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Anthropic told US senators and the White House that operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen AI lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude's capabilities through 28.8 million exchanges between April and June 2026, surpassing all previous known Chinese distillation campaigns combined.
The European Commission said it preliminarily views Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers, despite neither meeting the law's numerical bars — the first time cloud infrastructure has been targeted under DMA gatekeeper rules.
Adobe has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Topaz Labs, whose Emmy Award-winning AI models for video upscaling, noise removal, and image restoration will integrate across Firefly, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop.
For the first time, a commercial robotic spacecraft will attempt to capture and reboost a government satellite, keeping a 22-year-old astronomy mission alive.
Three weeks after Cisco released patches for a critical SSRF flaw in Unified Communications Manager, attackers are now deploying webshells on enterprise telephony systems via Tor-based automated sweeps.
Researchers at Novee Security found a systemic CI/CD misconfiguration that lets anyone with a free GitHub account inject malicious code into packages published by major tech firms.
Google's parent company becomes the fifth major tech firm in the 30-stock blue-chip index, with S&P Global citing Alphabet's AI, cloud, and advertising exposure as key drivers.
At its annual Config conference, Figma announced Code Layers bringing executable React code onto the collaborative design canvas, alongside a natural-language AI plugin builder and Figma Motion, a native timeline-based animation system.
Backed by Bain Capital and $150 million in federal CHIPS Act funding, xLight wants to replace ASML's plasma-based EUV light source with a particle accelerator capable of reaching 2-nanometer wavelengths — and it has Pat Gelsinger as executive chairman.
Hackers used OAuth tokens stolen from market intelligence vendor Klue to access LastPass's Salesforce environment, stealing customer names, phone numbers, email addresses, and support case records. Password vaults were not compromised.
The inference processor is OpenAI's first purpose-built silicon and its first move toward hardware independence. Early tests show better performance-per-watt than current alternatives, though it remains in the testing phase.
World Leaks — a rebrand of the Hunters International ransomware operation — posted 204,000 files allegedly including Apple iPhone quality inspection standards and Tesla manufacturing documents. Tata confirmed the breach but said operations are unaffected.