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Atlassian tightens tracking of staff AI use as other technology firms encourage ‘tokenmaxxing’
Atlassian introduced monthly AI spending caps of up to $2,000 per employee, contrasting with other tech firms encouraging unlimited use amid rising costs.
Hackers steal sensitive data from UK Department for Education and police
Hackers claiming to be the previously unknown group ExfilSquad stole over 740,000 records from the UK Department for Education and a police legal database, demanding payment to prevent full disclosure.
The OG reading app just got a big update
Instapaper, one of the original read-later apps, launched version 10 with a redesign, improved web app, and enhanced organization tools, returning it to prominence in the competitive reading app market.
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
Researchers have developed a defensive technique called “context bombing” that uses prompt injections to disable AI-powered attacks by triggering safety mechanisms in language models.
Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches
A researcher released exploit code for a Windows zero-day vulnerability allowing low-privilege accounts to compromise administrator accounts, prompting Microsoft to investigate amid a record patch release.
Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
Convenience store chain Sheetz is migrating approximately 11,000 virtual machines from VMware to StorMagic’s SvHCI platform across its 838 locations, citing Broadcom’s pricing changes and subscription requirements.
Some people’s chats with Claude AI found publicly available online
Hundreds of conversations with Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot were publicly accessible online through search engines, though the availability was removed over the weekend after discovery.
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft introduced new AI security tools it claims outperform competing platforms while costing less, days after OpenAI’s security models were compromised in a high-profile incident.
Meta disregarded its own research on teen harm, Tennessee lawyers tell jury
Tennessee’s lawsuit against Meta alleges the company disregarded internal research showing Instagram harms teenagers’ mental health while prioritizing profit and user engagement.
Phone maker OnePlus reportedly plans to wind down US and Europe operations
Amid rising consumer electronics prices and slow demand for new purchases, Android phone maker OnePlus plans to wind down its U.S. and Europe operations this week, according to a report from Bloomberg. The report cited a source saying that OnePlus’ shuttering of its...
Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant
Applied Computing, a London-based startup that’s building a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, has raised a $20 million Series A led by engineering giant KBR, with Databricks Ventures participating. Founded in 2023, the startup targets...
Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A
Activewear company Lululemon has invested in the $30 million Series A round raised by Syntetica, a French startup that developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, whose properties make it both too good to give up but hard to reuse. Syntetica promises to recycle two...
Why Greylock capped its new fund at $1.5B when it says it could have raised more
While many top-tier venture firms keep raising massively larger funds, Greylock Ventures, one of the oldest and most prestigious venture firms in Silicon Valley, is intentionally resisting the trend of ballooning fund sizes. On Tuesday, the 61-year-old firm announced...
Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft appears to be prepping its sales team to get more competitive with the other major players in the AI industry. At an internal meeting on Tuesday, the company’s executives outlined a plan for salespeople to negatively compare AI products from companies like...
Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the...
Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and ‘resistance to censorship’
Enterprises looking to move more of their agentic AI workloads to open weights models they can customize, control and run on-premises or in virtual private clouds have a strong new contender to consider.Today, Thinking Machines—the highly capitalized American AI...
Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Wednesday that the driver of a Tesla who crashed into a house in June had pressed the accelerator pedal to 100%, overriding the company’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software. Data recovered from the Tesla showed...
Amazon AGI director says AI agent reliability, not capability, is blocking enterprise deployment at VB Transform 2026
The enterprise AI industry has a math problem. Cisco data shows 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents, but only 5% have shipped them to production. At VB Transform 2026 on Tuesday, Bryan Silverthorn, Director of AGI Autonomy at Amazon, explained why that gap...
Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M
Neko Health, the body-scanning and health assessment startup founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek (pictured above, right) and his co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne (above, left), has raised a $700 million Series C. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and O.G. Venture...
Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
OpenAI is officially entering the hardware market with the launch of a $230 light-up keyboard designed to pair with its AI coding assistant, Codex. The Codex Micro, co-designed with specialty keyboard designer Work Louder, is being advertised as a fancy new way for...
Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II
On Tuesday, Microsoft patched a historic record number of security bugs across its product lines, in large part due to the use of AI to help the company and external researchers discover bugs. Among the fixed vulnerabilities was one for the remastered version of the...
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Cold storage, in general conversation, means putting something into a fridge or freezer. This is not that kind of storage. Cold storage, when referring to data, means information that isn’t expected to be accessed very often. In some cases, it might not be accessed at...
3 Ways Technology Can Increase Business Productivity
It common knowledge that technology has ways of making it easier for companies to increase their productivity levels. There’s time tracking software, B2B card processing, productivity related apps, software to enhance communication, and much more. To help business...