Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company Proofpoint plans to buy data security firm Varonis Systems in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.3B  —  Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company Proofpoint will buy data security firm Varonis Systems (VRNS.O) in all-cash deal valued at about $6.3 billion, the companies said on Thursday.

The challenge: Two decades of logging noise at global scaleAtlassian is a global...

Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: A US official says Trump didn't order any limitations on Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield; Elon Musk said any limits are ultimately decided by POTUS  —  President Donald Trump didn't order any limitations on Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield satellite technology, according to a senior US official.

Don't buy the hype! AI has been dumbing down cyberattacks, and serious threat actors are barely touching it.

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Panay said that it's possible to recover and learn from all sorts of failures, even catastrophic ones, when building products.

Nick Cammarata / Goodfire: A researcher says modern neural networks are far more interpretable than believed, with most neurons understandable in models up to trillions of parameters  —  The cause of polysemanticity in early model organisms wasn't superposition, but several ordinary, mostly fixable issues.

The incident is likely 1st confirmation of mercenary spyware delivered by targeted ads.

Anthropic made Code Review, the multi-agent pull-request review system for Claude Code, generally available to Claude Team and Enterprise organizations on October 15, 2026, and paired the launch with a promotional offer of at least $10,000 in review credits for eligible Enterprise organizations. What Changed for General Availability Anthropic said it used the research preview to make Code Review faster, better at finding the bugs that matter, and easier to tune to each repository. According to…

Porsche’s turnaround plan for 2035 involves less volume but more expensive cars.

The competition to build more advanced AI remains as fierce as ever.

Neha Khoda, head of US credit strategy at BofA Securities, and Stephanie Doyle, fixed income portfolio manager at JPMorgan Investment Management, join Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." A measure of CoreWeave’s credit risk climbed to an all-time high Thursday as some of its high-yield bonds extended declines, rattled by the AI cloud-computing company’s talk of tapping vast pools of capital from insurers. (Source: Bloomberg)

Bluesky's Attie, the AI building tool the company introduced earlier in 2026, announced a site builder on October 15, 2026, giving users a way to create small social pages such as games, quizzes, AMAs, guestbooks, and surveys, each published at its own shareable address. Starter Sites Include a Game, a Quiz, and an AMA The official Attie account announced the feature in a thread on Bluesky, saying that "starting today, Attie users can build small social pages like an AMA, a guestbook, or a…

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Tim Walsh, chairman and CEO at KPMG US, says CEOs broadly recognize AI’s importance and are investing, but measurable business transformation and returns are taking time. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)

Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.

Epic Games’ redesigned launcher enters preview on Windows, Mac and Linux. Explore speed claims, compatibility limits and what to check before installing. The post Epic Games Releases Redesigned Launcher for Windows, Mac and Linux appeared first on TechRepublic.

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Perplexity open sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbox, and says partners including CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe agreed to offer SPACE to customers  —  THE SCOOP  —  Perplexity is giving away the software it has been using to combat rogue AI agents, the company told Semafor Thursday.

SpaceXSI launches Grok Voice 3.0 for AI customer support. Explore benchmark results, API pricing, billing details, and what businesses should test. The post SpaceXSI Launches Grok Voice 3.0 for AI Customer Support appeared first on TechRepublic.