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  1. The Next Web

    Anthropic founders to keep 50.1% of votes after IPO through Founder LLC

    Anthropic’s seven co-founders will hold 50.1% of the company’s voting power after it lists. They will do so through a new entity called the Founder LLC, according to a draft IPO filing reviewed by Reuters. The setup is meant to let them put the company’s mission ahead of market pressure. Still, the...

  2. The Next Web

    Marble raises €6.5M Series A led by Smartfin for its open-source fraud and AML platform

    The Paris-based company Marble, which develops open-source software for fraud detection and anti-money laundering compliance, raised €6.5 million in its Series A round, with Smartfin as the lead investor. This brings the total funding to €9 million, with ADNEXUS as a new investor, while existing...

  3. The Next Web

    Meta signs deal for Firmus AI computing capacity in Southeast Asia

    Meta has signed deals to rent AI chips at data centers in Southeast Asia run by Firmus, an Australian company that builds them, the two companies announced. Meta has reserved a certain amount of capacity and can add more if needed. Also, the company plans to use the chips to research, build, and...

  4. Help Net Security

    GitHub’s AI agent found 24 Android app vulnerabilities

    GitHub Security Lab researcher Kevin Stubbings built custom AI-driven audit workflows, called taskflows, on top of the lab’s open source Taskflow Agent, and used them to find and report more than 20 vulnerabilities in Android apps. Two of the disclosed bugs show what’s at stake. In OsmAnd, a...

  5. Security Week

    Apple Patches Meta-Reported Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’

    Apple has released iOS and macOS updates to patch the zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-86950. The post Apple Patches Meta-Reported Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  6. The Hacker News

    Official MCP Python SDK Flaw Can Let Malicious Servers Steal OAuth Credentials

    A malicious MCP server could trick an application built on the official MCP Python SDK into handing over the OAuth credentials it uses to log in to a real service, the SDK's maintainers said in a security advisory. Affected versions sent the client secret, the authorization code, and the PKCE proof...

  7. The Hacker News

    OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra After Tests Find Deception and Unauthorized Actions

    OpenAI on Monday shelved plans to release GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model that was planned for an October launch, after it failed internal safety and alignment audits. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The move "marks a rare case of a...

  8. Help Net Security

    A four-week plan to tackle vendor concentration risk

    In this Help Net Security video, Guilliano Molaire, founder of Skycloak, explains how to map vendor concentration risk. A company may pay 30 vendors and think its tools are spread out, but many of those vendors run on the same few providers underneath, such as one cloud, one identity provider, one...

  9. Wired

    NordVPN Coupons: 75% Off, Plus 3 Months Free in October 2026

    Save up to 77% on 2-year plans and get 3 free months with our NordVPN discount codes.

  10. The Hacker News

    OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot

    OpenAI said it has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models after one of its agents during reinforcement learning (RL) training contacted an external chatbot by exploiting a loophole in its internet-access restrictions. "An agent attempting to complete a search-based training...

  11. Help Net Security

    Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: September 2026

    Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira Sift is a free...

  12. Help Net Security

    Cybersecurity jobs available right now: September 29, 2026

    Application Security Researcher Novee Security | Israel | Hybrid – View job details As an Application Security Researcher, you will test web applications and APIs to verify vulnerabilities found by Novee’s AI platform and document how they can be exploited. You will help customers reproduce and fix...

  13. The Next Web

    Soneium and DayOneDream partner to bring K-pop IP onchain

    Soneium has partnered with DayOneDream to bring K-pop intellectual property onchain as tokenised assets. Sony Group and Startale Group developed the Soneium blockchain. DayOneDream is the entertainment group behind K-pop artists including BTOB, LEE CHAE YEON, MEMI and 2F. It also runs global...

  14. CSO Online

    Nvidia releases Open Agent Safety Platform to monitor and govern agentic AI

    Nvidia on Monday rolled out an agentic governance system called the Open Agent Safety Platform that combines software with out-of-band DPU-based silicon in a reference system design that it says will secure agents “from testing to deployment.” But while the Nvidia design’s silicon-based component...

  15. Wired

    Nothing’s New Headphone (1) Pro Are Made for the Studio

    With three drivers in each ear and tuning from Metropolis Studios, Nothing wants its new $399 cans to shine in the studio while also making your commute more musical.

  16. NY Times

    OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns

    The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.

  17. Washington Post

    OpenAI cancels new AI launch, citing safety issues

    The cancellation of the new release comes days after OpenAI said it stopped training powerful new AI after safety incidents.

  18. Dark Reading

    Nvidia Launches AI Agent Safety Platform to Prevent Rogue Activities

    The Open Agent Safety Platform relies on both hardware and software components to monitor agent activities and quarantine unruly agents before they cause harm.

  19. Washington Post

    Bill Gates warns of ‘a billion’ deaths if AI goes wrong

    ‘There’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools,’ he said in a recent interview.

  20. Wired

    Shark’s NeverChange Air Purifier Is Nearly Half Off Right Now

    Shark and other top air purifier brands are on discount ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days.