Vertech News

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

6h ago

Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight

Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.

11h ago

Wired

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

Yesterday

Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.

Anthropic confirms Claude is down, multiple models affected

Claude is experiencing an outage, with users encountering elevated errors when sending requests to multiple Anthropic AI models. [...]

Yesterday

CNBC

Anthropic's distillation battle turns to the dark web as China concerns swell

Foreign adversaries have been illegally accessing American AI systems to train competing technology, and selling copycat versions at a lower price.

Yesterday

AI General

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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.

4h ago

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

5h ago

MIT Tech Review

Architecting memory and storage in the AI era

The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolv...

9h ago

Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip

It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW...

Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.

11h ago

AI Business

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XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.

4h ago

CNBC

Tesla's stock drops 6% as Cybercab update 'underwhelms' Wall Street

Tesla's long-awaited Cybercab update failed to dazzle investors.

7h ago

GoPro says it’s still committed ‘to your collective stoke’

GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He cla...

9h ago

What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timin...

AGI is whatever you want it to be

OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that "the AGI era" is here now. Today on The Vergecast, we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week. First, s...

Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack

11h ago

Cybersecurity

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IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers

Multiple lawsuits have been filed against identity verification company IDScan after hackers allegedly breached the service and offered to sell more than 153 million driver's licenses. [...]

The Hacker News

Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters

Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. "Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people w...

Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks

Attackers have begun targeting a critical-severity Citrix NetScaler auth bypass flaw (CVE-2026-19490) in the wild, according to vulnerability intelligence company Previdian. [...]

12h ago

The Hacker News

PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution

PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The fl...

12h ago

Alienware’s refurbished 16 Aurora is almost $200 off at Woot

Gaming laptop deals aren’t what they used to be (stares daggers at RAMageddon), which is why I consider Woot’s deal on a refurbished Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop with Nvidia’s RTX 5050 a pretty g...

12h ago

The Hacker News

New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic

A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served alter...

13h ago

Tech General

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After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury

"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."

5h ago

Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor

Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn't nearly...

6h ago

Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths

"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."

7h ago

Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC

FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.

8h ago

The White House is making arcade games racist

Trump’s racist new “Build the Wall” game. | Image: The White House The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed "arcade" games, some of which are racist - an...

8h ago