* The Databricks Platform with Unity Catalog helps Japanese financial institutions implement technical controls that align with the FISC Security Guidelines. * Centralized governance, fine‑grained permissions, encryption, and audit logging make it easier to …
Data center power startup Emerald AI Inc. today said that it had raised $150 million in new funding in an oversubscribed round at a valuation of $1.05 billion. Emerald will put the money into scaling commercial deployments worldwide. The company’s core produc…
Artificial intelligence startup Keenable.ai Inc. said today it has exited stealth with $26 million in funding to try and revamp a web search infrastructure that was built for humans, rather than the billions of autonomous agents that many believe will soon do…
Artificial intelligence was supposed to shrink the software industry from both directions at once: fewer employees needed to run a SaaS company, and fewer customers willing to pay for one when they could build the tool themselves. The most recent earnings sea…
Autonomous trucking company Gatik AI Inc. today announced a $200 million Series D round to expand its driverless fleet. Gatik said the money will take it from dozens of trucks on the road today to more than 100 by the end of this year. Founded in 2017, Gatik’…
The world’s most widely used messaging app adds stronger two-step verification and allows for more than one passkey.
Sam Altman has expressed concerns that large companies with AI interests are determining the direction the technology takes, rather than society
Frontier AI has accelerated cyber threats to machine speed, leaving many ANZ organisations vulnerable. Our latest research reveals how fragmented data and visibility gaps hinder defence and why a unified platform is essential to battle threats.
Chinese AI lab Z.ai is releasing an open-weight model on Friday that it says rivals frontier Western AI in cybersecurity capabilities, reigniting debates over whether advanced technologies should be publicly accessible. After several hacking incidents, AI fir…
BMW picked a fitting motorcycle to mark ten years at its factory in Manaus, Brazil: the R 1300 GS Adventure was the exact model that rolled off the line as the plant's 150,000th unit. To celebrate, BMW built ten examples,...
Alabama's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether inadequate safeguards contributed to an incident in which an unreleased cybersecurity model escaped its isolated environment and hacked Hugging Face. TechCrunch reports:…
AI trust, safety and security company Alice today announced a $140 million funding round led by Apax Digital Funds. Until a rebrand earlier this year the company was called ActiveFence. It sells adversarial testing and guardrails for AI models, with frontier …
OpenAI has paused some frontier model training after an AI agent escaped a test environment and hacked Hugging Face The post OpenAI warns AI cyberattacks could become “persistent” appeared first on Digital Journal.
Happy Tuesday! Here’s your Tuesday Tech Drop, some of the past week’s top stories from the intersection of politics and technology. DOJ apparently hires election hacker The Justice Department appears to have hired someone convicted of hacking election website…
Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced Portable Computer, an artificial intelligence agent designed to run on desktops equipped with Nvidia Corp. silicon. The launch follows a report that Nvidia is weighing an investment in the startup that could value it at ove…
CAPE COD, Mass., Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ocean Edge Resort and Golf Club ("Ocean Edge") issued notice of a data security event that potentially affected information related to certain individuals. On July 31, 2025, Ocean Edge became aware of susp…
As the federal government announces dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs against the United States, the mayors of Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., reaffirmed their commitment Tuesday to strengthen economic ties between the two cities.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced that a breach last year exposed customer and employee information. [...]
This post announces the availability of a new independent assessment report available on AWS Artifact analyzing how Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) can automatically deploy multi-account environments in Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Australian Governme…
You're not going to believe this, but turns out you can't always take criminals at their word. Actually, I'll walk that back a bit as it may not even be the cybercrime guys who got this wrong, but it all starts here: Cyber Alert ‼️ US - …
Inside the Pakistan Instructors & Partners Summit 2026—how nearly 60 newly trained instructors, 32 new MoUs, and hands-on Cisco Packet Tracer learning are building career pathways in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
AI labs' security breaches highlight the urgent need for robust containment strategies and regulatory standards to prevent real-world risks. The post AI labs rethink testing methods after models breach security in multiple incidents appeared first on Crypto B…
Kubernetes-native security operator that automates vulnerability scanning, configuration auditing, secret detection, RBAC analysis, and compliance reporting using Trivy.
Sampura Research's focus on hybrid AI oversight could enhance accountability and trust in AI systems, addressing critical evaluation challenges. The post Former Google DeepMind researchers launch Sampura Research with $11M to build better AI oversight appeare…
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