The AI customer-service agent startup co-founded by OpenAI chair Bret Taylor closed a Tiger Global and GV-led round on May 4, lifting its valuation from $10 billion in September.
The four-way joint venture, announced May 4, 2026, will deploy Anthropic engineers inside mid-size companies and PE-backed firms, opening a new front against the major management consultancies.
CVE-2026-35414 lets a comma in an SSH certificate principal slip past authorized_keys access controls, granting root on vulnerable servers. OpenSSH 10.3 ships the fix.
Minnesota's HF 1606 cleared the state Senate 65-0 after a 132-1 House vote, sending an AI 'nudification' app ban to Gov. Tim Walz with $500,000 civil penalties and a private right of action.
Spirit Airlines ended 34 years of flying at 3 AM ET on May 2, 2026, after a $500 million federal rescue collapsed and jet fuel reached roughly $4.51 a gallon — double its restructuring assumption.
Instructure says names, email addresses, student IDs and user messages were exposed in a breach disclosed May 1. ShinyHunters then listed the firm on its leak site, claiming 3.65 TB of data tied to 275 million people at close to 9,000 institutions.
Attackers published lightning 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 to PyPI on April 30, executing an obfuscated JavaScript payload to harvest cloud credentials from anyone who imported the package. Maintainers quarantined the malicious builds within 42 minutes.
Ireland signs the Artemis Accords at NASA Headquarters on May 4, 2026, joining a coalition that reached 64 countries with Morocco's accession days earlier and continuing a rapid spring of new signatories.
CVE-2026-31431, discovered by Theori using its AI scanner Xint Code, lets unprivileged users root Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, and SUSE through a logic flaw in the kernel's crypto subsystem.
Target updated its consumer terms to treat any purchase placed by an Agentic Commerce Agent as a transaction "authorized by you," shifting AI mistake liability to shoppers ahead of its Gemini-powered checkout launch.
Zed Industries released its GPU-accelerated, Rust-based code editor as 1.0 on April 29, 2026, pitching parallel AI agents, an Apache 2.0 codebase, and a 'disable all AI features' toggle against the Electron-era status quo.
Apple posted $111.2 billion in Q2 revenue and $29.6 billion in profit, beating estimates as iPhone 17 lifted sales 22 percent and Greater China rebounded 28 percent. The board added $100 billion to buybacks before Cook hands the CEO role to Ternus.