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Daylight, which combines AI agents with security experts to detect and respond to threats, has completed an $80 million Series B led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with Okta Ventures participating. According to Globes, the round values the company at about $400 million.
According to a report cited by Tom's Hardware, Terafab, the Tesla and SpaceX chipmaking joint venture, has told equipment makers it aims to produce one million wafers a month after 2032, about 70% of them for memory. Its representatives have already asked suppliers in Japan for delivery within months.
In its monthly security update, SAP fixed four flaws rated CVSS 10.0 that can be exploited without logging in. Two allow remote code execution, one could allow logging in as any user on systems using SAML, and one lets an attacker impersonate one of the system's servers. No exploitation has been reported.
Google DeepMind has introduced AlphaProof Code, an agent system for formal software verification. The company says its agents proved key security properties of the code implementing the Signal protocol in the Lean language, down to the code running on devices, in four weeks.
President Trump said the FBI is looking into the Nvidia CEO's relationship with Alice Huang, whom US intelligence officials suspect of working for China. Bloomberg reported that Nvidia contacted the head of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) about its smuggling probe into Megaspeed, and a law firm has filed a class action against the company.
Google has released an emergency Chrome update fixing CVE-2026-125350, a flaw in the XML component that is already being exploited in attacks. It is the eighth exploited Chrome zero-day this year. The fixed versions are 157.0.8103.50/.51 for Windows and Mac and 157.0.8103.50 for Linux.
In an updated filing on Tuesday, Anthropic is offering 825 million shares at $70 to $78 each, raising $57.75 billion to $64.35 billion. At the top of the range the company would be worth about $1.404 trillion on a fully diluted basis, and Nasdaq trading is expected to start next week under the ticker ANT.
Boston Dynamics released a video of its Atlas humanoid moving on wheels mounted on its legs. The company stresses this is not a product but a research testbed that combines classical model-based control with whole-body reinforcement learning.
Australia's Diraq has installed an eight-qubit silicon spin quantum computer at Equinix's Sydney data center, which it describes as the first deployment of its kind in a commercial data center. The system draws less than 20 kilowatts, and the company aims for up to 256 qubits within a year.
Meta's Superintelligence Lab launched Muse Ember on Monday, its lightest and cheapest model, priced at 10 cents per million input tokens. It is aimed at the tasks agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction and long-document parsing.
According to Acronis researchers, a single attacker based in Hualien, Taiwan, aimed AI agents at hundreds of organizations in at least 11 countries and collected data from or accessed about ten of them in Taiwan, Mexico and Thailand, including dispatch records from Taipei's emergency services.
The head of the National AI Directorate at the Prime Minister's Office, Brig. Gen. (res.) Erez Askal, presented the national strategy on Monday: a base of about 300,000 GPUs, about 2 gigawatts of power and an advanced Israeli foundation model, to reduce dependence on foreign tech companies.
US-based Vanta, which develops a security, risk and compliance management platform, has signed an agreement to acquire Israel's Pillar Security for about $150 million in cash and stock. Pillar will become Vanta's research and development center in Israel.
France's foreign ministry on Monday attributed the October attacks on refrigeration controllers at about 700 supermarkets and stores to an Iranian Revolutionary Guard cyber unit. Authorities say the attacks caused tens of millions of euros in food losses and at least 15 fires.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Anthropic will set its IPO valuation range this week and begin trading on Thursday or Friday of next week, despite the Nasdaq sell-off. Some institutional investors are pushing for a valuation below the $1.5 trillion target.
Three stories from China: Envision delivered the first 120 MW of its Galaxy data center campus in under a year, budget smartphone makers are turning to recycled memory amid a DRAM shortage, and BYD unveils the Yangwang Altior luxury EV.
N-able has taken its hosted N-central environments offline worldwide and told customers with on-premises servers to shut them down, after a security researcher published more than 30 unpatched vulnerabilities, including a way to take over the server without a password.
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 on Monday, two models built on the same underlying model. Fable 5.2 is available to all users, while Mythos 5.2 is limited to vetted organizations in cybersecurity and biology. The price drops to $8 per million input tokens.
