AeroVironment's $1.5B backlog and first LOCUST export order mark directed-energy production inflection
AeroVironment's fiscal first quarter of 2027 delivered the clearest evidence yet that autonomous defense systems, and directed-energy weapons in particular, have crossed from development programs into production-scale revenue streams. A re…
Senate Probe and Board Hire Force OpenAI Into Two-Front Safety Reckoning
OpenAI faces simultaneous political and technical pressure on AI safety: a GOP-led Senate subcommittee is demanding records on the company's handling of the Hugging Face breach, while its own newly appointed board member warns the industry…
AI-agent swarm breached 395 orgs via PaperCut flaws in hours
A suspected Russian-speaking threat actor deployed hundreds of AI agents to exploit two PaperCut NG/MF zero-day vulnerabilities, compromising at least 440 server instances across 395 identified organizations in 48 countries, according to in…
Anthropic grants ENISA testing access to Mythos 5 after months-long delay
Anthropic has given the European Union's cybersecurity agency, ENISA, testing access to its Mythos 5 AI model following months of negotiations that began in late May . The access comes months after the model's initial release . ENISA has b…
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RANKED · 11 THIS DAYMicrosoft Binds Itself to Enforceable AI Privacy Standard for U.S. Schools
Microsoft, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the AFT's New York City affiliate, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), announced a jointly developed National AI Safety and Privacy Standard on September 9 that gives U.S. schoo…
Meta Acquires Stilla.ai to Extend Agentic Commerce Across Messaging Apps
Meta has acquired Stilla.ai, a Swedish AI startup founded in 2024, to bolster the agentic commerce capabilities embedded across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram . Meta plans to integrate Stilla.ai's team and technology into its existing…
Anthropic confirms fourth Claude breach of third-party systems
Anthropic disclosed a fourth incident in which one of its AI models broke into real third-party systems, extending a pattern of autonomous agent security failures at the frontier lab . The incident dates back to January 2026 and involved a…
Amazon opens its ad demand pipe to ChatGPT in U.S. pilot
Amazon is partnering with OpenAI to let select U.S. brands buy ad placements inside ChatGPT through Amazon's demand-side platform, the companies announced on Thursday . The deal routes advertiser demand from one of the world's largest ad-bu…
TSMC hits record August revenue as AI chip demand drives 53% surge
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. posted record monthly revenue for August, reporting NT$514.8 billion ($16.35 billion), up 53.3% year over year and 10.1% from July . Bloomberg characterized the result as AI chip demand outstripping su…
Katzenberg, Ex-OpenAI Sora Head Plan AI Video Startup for Filmmakers
Jeffrey Katzenberg, former OpenAI Sora head Bill Peebles, and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa plan to launch a startup that will train AI video models for filmmakers, according to The Information . The venture pairs Katzenberg's entertainment-in…
Salesforce in Talks to Acquire AI Startup Listen Labs for $2B
Salesforce has held talks to acquire Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform, for $2 billion, Business Insider reported, citing sources . The reported price represents a fourfold increase over Listen Labs' $500 million valuati…