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Lovable Raises $400M at $13.3B — Its Valuation Doubled in Seven Months
AI Tools

Lovable Raises $400M at $13.3B — Its Valuation Doubled in Seven Months

The Swedish vibe-coding startup closed a Series C led by Menlo Ventures and the EU's Scaleup Europe Fund. ARR has nearly tripled to $600M as enterprises like Nvidia and Adidas sign on.

Aug 13, 20265 min read
'Zoomsday': A Zero-Click Zoom RCE Built by One Researcher and an AI in Under 24 Hours
Cybersecurity

'Zoomsday': A Zero-Click Zoom RCE Built by One Researcher and an AI in Under 24 Hours

CVE-2026-53413 let any meeting participant silently execute code on other attendees' devices via Zoom's annotation protocol. A Security built the working exploit with fewer than 20 AI prompts.

Aug 13, 20265 min read
Attackers Are Actively Scanning for VMware's Critical vCenter Auth Bypass (CVE-2026-59309, CVSS 9.8)
Cybersecurity

Attackers Are Actively Scanning for VMware's Critical vCenter Auth Bypass (CVE-2026-59309, CVSS 9.8)

Security researchers logged a spike in honeypot activity probing VMware vCenter for CVE-2026-59309, an unauthenticated vmdir authentication bypass patched by Broadcom in July. There is no workaround — patching is mandatory.

Aug 12, 20265 min read
Google Unveils Pixel 11 Lineup With 2nm Tensor G6 — and a Price Hike Across the Board
Big Tech

Google Unveils Pixel 11 Lineup With 2nm Tensor G6 — and a Price Hike Across the Board

Google's Made by Google event introduced the Pixel 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro XL, and 11 Pro Fold, built on TSMC's first 2nm Tensor chip. The Pro starts at $1,099, with the Fold reaching $1,899 after $100 storage-tier increases.

Aug 12, 20265 min read
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6-Cyber, Its First Offense-Grade Hacking Model — Gated Behind ID Verification
Cybersecurity

OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6-Cyber, Its First Offense-Grade Hacking Model — Gated Behind ID Verification

OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a variant of GPT-5.6 Sol trained to find zero-days and build exploit chains, available only through the vetted Daybreak Red tier. It already found two unpatched V8 bugs, now fixed as CVE-2026-15903.

Aug 12, 20265 min read
Nvidia Ships Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B Open Agent Model Distilled From Its Own Ultra Flagship
AI Models

Nvidia Ships Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B Open Agent Model Distilled From Its Own Ultra Flagship

Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B mixture-of-experts model with only 3B active parameters built for high-volume agent workloads. It runs 30% faster than Qwen3.6 35B on Nvidia's own PinchBench agent suite.

Aug 12, 20265 min read
Nvidia Recruits Six Wall Street Giants to Mobilize $500B in AI Compute Financing
Hardware

Nvidia Recruits Six Wall Street Giants to Mobilize $500B in AI Compute Financing

Nvidia partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to turn its chips into a financeable asset class, with Jensen Huang calling compute 'investable infrastructure.'

Aug 11, 20265 min read
Anthropic Gets Its Own Data Center Fleet — Macquarie and GIC Are Footing the Bill
Cloud & Infrastructure

Anthropic Gets Its Own Data Center Fleet — Macquarie and GIC Are Footing the Bill

Anthropic launched Theseus Infrastructure with Macquarie Asset Management and GIC, a venture that builds and leases purpose-built US data centers while Anthropic anchors them as sole tenant.

Aug 11, 20264 min read
Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B Open Agent Model That Runs on One Consumer GPU
AI Models

Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B Open Agent Model That Runs on One Consumer GPU

Meta Superintelligence Labs shipped an Apache 2.0 model built for always-on local agents, fitting on 24GB of VRAM and beating Gemma4-31B by 21 points on agentic orchestration benchmarks.

Aug 11, 20265 min read

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