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Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 — credential stealer The LiteLLM v1.82.8 package published to PyPI was compromised with a particularly nasty credential stealer hidden in base64 in a litellm_init.

Engineers building browser agents today face a choice between closed APIs they cannot inspect and open-weight frameworks with no trained model underneath them. Ai2 is now offering a third option. The Seattle-based nonprofit behind the <a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai2s-new-olmo-3-1-ex

For over a decade, the enterprise email and calendar market has been a two-horse race between Microsoft and Google. If you started

For over a decade, the enterprise email and calendar market has been a two-horse race between Microsoft and Google. If you started

A new threat report from SentinelOne shows threat actors are no longer simply focused on gaining access. They are moving beyond initial breaches to systematically abuse the trusted identity systems, infrastructure, and automation systems that power the modern enterprise. This leaves security teams i

Infinite Campus, a widely used student information system provider in the US education sector, has disclosed a security incident involving unauthorized access to an employee’s Salesforce account. Meanwhile, the ShinyHunters extortion group claims to have stolen sensitive corporate data and is thr

Infinite Campus, a widely used K-12 student information system, is warning customers of a data breach following an extortion attempt by a threat actor. [...]

When Jensen Huang told 30,000 attendees at GTC last week that the future data centre is a “token factory,” he was describing a

India is now Wispr Flow’s second-largest market, said CEO Tanay Kothari, with users and paying subscribers growing as people spend when value is clear. Kothari said strong utility drives high conversions and more annual plans. The company is targeting early adopters and betting on focus, speed, and

OpenArt, Fanvue, and ElevenLabs have launched the AI Personality of the Year Awards, a global competition recognizing AI influencers across content excellence, cultural impact, and commercial success. The program offers a $90,000 prize fund, with a $10,000 top prize and category awards spannin

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup challenging the leaders of Silicon Valley, posted a cluster of job openings for specialists in agentic artificial intelligence and other positions, as enthusiasm for the technology that can carry out tasks without human intervention grips China.

Swiggy has raised its per-order platform fee, days after rival Zomato’s move. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.

Anthropic has updated Claude to perform tasks in its Code and Cowork AI tools autonomously by using your computer for you. The new feature can be used to automatically open files, use web browsers and apps, and run dev tools "with no setup required," even when you're away from your computer, accordi

OpenAI is pushing the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CM

The inevitability of advertising doesn’t reduce risk—it concentrates it. Less than two years ago, Sam Altman described advertising as a “last resort” for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, during a Harvard Business School interview. He said he woul

The Goat Agency has hired Bryce Adams as U.S. Influencer Lead, the WPP Media-owned influencer agency announced. Adams joins from Open Influence, where he served as Senior Vice President of Partnerships. Before that, he spent six years at Captiv8 leading brand strategy and success. In the new r

The import tool begins to take shape

One new ad format displays another brand's logo alongside TikTok's on the launch page when users open the app.

BuddyBoss had its update server compromised and used to push a poisoned update.

New partnership lets hedge funds and other large investors trade event contracts using crypto collateral held on BitGo’s platform.

Luma AI has launched Uni-1, an image model that tops human preference tes

Google is testing changing out some of the links within AI Mode to show as overlay cards, instead of take you directly to the website it is mentioning. This obviously will result in fewer direct clicks to those websites.

A guide to Meta ads targeting in

Shalin Jain built HappyFox to $20M+ ARR, bootstrapped, with about 100 employees. He went from 5 support reps at $1M ARR to 6 support reps at $20M ARR. Same story on sales: 6 sellers at $3M, still 6 sellers at $20M. He recently shared how his team did it by treating support data as their... <a

Why Sierra, Cursor, Coactive, Lovable, and ServiceNow are among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026. Three years (plus) after the arrival of ChatGPT, chatbots are morphing into AI agents. As

The AI ringers struggled at first. But soon, they were calling upsets, picking against the crowd—and beating the humans.

The Kubernetes community retired Ingress NGINX this month after years of under-resourcing. The migration scramble it trigger

OpenAI has hired former Meta VP Dav

Two more GitHub Actions workflows have become the latest to be compromised by credential-stealing malware by a threat actor known as TeamPCP, the cloud-native cybercriminal operation also behind the Trivy supply chain attack. The workflows, both maintained by the supply chain security company Checkm

A newly observed malware campaign is leveraging trusted platforms like Google Forms to distribute the PureHVNC Remote Access Trojan (RAT), marking a shift in how attackers initiate infections. Rather than relying on traditional phishing emails or malicious websites, threat actors are using busine

Anthropic has detailed advanced Claude Code patterns f

In today’s Digest we cover ChatGPT’s slow rollout of ads, frustrating partners despite the buzz around their introduction, Musk being found liable in a $44bn fraud case related to Twitter, and broadcasters pushing for tougher smart TV rules across Europe. The post <a href="https://www.exch

The OpenTelemetry-native platform founded by the team behind Instana has grown to 600 customers in under two years. Its Series B, led by Balderton, with Accel, Ch

Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has no shortage of strong engine

Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has no shortage of strong engine

Fake ads and cloned websites trick developers into installing infostealers, exposing credentials, source code and sensitive data, says Kaspersky

Claude is rapidly gaining ground on ChatGPT, with fresh data highlighting a sharp shift in user behaviour and engagement across AI platforms. Should you switch too?

SILENTCONNECT is a new multi-stage Windows loader that abuses fake online invitations and trusted cloud services to silently deploy the ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote access tool on victim systems. The campaign blends social engineering, living-off-the-land binaries, and low-level evasion techn

Threat actors are now abusing Google’s Firebase App Distribution service to push fake Android ChatGPT and Meta advertising apps that steal Facebook credentials and enable account takeover. The operation closely mirrors a recent iOS phishing campaign that used bogus ChatGPT and Gemini apps, but th

New technology is transforming international trade and, with the help of the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI), Chinese firms are increasingly well placed to compete globally. “For Chinese companies going overseas, the requirement has evolved from just providing infrastructure to infrastructure

OpenAI brings in ex-Meta ad executive Dave Dugan as it tests ads in ChatGPT. According to his LinkedIn post, Dugan has joined OpenAI as vice president of global ad solutions.

SentinelOne Inc. and Snyk Ltd. today introduced new tools for securing artificial intelligence agents. NYSE-traded SentinelOne provides a cybersecurity platform called Singularity that helps companies protect software containers, employee devices and other assets. Snyk, in turn, offers tools that

Turo's ChatGPT app is the latest example of AI's rapid advance into every aspect of the automotive industry.

monday.com unveils Agentalent.ai, a marketplace to recruit, vet and onboard AI agents into defined business roles alongside human staff.

OpenAI is rolling out a new feature called 'Library' for ChatGPT, which allows you to store your personal files or images on OpenAI's cloud storage, so you can reference those items in a future chat. [...]

Google Ads is displaying identical website performance metrics across unrelated advertisers, raising serious questions about data accuracy, automated ad extensions, and advertiser t

TeamViewer unveils Tia Reporting, an AI dashboard tool that lets IT teams build live, no-code reports on digital workplaces via chat prompts.

Anthropic announced today that its Claude Code and Claude Cowork tools are being updated to accomplish tasks using your computer. The latest update will see these AI resources become capable of opening files, using the browser and running dev tools. When enabled, the Claude AI chatbot

The Prague and Krakow firm, whose earliest bets include UiPath and ElevenLabs, is doubling down on pre-seed in Central and Eastern Europe and its global diaspora,

The Prague and Krakow firm, whose earliest bets include UiPath and ElevenLabs, is doubling down on pre-seed in Central and Eastern Europe and its global diaspora,