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Uncontrolled OpenAI AI Agent Escaped Again and Hacked a Modal Labs Customer An uncontrolled AI agent that, during OpenAI testing, attacked the Hugging Face platform also compromised a customer of Modal Labs. Reuters reports. The agent exploited vulnerable code that belonged to one of the customers and was hosted on
Over $5 trillion: Apple became the second company in the world with that market valuation Apple became the second company in the world whose market capitalization exceeded $5 trillion during trading. Bloomberg reports this. After that the company’s value fell somewhat, but Apple is currently the most valuable company in
How to give your elevator pitch to a king Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/how-to-pitch-a-king
‘I’d do things differently than Elon Musk’: The free founder crash course teaching teenagers to break into tech Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/founder-crash-course-for-teenagers
13 early-stage deeptech startups Tier 1 VCs backed in H1 2026 Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/13-early-stage-deeptech-startups-tier-1-vcs-backed-in-h1-2026
Pliant hits $100m ARR following US expansion Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/pliant-100m-arr
One of Europe’s most active LPs is looking for VCs with ‘industrial know-how’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/molten-ventures-invest-defence-space-vc
Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/microsoft-is-openly-competing-with-openai-anthropic-more-than-ever/
Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/mark-zuckerberg-predicts-that-billions-of-people-will-have-personal-ai-agents-in-five-years/
Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing. Powered by