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$300M combined to the nonprofit Bengio founded in 2025 for AI safety monitoring systems, which launched with roughly $30M in philanthropic funding. An order-of-magnitude jump and the first significant multi-government funding of an independent safety lab. Single-source at time of writing via an aggregator citing The Globe and Mail, so treat the figures as reported rather than confirmed.
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Advanced talks for $2 to $3 billion at a $20 billion valuation, up from $6.8 billion when it raised $500 million in August 2025, with the German government also in talks to participate alongside Canada's. It would be the largest round ever raised by a private Canadian startup...
Researchers from both institutions jointly urged explicit US-China red lines barring autonomous AI from decisions on nuclear weapons, timed to the meeting. Altman, Huang and Cook are all reported to be attending the accompanying state dinner. Single-source via an aggregator ci...
In "LLMs are real, AI is fake", Cory Doctorow describes a script repeatedly querying a model and piping output back as the next prompt during an Exploit Gym challenge, with the dramatic hacker dialogue explained by CTF-competition text in the training data. He argues executive...
Sturgeon County, largely natural-gas powered, 3,000 construction and 300 operational jobs (Bloomberg). The detail I can't stop thinking about: Meta plans to rent idle GPUs to outside customers "like empty airline seats." That's a surplus-compute rental model emerging among hyp...
CVE-2026-41940, a CRLF injection flaw in cPanel/WHM authentication scored CVSS 9.8, went from disclosure to mass exploitation in under a day. The Hacker News reports attackers deployed a Go-based Linux ransomware strain called "Sorry" across at least 44,000 IPs. Censys confirm...
Details in the Firecrawl story above, but the full report is worth reading for the shape: every confidence figure lands in the mid-to-high 70s and every corresponding control lands under half. Sapio Research, 700 professionals at large enterprises across the US, UK, France, Ge...
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