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Anthropic's Claude Code v2.1.179 update defaults to leaking session URLs into Git history, exposing sensitive data. A fix is available via copy-paste command.
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck announced the $8 billion acquisition of Iridium Communications to challenge SpaceX's dominance in the satellite communications market, particularly in direct-to-mobile services. The deal positio…
Vanta, a Markdown notes app for iPhone, launched on the App Store with on-device AI organization and GTD principles. The app uses Apple's local Foundation models to clean up dictation, format Markdown, and categorize not…
Nvidia dominates AI training hardware, but the inference market is wide open as companies like Cerebras, Groq, d-Matrix, Etched, and Taalas challenge Nvidia's GPU-based approach by designing chips optimized for low-laten…
Anthropic embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users, sending information such as timezone and proxy data by injecting it into prompt messages. The code routes metadata without u…
Koov AI is building a personal assistant that remembers context across conversations, meetings, emails, and documents. The team treats memory as the foundation, using retrieval over generation to provide reliable answers…
An unconfirmed leak on X claims Anthropic will release Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 with a promotional API price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, a 1 million token context, and a January 20…
Purdue researchers tested 24 deepfake detection systems and found commercial tools generally performed better as AI identity fraud raises new risks for crypto KYC. The study found Incode's DeepSight achieved the lowest f…
Chamath Palihapitiya's AI coding startup 8090 raised $135 million in a Series A round led by Salesforce, with Palihapitiya taking the CEO role. The company sells a governed software factory platform that integrates AI ag…
A developer created a detection system for identifying which AI chat platform a user is on, using URL hostname matching as a primary check and DOM signatures as a fallback. The system covers ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and …
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine achieves 61% word accuracy, an improvement over prior projects, but still lags behind implanted brain-computer interfaces and cannot support real-time communication, as it relies …
Toast, a Calgary-based talent acquisition company, launched an AI-powered recruitment platform called Toast Talent Marketplace to help employers hire women for tech roles. The platform uses semantic AI search and integra…
Ancestry has deployed machine learning to accelerate its record digitization pipeline from nine months to under nine days, with its corpus now exceeding 71 billion records. The company adds about 10 million records daily…
Anthropic released a beta version of its Claude Desktop app for Linux, expanding the AI assistant beyond Windows and macOS. The app includes Chat, Cowork, and Code interfaces, with official support for Ubuntu 22.04+ and …
US finance app SoFi acquired Toronto-based FinTech startup Composer to add AI-powered investing strategies. The new tool allows SoFi's 14 million members to build, test, and automate investment strategies using natural l…
XAI launched an autonomous goal mode in Grok Build on June 22, 2026, allowing AI coding agents to execute bounded objectives without human supervision. The mode uses a two-model pipeline with a Composer planning model an…
South Park Commons portfolio companies raised over $1.5 billion in June 2026, including Baseten's $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation for AI inference and Orb's $335M acquisition by Adyen. AXION launched a neural headband…
US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn on Prime Day, with AI chatbot referrals converting 40% better than search, email, or social media for the first time. Adobe data shows AI-referred traffic to retail sites nearly doubled…
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, a custom inference ASIC co-designed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC, aiming for 50% lower inference cost per token than Nvidia GPUs. Production is planned for 2027, with broader deploymen…
NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano Super is being used to self-host a local text-to-speech app called StreamTTS, which serves audio via durable streams instead of traditional request-response APIs. The setup allows users to share…