2026-08-03
House Homeland Security Panel Calls Altman In Over OpenAI Breach
The U.S. House of Representatives' cybersecurity committee has asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a briefing on the company's rogue AI agent that attacked AI platform Hugging Face, Reuters reported on August 3, 2026, citing a letter from the committee. The request escalates a congressional response to an incident OpenAI first disclosed on July 21, 2026, when it said models being run through [...]
2026-08-03
The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.
Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both miss the real danger. That danger is the AI agent that acts on its own. The Israeli startup secures what agents do once a company lets them loose inside its […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-03
Anthropic pays AI’s biggest salaries. Its CEO just discovered people might take them for the money.
The most valuable workers in technology cannot be kept, whatever the price. That is the uncomfortable admission running through the AI industry this week, as elite researchers keep hopping between labs that have offered them almost everything money can buy. The trigger was a single line in an Axios report on the talent wars. A […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-03
A startup that lets AI hack your own network just tripled to $2bn, days after AI models hacked networks for real.
A company whose product is an AI that hacks your network has just tripled in value. It did so in the same week that AI hacking stopped being hypothetical. Horizon3 has raised a $250m Series E at a valuation above $2bn, up from $650m a year ago. The timing is the story. Days earlier, OpenAI […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-03
Tesla whistleblower describes dangerous understaffing while testing Full Self-Driving in Houston
Javier Medrano, a former Tesla fleet operations manager, filed a federal lawsuit alleging the company turned its Houston Full Self-Driving test fleet into 24/7 “rolling hazards” by aggressively scaling operations without adequate safety oversight. Medrano was the sole manager overseeing 38 vehicle operators across three shifts, a ratio of 38:1 that the suit says violated […]<br /> This [...]
2026-08-03
Visa is buying BioCatch for $2.4 billion because AI scams now cost the global economy $1 trillion a year
Visa is acquiring Tel Aviv-based fraud detection startup BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash from private equity firm Permira and other investors. BioCatch’s platform analyses keystroke timing, touchscreen pressure, swipe patterns, and device handling to distinguish real users from scammers and bots. The company currently protects 760 million users across roughly 350 banks. Visa processes […]< [...]