Straiker raises $64M to secure the AI agents running your company

AI agents are pouring into companies, and most security tools were never built to watch them. Straiker wants to fix that. The startup has just raised $64mn to police a workforce that does not clock in [...]

One symlink trick breaks 6 top AI coding agents, from Amazon

Security firm Wiz found one old Unix trick that breaks six popular AI coding assistants, from Amazon Q to Cursor. A booby-trapped repository can walk an agent past its own safety prompt. The payoff is [...]

Peec AI doubles its valuation betting GEO is the new SEO

For 20 years, marketing meant one thing: rank on Google. That deal is breaking. A Berlin startup has just doubled its valuation on a bet about what comes next. Peec AI is in talks to raise new funding [...]

Amazon’s rapid-delivery push wipes $15bn off India’s Eternal and Swiggy

Amazon spent years circling India’s quick-commerce market without committing to it. Investors have now decided the circling is over, and they have repriced the incumbents accordingly. Shares in Eter [...]

Ford had to rehire 350 engineers after its AI got vehicle quality wrong

Ford has admitted that it had to rehire experienced engineers after its AI systems failed to deliver the quality the company expected. Charles Poon, Ford’s VP of vehicle hardware engineering, told r [...]

Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows

Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit card transaction analysis firm Indagari. Claude’s paying consumer [...]

Germany tells Trump: you cannot get to the moon without us

Germany’s space minister has a message for Washington: the dependence runs both ways. In an interview with Politico at the VivaTech trade show in Paris this week, Dorothee Bär said Europe provides [...]

Microsoft turns to Chevron’s gas to power a Texas data centre

The Chevron Microsoft gas deal hands the oil major a 20-year contract to power a giant West Texas data centre. For a company that built its AI plans on renewables and nuclear, that is a sharp turn. Ch [...]

Procore’s AI could read the blueprints. For $845M, it just bought eyes on the site.

Procore’s AI can read a construction project’s paperwork. Now it is paying $845m to give that AI eyes on the actual site. The construction-software company said it will buy DroneDeploy, a reality- [...]