Identity-based attacks accounted for nearly one in three intrusions in 2024. IntegraTRACE founder Steve Emmanuel is building a centralized visibility layer for human, non-human, and agentic identities ...

BMW will cut about 8,000 German jobs as China sales slump, the same week it named Qualcomm the single supplier of its cars’ compute for the next decade.

OpenAI is giving 100,000 researchers free frontier access through 2027, the same week it revealed how it cut its agents’ token costs to afford moves like it.

Shein disclosed an undisclosed FTC consumer-protection probe in its Hong Kong IPO filing. The agency polices ‘dark patterns’. The tricks Shein’s app runs on.

PwC published Middle East reports full of fake footnotes and made-up sources, one URL ending in “chatgpt.com.” It is the fourth Big Four firm caught using AI slop.

Modus emerges from stealth with a $10M seed led by Insight Partners to build the Context Warehouse, an infrastructure layer that gives AI agents a continuously maintained understanding of how an ...

Meta’s revenue rose 28% to $60.8bn, but profit fell 14% and free cash flow collapsed 91% to $784m as its AI build-out costs climbed. The stock dropped.

Microsoft’s Azure grew 43% and passed $100bn for the year, its backlog hit $678bn, and the stock rose 2%. But AI capital spending keeps climbing.

Options imply a ~$190bn post-earnings swing for Microsoft, an unusually large move, as investors demand proof its heavy AI spending is paying off.

Freehand has raised $75M co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad to scale AI agents that manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 firms.

Cyera is buying Oasis Security for ~$1bn to govern the “non-human identities” AI agents use to reach company data, the biggest AI-agent-security deal yet.

Visa is cutting 7% of staff, mostly in tech and product, and reinvesting in stablecoins and cross-border payments. Its memo names AI as an accelerant.