AI coding agents will drastically alter both the practice and the economics of exploit development, automating the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities (Thomas H. Ptacek/sockpuppet.org)
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A look at Babel Audio, which pairs anonymous strangers to record their conversations, starting at $17/hour, and bundles those recordings into AI training data (Issie Lapowsky/Bloomberg)
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Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda; officials say Sriram Krishnan is taking on a position at the National Economic Council to focus on AI (Axios)
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A supply chain attack compromises HTTP client Axios, which has 100M weekly npm downloads, introducing a malicious dependency and deploying a multi-stage payload (Socket)
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
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Social gaming startup Rec Room is shutting down its service on June 1, saying it could not find a path to profitability; it was valued at $3.5B in December 2021 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
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Sources: London-based chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise over $200M from Accel and others at a $1B valuation; Fractile raised a $15M seed round in 2024 (Financial Times)
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Official data shows India's smartphone exports hit $11B in H1 FY2026, up 55% YoY; analysts warn the Iran war could trigger a 22% to 25% drop in the coming weeks (Quratulain Rehbar/Nikkei Asia)
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