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French foundation model developer Mistral AI SAS is reportedly in talks to raise €3 billion, or about $3.5 billion, from investors. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the round could value the company at €20 billion. That’s nearly double the valuation it received after its most recent raise in September. The €1.7 billion investment was led by ASML Holdings NV, the world’s top maker of advanced lithography machines. Today’s report didn’t specify the investors who could participate in Mistral’s new raise. ASML might chip in given that late-stage funding rounds often include contributions from existing backers. Mistral’s investor roster…
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Tata Consultancy Services has finalized a global premier partnership with Anthropic, aiming to move frontier artificial intelligence from experimental pilot projects into scaled enterprise production. Under the agreement, the IT services giant will establish a dedicated corporate business unit focused on Anthropic’s Claude models, while immediately equipping 50,000 of its own internal employees across engineering, finance, legal, and marketing with enterprise licenses. The joint strategy targets high-consequence sectors like healthcare, aviation, and financial services, where operational errors carry severe regulatory penalties. The strategic alignment comes during a volatile market correction. Shares of TCS touched a 52-week low this week, caught…
Behavioral Baseline MonitoringLearns normal workload behavior; flags only statistically significant deviations, not every anomalyFileless attacks, lateral movement, insider threatsRuntime ProtectionEvaluates process execution in context; auto-scaling and pipeline tasks are recognized as expectedMemory-based exploits, malicious code injection, zero-daysContinuous Vulnerability AssessmentScores findings by exploitability, not just existence, cutting thousands of low-priority CVE alertsActively reachable vulnerabilities with real attack pathsFile Integrity Monitoring (Context-Aware)Suppresses FIM alerts within authorized change windows; flags unexpected modifications outside themUnauthorized file changes, tampered binaries, rootkitsCloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)Cross-references alert severity with actual configuration risk; reduces noise from overly broad policiesMisconfigurations, IAM drift, compliance violationsUnified Platform CorrelationMerges network, endpoint,…
The city-state’s hiring outlook has fallen to a five-year low Singapore employers are turning more cautious on hiring for the third quarter of 2026. According to ManpowerGroup’s latest Employment Outlook Survey, only 35% of employers in Singapore plan to increase headcount between Jul and Sept. Meanwhile, 41% expect no change to staffing levels, while 22% anticipate reducing their workforce. Based on responses from 599 employers, Singapore’s Net Employment Outlook (NEO) for Q3 2026 came in at 13%, down 11 percentage points both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year. This marks the softest hiring outlook since Q4 2021, when the NEO stood at -2%.…
Google has introduced Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a new AI-powered speech-to-speech translation model designed to enable near real-time conversations between people speaking different languages. The technology marks a significant advancement in live translation, offering more natural and fluid communication while preserving key elements of a speaker’s voice, including tone, pacing, and pitch. The launch represents the latest milestone in Google’s decades-long effort to improve language translation through artificial intelligence. According to the company, Gemini 3.5 Live Translate can automatically detect more than 70 languages and generate translated speech just seconds behind the original speaker, creating a smoother experience than traditional…
Portable monitors have become the Swiss Army knives of modern tech. They travel with remote workers, expand cramped laptop screens, and occasionally double as gaming displays in hotel rooms. Most of them also follow a familiar formula: a basic Full HD panel, a foldable cover, and a price that stays comfortably under $250. Ugreen clearly looked at that formula and decided to ignore it. The company’s new AP16 portable monitor has officially landed in the U.S., bringing a feature list that feels more like a premium desktop display than something designed to slip into a backpack. The catch is that…
Ravie LakshmananJun 12, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have described what they say is a new class of attack that can trick artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents into running arbitrary code on developer machines. Called Agentjacking by Tenet Security, the attack can be triggered by means of a fake error report crafted using Sentry, an open-source error-tracking and performance-monitoring platform. “The attack exploits a critical architectural flaw at the intersection of Sentry’s event ingestion (which accepts arbitrary payloads from anyone with the DSN) and the Sentry MCP server (which returns this data to AI agents as trusted system output),”…
Tod Higinbotham, CEO of ZincFive. (LinkedIn Photo) ZincFive, an Oregon company providing nickel-zinc batteries for data centers, announced Thursday that it’s partnering with SparkLabs Group to go public through a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company). The deal is valued at $600 million before additional investments. ZincFive has nearly 2 gigawatts of battery systems either sold or under contract, and reports that its revenue more than doubled from 2024 to approximately $66.9 million last year. It ended the year with a backlog of orders totaling $81 million. The new capital will allow ZincFive to scale manufacturing at two plants in China,…
On a blustery March day, the artist Jim Sanborn received visitors at his studio on an isolated island in the Chesapeake Bay. The visitors sat him down in front of a laptop, and he typed in a secret message. They compressed the message using a unique hash function, sent that to the cloud, and wiped the laptop clean. Sanborn hoped that this action would set him free. But did it?That’s the latest twist in the story of Kryptos, the famous Sanborn sculpture that’s been sitting outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, since 1990. The artwork is a copper S-curve that…