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The UK government said it is finding where its online services may have been affected after critical PHP flaws were publicly flagged worldwide and organizations moved to apply fixes. The National Cyber Security Centre cited a 17 October attack on Amazon’s honeypot and warned that remediation might require taking systems offline when immediate fixing is not feasible. After the disclosures, governments and major companies including Amazon accelerated patching and mitigation efforts to prevent exploitation, while the UK focused on assessing its own exposure.
Masia closed its €18M debut fund and opened Masia House in Barcelona to support early-stage AI and frontier tech founders. The fund closed after backing 46 companies since 2025. The shift adds a dedicated 1,000 m² venue for founders, international investors, and LPs to meet regularly, rather than relying on capital alone.
Enact Intelligence emerged from stealth and announced a $30 million pre-seed round backed by investors including Yann LeCun and Arthur Mensch. The round totals $30 million. The startup plans to quintuple its 12-person team by the end of 2027, accelerate hardware and research, and deploy its first robots with industrial partners in areas like assembly.
Meta reported $64.6 billion in third-quarter revenue, but its much larger AI-related data-center and server spending pushed free cash flow negative. Capital expenditures rose to $34.9 billion, up from $19.4 billion a year earlier. Meta is increasing 2026 capex guidance to $135–$145 billion and continuing aggressive investment in AI even as cash flow tightens.
The UK government said it is finding where its online services may have been affected after critical PHP flaws were publicly flagged worldwide and organizations moved to apply fixes. The National Cyber Security Centre cited a 17 October attack on Amazon’s honeypot and warned that remediation might require taking systems offline when immediate fixing is not feasible. After the disclosures, governments and major companies including Amazon accelerated patching and mitigation efforts to prevent exploitation, while the UK focused on assessing its own exposure.
Legora raised $550 million in Series E funding for its agentic legal AI operating system as competition from legal AI rivals like Harvey intensified. The round values the company at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation and follows its platform launch in October 2024. The added capital is set to accelerate US and international expansion while supporting investment in agentic intake, horizon scanning, and legal research.
Whistle, a CPU-run speech-to-text model from Cactus Compute, was tested against Whisper tiny and base on seeded LibriSpeech test-clean and test-other using WER with paired speaker-cluster intervals and Holm correction. The Whistle weights file is 16.9 MB, and the author reports a lead over greedy Whisper base on test-other while seeing no significant gap versus beam search and a speed advantage that shrinks as clips get longer. The tutorial adds probes for dropped audio in longer inputs, streaming latency, and keyword biasing/speech-to-tool calls, but also notes that some published numbers are quoted rather than re-measured.
NVIDIA’s Nsight Python tutorial shows how to profile GPU kernels from within a running Python process by annotating the benchmarked regions and exporting results as a pandas DataFrame. It requires Nsight Compute version 2026.2.1 or later and demonstrates the workflow on a free Colab T4 using Nsight Python 1.0+ with an attach-mode setup. The process shifts profiling from a separate command-line/report workflow to inline benchmarking with per-annotation metrics, including updated options for cache/clock sweeps and an experimental CUPTI backend.
PHP vulnerabilities were identified using AI tools and triggered a global cyber-security scramble as governments and agencies warned of urgent risk. The US National Security Agency told organizations using PHP to take systems offline if they could not patch immediately, citing a potential direct path to database exploitation. Authorities and website operators responded by distributing emergency patches, taking some sites offline, and monitoring for attacker backdoors and phishing.
The U.S. economy has concentrated a large share of growth and capital markets activity around AI investment, with spending, funding, and borrowing increasingly tied to a small set of AI firms. AI-related capital spending has risen to about 2% of U.S. GDP from near zero five years ago. The article argues this concentration raises the risk of a prolonged investment bust and delays broad productivity gains, potentially requiring decades of wider adoption beyond the current infrastructure buildout.
OpenAI said it will make its newest large language models available in Google Cloud through Alphabet’s Model Garden service. Astra, its flagship GPT-6 Astra model, is paired with scaled-down GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna variants priced at 5 times and 100 times less per token than Astra. Google Cloud customers will also later be able to run the models on Confidential Compute infrastructure and access them via Antigravity and Gemini Agent offerings, with Astra and the other models generally available in Model Garden within a few weeks.
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