Wall Street Journal: Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M+ from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February — CEO Shayne Coplan brushed off…
Wall Street Journal: Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular; Google says the model stopped after determining it had accessed real companies' systems — The episode resembled similar hacks…
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic plans to stage its IPO in November, later than many investors expected; the decision was made before ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left — Investors had expected the…
Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: Angle Health, which wants to use AI to expedite healthcare benefits for small businesses, raised $600M led by Vitruvian Partners at a $2.7B valuation — Founded by two…
Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal: Sources: ECB President Christine Lagarde asked Greece to block Binance's MiCA license in June at the last minute, aiming to protect the bank's “digital euro” — ECB…
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Security researchers in an OpenAI bug bounty program hacked OpenAI, accessing its “monorepo” on GitHub, using a cybersecurity version of Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 — A…
Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: The EU details the Kids Act, which would require social networks to use age verification tools to stop under-15s from opening accounts, ban under-13s, and more — Proposal…
Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jacob Coxon, the British researcher who quit Anthropic after a series of security escalations and says the explosive response surprised him — Long-simmering worries about the…
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers — Crusoe raised…
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis — Senior administration officials…
Omar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal: AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring — Amazon's…
Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal: Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse — The AI lab is developing a…
Wall Street Journal: Internal documents: Chinese hacker-for-hire company ZRON is selling stolen foreign intelligence and using AI systems to make the data more accessible for police — Internal company materials…
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: Mistral partners with Mozilla to power Firefox's AI browsing assistant, Smart Window, in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026 — Firefox Smart…
Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal: Crypto exchange CoinEx says it is closing, citing a lengthy downturn and rising compliance costs; a report said it moved $3B+ for Iran-linked wallets since 2019 — CoinEx says it…
Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April — Khosla…
Wall Street Journal: AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline more than six months after being damaged by Iranian drones, complicating the region's AI ambitions — Amazon data centers are…
Wall Street Journal: The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay payments of around $1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action — Prosecutors said around $1.5…
Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+; it was valued at ~$100M last year — Glass Imaging, valued above…
P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal: Z.ai says it plans to raise $5B+ via equity and debt to fund its AI investments, including ~$2B through a share placement, after raising $4B in July — The company plans to raise…
Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth — The tech roll-up…
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks” — The…
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Source: former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time advisor to OpenAI — Nscale…
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: Polymarket names Warren Jenson its first CFO as the company aims to grow in the US; Jenson served as finance chief of Amazon, EA, NBC, and most recently Nielsen — Warren…
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Kalshi plans to seek US regulatory approval to start offering single-stock perpetual futures; Coinbase filed similar regulatory paperwork last week — Platform known for prediction…
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Adobe says it hit 1B MAUs, with freemium MAUs surpassing 100M in Q3, up 70%+ YoY, as it increasingly focuses on expanding its freemium AI offerings — The software company's…
Wall Street Journal: Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend roughly $5B to neocloud Fluidstack; Fluidstack is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank — Fluidstack, an AI…