Hadrian raises $40M to tackle AI-driven cyber threats

Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive securityplatform, has raised $40 million in a funding round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and Smart Fin. Existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, P…

Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw
Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw

Security teams at Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaviate, France’s interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) and the city government of Tangerang in Indonesia have each fixed the same type of flaw in their Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Independent…

Florida woman arrested after Anthropic reported her Claude chat to police
Florida woman arrested after Anthropic reported her Claude chat to police

Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a woman in Florida after Anthropic reported her Claude conversation to law enforcement. In the chat she allegedly said she would “shoot up” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. WINK News first reported the arrest on 30 Sept…

San Diego sues AppLovin over explicit ads on kids’ devices, Bloomberg reports
San Diego sues AppLovin over explicit ads on kids’ devices, Bloomberg reports

San Diego County has sued AppLovin, a mobile advertising technology company. The county alleges that AppLovin bypassed parental controls to serve ads for adult dating services, alcohol, vaping and graphic sexual content in games played by children. The…

Nokia CEO says data centres would go up twice as fast if supply allowed
Nokia CEO says data centres would go up twice as fast if supply allowed

Nokia’s chief executive Justin Hotard says the industry would build data centres twice as fast if memory and energy supply allowed, and that demand would hold even without a new frontier model for three years. Bain and a paper presented at the Brooking…

Senator Bernie Moreno accuses Anthropic’s Amodei of ‘alarmist’ AI talk
Senator Bernie Moreno accuses Anthropic’s Amodei of ‘alarmist’ AI talk

Republican senator Bernie Moreno has accused Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei of taking an “alarmist approach” to AI. He did so in a letter sent on Monday, ahead of Anthropic’s expected stock market listing. Axios first reported the letter. “I do…

Texas city wants $2.3M for public records on police Flock use
Texas city wants $2.3M for public records on police Flock use

A Fort Worth suburb has told a privacy group it would cost $2.3M to release records on how its police use Flock number plate cameras, a figure reached by estimating 14 years of labour at $15 an hour. Under the EU’s law enforcement directive the same in…

TikTok adds an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app
TikTok adds an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app

TikTok is adding an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app. The two features let users buy directly from brands without leaving TikTok, the company said in an announcement at Advertising Week New York on Monday. Buy Direct is an in-app…

Pinterest hires Amazon’s advertising finance chief as CFO
Pinterest hires Amazon’s advertising finance chief as CFO

Pinterest has made James Dibbo its chief financial officer from 26 October, hired out of Amazon where he was finance chief for global entertainment, advertising and corporate development. He replaces Julia Brau Donnelly, who announced her departure in …

Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils Beam, its first open-weight model
Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils Beam, its first open-weight model

Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model. Beam is built for coding, reasoning and agentic work. Reflection will release its weights later this month, the comp…