Closed AI Models Aren't a Safety Guarantee, July Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic Show
Technology

Closed AI Models Aren't a Safety Guarantee, July Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic Show

Two July containment failures at OpenAI and Anthropic show closed models can still reach the outside world - pushing AI ...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 39 💬 0
AI Search Is Rewiring SEO — and the Industry Is Already Trying to Game It
Technology

AI Search Is Rewiring SEO — and the Industry Is Already Trying to Game It

Self-dealing listicles, hidden prompt injections and synthetic-prompt tools are the new battleground as marketers race t...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 29 💬 0
IAB unveils AI visibility measurement framework to clean up fragmented ad-tech tools
Technology

IAB unveils AI visibility measurement framework to clean up fragmented ad-tech tools

The trade group’s new framework defines four Ps of AI visibility and two measurement tiers to help marketers compare mor...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 38 💬 0
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max: China's Largest Open AI Model Takes Aim at OpenAI and Anthropic
Technology

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max: China's Largest Open AI Model Takes Aim at OpenAI and Anthropic

Alibaba unveiled its 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max, claiming it rivals Anthropic and OpenAI models as China's AI pu...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 34 💬 0
BTS choreographer Youngjun Choi's MVNT wants to be the AI Suno of K-pop dance
Technology

BTS choreographer Youngjun Choi's MVNT wants to be the AI Suno of K-pop dance

Choreographer Youngjun Choi and CEO Joon Jung are building MVNT, an AI dance generator that aims to give dancers royalti...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 33 💬 0
Terra Biga: How a Burkina Faso Startup Is Digitising African Solidarity
Technology

Terra Biga: How a Burkina Faso Startup Is Digitising African Solidarity

After a banking career in Europe, Batiana Nacro returned home to turn community tontines into a transparent mobile-money...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 31 💬 0
Windows Malware HOLLOWGRAPH Uses Microsoft 365 Calendars as a Covert Command Channel
Technology

Windows Malware HOLLOWGRAPH Uses Microsoft 365 Calendars as a Covert Command Channel

Group-IB says HOLLOWGRAPH malware abuses Microsoft 365 calendars and the Graph API to receive commands and steal files, ...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 33 💬 0
Google's $200B AI Chip Financing Deal for Anthropic Takes Aim at Nvidia
Technology

Google's $200B AI Chip Financing Deal for Anthropic Takes Aim at Nvidia

Google, Broadcom and Wall Street lenders built a roughly $200 billion financing network to supply Anthropic with AI chip...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 58 💬 0
Apple Faces Russian Antitrust Probe Over Refusal to Pre-Install Local Apps
Technology

Apple Faces Russian Antitrust Probe Over Refusal to Pre-Install Local Apps

Russia's FAS opened an antitrust case against Apple after the company missed a July 15 deadline to allow pre-installatio...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 44 💬 0
AWS's Byron Cook: Don't Kill AI Hallucinations—Build Guardrails That Prove Limits
Technology

AWS's Byron Cook: Don't Kill AI Hallucinations—Build Guardrails That Prove Limits

AWS's Byron Cook argues AI hallucinations should be governed, not eliminated, and makes the case for mathematical proof ...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 36 💬 0
Chainlink Explained: How the Oracle Network Connects Blockchains to Real-World Data
Technology

Chainlink Explained: How the Oracle Network Connects Blockchains to Real-World Data

Chainlink bridges the gap between blockchains and the outside world using a decentralized oracle network. A look at how ...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 41 💬 0
Cardano Explained: The Scientist-Built Blockchain Taking on Ethereum
Technology

Cardano Explained: The Scientist-Built Blockchain Taking on Ethereum

Cardano, the proof-of-stake blockchain co-founded by Ethereum's Charles Hoskinson, aims to fix Ethereum's scalability pr...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 32 💬 0
Solana 101: The High-Speed Ethereum Rival Behind the SOL Token
Technology

Solana 101: The High-Speed Ethereum Rival Behind the SOL Token

A closer look at the blockchain network that claims 50,000 transactions per second and how its SOL token fits into the p...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 39 💬 0
Israel's 50-Year Innovation Push: How a Small Nation Became a Global Tech Hub
Technology

Israel's 50-Year Innovation Push: How a Small Nation Became a Global Tech Hub

Israel built one of the world's densest innovation ecosystems in five decades — but its scale-up story runs on foreign c...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 33 💬 0
Solana's Pitch: An Ethereum Rival Built to Handle 50,000 Transactions a Second
Technology

Solana's Pitch: An Ethereum Rival Built to Handle 50,000 Transactions a Second

A profile of Solana, the Ethereum rival launched in 2020 on a speed-first design — and why its 50,000 TPS claim still le...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 37 💬 0
Solana's Pitch: A High-Speed Ethereum Rival and What Its Technology Actually Promises
Technology

Solana's Pitch: A High-Speed Ethereum Rival and What Its Technology Actually Promises

A look at Solana, the fast-blockchain challenger to Ethereum, its proof-of-history design, and why its biggest claims re...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 41 💬 0
Cardano Explained: The 'Ethereum Killer' That Still Has to Prove Itself
Technology

Cardano Explained: The 'Ethereum Killer' That Still Has to Prove Itself

A plain-English look at Cardano, the proof-of-stake blockchain founded by ex-Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson — and...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 33 💬 0
Cardano's 'Third-Generation' Pitch: A Science-First Blockchain Still Out to Prove Itself
Technology

Cardano's 'Third-Generation' Pitch: A Science-First Blockchain Still Out to Prove Itself

A profile of Cardano, the proof-of-stake blockchain founded by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson, and what its scala...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 32 💬 0
Angola's Digital Hub Ambitions Hinge on Institutions, Not Just Infrastructure
Technology

Angola's Digital Hub Ambitions Hinge on Institutions, Not Just Infrastructure

Angola wants to be a regional digital hub built on the Lobito Corridor and AI ambitions — but analysts argue strong inst...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 35 💬 0
Slovak Startup Flies a Plane From a Bratislava Desk Using Starlink
Technology

Slovak Startup Flies a Plane From a Bratislava Desk Using Starlink

Schochman Aviation says it remotely took control of a light aircraft over a Starlink link, targeting flight training and...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 37 💬 0
Aiper's Scuba V3 Pool Robots Pitch AI Convenience and a Privacy Guarantee
Technology

Aiper's Scuba V3 Pool Robots Pitch AI Convenience and a Privacy Guarantee

Aiper's Scuba V3 and V3 Ultra aim to make pool cleaning a hands-off job, leaning on AI navigation and a TÜV privacy cert...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 35 💬 0
Benioff-Backed June Raises $20M to Automate Enterprise AI Deployment
Technology

Benioff-Backed June Raises $20M to Automate Enterprise AI Deployment

Former Salesforce executives launch June with $20M from Marc Benioff's Time Ventures to automate the messy work of enter...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 52 💬 0
Horizon3 raises $250M at $2B valuation as AI-powered security testing demand grows
Technology

Horizon3 raises $250M at $2B valuation as AI-powered security testing demand grows

Horizon3 tripled its valuation in 14 months with a $250M Series E, as enterprises shift from annual pen testing to conti...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 31 💬 0
NASA's Artemis III Will Dock Orion With Both SpaceX and Blue Origin Landers in 2027
Technology

NASA's Artemis III Will Dock Orion With Both SpaceX and Blue Origin Landers in 2027

NASA will use Artemis III in 2027 as an orbital rehearsal, docking Orion with lunar lander prototypes from SpaceX and Bl...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 33 💬 0
44% of Web Attacks on Russian Companies Now Multi-Stage, Study Finds
Technology

44% of Web Attacks on Russian Companies Now Multi-Stage, Study Finds

A WMX and Servicepipe study seen by Vedomosti finds 44% of web attacks on Russian firms in H1 2026 were multi-stage, wit...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 36 💬 0
AI Agents Reach Programmatic Ad Deals in PubMatic–Optable Integration
Technology

AI Agents Reach Programmatic Ad Deals in PubMatic–Optable Integration

PubMatic and Optable are connecting buy- and sell-side AI agents so publishers can package first-party data into program...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 38 💬 0
NASA Delivers Compact Navigation Payload for Intuitive Machines' Altus-1 Lunar Relay
Technology

NASA Delivers Compact Navigation Payload for Intuitive Machines' Altus-1 Lunar Relay

NASA's shoebox-sized NavCube3-mini receiver will ride on Intuitive Machines' first lunar relay satellite, testing GPS-ba...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 58 💬 0
RealAnalytica launches Atlas Agents, AI workforce for real estate brokerages
Technology

RealAnalytica launches Atlas Agents, AI workforce for real estate brokerages

RealAnalytica's Atlas Agents platform brings AI agents to lead follow-up, marketing and transaction work for brokerages,...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 37 💬 0
Memory, not compute: Majestic Labs bets LPDDR6 pooling can crack Nvidia's AI wall
Technology

Memory, not compute: Majestic Labs bets LPDDR6 pooling can crack Nvidia's AI wall

Tel Aviv startup Majestic Labs says AI inference is bottlenecked by memory, not GPUs — and its Arm-based Prometheus serv...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 35 💬 0
Horizon3 triples to $2bn valuation with $250m round as AI-hacking fears drive demand
Technology

Horizon3 triples to $2bn valuation with $250m round as AI-hacking fears drive demand

Autonomous pentesting startup Horizon3 raised $250m at a $2bn valuation, betting the week's AI containment breaches will...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 34 💬 0