Hackers are still exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites
Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers keep targeting and hacking websites.
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Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race
Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.
Sierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious
The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the "global standard" for AI-powered customer experiences.
Elon Musk sent ominous texts to Greg Brockman, Sam Altman after asking for a settlement, OpenAI claims
Musk texted OpenAI's president and co-founder saying that he and CEO Sam Altman "will be the most hated men in America."
Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have partnered with asset managers to more aggressively market their enterprise AI products.
As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control
Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.
Italy’s largest vertical SaaS round: Smartness raises €47M to scale AI operations
Trentino-based Smartness tech travel startup has just raised €47 million Series B, in a round including primary and secondary equity and debt, being the largest round completed for an Italian vertical SaaS company. Smartness is a tech company that offers business-to-business (B2B) Software as a Service (SaaS), offering several products to hospitality businesses, to facilitate […]This story continues at The Next Web
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Virginia and Washington, D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users' information with advertisers.
Amazon opens up its global logistics network to all businesses
The new service, called Amazon Supply Chain Services, pits the e-commerce giant directly against UPS and FedEx.
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OpenAI closes The Deployment Company, a $10bn enterprise AI bet on private equity
OpenAI has finalised the most structurally novel enterprise AI deal of 2026: a $10bn vehicle anchored by TPG, with 19 investors and a 17.5% guaranteed annual return over five years. The strategy is to make PE portfolios a captive distribution channel. We wrote about the venture’s outline last month; Monday’s confirmation closes the funding question. […]This story continues at The Next Web
Blackstone wants $1.75bn for the first AI-era data-centre REIT
Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust will list on the NYSE under BXDC, targeting newly built data centres leased to hyperscalers. It is the most direct way Wall Street has yet packaged the AI build-out for public investors. For most of the past 18 months, the financial story behind the AI build-out has been a story about […]This story continues at The Next Web
Palantir’s earnings test arrives in the middle of an AI software sell-off
After a 30% year-to-date drawdown, Monday’s Q1 results are Palantir’s first chance to argue, not assume, that it does not belong in the broader AI software multiple compression. Until two weeks ago, Palantir was, by some measures, the best-performing large-cap software stock of the AI cycle. It had outpaced Salesforce, Microsoft, Oracle, and Adobe by […]This story continues at The Next Web
Cerebras files updated IPO terms: $3.5bn raise at $26.6bn valuation
Three days after suggesting it might target up to $4bn at $40bn, the AI chipmaker has marketed 28 million shares at $115-$125 each, lining the deal up with its February private valuation rather than above it. Cerebras Systems was preparing to seek up to $4bn at a roughly $40bn valuation in its long-awaited initial public […]This story continues at The Next Web
Barocal can cool your food and drink by squeezing a hunk of plastic crystals
Barocal might have discovered a cheap, nonpolluting material that could dethrone today's refrigeration technology.
Ouster’s new color lidar is coming to replace cameras
A sensor that can simultaneously capture depth and image data has long been a "holy grail," Ouster CEO Angus Pacala told TechCrunch.
UCB pays up to $2.2bn for Candid Therapeutics, doubling down on T-cell engagers in autoimmune disease
The Belgian pharma is buying a two-year-old San Diego biotech for $2bn upfront, the second TCE bet it has placed in months. The thesis: B-cell killers built for cancer can rewire how autoimmune diseases are treated. Candid Therapeutics is two years old. It does not have an approved drug. Its lead programme has been tested […]This story continues at The Next Web
The West keeps asking how much China subsidises its industries. That is the wrong question.
The Western debate about China’s industrial rise keeps circling the same question: how much of it is subsidised? The European Commission’s anti-subsidy investigations into Chinese electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines have produced tariff schedules that treat government funding as the primary explanation for Chinese competitiveness. The US Treasury and Commerce departments have imposed […]This story continues at The Next Web
SpaceX will pay Elon Musk a bonus if he gets at least 1 million people to live on Mars — here's the plan
Details from the SpaceX IPO registration statement are leaking out and 200 million super-voting restricted shares are on the line for Musk, if he can hit certain milestones.
Is Elon Musk buying Spirit Airlines? Viral tweet claim of 'completely reinventing air travel' debunked in wake of shutdown
A recent social media post claimed Elon Musk is acquiring Spirit Airlines amid reports of the company shutting down its operations. According to Hoops Crave's X post on May 2, Musk is planning to ...