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Alphabet Surpasses Apple in Market Cap as Google Cloud and Gemini AI Drive $4.1T Valuation; Estée Lauder Upgraded on Asia Growth; Torq Ltd. Raises $140M in Series C

Alphabet Surpasses Apple in Market Cap as Google Cloud and Gemini AI Drive $4.1T Valuation; Estée Lauder Upgraded on Asia Growth; Torq Ltd. Raises $140M in Series C

TL;DR * Alphabet’s market cap surpasses $3.97 trillion as Google Cloud grows 33–34% YoY and Gemini AI drives re-rating amid rising AI infrastructure demand * Torq Ltd. raises $140M in Series C funding at $1.2B valuation, expanding AI-driven security hyperautomation platform with enterprise clients including PepsiCo and
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Anthropic Launches HIPAA-Certified Claude Opus 4.5; Google & OpenAI Race to Match Health and Commerce AI Breakthroughs

Anthropic Launches HIPAA-Certified Claude Opus 4.5; Google & OpenAI Race to Match Health and Commerce AI Breakthroughs

TL;DR * Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5 with HIPAA compliance and direct integrations to HealthEx, Apple HealthKit, and Android Health Connect for secure clinical data access * Google announces Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) with Walmart, Shopify, and Wayfair to enable AI-driven agent-based checkout within Gemini, standardizing payment and product discovery
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Instagram Data Breach Exposes 17.5M Users, Grok AI Blocked in Malaysia and Indonesia, WEX API Keys Sold on Dark Web

Instagram Data Breach Exposes 17.5M Users, Grok AI Blocked in Malaysia and Indonesia, WEX API Keys Sold on Dark Web

TL;DR * Malwarebytes reports 17.5 million Instagram accounts compromised via 2024 API leak, exposing usernames, physical addresses, and phone numbers; users advised to enable 2FA * CVE-2026-01-11: Unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability discovered in OpenCode AI coding assistant server (port 4096), enabled by default prior to v1.1.10 * Grok
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