The London startup said its Faraday agent reproduced findings from published papers better than larger systems from Anthropic and OpenAI, while cofounder Edward Hughes cast the work as a step towards an AI scientist.
Nvidia has told some of its largest customers that server prices will rise by more than 15% in many cases, with the increase affecting systems shipped early next year.
SemiAnalysis compared open and closed frontier models across three LLM eras and said the time for open systems to close the first closed-model lead roughly halved each time.
Rundoo said it closed a $30 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, with Bessemer Venture Partners and CRV also participating, and planned to use the money for hiring, product work and sales expansion.
OpenAI’s president Greg Brockman took on expanded responsibility for product and scaling as executives left the company, while observers linked the reshuffle to revenue pressure and an IPO.
New York Times : Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B+ in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors — The offering could value the five-year-old A.I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential…
Anthropic said Claude Security was running on Claude Mythos 5 in public beta for Enterprise customers, while partner security products used the model to support hospitals, utilities and banks.
TrendAI said 14 npm packages copied calendar and streak utilities while loading a Linux implant tied to RedC2 4.0, a framework marketed with AI-driven command execution tools.
Google DeepMind said it was working with game studios on new gameplay prototypes while recasting its earlier game-playing systems as the basis for newer agents that can use ordinary controls.
Wazuh described AI features for its cloud service and self-hosted deployments, including scheduled reports, local model use and a dashboard assistant built on third-party AI services.
Kaspersky said a supply-chain attack used a legitimate DoFun update app to install JarService on Android car head units, with the operation linked to MoYu and aimed at proxy abuse and ad fraud.
Expel said a new malware family was pushed through Microsoft Teams impersonation messages, using a fake Windows lock screen and other modules to steal credentials and probe infected networks.
Kaspersky said a malware family targeted DoFun Android vehicle head units by abusing their update process, with the activity attributed to MoYu Group and linked to BADBOX.
CISA added two TrueConf Server flaws to its known exploited list and told federal civilian agencies to patch them by 3 September after reports that the vulnerabilities were being used.
Microsoft said it had patched five flaws across Entra ID, Azure Arc, Exchange Online and Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, including issues that allowed code execution and privilege escalation.
SOCRadar said attackers used FTP server banners as a command channel in a campaign that delivered E4del and PINHOLE, after MalwareHunterTeam had earlier seen the same method in July.
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