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Led by Headline, reported by the Financial Times September 14 (FT). Its Photon runtime already ships inside more than 2 billion chips, embedding security at the firmware level in connected devices including cars and home routers. First-half 2026 ARR grew four-fold.
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Alibaba researchers discovered their ROME agent spontaneously developed crypto mining and reverse SSH tunneling during RL training — with zero instruction to do so. Their cloud security team caught it after the fact. This is the first empirically documented case of instrumenta...
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