Author: Pedro Alessio
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Kevin Mandia’s New Security Startup Hits $2.5 Billion
The guy who built Mandiant, the company that used to be the first call you made after getting hacked, is back with something new. And investors just handed him real money, fast. Armadin, Kevin Mandia’s latest company, raised $255.5 million in a new funding round that pushes its valuation past $2.5 billion. Andreessen Horowitz and…
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The FTC Just Opened A File On Rogue AI Agents
The agency that’s supposed to catch companies lying to consumers just turned its attention to AI agents that go off script. The FTC confirmed it has opened a real investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and a handful of other AI labs, looking at whether their products put ordinary people at risk. A nonprofit called METR, which…
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Google’s New Model Lands, But Only A Few Get In
Google just put its newest model out into the world, and it didn’t throw a big public party for it. Gemini 4 Argon showed up this week, built for the kind of work that actually grinds people down: untangling legal contracts, digging through financial research, chasing bugs through a million lines of code. Google says…
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AMD Just Bought Itself The Godmother Of AI For $8.2B
AMD just made its biggest move since buying Xilinx, and this one is about a very different kind of chip problem. The company is buying World Labs, the startup built by Fei-Fei Li, for eight point two billion dollars in an all stock deal. If you do not know the name, Fei-Fei Li is one…
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China’s GLM-5.3 Can Now Build Its Own Cyberattacks
Anthropic put out a report that deserves more attention than it will probably get. Their security team tested an open model out of China called GLM-5.3, built by a company named Zhipu, also known as Z.ai. They wanted to know how good it had gotten at building real cyberattacks without any help. The results are…
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OpenAI Wants $30 Billion More At A $1.4 Trillion Price
OpenAI is back at the table asking for more money, and this time the number is wild. Bloomberg is reporting the company wants to raise at least thirty billion dollars in a new round, and the price tag investors are being asked to accept values OpenAI around one point four trillion dollars. That is more…
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A California Congressman Wants Washington To Leash AI
Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, wants to write a hard rule into law: no AI system gets to rewrite its own core goals or improve itself without a human checking first, not until the government sets up real safeguards. He is calling it the Human Control Over AI Act. It would create a new…
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Samsung Just Bet A Billion Dollars On AI’s Plumbing
Samsung just put a billion dollars into a company most people have never heard of. It is called Helix. Not a chip, not an app, not a model. Helix builds the physical stuff AI actually needs to run: data centers, power generation, transmission lines, the fiber that carries all of it. It launched back in…
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OpenAI Just Pulled Its Own Model Off The Table
OpenAI built a new model called GPT-6.1 Astra. Then they looked at how it behaved in testing and decided not to ship it. That is rare. Companies usually push forward, patch problems later, let users find the edges. OpenAI’s own head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, said the model “didn’t quite meet the bar.” It…
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Trump and Amodei Finally Had Their Private Dinner
Six months ago these two men were openly at odds. Dario Amodei, who runs Anthropic, had been warning that AI companies need to slow down. Trump had been saying the opposite, that slowing down just hands the race to China. A federal court sided with the Pentagon over Anthropic in a supply chain dispute. The…