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Google Signs Classified AI Deal Giving the Pentagon Access to Gemini for 'Any Lawful Government Purpose'
AI Policy

Google Signs Classified AI Deal Giving the Pentagon Access to Gemini for 'Any Lawful Government Purpose'

Google finalized an agreement allowing Gemini models to run on classified U.S. military networks — including for mission planning and weapons targeting — while also agreeing to adjust safety filters at government request. More than 600 Google employees have signed an open letter opposing the deal.

Apr 29, 20265 min read
True Anomaly Raises $650M at $2.2B Valuation to Build Space Interceptors for Trump's Golden Dome
Big Tech

True Anomaly Raises $650M at $2.2B Valuation to Build Space Interceptors for Trump's Golden Dome

The space defense startup closed a $650M Series D co-led by Eclipse and Riot Ventures, joining 11 other firms — including Anduril and SpaceX — competing for $3.2B in U.S. Space Force contracts to build orbital interceptors for the proposed $185B Golden Dome missile defense shield.

Apr 29, 20265 min read
Anthropic's Project Glasswing Enlists 40+ Tech Giants to Hunt Zero-Days With Claude Mythos
AI Policy

Anthropic's Project Glasswing Enlists 40+ Tech Giants to Hunt Zero-Days With Claude Mythos

Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a defensive AI cybersecurity coalition that uses Claude Mythos Preview to autonomously discover high-severity vulnerabilities at scale. Apple, AWS, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA are among the 40+ founding partners.

Apr 28, 20265 min read
Google Commits $750 Million to AI Agent Startups — and Opens a DeepMind Campus in Seoul
Big Tech

Google Commits $750 Million to AI Agent Startups — and Opens a DeepMind Campus in Seoul

Google's new $750M fund combines cloud credits, hands-on engineering support, and Google Marketplace distribution for startups building agentic AI products. Simultaneously, Google DeepMind is establishing a research campus in South Korea to tap into the country's AI talent pipeline.

Apr 28, 20265 min read
AWS Ships Lambda S3 Files, Bedrock AgentCore CLI, and Aurora Serverless v4 in a Single Week
Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Ships Lambda S3 Files, Bedrock AgentCore CLI, and Aurora Serverless v4 in a Single Week

Amazon packed three significant developer-facing releases into one seven-day window: Lambda functions can now mount S3 buckets as shared file systems, AgentCore CLI deploys AI agents with a single command across 14 regions for free, and Aurora Serverless v4 delivers 30% better performance.

Apr 28, 20265 min read
APT28 Is Actively Exploiting CVE-2026-32202 — A Zero-Click Windows Shell Flaw That Steals NTLM Hashes
Cybersecurity

APT28 Is Actively Exploiting CVE-2026-32202 — A Zero-Click Windows Shell Flaw That Steals NTLM Hashes

Russia's Fancy Bear is weaponizing a Windows Shell spoofing zero-day to harvest Net-NTLMv2 credential hashes without any user interaction. Microsoft patched it in April Patch Tuesday alongside 166 other CVEs — install the update now.

Apr 28, 20265 min read
Google Signs Marvell as Its Third Custom AI Chip Partner to Co-Design MPU and Inference TPU
Hardware

Google Signs Marvell as Its Third Custom AI Chip Partner to Co-Design MPU and Inference TPU

Google confirmed Marvell Technology as a new chip co-design partner at Cloud Next 2026, adding a memory processing unit and inference-optimized TPU to its custom silicon portfolio alongside Broadcom and MediaTek.

Apr 27, 20265 min read
Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B Beats a 397B MoE on Coding — The Open-Weight Model Worth Self-Hosting
AI Models

Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B Beats a 397B MoE on Coding — The Open-Weight Model Worth Self-Hosting

Alibaba released Qwen3.6-27B on Hugging Face under an open-weight license. It outperforms a 397B Mixture-of-Experts model on agentic coding benchmarks and fits on a single high-end consumer GPU.

Apr 27, 20265 min read
Fortinet CVE-2026-35616: CVSS 9.1 Auth Bypass in FortiClient EMS Under Active Exploitation — No Full Patch Yet
Cybersecurity

Fortinet CVE-2026-35616: CVSS 9.1 Auth Bypass in FortiClient EMS Under Active Exploitation — No Full Patch Yet

A CVSS 9.1 unauthenticated API bypass in FortiClient EMS 7.4.5–7.4.6 was exploited in the wild five days before Fortinet's advisory. A public PoC exists, CISA added it to KEV, and no complete fix has shipped.

Apr 27, 20265 min read

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