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Trellix, a global cybersecurity company formed from the 2021 merger of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye, has confirmed that attackers gained unauthorized access to a portion of its source code repository. The disclosure was made publicly on May 2, 2026, after the company identified the intrusion and engaged leading forensic experts to investigate. Law enforcement has also been notified. For a company whose entire business is built on keeping others secure, having its own source code stolen is the kind of incident that demands more than a short statement. What Trellix Has Confirmed Trellix’s official statement reads: “Trellix recently identified unauthorized…

OpenAI recently launched a new standalone business unit, backed by more than $4 billion in initial investment and built entirely around one goal – getting its AI systems working inside the daily operations of large businesses. The company is called the OpenAI Deployment Company, majority-owned and controlled by OpenAI, and formed as a partnership with 19 global investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators. It represents the clearest sign yet that the competitive edge in AI is no longer just about building the best model. What DeployCo Will Do The new company will focus on deploying specialists called Forward Deployed Engineers…

Meta is developing a new AI agent internally codenamed Hatch, a system built to carry out tasks across its Facebook and Instagram apps with little to no step-by-step instruction from users. According to a report by The Information, the project has reached an advanced stage of development, and Meta is aiming to complete internal testing by the end of June 2026. A separate but related AI shopping tool for Instagram is also planned for a full rollout in the fourth quarter of this year. What Hatch Is Built to Do Hatch is being designed as a consumer-facing autonomous agent, meaning…

Google has said a cybercrime group used artificial intelligence (AI) to build a hacking tool capable of bypassing defenses in a widely used system administration platform. On May 11, 2026, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) published the first documented proof that a criminal group used AI to develop a zero-day exploit, targeting an open-source web administration tool. GTIG said it had uncovered and likely thwarted the attackers’ plan for what it called a “mass vulnerability exploitation operation.” What the Exploit Did The zero-day vulnerability was implemented in a Python script that enabled the user to bypass two-factor authentication on an…

A cyberattack on Canvas, the world’s most widely used learning management system, has exposed data belonging to roughly 275 million students, teachers, and staff across nearly 9,000 educational institutions worldwide. The breach, carried out by the criminal extortion group ShinyHunters, is now considered the largest education-sector security incident ever recorded. The hack affected an estimated 9,000 universities, education ministries, and other institutions worldwide, with particularly significant implications in the United States, where Canvas is used by 41% of higher education institutions as well as some K-12 schools. The disruption hit at the worst possible time, as it occurred during the…

Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, on top of the $8 billion it has already poured into the AI startup, as part of an expanded deal for Anthropic to secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of capacity for training and deploying Claude. In exchange, Anthropic committed to spending more than $100 billion on AWS technologies over the next ten years. The numbers are large enough to command attention, and what they reveal about the current state of the AI race is worth understanding. What the Deal Actually Involves Amazon is making an immediate investment of…

The seven-year alliance that gave Microsoft a lock on all of OpenAI’s technology has officially been cracked open. On April 27, 2026, OpenAI and Microsoft announced a revised partnership that ends the exclusivity arrangement that has existed at the core of their relationship since 2019, freeing OpenAI to serve all of its products to customers on any cloud provider, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. Why the Deal Changed The ChatGPT-maker says its growing commercial ambitions had been running into a structural ceiling, according to an internal memo seen by CNBC. As enterprise demand scaled, the Azure-only model…

The U.S. government will now be reviewing the most advanced AI models before they go public. The U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) recently announced formal agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk’s xAI that will allow the U.S. government to evaluate their AI models before they are publicly available.  This move extends a federal oversight framework that already includes OpenAI and Anthropic, whose earlier agreements with CAISI were renegotiated to reflect updated directives from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and America’s AI Action Plan. CAISI, established in 2025 under President Trump administration, sits under the U.S. Department…

Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to use the entire computing capacity of Colossus 1, SpaceX’s flagship AI data center located in Memphis, Tennessee. The agreement gives Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity, backed by over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, all of which will come online within this month. According to CEO Dario Amodei, this deal was built specifically to ease capacity pressure on the company’s most active users. What Changes for Claude Users Anthropic says it will be doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. The company is…

Microsoft has removed the General Manager of its Israeli subsidiary and several other senior staff members after an internal investigation found that the Israeli military violated the company’s terms of service by using Azure cloud infrastructure to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians.  The investigation also found that Microsoft Israel’s leadership had not been fully transparent with the company’s global headquarters about how the Israeli Defense Ministry was using its systems. Alon Haimovich, who had served as general manager of Microsoft Israel for four years, will be leaving the company at the end of May, alongside several other senior staff. In…