Capital One releases VulnHunter, an open-source AI tool that finds software flaws before hackers do

Capital One on Thursday released VulnHunter, an open-source, agentic AI security tool that scans source code for exploitable vulnerabilities, maps out how an attacker would reach them, and proposes ta [...]

Cerebras stock nearly doubles on day one as AI chipmaker hits $100 billion — what it means for AI infrastructure

Cerebras Systems, the Silicon Valley chipmaker that built the world's largest commercial AI processor, erupted onto the Nasdaq on Wednesday, opening at $350 per share — nearly double its $185 I [...]

Satya Nadella warns that AI could hollow out entire industries, echoing the damage done by globalization

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a sweeping essay on Sunday laying out what he describes as the defining economic challenge of the AI era: the risk that a handful of frontier models will absorb t [...]

When deep research isn't enough for your business: Sakana AI launches 'ultra deep research' agent for 100+ page reports in 8 hours

Tokyo-based AI startup Sakana AI has officially launched its first commercial product, Sakana Marlin. Billed as a "Virtual CSO" (Chief Strategy Officer), Marlin is an autonomous, B2B researc [...]

Impulse Space exec reveals how firm will allocate $500 million in fresh funding

Impulse Space exec Eric Romo reveals how firm will allocate $500 million in fresh funding [...]

Instagram AI chatbot breach may have affected over to 20,000 accounts, Meta discloses

Meta has put a number on the security breach in its AI support chatbot for Instagram for the first time: at least 20,225 accounts were compromised. For nearly seven weeks, the system sent password res [...]

Ascentra Labs raises $2 million to help consultants use AI instead of all-night Excel marathons

While artificial intelligence has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industry—a $250 billion behemothâ [...]

Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle

Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run [...]

Why Capital One built its multi-agent AI platform around open-weight models

Presented by Capital One At VB Transform 2026, Kel Vanee, MVP of machine learning engineering at Capital One, spoke with Sam Witteveen, Senior Technology Contributor at VentureBeat, about how the bank [...]