2026-08-03
Horizon3 Raises $250 Million Series E at Over $2 Billion Valuation to Expand Autonomous AI Penetration Testing
Horizon3 has raised $250 million in Series E funding at a valuation exceeding $2 billion, giving the cybersecurity company substantial new capital to expand its autonomous penetration-testing platform and move further into automated defensive remediation. The round was co-led by existing investors NightDragon and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Horizon3 says its valuation has more than tripled fr [...]
2026-08-03
Why AI Success Depends on Better Workflows, Not More AI Tools
I’ve noticed a consistent pattern across financial institutions that have tested general-purpose AI tools but struggle to identify and measure impact. Leadership makes the decision to invest, then implements across teams and waits for the impact. After a few months, the confusion hits. Results aren’t clear, processes aren’t improving, adoption is lagging, and the numbers remain unchanged. Th [...]
2026-08-03
Could Minecraft be the next great engineering school?
On the Boulevard Saint-Michel, near the center of Paris, just off the edge of the Jardin du Luxembourg and just a short stroll from the Sorbonne sits the main campus of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. Known now as Mines ParisTech, this venerable school was set up in 1783 by decree of Louis XVI as the center of education for the finest civil engineers in France. Nearly 230 year [...]
2026-08-03
10 things that will get even weirder in the next US presidential campaign
As the US presidential campaign of 2012 comes to a close, one indisputable fact is that it has been the strangest in living memory, probably since the late 19th century. As a political junkie since childhood, I’ve paid attention to many, going back to Nixon’s 1972 win for a second term. While Watergate, Lewinskygate and Chadgate given us some strange periods in presidential politics, the 2012 [...]
2026-08-03
From Ray Kurzweil to Kanye West, everyone’s a futurist now
In 1963, in the depths of the Cold War, all of the futurists in the world could probably assemble in a largish conference room and still have space for an overhead projector. Half a century later, it would take a small stadium to hold all of the people who use the title in some form. The world of futures is a broad church today populated by everyone from author and inventor Ray Kurzweil and his o [...]
2026-08-03
Bitcoin is just the poster currency for a growing movement of alternative tender
Like the trillion-dollar platinum coin several months ago, Bitcoin has jumped from a technical curiosity to “mainstream” financial news. It has become an object of economic escapism—but the kind you can’t escape from. Whether it continues to grow as a phenomenon has yet to be seen, but the underlying curiosity tells us that there is growing skepticism about global financial systems’ lon [...]