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AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records, topping Google’s agreed $10M deal

The AI training-data company micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit Aviation’s internal records, topping Google’s agreed $10M and proposing an ombudsman chosen by Spirit’s advisers rather than the buyer. European law would treat the deidentification promise as a question about capability rather than a label, but none of it applies to an American liquidation.

An AI training-data company has offered $12.5M for the internal records of a dead airline, $2.5M more than Google agreed to pay. micro1 made the offer in a court filing on Thursday, Bloomberg News reported.

Spirit Aviation Holdings stopped flying in May and is being liquidated. The records include 500 million Microsoft Teams items, 100 million emails and roughly 16 million customer chat sessions.

TNW reported last month that under the Google agreement Spirit must hand the material to parties the buyer designates. Google picked and paidfor the deidentification firm, and that cost does not...

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Google patches multiple Chrome bugs including a V8 flaw being used in attacks

Google patched 12 Chrome vulnerabilities on 3 September including CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion bug in V8 already being exploited, the sixth such flaw this year. Eight days later the Cyber Resilience Act starts requiring manufacturers to report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours of becoming aware. Google patched 12 vulnerabilities

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Deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore | Amazon Web Services

This post shows how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2. Many quick-service restaurants spread ordering across an app, a website, a phone line, and the counter. Each of those is a separate system to build and run. Each one also

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ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk

Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters Fraudsters have found a new use for ASCII smuggling, typically used to hide malicious prompts intended for AI models, in an old-school attack method: email phishing. Microsoft uncovered a massive phishing campaign using invisible Unicode tag characters that peaked at

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AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets

AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk Machine learning researchers have a new and expensive option for doing local AI. AMD just raided its spare parts bin and cobbled together a DGX Station rival boasting up

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Google patches multiple Chrome bugs including a V8 flaw being used in attacks

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ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk

AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets