Hollywood producer Robert Simonds acquires controversial Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in a multimillion-dollar deal, despite the company remaining on the US Commerce Department's banned entities list for targeting journalists and activists worldwide.
Kernel secures $22M in funding to enable AI agents to browse the internet, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize over Trump, and Apple raises bug bounty rewards to $2M to combat nation-state hacking threats.
Google DeepMind launches CodeMender, an AI agent that autonomously detects and fixes security vulnerabilities in software, having already submitted 72 security patches across 4.5 million lines of open-source code including fixes for exploits used in major attacks.
Gate22 launches an open-source gateway that lets teams control and audit which tools AI agents can access across platforms like Cursor, featuring function-level permissions, credential management, and unified configuration bundles.
Google DeepMind launches CodeMender, an AI agent that automatically detects and fixes software security flaws, successfully delivering 72 patches to open source projects within six months while handling codebases up to 4.5 million lines.
GitHub Copilot dominates 82% of enterprise markets through security features while Claude Code leads overall adoption at 53%, with nearly half of organizations paying double costs for multiple AI coding tools as security concerns block faster alternatives like Cursor from enterprise consideration.
Microsoft researchers discover AI can redesign deadly toxins to bypass DNA screening software and create undetectable biological weapons, prompting emergency patches to security systems as experts warn of an escalating arms race between AI-enabled bioterrorism and defense capabilities.
Google deploys AI-powered ransomware shield for Drive desktop users that instantly detects attacks and stops cloud syncing to prevent infection spread, training on millions of encrypted victim files to protect enterprise customers on Windows and Mac systems.
Docker partners with Promptfoo to launch new local AI model testing tools, enabling developers to evaluate and compare open-source models against cloud services while conducting security red-team testing to identify vulnerabilities in AI agents.
Google Cloud security experts declare blocking AI agents futile as 82% of enterprises rush to integrate the technology within three years, warning that uncontrolled shadow agents could expose confidential data, violate privacy, and cause financial losses without proper guardrails.