One in four malicious data breaches involved attackers using AI, according to the 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report IBM published on July 29, 2026. Those breaches cost an average of $6 million, roughly $1 million above the $4.99 million global average IBM reports across its full sample, and the share of malicious breaches…
Generative AI has expanded beyond coding assistants and content creation tools, finding its way into legal research and case preparation. While the technology has helped legal professionals quickly generate documents and explore potential legal strategies within minutes, AI adoption has fueled the rise of vibe lawyering where individuals use AI to complete legal tasks with…
Recursive, the AI research company led by Richard Socher, has signed a multi-year, $410 million agreement with Amazon Web Services to run its automated AI research system, putting the bulk of its funding into a single cloud contract. The company came out of stealth in May 2026 with $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation,…
Restaurant operators continue to see industry sales growth, but growth alone will not solve the industry’s margin problem. The National Restaurant Association forecasted that restaurant and foodservice sales could reach $1.55 trillion in 2026, but more recent data showed a tougher reality: 49% of restaurant operators reported lower customer traffic in April, and the industry…
Fish Audio has raised $52 million in a seed round co-led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, money that arrives at a Palo Alto text-to-speech company that has spent the past year giving its models away and charging for everything around them. Fish Audio says more than 8 million people now use those models through…
For most of modern science, the first stages of a research idea were largely invisible. A researcher noticed an anomaly, connected two concepts, questioned an established assumption, or identified a gap in the literature. That idea was privately refined before being tested through conversations with supervisors, colleagues, reviewers, and funding bodies. Generative AI is inserting…
Google has added a control layer to the managed agents in its Gemini API, letting developers run their own code before and after every tool call an agent makes inside its cloud sandbox, and cancel the call outright. The same update makes Gemini 3.6 Flash the default model behind the agent, caps how many tokens…
Ono Pharmaceutical is putting AI agents in front of the scientists who run its earliest-stage research. Under a collaboration announced on July 28, 2026, the Osaka drugmaker will deploy Biomni Lab, the agentic research platform built by South San Francisco applied-AI lab Phylo, across its drug discovery organization. What the platform is meant to absorb,…
The agency that investigates most computer intrusions in the United States now treats autonomous vulnerability discovery as a coming enforcement problem. Todd Hemmen, deputy assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division’s Cyber Capabilities Branch, told the Digital Government Institute’s 930gov conference in Washington on July 28, 2026 that the software flaws surfaced by Anthropic’s Mythos…
Mate Security has raised $35 million in Series A funding as enterprises look for new ways to operate security teams against attacks moving at machine speed. Canaan Partners led the round, with participation from Insight Partners, Team8 and M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. All of Mate’s existing investors returned for the financing, bringing the cybersecurity company’s…