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Cisco Systems is in talks to acquire Astrix Security, a five-year-old Israeli cybersecurity startup that sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250 million and $350 million, according to people with knowledge of the deal. That would represent at least a 25% premium to the startup’s last valuation of around $200 million, one of the people said.
The deal talks come as the popularity of AI agents—AI software that can take actions on behalf of users on their devices—has exploded in recent
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After traveling a greater distance from Earth than any humans before them, the astronauts of Artemis II have safely returned home. Read more ›
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Cisco is moving quickly to lock down a new and growing risk: AI agents that can operate autonomously within enterprise systems. The networking giant is in early talks to acquire Astrix Security, a Tel Aviv–based AI security startup focused on ... Read more ›
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Judge Michael Liburdi ordered Arizona not to bring any enforcement actions under state law against Kalshi, at least temporarily. Read more ›
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Изучая работы по экономике профессуры ВУЗов США, я несколько раз встретил термины «гаражная вера» и «религия рынка». Несколько авторов утверждало, что теория «свободного рынка» в системе образования занимает место установленной государством религии, а популярные рассказы о «миллиардерах из гаража» не блещут объективизмом о причинах подлинного успеха известных стартапов. В поиске литературы на эти темы я вышел на книгу Малкольма Гладуэлла «Гении и аутсайдеры», которую рекомендую к чтению. Ниже – её... Read more ›
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Изучая работы по экономике профессуры ВУЗов США, я несколько раз встретил термины «гаражная вера» и «религия рынка». Несколько авторов утверждало, что теория «свободного рынка» в системе образования занимает место установленной государством религии, а популярные рассказы о «миллиардерах из гаража» не блещут объективизмом о причинах подлинного успеха известных стартапов. В поиске литературы на эти темы я вышел на книгу Малкольма Гладуэлла «Гении и аутсайдеры», которую рекомендую к чтению. Ниже – её... Read more ›
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Near the corner of Sixth and Market streets in downtown San Francisco, Frontier Tower has become a 15-story haven for the wildest and weirdest thinkers in technology. Floor 11 is full of longevity and health tech enthusiasts. The crypto folks are a floor above, with a lounge full of expensive furniture. AI is on floor 9. And the big event there this weekend is down on floor 8, where a... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: A familiar Silicon Valley foe is the mastermind behind those explosive chatbot lawsuits• Tech Culture: San Francisco’s mecca for mad scientists eyes global expansion • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Idiot,” “Dune Messiah” and “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”Many, many, many people have had much to say in the last several days about OpenAI buying TBPN,... Read more ›
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For much of the last decade, the number of new apps launching in Apple’s App Store each year went into a tailspin, falling a whopping 48% between 2016 and 2024, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower. At least that was the case until last year. In 2025, the number of new apps that showed up in the App Store globally suddenly exploded, growing 30% to nearly 600,000 compared... Read more ›
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Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon as the fourth quarter despite expectations his company will burn more than $200 billion before it starts generating cash. Behind the scenes, Sarah Friar, his chief financial officer, has voiced concerns that reflect the tensions and risks inherent in the CEO’s extraordinarily ambitious plans. Read more ›
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The first quarter is over, and tech earnings season is only a couple of weeks away. Here’s something worth thinking about: Big tech stocks out of favor with investors—particularly Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms—need to show something striking when they report for the quarter if they want to get out of the doghouse they’re in.If they don’t, sentiment is likely to become even more negative. In the next few months,... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar are diverging over the company’s timeline for an initial public offering as Altman pushes for a public debut as early as the fourth quarter, The Information reported. Friar has privately expressed concerns that the AI startup will not be ... Read more ›
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Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard for status as a “Session Immortal”—or, even better, “Token Legend.” The rankings, set up by a Meta employee on its intranet using company data, measure how many tokens—the units of data processed by AI models—employees are burning through. Dubbed “Claudeonomics” after the flagship product of AI startup Anthropic, the leaderboard aggregates... Read more ›
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Forget all the chatter about which AI coding tool is winning the race. The companies behind the leading AI coding tools are learning the benefits of peaceful co-existence. On Thursday, for instance, Cursor announced a new version of its app designed for coding with AI agents from different coding providers simultaneously, including Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. OpenAI, meanwhile, last week released a software “plugin” that gives Claude Code... Read more ›
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SpaceX executives say its Starlink Mobile direct-to-cell service offered through mobile carriers will eventually reach hundreds of millions of customers around the globe, which would help justify SpaceX’s valuation. But right now, the service’s revenue is tiny. T-Mobile, for instance, SpaceX’s only mobile partner in the U.S., is offering its customers access to Starlink Mobile in exchange for paying SpaceX a total of around $100 million as it hits service... Read more ›
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Oracle named Schneider Electric’s former chief financial officer Hilary Maxson to be CFO, the first time in years the software-and-cloud giant has had a CFO. Maxson’s appointment comes as Oracle has borrowed heavily to fund a huge investment in AI data centers. Maxson, who had announced her ... Read more ›
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