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Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight, 40B-parameter coding model developed with its Eureka Machine AI system, which automated most of the development (Will Knight/Wired)
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Watchtower, which uses AI and simulation software to help the US Armed Forces make logistical decisions, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
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The PHP Foundation details how it found and fixed the two flaws, and says it had to release patches a day early after the CVE IDs began circulating online (The PHP Foundation)
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Several government, school, and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline as organizations rush to protect themselves from two critical PHP security flaws (Reuters)
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Whop, which helps people start, run, and scale businesses and uses AI to suggest business decisions, raised $205M led by Sequoia Capital at a $5.1B valuation (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
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OpenAI says the PHP flaws, found using GPT-5.6 Sol, "are among several significant vulnerabilities" it found and expects "similar findings to increase sharply" (OpenAI)
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Mach9, which develops AI-powered CAD software trained on proprietary, in-house AI models using multimodal image and laser scan datasets, raised a $34M Series A (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
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Cloudflare says it deployed WAF mitigations for all free and paid tier customers to combat two PHP flaws by default, about nine hours ahead of public disclosure (Cloudflare)
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Claude flagged 493 security issues across 25 open-source projects, covering 5M+ lines of C, C++, Java, PHP, and Python code; one went unnoticed for 21 years (Chris Rohlf/Anthropic)
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PHP's creators disclose a critical memory-management vulnerability, dubbed "PHP2Shell", that affects up to 70% of websites, discovered via GPT-5.6 Sol in August (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
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PHP releases security fixes for two critical unauthenticated RCE vulnerabilities, affecting all web request-serving installations, and urges PHP users to update (PHP)
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ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a personal, long-running enterprise AI agent for productivity tasks across email and Teams, for RTX Spark and Nvidia OpenShell (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
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Stockholm-based legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series E at an $8.8B post-money valuation led by Atreides, up from $5.55B after a $550M Series D in March (Rosie Harris-Davison/City A.M.)
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to 26 additional countries, taking the total to 83 countries, and says the platform's advertiser base is 100K+, up from 20K in August (Alix Coutures/The Information)
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Apple says it plans to add Reachability to the iPhone Duo later in 2026, helping users with small hands more easily access the left or right edges of the screen (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)