delay, built on Google's Gemini models and running partly on the device, partly through Private Cloud Compute. Early testers praise multi-step...
What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business...
Not everyone is convinced that Big AI's proposed development slowdown is really about safety
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google want to slow down frontier AI development, citing safety concerns. But critics from across the industry and politics are pushing back. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez calls the...
Nuance Labs bags $50M in funding to fix the awkwardness of AI avatars
Nuance Labs, a Seattle-based startup that’s trying to make artificial intelligence models better at face-to-face conversations, said today it has closed on a $50 million early-stage funding round to...
Procurement automation startup Aron launches with $8M in funding
Aron Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to ease the work of procurement teams, launched today with $8 million in funding. The company raised the capital over two rounds. The first was led...
Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics...
Contact center AI ROI shifts toward resolution quality and governed execution
The next phase of contact center artificial intelligence will be measured less by how many interactions machines handle and more by whether customers actually get their problems resolved. That was...
OpenAI Reportedly Acquires Camera Startup Glass Imaging for Over $300M
OpenAI has reportedly acquired Glass Imaging, a smartphone camera company, in a deal valued at more than $300 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Los Altos, California-based firm was...
Musk Drops Apple Antitrust Claims but Keeps OpenAI Suit Alive
Elon Musk has resolved his antitrust claims against Apple over its 2024 decision to integrate ChatGPT into iPhone features, but he is continuing his separate suit against OpenAI, according to a court...
Trump Tells Nvidia's Huang AI Safety Push Is a 'Hoax' in Onstage Speaker Call
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a phone call from President Donald Trump while onstage at the All-In Summit, then put the president on speaker for the audience to hear. Trump used the call to dismiss...
OpenAI reportedly buys AI camera startup Glass Imaging for more than $300M
OpenAI Group PBC has apparently bought smartphone camera software startup Glass Imaging Inc. for more than $300 million in a deal first reported today by The Wall Street Journal. Neither company has...