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Aslan launches after raising $20.8 million for national-security AI agents

Aslan, a startup building AI agents for national-security missions, has publicly launched after raising $20.8 million, Axios reported. The company offers agents to the FBI and wider intelligence community that can act as analysts and undercover operatives in online forums. The supplied summary does not identify investors, the financing stage, deployment contracts, or the degree of operational use by agencies.
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Lambda reportedly raises $1 billion in private debt for Nvidia GPUs

Cloud provider Lambda has reportedly secured $1 billion in short-term private debt to buy Nvidia GPUs, according to Bloomberg reporting cited by Data Center Dynamics. The company is expected to lease the chips to Microsoft under t...

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AWS makes Claude Fable 5.1 available through Bedrock

AWS said Claude Fable 5.1 is available today through Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, including US Geo and Global inference profiles. AWS describes the model as suited to coding, scientific research and enterprise workfl...

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Langflow flaw is being exploited to harvest cloud and AI credentials

Threat actors are exploiting CVE-2026-0768, an unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaw in Langflow's custom-component code validator, to steal credentials, tokens and keys, according to VulnCheck observations reported by Bleepi...

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HiBob funding round values HR software company above $3.2 billion

Salesforce is investing in HR software company HiBob in a $160 million funding round that values the startup at more than $3.2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The investment gives HiBob new capital alongside...

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OpenAI says Astra reached its critical cyber-capability threshold

OpenAI says its forthcoming Astra model has reached the company's threshold for critical cyber capabilities, defined as independently finding and exploiting previously unknown vulnerabilities in real-world software. The company p...

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