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Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-1 Trump AI Oracle

Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-8-1 AI

Toronto-based Terminal, whose API connects insurance products and commercial fleet software with telematics data, raised a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures (betakit.com)
2026-8-1 Battery Toronto Insurance

Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-1 AI

Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (fortune.com)
2026-8-1 AI

ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (www.crn.com)
2026-8-1 AI

ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market that is also building a B2B business to sell its exchange infrastructure to other companies, raised $35M (www.axios.com)
2026-8-1 CFTC

Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-1 chatbot

OpenAI Finds Evidence Other AI Agents Escaped Containment (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 AI

Webinar: The state of shadow AI in 2026 (and how attackers are taking advantage) (pushsecurity.com)
2026-8-1 AI

A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA (arstechnica.com)
2026-8-1 Reddit

Sensor Tower: India's mobile app market generated a record $345M in consumer spending in Q2, up 35% YoY; ChatGPT ranked No. 1 by downloads and No. 2 by revenue (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-1 India Mobile Sensor

Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-1

The FTC clears quantum computing company IonQ's $1.8B acquisition of chipmaker SkyWater after the FTC's two members disagreed at first on imposing conditions (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-1 Quantum

The Major Labels Propose Rules to Keep AI Slop Off the Charts (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 AI

Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% (www.ft.com)
2026-8-1 Amazon

Amgen says cloud data breach exposed patient health, proprietary info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1

Sources: OpenAI demoed a new “Astra” AI model family to US policymakers and regulators this week, touting its improved abilities to complete long-running tasks (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-1 AI

Most Australian Teens Still On Social Media Three Months After Ban (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Australia Ban Social Media

Amazon shares closed up 15.32% on Friday, the biggest one-day jump since April 2012, after the company reported accelerating AWS revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-1 Amazon

Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 Linux

Roblox shares close down ~27%, its worst-ever daily percentage decline, after the company forecasted declining bookings and slowing revenue growth (www.barrons.com)
2026-8-1

Online ad firm Adform's script compromised to steal cryptocurrency (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 Cryptocurrency

Sony Heard Backlash Over Dropping PlayStation Discs, Plans to Press Ahead (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Sony

Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-1 AI

FBI and EPA say water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states reported cyberattacks this week, with some causing flooding and other operational issues (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-1 FBI

Hackers Targeted Municipal Water Systems In 7 States This Week, FBI Says (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 FBI

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs the Children's Social Media Safety Act, a bill designed to limit children's access to “addictive” social media algorithms (capitolnewsillinois.com)
2026-8-1 Algorithm Social Media

New Google Earth AI Tool Could Fuel Misinformation, Experts Say (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Google AI

Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add “stronger guardrails” after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery (www.npr.org)
2026-8-1 Google

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