OpenAI Opens Talks to Buy Security Firm Trail of Bits
In the first week of June, about 25 engineers from Trail of Bits fanned out across the code that much of the internet runs on. Working with OpenAI on an…
Six Days and $40,000 to Break Chrome’s Sandbox
The proof of concept is almost anticlimactic. A page loads in a signed build of Chrome Beta, and the calculator application appears on the desktop. Nothing is downloaded, nothing is…
SK Hynix Says the AI Bottleneck Is the Memory It Sells
Ahn Hyun opened his keynote at the SEDEX semiconductor exhibition in Seoul on Wednesday with a forecast that would have sounded like a sales pitch in a smaller room. The…
The FBI’s Long Campaign Against the Scam Compounds
The compound at O’Smach sits on Cambodia’s northern border with Thailand, and by the accounts of U.S. prosecutors, United Nations researchers and reporters who have been inside such sites, it…
A Credit Market Calm Built on a Pause in AI Borrowing
The note Goldman Sachs sent its credit clients this month made an odd pitch for a bull case. Buy investment-grade bonds, it said, and watch the calendar. The argument rested…
Two Blank Checks Test the Appetite for SPACs
On Tuesday, two filings landed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a few hours apart, each asking the same question in a different size. Apex Treasury Corp II, a blank…
Two Banks Arrange an AI Loan They Won’t Back
The financing package for Volta Infrastructure Holdings totals $5.01 billion. JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs assembled it, and between them they are willing to guarantee $1.3 billion of that amount.…
Israel’s New Crew Rules Turn Back a Cargo Flight
The Ethiopian Airlines freighter was already an hour out of Addis Ababa, over open water, when Israeli authorities read the crew list. One of the pilots held an Indonesian passport.…
IBM Opens Its AI and Quantum Stack to India’s Deep-Tech Startups
IBM and the startup arm of India’s technology ministry signed a memorandum of understanding in New Delhi on October 13 that gives Indian deep-technology firms access to the company’s enterprise…
Palantir Executive Says the Pentagon Has Already Replaced Anthropic’s Models
Shyam Sankar did not hesitate. Asked on CBS’s “Face the Nation” what happened at the Pentagon when Anthropic’s models were pulled, Palantir’s chief technology officer gave a one-line answer. “It’s…
