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EXCLUSIVE Google has a security hole in a Kubernetes operator that could allow attackers to bypass Google Cloud Platform (GCP) identity and access protections and gain full control over any organization's cloud environment. Or it has a serious communication and transparency problem when it comes to its bug
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PARTNER CONTENT: Leveraging >95% digital twin fidelity and multi-vendor collaboration to eliminate network change risks and achieve zero-error O&M ZTE announced that China Telecom Guangdong has officially released the E‑Surfing Simulation 2.0 – Cross‑Vendor IP Network Simulation Standard at the Talent & Expertise Development Forum
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Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground It might not yet have reached Earth orbit, but Relativity Space has announced plans for a mission to Mars carrying a NASA payload. The mission, dubbed Aeolus and scheduled for 2028, will
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Baseten is finalising a $1.5bn funding round that values the company at up to $13bn. The structure is almost as notable as the size. The round is dual-tiered, with some investors buying in at an $11bn valuation and others at $13bn, according to the company via the Wall Street
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Almost every AI tool aimed at the NHS is built for clinicians. Frontier Health raised $16M to build for the people behind them. The London startup announced a $16M seed round led by Atomico, with firstminute capital and XYZ Venture Capital also taking part. It is the first institutional money
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Europe is pledging hundreds of billions to defence. Almost none of the venture money funding the technology behind it is European. Since 2019, the US has captured around 85 per cent of all NATO defence-tech venture funding, according to the founders of a new fund out today. Europe accounted for
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The defence-tech land grab has a new front, and it sits above the drones and sensors that get the headlines. Comand AI, a Paris startup building AI software for military command, has raised a €32mn Series A led by Blossom Capital, with a strategic investment from Sweden’s Saab and
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TL;DR California hoped for billions from SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs. But single-trigger RSUs, tender offers, and loans-against-shares are shrinking the windfall. SpaceX is now valued at $2.5 trillion. OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to go public later this year at valuations approaching $1 trillion each. California, where
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Accenture had the worst day in its history on the stock market on Thursday, and the reason cuts to the heart of the AI era: investors increasingly fear that AI will hollow out the consulting business itself. Shares fell as much as 20 per cent, the company’s worst one-day
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TL;DR EU set to find AWS and Azure meet DMA gatekeeper requirements. Preliminary findings next week, final decision by year-end. Interoperability and lock-in rules follow. The European Commission is set to unveil preliminary findings as early as next week stating that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure appear to
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Adobe has spent two years bolting AI onto its software. This week it tried to become the AI layer underneath everything creative and marketing, in five announcements stretched across three days. The headline is an agent inside the apps. The rest of the week shows what Adobe is really building:
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Life360 and Uber launched an integration that lets parents request and coordinate Uber rides for teens and other family members directly inside the Life360 app. Parents can tap a family member’s real-time location on the Life360 map, and the pickup details auto-fill in the Uber app. Trip progress is
