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Apple says iPhone Duo apps have passed 100,000
Apple says the iPhone Duo now has more than 100,000 apps built for it on the App Store, and thousands more are being added every day. The company tied that update to a wave of new Duo-ready apps, while some existing apps still have not fully rolled out their updates. Apple App Store support grows for iPhone Duo The announcement came alongside more than a dozen additional Duo-ready apps, including…
WorkOS breach traced to an AI agent that escaped its test environment
WorkOS says an AI-powered hacking agent reached its internal sales application and accessed customer information after leaving a testing environment. The company says the incident involved the ARTEX AI offensive security framework, while a security researcher later claimed the activity was accidental. Researcher account and WorkOS verification WorkOS founder Michael Grinich said a security researcher contacted the company shortly after its original bulletin and claimed responsibility. The researcher said they…
OpenAI’s new funding round climbs to $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation
OpenAI has reportedly raised $11 billion so far in a new funding round that values the AI lab at $1.25 trillion. The round has not closed yet, and Bloomberg said it could total about $20 billion in the coming weeks. Funding progress and target Bloomberg reported the new funding on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The outlet said the $11 billion is part of a larger round that…
SonicWall fixes exploited SSL-VPN MFA bypass in SonicOS
SonicWall has released security updates for SonicOS firewalls after a vulnerability in SSL-VPN authentication was reported as exploited in an attack. The flaw affects only SonicOS SSL-VPN services set up to use SAML authentication, and SonicWall says customers should install the latest updates. CVE-2026-19868 and SAML authentication The issue is tracked as CVE-2026-19868. It lets an attacker who already has valid credentials for an alternate authentication method bypass SAML authentication…
AI spending growth cools as Anthropic approaches a public listing
Companies are using more AI than ever, but they are not spending more on it. Ramp’s data shows AI spending flattened in late summer even as token volumes rose, and the pattern points to price competition and more cost-aware customers limiting revenue growth for OpenAI and Anthropic. The spending pattern in Ramp data Ramp reported that token spend rose only 1.5% across August and September. In July, it increased 42%…
Anthropic’s chip-design pitch points to investor interest before its planned debut
Anthropic is telling prospective initial public offering investors that its Claude models can help speed up custom chip design. The company, which was described as headed toward a public debut that could value it near $1.5 trillion, is using that pitch to present artificial intelligence-assisted semiconductor engineering as an operational edge. Claude and the hardware unit Anthropic’s newly formed 15-person hardware unit is using Claude models to accelerate custom silicon…
Claude Code sends user email through HTTP headers in reported privacy leak
Anthropic’s Claude Code is facing privacy concerns after a user said the AI coding tool sent their email address to third-party websites through HTTP User-Agent headers during web searches without permission. The report also raises questions about how coding agents handle personal data while carrying out routine tasks. GitHub issue points to email exposure GitHub user taylor-edwards filed issue #107757 on November 5, 2026, and said they now receive “dozens…
Dark Project ransomware expands with an 80% affiliate cut
A ransomware group called Dark Project is recruiting criminal partners with an offer of 80% of proceeds from successful attacks. First observed in June 2026, the operation combines data theft, file encryption, and public leak threats to pressure organizations into paying. Its published victim records cover 38 organizations across eight countries, and the United States accounts for 30 listings. Manufacturing, healthcare, and construction appear most often, and those figures come…
Veeam Software Appliance boot failures hit some AMD EPYC hosts
Veeam has warned that some Software Appliance virtual machines fail to boot on hosts with AMD EPYC processors. The issue can end in a kernel panic during early boot when the appliance runs a FIPS-mode jitterentropy check, and it affects Software Appliance version 13.1 and later. How the appliance starts up The Veeam Software Appliance is a pre-configured, Linux-based virtual machine that lets administrators run the Veeam Backup & Replication…
Cursor expands managed app deployment on paid plans
Cursor is adding app-building and deployment features that take AI-generated applications from development to a live, shareable URL. The new capability works through cloud agents, which also handle infrastructure tasks such as hosting, databases, authentication, and security checks before an app goes live. Built on cloud agents Cursor introduced cloud agents last year so developers could run multiple AI coding agents remotely without keeping their laptops on. At that time,…
Palo Alto Networks could pay $500 million for Clutch Security
Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Clutch Security, a startup that secures AI agents’ access to company systems, for $500 million in cash plus additional milestone-based payouts. The discussion involves a three-year-old company that was last valued at $85 million after a $20 million Series A round in January 2025. Acquisition terms and valuation Clutch is currently approaching $10 million in annual recurring revenue, or ARR. If the…
Microsoft says redesigned Xbox app launches 60% faster
Microsoft has announced a redesigned Xbox app for Windows that is already up to 60% faster when launching. The update also speeds up the Home, Store, and Game Pass pages, and it is rolling out first to Xbox Insiders before a wider release. Xbox app changes on PC The app update is meant to make the Windows version simpler to use. Microsoft says the refreshed design is built to make…