Accenture, Dragos and the SANS Institute announced the Community Cyber Resilience Foundation, a roughly $10 million mix of funding and services to help under-resourced US water, wastewater, electric and natural gas utilities secure their operational technology (OT) environments. The first phase covers up to 500 utilities, which receive fr…
Anthropic has been shopping a draft federal AI safety bill to Congress, according to Politico and reported by TechCrunch. An Anthropic spokesperson confirmed it reflects the company's Advanced AI Framework, which it has promoted to federal and state lawmakers since June. The bill would allow a model's release to be blocked when it poses a…
SpaceX reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue in a regulatory filing, with its AI business now accounting for 52% of income. The renamed "Super Intelligence" segment includes the recently acquired Cursor coding tool, the Grok bot and a neocloud business with 1.7 GW of compute. Net income was $4.4 billion, against a $1 billion los…
GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it will close the Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant south of Detroit, as first reported by Automotive News. The site assembled battery packs for the Cadillac Celestiq and electric drive units and battery packs for the Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray. A GM spokesperson said the closure is unrelated to its EV strate…
The FBI, via an IC3 Public Service Announcement, is warning US voters about federal election crimes ahead of the November 2026 midterm election. It describes three broad categories: campaign finance violations, threats to election workers, and civil rights violations such as voter suppression or intimidation. Examples include false voter …
A $6,438,578.20 settlement has been agreed to resolve the "Other Labs Track" of consolidated litigation over the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) breach. The defendants are AMCA clients Sonic Healthcare U.S.A., Aurora Diagnostics LLC, Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. and Austin Pathology Associates. AMCA, a subsidiary of Ret…
California has settled with 23andMe for $6 million over the 2023 credential-stuffing breach. The breach exposed personal and genetic data of about 6.9 million people, including 855,000 California residents. The settlement follows a July 2026 $18 million settlement with a coalition of 42 state attorneys general, which California did not jo…
US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% year-over-year between January and September 2026, according to a CyberSN analysis of JobSpikr data. The 235,786 roles posted are the lowest total in the four years CyberSN has run the analysis, against 273,498 in 2023, 244,911 in 2024 and 320,210 in 2025. Leadership roles fell sharply: CISO postin…
Wiz announced that its Wiz AI Agents are now available in Wiz for U.S. Government (Wiz for Gov), its FedRAMP High authorized environment. Wiz describes this as the first AI-Application Protection Platform (AI-APP) for U.S. public sector organizations that protect highly sensitive, national security and mission-critical data. This is vendo…
Recorded Future has moved its headquarters from Somerville, MA, where it had been based for twelve years in a former laundromat, to downtown Boston at Post Office Square. The article is a corporate culture and recruitment piece. It describes the new open-plan office, which houses nearly 200 employees across customer success, security, dat…
Huntress explains the compliance obligations of Texas law HB 3834, passed in June 2019. It requires state agency and local government employees, and state contractors, to complete a Department of Information Resources (DIR)-certified cybersecurity awareness training every year. Since September 1, 2025, HB 3512 adds a second annual require…
This TechCrunch Equity interview features Amulya Vishwanath, founder and managing partner of Techable Ventures, a VC firm focused on physical AI. She is a former Nvidia product marketer. She argues that robotics has not yet had its "ChatGPT moment" and is in a "LEGO era", in which foundational software and hardware building blocks such as…
NIST, the NSA and CISA released a report, Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation, on handling AI agents that behave in unexpected or harmful ways. The report uses the term super intelligence (SI) instead of AI, in line with presidential executive order 14434. It sets out ten key pra…
TrustedSec (author Chris Camejo) explains that FCI and CUI safeguarding obligations do not exist during the pre-contract solicitation phase unless the contractor has agreed to a specific pre-contract agreement. Prime contractors, especially large DoD primes, are increasingly pushing CMMC, FAR 52.204-21 and DFARS 252.204-7012/7021 requirem…
Inspired Capital, the New York-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2019 by Alexa von Tobel and Penny Pritzker, closed its fourth fund with $450 million in commitments, bringing assets under management to nearly $1.4 billion. The article is business and funding news with no security incident, vulnerability, threat actor or malware co…
Reliable Robotics, a Mountain View, California startup building autonomous flight systems for existing aircraft, raised $115 million as an extension of its Series D. The round comprises $90 million in equity led by Nimble Partners and $25 million in debt from Silicon Valley Bank. It brings the Series D to $275 million, lifts the valuation…
Spotify launched paid podcast memberships on Tuesday, letting creators monetize their biggest fans beyond paywalled bonus episodes. Creators choose the perks, such as bonus audio or video, fewer ads or early access. The feature was previewed at Spotify's Investor Day in May and is rolling out to 34 markets, including the U.S. The launch i…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at The People's AI Assembly, hosted by the AI Now Institute, that the federal government has abdicated its role in regulating AI. He urged New Yorkers to resist the idea that AI adoption is inevitable. He pointed to his September order banning AI use in elementary and middle schools. He also pointed…
Cisco described how its team ran the live Security Operations Center at Splunk .conf26 in Denver, protecting more than 5,145 attendees from 70 countries. The SOC used a multi-stage agentic pipeline: live telemetry feeds Splunk Enterprise Security, autonomous triage agents accelerate Tier 1 analysis, Cisco Cloud Control enforces confidence…
TrendAI™, the enterprise AI security unit of Trend Micro, announced on June 3, 2026 that it is joining Anthropic's Project Glasswing, an initiative to help organizations find and fix vulnerabilities in critical software. TrendAI™ will use Claude Mythos Preview to support code review and analysis. Its threat intelligence researchers aim to…