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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has asked the U.S. government to ban several hack-for-hire firms — companies that carry out cyberattacks on behalf of paying clients. The lawmakers accuse the firms of targeting Americans and abusing foreign courts to silence U.S. reporting on their activities. Democratic senators
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Meta’s Muse personal AI agent can book travel, make purchases, send emails, and keep working after users close the app. Image: Meta Meta launches Muse in the US, a personal AI agent that can book travel, shop, send emails, and run tasks, with security controls and paid plans. Sep
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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The NSA, CISA and FBI say that China-based AI companies are using the distillation process against US frontier models. “Likely with Chinese government awareness, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens across millions of exchanges/requests from U.S. frontier AI models, including variants
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HyperVerge has launched a suite of AI agents for business loan underwriting, aimed at automating parts of the credit assessment process while retaining human oversight over lending decisions. The suite, launched at the Global Fintech Fest 2026, comprises three AI agents covering financial underwriting, video-based personal discussions and background due
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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A clean penetration test on a GenAI application often answers the wrong question, and no report will tell you that. The Assurance Gap Nobody is Reporting Enterprises have moved generative AI out of the pilot phase faster than they have moved their assurance practices. The assistant that started as a
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Deloitte has launched an Open Model Engineering practice in India and other key global markets to help enterprises build, deploy and scale AI applications using open models and open-source AI frameworks. The practice will initially work with clients across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, including India. Deloitte said it
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L&T Finance Ltd. has partnered with Pine Labs to introduce agentic commerce and payments on the L&T Finance PLANET app, with autonomous flight bookings as the first use case. The partnership uses Pine Labs Payments Protocol (P3P) and the Grantex protocol to allow AI agents to
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* Qualcomm to help build custom silicon and optical networking for AWS data centers * Amazon will acquire 25 million Qualcomm shares, worth over $4 billion * AWS data centers are more efficient than the industry average, but behind Google's Qualcomm and Amazon have announced what they have describing as a
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About 78% of Indian businesses would switch their primary payment gateway if another provider offered the AI capabilities they expect, according to Zoho’s Indian Merchant Payment Survey 2026. The survey, which covered more than 700 businesses ranging from micro and small businesses to large enterprises, found that nearly 60%
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Kaspersky detected 1,62,275 new mobile banking Trojan installation packages in the first quarter of 2026, more than twice the number recorded across the whole of 2024, according to data from the Kaspersky Security Network. Banking Trojans accounted for 52.96% of all malicious mobile applications detected during the
