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German robotics company NEURA Robotics has announced up to $1.4 billion in Series C funding to scale its cognitive robotics platform. The round values the company at approximately $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. NEURA says it is the largest funding round ever raised by a full-stack robotics company. The investor list spans crypto, chips, cloud, […]
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Security researchers at Varonis built an OpenClaw email agent, connected it to a Gmail inbox with fake company data, and then phished it. The agent, dubbed Pinchy, handed over AWS credentials, database connection strings, and a customer export without verifying who was asking. It took a single impersonation email. The experiment tested whether AI agents […]
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A covert botnet linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers has more than doubled in size and is now scanning for newly disclosed vulnerabilities within hours of publication. The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 compromised small office and home office routers, firewalls, and IoT devices, according to new research from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. Most of the […]
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The IPO filings by SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have created a pipeline of US tech offerings worth approximately $3.6 trillion. That wave is going to generate appetite for European tech deals too, according to Ygal el Harrar, global head of equity capital markets for the technology industry at BNP Paribas. “Liquidity attracts liquidity,” he said in […]
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The top 1% of US companies by AI adoption spend $7,500 per employee per month on AI tools and compute. The median firm spends $11.38. That 680x gap, drawn from the Ramp AI Index, is the clearest picture yet of how unevenly AI spending is distributed across American business. Ramp describes the top 1% as […]
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Trump Media & Technology Group, TAE Technologies, and Texas Ventures Acquisition III have decided not to proceed with a planned spinoff of Truth Social and other media assets. The three companies said in a statement on Wednesday that Trump Media and TAE remain committed to closing their $6 billion merger in the fourth quarter of 2026 or […]
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India has effectively frozen the approvals Starlink needs to begin commercial operations in the country. Security agencies under India’s Ministry of Home Affairs withheld final clearances after SpaceX allowed Starlink access inside Iran despite not having a licence to operate there, Bloomberg reported. The timing is awkward: SpaceX’s IPO, expected to raise $75 billion at […]
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he does not know what role his company’s AI model Claude played in a missile strike that killed an estimated 120 children at an elementary school in Minab, Iran, on February 28. In an interview on Bloomberg’s The Circuit with Emily Chang, he described the strike as “a really terrible […]
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Russia restored access to Roblox on Wednesday after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements, the Interfax news agency reported. The gaming platform had been blocked since December 3, cutting off an estimated 18 million monthly users, most of them children and teenagers. The Digital Ministry said Roblox had implemented “a comprehensive set […]
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Bizlink Holding, a Taiwanese manufacturer of cables, connectors, and power distribution systems, has agreed to buy the information and communications technology unit of Blackstone’s Interplex for $850 million in cash. The deal includes an additional $50 million earnout and is expected to close in the second half of 2026, CEO Felix Teng said at a […]
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