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Licensing Costs Driving 90% of VMware Users To Explore Options, Survey Finds (slashdot.org)
2026-10-7 VMware

Flai, which makes AI tools for car dealerships to manage phone calls, emails, and texts, raised a $27M Series A led by Base10 Partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-7 AI

Mistral Unveils New 'Le Chonk' AI Model It Says Rivals Best Open Systems From China (news.slashdot.org)
2026-10-7 China AI

Atlassian warns of critical file-access flaw in Jira, Confluence (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-7 Atlassian

Sources: AI neocloud Lambda is raising up to $4B led by Blackstone and Coatue at a pre-money valuation of $14.5B in a final round before its planned IPO (www.wsj.com)
2026-10-7 IPO AI

ASOS confirms data breach after “HACKED” in-app notifications (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-7

A look at consumer AI trends: ChatGPT has 3x more US subscribers than Claude or Gemini, the top 1% of spenders drive 19.5% of spend, and AI agents gain traction (a16z.com)
2026-10-7 AI

Navra, founded by SoFi and Figure co-founder Mike Cagney to make on-chain lending and securities markets more accessible, raised a $19M Series A led by Ribbit (www.axios.com)
2026-10-7

Google DeepMind launches EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter model to map code, images, video, and audio in a shared embedding space, under an Apache 2.0 license (blog.google)
2026-10-7 Google

Anthropic expands its Claude Startups program, including up to $45K in discounts and credits via the Claude Startup Stack and a one-time $1,000 API credit (www.cnbc.com)
2026-10-7 Startup

Researchers Are Tracking a Chinese AI 'Agent Fleet' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-10-7 China AI

Cable Lobby To Sue Trump FCC Over Repeal of National TV Ownership Cap (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-10-7 Trump

Vinci, which makes software used to simulate elements of chip and other hardware design, raised $250M at a $1.5B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-7

Fake ChatGPT, Gemini Sites steal advertising accounts, MFA codes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-7

Anduril lands an up to $2.9B US Navy contract to make Virginia-class submarine components, days after Palmer Luckey was named to a DOD future weapons task force (www.cnbc.com)
2026-10-7 Virginia

How to secure RMM software: 8 controls MSPs should test (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-7

Mistral releases Mistral Large 4, dubbed “le Chonk”, a 1T-parameter open-weight model for general agentic capabilities, trained on 4,000 Grace Blackwell GPUs (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-10-7

Uber agrees to acquire Boston-based catering platform ezCater in an all-cash deal valued at $2.3B to expand Uber Eats into corporate food delivery (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-7 Uber

UK retailer Asos falls 10%+ after customers received app notifications saying “we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance”; source: Asos is investigating (www.ft.com)
2026-10-6

Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI talent; for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the US in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey (www.nytimes.com)
2026-10-6 China AI

Anthropic's IPO prospectus: Dario Amodei earned $18M in 2025, middle of the pack for tech CEOs, and President Daniela Amodei, his sister, earned $16.4M (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-6 IPO

OpenAI Is Adding Text Watermarking In ChatGPT and Codex (slashdot.org)
2026-10-6

Google contracts for 3.6 GW of power from Constellation Energy in the US' largest power grid, with new nuclear energy accounting for ~25% of that supply (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-6 Google Energy

Source: Palmer Luckey's Erebor hits $7B+ in deposits since launching in February, including $3B+ over the past quarter with 500+ new customers (www.ft.com)
2026-10-6

Nikkei discloses breaches of employees' Microsoft, Google email accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-6 Google Microsoft

Engineer sentenced for locking over 3,000 devices on employer network (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-6

Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-6

Pay $56 once for 2TB of lifetime FileJump cloud storage (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-6

Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive security service, raised $40M co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, taking its total funding to $65M (tech.eu)
2026-10-6 AI

Sources: the FBI removes an Accenture contractor over a breach exposing thousands of employees' data; the FBI says a contractor failed to apply a security patch (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-6 FBI

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