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Cyber risk management company SecurityScorecard Inc. announced today that it has acquired Driftnet Ltd., a U.K.-based internet scanning and threat intelligence startup, in a deal aimed at bolting real

Enterprise AI infrastructure modernization has reached a critical crossroads as organizations grapple with decades of technical debt while facing intense pressure to deploy AI — and returning to IT fu

A year after closing its previous multibillion-dollar funding round, Anduril Industries Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional late-stage round of 5 billion at a 61 billion valuation. T

As AI coding agents become deeply embedded in developer workflows, defenders must evolve their definition of malicious files and rethink how to protect against them. Autonomous AI agents operate acros

Sapu is an early-stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for hard-to-treat cancers. From its San Diego facility, the team is pioneering a nanomedicine pipeline that takes existing FDA-ap

The thing about 90% of TDMs [Technical Decision Makers] is that they're motivated primarily by NOT GETTING FIRED. These aren't people who browser Lobsters or push to GH on the weekend. These are peopl

Voice artificial intelligence startup Vapi Inc. said today it has raised 50 million in new funding to change the way people talk to computers, experience phone calls and interact with customer support

The FCC extended its deadline for software updates on foreign-made routers from March 1, 2027, to January 1, 2029 , allowing already-authorized devices to receive critical security patches longer desp

At Google Cloud Next ’26 we announced Cloud Storage Rapid, a family of object storage capabilities for data-intensive workloads like AI and analytics. Out of the gate, Cloud Storage Rapid consists of

Managing a modern database fleet is both a scale and cognitive problem. As database estates grow, the effort required to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize them often outpaces teams’ capacity, who fi

Your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance

In this post, we'll explore how we built a proof-of-concept that converts natural language queries into executable seismic workflows while providing a question-answering capability for Halliburton's S

Superhuman and Databricks collaborated to build a high-performance inference platform capable of handling 200,000 queries per second (QPS), leveraging Databricks' infrastructure and optimization capab

With AI coding tools like Antigravity and Claude Code, I can build a working web app in record time. But deploying it? That's where I'd historically lose the rest of the afternoon to Dockerfiles, IAM

Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML Thought-provoking piece by Thariq Shihipar (on the Claude Code team at Anthropic) advocating for HTML over Markdown as an output format to req

Popular NoSQL-based database company MongoDB Inc. today announced a new set of capabilities during the company’s .Local conference in London, bringing together everything software and artificial intel

Simplex is an OpenAI initiative that reimagines software development processes by integrating Codex, OpenAI's AI code generation model, to enhance developer productivity and streamline coding workflow

Application security startup Boost Security Inc. today announced two acquisitions and an additional 4 million in funding as it builds out what it pitches as an artificial intelligence-native defense p

“How will this look on me?” It’s the question every online fashion shopper asks, and one that most retailers still can’t answer well. Breuninger, a fashion and lifestyle company based in Germany, thou

At Google, we see firsthand how cyber threats can outpace traditional defense mechanisms — and how agentic threat intelligence can help bridge the gap. We have a vision for agentic defense where auton

Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to

In this episode of The Agent Factory, Vlad Kolesnikov and I sat down with Omar Sanseviero from the Developer Experience team at Google DeepMind. We explored the groundbreaking release of Gemma 4: a ne

Dedicated inference cloud startup Deepinfra Inc. is looking to expand its global capacity after raising 107 million in a Series B round of funding led by 500 Global and Georges Harik, who was one of G

Managing agents and their actions can quickly grow in complexity and introduce security risks unique to AI. To address these challenges, at Google Cloud Next we announced Agent Gateway to provide simp

This article likely argues that improving the underlying language models is insufficient for building effective AI agents, and that other critical components—such as knowledge retrieval, context manag

Kimi Antonelli won the 2026 Miami Grand Prix, extending his championship lead after surviving a close chase from McLaren's Lando Norris. Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull brought major upgrade packages to

In the era of AI agents, the distance between a big idea and a working application has never been shorter. As we lean more heavily on agents to help us build applications, a critical question remains:

Building meaningful dashboards demands hours of manual setup, even for experienced BI professionals. Amazon Quick now generates complete multi-sheet dashboards from natural language prompts, taking yo

OpenAI describes its technical approach to delivering real-time voice AI services with minimal latency across large user bases, likely covering infrastructure optimization, model serving strategies, a

Tool: Redis Array Playground Salvatore Sanfilippo submitted a PR adding a new data type - arrays - to Redis. The new commands are ARCOUNT, ARDEL, ARDELRANGE, ARGET, ARGETRANGE, ARGREP, ARINFO, ARINSER

Toyota's Woven City is a $10 billion 'living laboratory' where the company tests futuristic mobility technologies with real residents , located at a former factory site in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefec

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised 125M+ across seed, Series A, and Series B at a 1B valuation — Tyson Chen an

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) dashboards often present misleading metrics due to data quality issues, incomplete visibility into production factors, or misalignment between how OEE is calculat

At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we announced that more than 50 Google-managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are generally available or in preview, with more on the way. Why it matters: To move beyond

DigitalOcean announced a new AI-native cloud platform designed to support production artificial intelligence workloads with optimized infrastructure and services. The offering likely provides speciali

Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query. — OpenAI Codex base_instruct

As AI rapidly rewrites enterprise economics, cloud cost optimization has become essential for preventing budgets from collapsing under AI workloads, enabling organizations to slash expenses and redire

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 — The

Databricks discusses how leading technology companies are using Lakebase to eliminate 'builder's tax'—the overhead and complexity costs associated with building and maintaining data infrastructure. Th

Super ZSNES is a modern SNES emulator created by two of the original ZSNES developers, zsKnight and _Demo_, which has been rewritten from scratch as a GPU-powered successor. The emulator uses GPU acce

Stephen Morris / Financial Times: Epoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend — Thomas

Theo Baker / The Atlantic: A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit — Silicon Valley

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locati

GPT-5.5 prompting guide Now that GPT-5.5 is available in the API, OpenAI have released a wealth of useful tips on how best to prompt the new model. Here's a neat trick they recommend for applications

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality results over the past two months was grounded in real problems.

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