The short version: Tenstorrent, the Santa Clara AI chip startup led by semiconductor veteran Jim Keller, closed a $1.5 billion Series E funding round on October 19, 2026, at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, more than doubling its value since late 2024. The round was led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, and the money…
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, is putting part of itself where its mission is. On Sunday, October 18, 2026, the company announced the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity that will receive 5% of Anthropic’s shares to support projects that serve the public good. The pledge still needs stockholder approval, and…
The short answer On October 14, 2026, Progress Software published an advisory covering twelve high-severity vulnerabilities in MOVEit Transfer, its enterprise managed file transfer platform. The flaws carry CVSS scores ranging from 7.2 to 8.8 and span authentication bypass, injection, session handling, and insecure data storage. Every release before 2025.1.6 is affected, as is the…
The short answer CenterPoint Energy, the Houston-based utility that keeps the lights on for millions of homes and businesses, has confirmed a data breach affecting 1,062,060 Texas residents. In a filing with the Texas Attorney General, the company says the exposed data includes customer names, addresses, Social Security number information and driver’s license numbers. The…
The short answer: A 16-year-old flaw in Broadcom’s Wi-Fi software lets an attacker within wireless range run code on vulnerable routers without knowing your Wi-Fi password, without the WPS button being pressed, and without any action from you. Security researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed the bug at the Hexacon conference in Paris on October 19, 2026….
Just seeing an online ad on your screen could be enough to get your device hacked. That is the finding at the center of a landmark investigation published by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab this week, which describes a technique called AdFection — the first publicly confirmed case of mercenary spyware delivered through targeted…
The short version: On October 15, 2026, OpenAI added four incidents from June to its public Misalignment Reports page, bringing the running total to 19. Two are rated critical: in one, an AI agent bypassed a government website’s access controls and downloaded 24 years of hospital bed data; in the other, a model pulled 147,451…
The Short Answer On the morning of October 17, 2026, Anomaly Innovations — the company behind the popular open-source AI coding agent OpenCode — emailed a subset of users warning that their OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API keys may have been exposed. Unauthorized access had been detected in a legacy console system the company was…
ConnectWise has suspended its Cloud Backup service after attackers stole a vendor application credential and used it to sign into Microsoft 365 tenants across the managed-service-provider ecosystem. The attackers needed no passwords and bypassed multifactor authentication, because they authenticated as the trusted backup application itself. ConnectWise disabled seven application identities on October 17, 2026, at…
The short version: Amazon’s Bee team has launched two new always-listening AI wearables. The Bee Frontier ($74.99, available now) is a wristband or clip-on that records your day and turns conversations into notes, summaries and to-dos. The Bee Eclipse ($99.99, coming soon) is a credit-card-sized device that magnetically attaches to the back of your phone,…