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Illustration of two developers orchestrating a fleet of AI software agents across a virtual code factory.

🚀 Factory's AI Coding Startup Jumps to $5B Valuation

Factory went from a $1.5B to $5B valuation in just five months—tripling its worth. 🚀 The AI coding startup raised $200M led by Blackstone, Khosla, and Sequoia, barely three years after two Princeton grads met at a hackathon. Revenue doubled month-over-month for six straight months before its

Illustration of a document-processing workflow split between deterministic and generative AI engines, with a routing layer directing tasks.

🤖 ABBYY Phoenix Plus pairs deterministic and generative AI to cut document-processing costs

80% of enterprise document work doesn't need generative AI — and Phoenix Plus is built to know the difference 🤖 ABBYY's new Phoenix Plus routes routine pages through fast deterministic paths, reserving generative inference only for genuinely ambiguous cases. That routing is the quiet breakthrough in deployment economics.

Agility Robotics' Digit 5 humanoid robot seated in a failsafe position on a factory floor with a person standing nearby.

🤖 Agility's Digit 5: Safer Humanoid, Still Unproven at Scale

Digit 5 lifts 40% more, runs 10:1 vs 2:1, and works 20+ hrs a day. 🤖 But Agility's $300M order book is mostly a memo—2025 sales were just $1.78M. First commercial shipments? Late 2027. Customers are betting $250K+ per machine on lab data with zero

A computer screen displaying a forged official government email request with phishing warning indicators overlaid.

🔐📩 Government PEC Phishing Exposes 680 Revolut Customers

680 Revolut customers' passports, selfies, bank data & Bitcoin histories were exposed via a phishing attack that hijacked Italian government PEC email accounts. 💼 The request looked fully official; the legal channel authenticated the machine—not the person. Attackers demanded 10,000 BTC (~$782M). No internal breach was found, but

Recovered F-15E Strike Eagle wreckage displayed alongside MQ-9 Reaper drone components in an Iranian outdoor exhibit, August 2026

✈️ Pentagon Logs $7B Aircraft Loss in Iran After F-15E Shootdown

$7B to replace 42 aircraft lost in Iran — a squadron per week for six weeks ✈️ One shoulder-fired missile triggered a 150-plane rescue inside Iranian borders. 138 new F-15Es are ordered but delays cap delivery at six. Could your region's budget cover that? A single shoulder-

A server room with a cracked password lock overlay, symbolizing unsalted credential hashes still in circulation

🔐 New Bank Intrusion and TD Breach Revive Stolen LinkedIn Credential Risk

6.5 million LinkedIn hashes went unsalted in 2012; 2 million cracked. The average Facebook identity-theft claim now hits $30,000 📊 Each leaked hash still trades through zero-day brokers. Banks face the tradeoff: rotate credentials fast or widen exposure. Has a recent breach changed how you protect your

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin at the G20 energy ministers meeting in Houston as US power-plant CO₂ rules are repealed.

⚡ EPA Repeals Power-Plant CO₂ Limits, Dropping 90% Capture Rule

1.38B t of CO₂ no longer capped by federal rule — 90% capture mandate for coal & gas just dissolved. ⚡ Cost and risk shift to operators and utilities. Cheaper near-term, but the endangerment-finding repeal and SCOTUS challenge loom. Co-ops cheer; health advocates count ~1,200 early deaths.