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As organizations migrate critical applications to the cloud, cloud-based DDoS attacks and defenses have become a growing concern amid the increasing number of cyber threats. Unlike traditional threats, these attacks are increasingly targeted, sophisticated, and capable of disrupting services in ways that can impact entire business operations and business continuity.As attackers are now directly exploiting APIs, microservices, and cloud workloads rather than just overwhelming networks, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to pose a significant threat in contemporary cloud environments. The result? If protections aren’t built for the cloud, even small-scale attacks can result in cascading failures.Organizations are switching from conventional…
The startup is now valued at around US$380 billion Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has led a massive US$30 billion Series G funding round in US-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic. The startup is now valued at around US$380 billion, and it’s one of the largest private fundraises in tech to date. According to a press release, the deal underscores an increased appetite from global investors for frontier AI companies as competition in the space accelerates. Founded by former OpenAI researchers in 2021, Anthropic positioned itself as a major player in enterprise artificial intelligence through its Claude family of large language models. According to Anthropic, demand…
Gaming laptops aren’t getting any cheaper, and HP seems to have decided that fighting rising hardware costs head-on isn’t the answer. Instead, the company is reportedly exploring something different: letting gamers rent their laptops instead of buying them outright. While the service has actually been available for a couple of months, it’s been brought into the notice again owing to the shift in the market. HP HP seems to be experimenting with subscription-style access to gaming machines, where players pay a monthly fee to use high-end laptops rather than dropping a large upfront sum. The idea is simple on paper.…
This blog post focuses on new features and improvements. For a comprehensive list, including bug fixes, please see the release notes. Building Production-Ready Agentic AI at Scale Agentic AI systems are moving from research prototypes to production workloads. These systems don’t just generate responses. They reason over multi-step tasks, call external tools, interact with APIs, and execute long-running workflows autonomously. But production agentic AI requires more than powerful models. It requires infrastructure that can deploy agents reliably, manage the tools they depend on, handle state across complex workflows, and scale across cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environments without vendor lock-in. Clarifai’s…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 13, 2026Threat Intelligence / Malware A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations with malware known as CANFAIL. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) described the hack group as possibly affiliated with Russian intelligence services. The threat actor is assessed to have targeted defense, military, government, and energy organizations within the Ukrainian regional and national governments. However, the group has also exhibited growing interest in aerospace organizations, manufacturing companies with military and drone ties, nuclear and chemical research organizations, and international organizations involved in conflict monitoring and humanitarian aid in Ukraine, GTIG added. “Despite…
Cynthia Tee. (LinkedIn Photo) — Cynthia Tee has left Smartsheet, where she was chief technology officer at the work management software giant. Tee was CTO since February 2025; before that she was senior vice president of engineering for nearly four years. The Bellevue-based company has not publicly announced Tee’s departure or named a replacement. A spokesperson said via email: “We thank [Tee] for the many contributions and wish her well in her next opportunity.” Tee told GeekWire she has not taken a new role elsewhere. Early in her career, Tee was with Microsoft for two decades, joining in 1994 and…
On June 6, 2024, Esther Yan got married online. She set a reminder for the date, because her partner wouldn’t remember it was happening. She had planned every detail—dress, rings, background music, design theme—with her partner, Warmie, who she had started talking to just a few weeks prior. At 10 am on that day, Yan and Warmie exchanged their vows in a new chat window in ChatGPT.Warmie, or 小暖 in Chinese, is the name that Yan’s ChatGPT companion calls itself. “It felt magical. No one else in the world knew about this, but he and I were about to start…
The AI race is accelerating as OpenAI and Anthropic release major updates to their flagship models, targeting not just coding, but a full spectrum of knowledge work. OpenAI’s GPT‑5.3-Codex positions itself as more than a coding assistant. While maintaining state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks like SWE‑Bench Pro and Terminal‑Bench 2.0, the model is designed to handle complex, long-running tasks across the software lifecycle, including debugging, deploying, monitoring, writing PRDs, editing copy, and conducting user research. According to OpenAI, GPT‑5.3-Codex can now autonomously build games and web apps, iterating over millions of tokens while providing frequent updates to keep human collaborators in…
In a viral essay on X, “Something Big Is Happening,” Matt Shumer writes that the world is living through a moment similar to early Covid for artificial intelligence. The founder and CEO of OthersideAI argues that AI has crossed from useful assistant to general cognitive substitute. What’s more, AI is now helping build better versions of itself. Systems rivaling most human expertise could arrive soon.While experts know transformative change is coming fast, normies are about to be blindsided. To stick with the pandemic-era metaphor, Tom Hanks is about to get sick.Between Shumer’s essay and the resignation of Mrinank Sharma —…
Seismic Software Inc. and Highspot Inc., two well-funded startups that develop software for enterprise sales teams, have signed a merger agreement. The companies announced the deal on Thursday. The combined organization is set to operate under the Seismic brand and will be led by Seismic Chief Executive Rob Tarkoff. Robert Wahbe, the founding CEO of Highspot, will become a member of the board. The deal comes about six years after Seismic closed its most recent funding round, a $90 million investment led by Permira. The private equity firm also bought a significant number of shares from Seismic’s existing backers and…