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OpenAI’s new funding round climbs to $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation

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…

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SonicWall fixes exploited SSL-VPN MFA bypass in SonicOS

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…

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AI spending growth cools as Anthropic approaches a public listing

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%…

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Anthropic’s chip-design pitch points to investor interest before its planned debut

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…

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Claude Code sends user email through HTTP headers in reported privacy leak

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…

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Dark Project ransomware expands with an 80% affiliate cut

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…

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Veeam Software Appliance boot failures hit some AMD EPYC hosts

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…

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Cursor expands managed app deployment on paid plans

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,…

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Palo Alto Networks could pay $500 million for Clutch Security

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…

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Microsoft says redesigned Xbox app launches 60% faster

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…

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U.S. government warns industrial refrigeration users of an ongoing cyber threat

U.S. government warns industrial refrigeration users of an ongoing cyber threat

The U.S. government has warned that industrial refrigeration units face an “ongoing cyber threat” after reports of cyberattacks on freezers and fridges in supermarkets around the world, U.S. military bases, and at least one blood bank. The alert covers internet-connected refrigeration and cold chain monitoring systems in grocery stores and cold storage facilities, and it says the hacks are affecting the food, agriculture, transportation, and medicine-shipping industries. Federal warning on…

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OpenMatter Network says decentralized AI can replace big data centers

OpenMatter Network says decentralized AI can replace big data centers

OpenMatter Network is presenting its decentralized computing platform as an alternative to massive, centralized data center development. The company says the model can keep supporting AI adoption by spreading computing workloads across distributed resources instead of relying mainly on large-scale data centers. The push comes as Tuesday’s midterm elections put public resistance to new data center facilities in the national spotlight. OpenMatter says that resistance does not have to slow…

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