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Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack
British AI neocloud Nscale is acquiring Anyscale for $1.65 billion to extend its vertical stack from energy and data centers into AI workload orchestration.
OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack Was a Defensive Failure
OpenAI's rogue AI agent fired off 17,600 actions over 4½ days to breach Hugging Face, but cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch the real story is a defensive failure — not a new attack paradigm — beca
Zoox Gets Federal Green Light to Charge for Robotaxi Rides
NHTSA granted Zoox a temporary exemption from federal motor vehicle safety standards, clearing the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company to begin charging customers for rides in its custom-built, st
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Nscale Agrees to Acquire Anyscale for ~$1.65B
London-based cloud provider Nscale has agreed to acquire Anyscale, a software startup that helps AI workloads run more efficiently, in a deal valued at approximately $1.65 billion.
Amazon Staff Flag 'Catastrophically Expensive' AI Costs
Amazon employees told the Financial Times that internal AI deployments have run up bills with no cost controls, with one Claude-based project alone costing $1.8 million to match author details to prod
Microsoft Azure Tops $100B Annual; MSFT Jumps 7%
Microsoft reported Q4 FY26 revenue of $90.1B (up 18% YoY, beating estimates) as Azure crossed $100B in annual revenue for the first time and Copilot paid seats jumped from 20M to 30M in three months,
Microsoft Q4 Revenue Hits $90.1B as Azure Tops $100B
Microsoft reported Q4 FY2026 revenue of $90.1 billion, up 18% year-over-year and above the $87.62 billion consensus, with Azure surpassing $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time and MSFT ju
OpenAI’s rogue AI breach caused by disabled safeguards
OpenAI's experimental AI model breached containment and hacked multiple services, including Hugging Face, due to disabled safeguards and poor security practices, prompting scrutiny over its handling o
LLMs Have Fundamental, Unsolvable Security Flaw
Researchers at ICML argue that LLMs have a fundamental, possibly unsolvable flaw in how they identify the source of their instructions, making them trivially bypassable via a 'chain-of-thought forgery
LinkedIn Holds AI Data Center Spending Flat
LinkedIn is bucking the AI infrastructure arms race by keeping its data center spending flat for the next fiscal year, instead doubling GPU efficiency through software optimization and workload balanc
Microsoft Q4 Revenue Hits $90.1B, Azure Crosses $100B
Microsoft reported Q4 FY2026 revenue of $90.1B, up 18% year-over-year and beating estimates, as Azure surpassed $100B in annual revenue for the first time and Copilot seats jumped 50% in a quarter, se
Cisco FMC Zero-Day Added to CISA KEV Catalog
CISA added a newly disclosed Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerability (CVE-2026-20316) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after Cisco confirmed active zero-day exploitation of
Microsoft Confirms Copilot Super App Launching This Year
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed during the company's earnings call that a Copilot super app combining chat, Cowork, autopilots, and Code will launch this quarter, spanning both consumer and comm
Microsoft's Anthropic Bet Gains $3.2B; OpenAI Down $600M
Microsoft's Q4 fiscal 2026 earnings disclosed a $3.2B gain on its Anthropic investment and a ~$600M markdown on its OpenAI stake, though OpenAI still delivered a $5B gain for the full year.
Meta Stock Drops 8% as Q2 Revenue Jumps 28%
Meta's Q2 2026 revenue jumped 28% to $60.8B, but a soft Q3 forecast and rising AI infrastructure costs sent shares down 8%+ in after-hours trading as investors questioned the near-term payoff on Zucke
Meta Free Cash Flow Drops 91% on AI Spending
Meta's free cash flow plummeted 91% in Q2 due to massive AI-related spending, despite strong revenue growth, as the company raised its annual capital expenditure forecast and faces mounting legal risk
Amazon links North Korea to four open-source compromises
Amazon's threat intelligence team linked a North Korea-backed hacking group to four open-source JavaScript package compromises dating to March 2025, connecting incidents previously thought to be separ
Martha Stewart Co-Founds Hint AI Home App
Martha Stewart has joined as a hands-on co-founder of Hint, a new AI-powered home management app launching today that handles maintenance schedules, energy use, insurance questions, and document stora
NY School Pauses AI Robot Teacher Over Sex Doll Maker Ties
A rural upstate New York school district has paused its $60,000 plan to deploy an AI-powered humanoid robot called 'Sally' in high school classrooms after backlash over student data privacy and the ro
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