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Washington state’s Legislative Building in Olympia, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) [Editor’s Note: Sales consultant and former startup founder Ron Davis is a candidate for the Washington state Legislature, who has written for GeekWire previously on startup sales hiring practices. GeekWire publishes guest opinion pieces representing a range of perspectives. The views expressed are those of the author.] If you tune into the local conversation about Washington state taxes on LinkedIn, you might think that Olympia is on the verge of snuffing out Seattle’s regional economy with extreme taxation. There are exceptions, but most of these posts are long…

Anthropic PBC said today it’s giving its AI agents the ability to “dream” and remember past interactions and work they’ve performed so they can identify recurring mistakes and improve over time. In an update announced at the Code with Claude developer conference, Anthropic said it’s giving Claude Managed Agents a new “dreaming” capability. It’s not putting its artificial intelligence agents to bed, but instead allowing them to go over recent events and identify useful memories that are worth storing in their memory to inform future tasks and interactions. Anthropic’s Managed Agents give developers an alternative to building AI agents directly…

Earlier this year, the author Maureen Johnson was fighting with Anthropic.Specifically, she was wrestling with the Anthropic copyright settlement website.Johnson is the author of 18 books, most of them YA and many of them bestsellers. The AI company Anthropic owes her an estimated $3,000 per book (to be split 50-50 with her publisher) for several of them. The payouts are part of a first-of-its-kind settlement that was handed down last fall, in which Anthropic admitted that it downloaded millions of pirated, copyrighted books to train its AI models without authors’ permission. (According to the New York Times, “As part of…

Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new Mirai-derived botnet that self-identifies as xlabs_v1 and targets internet-exposed devices running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to enlist them in a network capable of carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Hunt.io, which detailed the malware, said it made the discovery after identifying an exposed directory on a Netherlands-hosted server at the IP address “176.65.139[.]44” without requiring any authentication. The malware supports “21 flood variants across TCP, UDP, and raw protocols, including RakNet and OpenVPN-shaped UDP, capable of bypassing consumer-grade DDoS protection,” Hunt.io said, adding it’s offered as a DDoS-for-hire service designed for targeting game servers…

Everyone is chasing intent signals. Most teams are reading them wrong. Here’s what predictive demand generation actually looks like when it’s built around real behavior instead of lead scores. Let’s start with something uncomfortable. Most demand generation is not demand generation. It is demand capture. Someone already decided they had a problem, already started researching, already formed opinions about the solution landscape, and then your remarketing ad caught them on the way to a competitor’s pricing page. You did not generate demand. You intercepted it. And there is a meaningful difference between the two, even if the MQL count looks…

Web application firewalls have been around for roughly 30 years. In that time, web traffic has fundamentally changed—from humans browsing pages to APIs, bots, and now AI agents executing transactions at scale. The WAF hasn’t kept pace. And in a lot of organizations, the response has been to stop touching it entirely. WAFs sit at the perimeter of web-facing applications and are supposed to distinguish legitimate traffic from malicious traffic. When security teams are too afraid of the consequences to adjust the rules, the result is either blocking real customers or leaving the door open to attacks. Both outcomes carry…

The company behind the long-running space sim Eve Online has entered into a partnership with Google in which the search giant will take a minority stake. In exchange, Google’s DeepMind will train its AI technology on the game, according to a report by Bloomberg. CCP Games, the dev who made and maintains Eve Online, has also been rebranded as Fenris Creations. This happened just after the company purchased the rights to the game back from Korean developer Pearl Abyss. Google’s investment is “in the millions” of dollars, according to Fenris Creations Chief Executive Officer…

Asus Zenbook S16 MSRP $1,899.99 “A stunning OLED display and lightweight build make a strong case, but the performance ceiling is hard to ignore once you push it.” Pros Thin and light Brilliant display Battery life Cons Heats up during heavy workloads Slim port selection Costs a pretty penny Quick Take The Zenbook S16 is one of those laptops that gets a lot right, but very deliberately stops short of going all-in. Its biggest strength is how effortlessly it combines a large 16-inch OLED display with a genuinely lightweight and portable chassis. At around 1.5 kg, it simply does not…

Microsoft, Google DeepMind and Elon Musk’s xAI have offered to let the U.S. government access new AI models ahead of their general release, which sets up a new phase in Silicon Valley’s often fractious relationship with the US government’s fear of AI threats, based on the latest report of AI companies offering models to U.S. officials in the name of security review, in the hopes that government analysts can vet frontier AI systems for security threats like cyberattacks and military use before it is exposed for public consumption by developers and users, and, inevitably, those who should have no business…

It’s a fascinating display of leverage: the ShinyHunters folks, with very limited resources and experience (their demographic will be teenagers to their early 20s), consistently gaining access to the data of massive brands. Not through technical ingenuity alone (although I’m sure there’s a portion of that), but primarily through good ol’ social engineering. That’s coming through in the disclosure notices from the impacted companies, and Mandiant has a good write-up of it too:These operations primarily leverage sophisticated voice phishing (vishing) and victim-branded credential harvesting sites to gain initial access to corporate environments by obtaining single sign-on (SSO) credentials and multi-factor…