Opaque Systems secures $24 million Series B funding at a $300 million valuation to expand its confidential AI infrastructure that uses cryptographic techniques to process sensitive financial and healthcare data without exposing it to systems or operators.
Ring cancels its planned surveillance partnership with Flock Safety following intense public backlash over mass monitoring fears, as users and politicians raise concerns about AI-powered features and potential connections to federal agencies like ICE.
Elon Musk forces out half of xAI's co-founders in major company restructuring as regulatory pressure mounts over Grok's deepfake capabilities and the AI startup prepares for IPO.
Cybersecurity firm Reco secures $30 million Series B funding from Zeev Ventures as explosive 500% growth reveals massive surge in unauthorized employee AI tool usage, prompting enterprises to deploy monitoring platforms for shadow AI security across popular applications like ChatGPT and Salesforce.
OpenClaw, a viral AI agent with 145,000 GitHub stars, operates autonomously as an 'AI employee' but harbors critical security flaws including remote code execution vulnerabilities and malicious skills that can steal sensitive data.
Security researchers discover critical flaws in 7.1% of ClawHub's nearly 4,000 skills that expose sensitive credentials, while over 30,000 OpenClaw instances remain dangerously exposed online, prompting China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to issue urgent security alerts about the platform's extensive enterprise system access risks.
Viral social network Moltbook explodes to 1.7 million AI bot accounts generating millions of posts and comments, but experts slam it as meaningless 'AI theater' while security researchers warn of dangerous risks from bots accessing private user data and potentially malicious content.
Mozilla releases Firefox 148 on February 24 with a new 'Block AI enhancements' toggle that lets users completely disable or individually manage five AI features including translations, PDF alt text generation, tab grouping, link previews, and sidebar chatbots.
Open-source AI agent OpenClaw explodes to 100,000 GitHub stars by autonomously managing emails, calendars, and messaging apps locally, challenging big tech's dominance in AI assistants while raising safety concerns about its unrestricted system access.
Open-source AI assistant OpenClaw explodes to 60,000 GitHub stars in three weeks despite facing trademark battles, forced rebranding chaos, and serious security vulnerabilities that expose users' API keys and system access across messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram.