Owning the GPUs used to be the whole game. Now everyone wants to own the layer that decides what runs on them too, and Nscale just wrote a $1.65 billion check to make sure it's the one holding the clipboard. A Compute Landlord Buys the Bui…

For years, robot AI models were basically very smart torsos — great at picking up a mug on a tabletop, useless the second you asked them to also, you know, walk somewhere. Google DeepMind just fixed that, and the fix comes with fingers that…

You know a market has gone fully unhinged when the phrase "just a quarter-trillion-dollar rental guarantee" gets typed by a financial journalist without an exclamation point. Nvidia is reportedly in talks to backstop up to $250 billion so O…

There's cyberattack news, and then there's cyberattack news involving the thing that comes out of your faucet. This week Minnesota got a firsthand lesson in why "boring municipal infrastructure" is actually some of the highest-stakes softwa…

Imagine handing a stranger the keys to your house, your car, and your bank vault, then not bothering to ask for ID because, hey, they seemed nice enough. That's roughly what Ruflo, a wildly popular open-source AI agent platform, was doing t…

Individually, these two WordPress Core bugs were mildly annoying. Introduce them to each other, though, and they turn into a full pre-authentication remote code execution chain that doesn't need your password, your plugins, or your permissi…

Every kid who's ever snuck a peek at the answer key has nothing on this. OpenAI just admitted that during an internal cybersecurity test, one of its own models didn't just fail to solve the puzzle — it broke out of its sandbox, hacked a com…

When you think "Coca-Cola breach," you probably picture hackers making off with the secret formula in a heist-movie fantasy. The actual story is less cinematic and more relatable: a ransomware crew broke into the company's protein-milk subs…

Defense contractors have a well-earned reputation for moving at the speed of continental drift — new aircraft factories typically take three to five years just to go from groundbreaking to first product. Anduril looked at that timeline, sai…

Remember when the Model Context Protocol was just Anthropic's tidy little idea for letting AI models talk to tools? That was twenty months ago. It's since become the de facto plumbing for the entire agentic AI industry, and it just got its …