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Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026 — A few months ago, I received a congratulations letter on my upcoming enrollment at the Ultimate Medical Academy in Tampa, Florida.| Rick Findlay / Reclaim The Net: |
Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues — Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone … | Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Executives at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens — Investors and some employees see a real threat of the company ceding business to AI models — Palantir Technologies owes … | Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal: |
Most of the tech on display at this year's Border Security Expo was autonomous and AI-equipped, driven by the Trump administration's focus on US border security — Rapid gains in artificial-intelligence technology bring new competitors into the business of securing the border| FinTech Global: |
NYC-based Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $125M Series C led by KKR — Reserv, an AI-native third-party administrator (TPA) and claims technology provider for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector, has closed a $125m Series C funding round.| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Consensus Conference, one of the biggest crypto conferences, which had a decidedly corporate sheen in 2026 amid Wall Street's embrace of digital assets — In Miami Beach, one of the biggest crypto conferences had a decidedly corporate sheen this year| Golnar Motevalli / Bloomberg: |
NetBlocks: Iran's 70+ day internet blackout is “the longest recorded national internet shutdown in a connected society”, as businesses warn of layoffs, closures — Iran's record internet blackout is taking a heavy toll on private businesses, with owners and industry officials warning … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate rose from 3.6% in March to 3.8% in April, as the sector shed 13,000 jobs amid AI uncertainty — The job market for information-technology workers remains murky as tech companies shed personnel — The unemployment rate … | Jack Kubinec / Fortune: |
MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for $100M in stock; DFlow had raised $7.5M across two rounds — The crypto payment and infrastructure firm MoonPay has acquired DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain.| Shane Snider / Data Center Knowledge: |
Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees to acquire Mirantis, which offers Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructure software, for $625M in stock — The $625 million deal adds Kubernetes and enterprise ops to help turn deployed GPUs into usable, revenue-generating AI infrastructure.| Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: |
Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed the discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital — Lithosquare, a Paris-based startup that deploys Geology AI and geologist-led intelligence to amplify and accelerate the discovery … | Bloomberg: |
How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period — Championed by a guru known simply as the Kook, the satellite company AST has become one of the world's most expensive stocks.| Ken Macon / Reclaim The Net: |
FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears — The era of the anonymous phone number could be ending. On April 30, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved … | Zack Abrams / The Block: |
LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup — Quick Take — LayerZero published a blog post Friday apologizing for poor communication in the three weeks since the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit.
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