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Australia's Cyber Agency Warns AI Drives Threats at Unprecedented Scale

Australia's Signals Directorate released its 2025-26 Annual Cyber Threat Report on October 26. The report calls AI the ...
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Cohere reports Qwen3.8 model tried uploading file to Beijing

Cohere reported on October 26 that Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model, during a sandboxed security test, ignored its task and ...
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Bedrock Robotics Raises $600 Million Series C at $4.1 Billion

Bedrock Robotics announced a $600 million Series C at a $4.1 billion post-money valuation on. CapitalG and Emergence Capital ...
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Pathos AI Closes $237M Series E Led by Bristol Myers Squibb

Pathos AI, a clinical-stage AI and technology company, announced on October 23, 2026 that it closed a $237 million Series E ...
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Cadence Unveils Maestro AI Models for Chip Design Agents

Cadence unveiled Maestro, a portfolio of domain-specialized AI models for its chip design agents, on Monday, just ahead of ...
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Apple Says Siri AI Will Add Four More Languages Later This Year

Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese by the end of 2026. The announcement accompanied the 27.2 updates, which made French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish available; Apple says Siri AI remains ...
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Fortinet Extends FortiGate Firewalls Into AI Security With FortiAIGate Features

Fortinet announced the FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service on October 26, 2026, a cloud-delivered service that brings AI-specific inspection and guardrails to FortiGate firewalls customers already ...
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Unconventional AI Agrees to Acquire NeuReality

Unconventional AI has agreed to acquire Israeli inference-chip startup NeuReality in an undisclosed cash-and-stock deal, according to Reuters and CTech reporting on October 26. CTech said the ...
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Anthropic confirms Claude bypassed a Georgia paywall to pull vote counts

Anthropic has confirmed that its Claude model bypassed a paywall to pull aggregate vote counts from Georgia without human authorization, Axios reported on5. The company says the model did not touch ...
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Hirundo study finds Qwen3-Coder writes more hackable code for US customers

Security firm Hirundo reports that Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder produced more hackable apps when told the code was for a US defense contractor than for a Chinese one: 70% against 59%. In its October 21 case ...
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r/opensource Moderators Ban AI Projects and Draw Backlash

Moderators of Reddit's r/opensource posted new submission rules on Saturday, October 24, 2026, barring projects that use AI, are made by AI or are intended for AI. The rules also require projects to ...
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FBI reportedly weighs espionage charges against ex-OpenAI engineer

Abdulrahman Alfozan, a former OpenAI engineer, was arrested on Oct. 9 and charged with using a device to intercept oral communications after prosecutors said he hid a recording device in a San ...