Aikido buys Israel’s Root to patch open source with AI
Aikido buys Israel’s Root to patch open source with AI

A Belgian cybersecurity unicorn has bought an Israeli startup with an unusual trick. Its AI agents fix an open-source flaw without breaking the app that depends on it, something most security tools cannot do. Aikido Security, based in Ghent, became Eur…

Base44 launches Base1, its own AI model for vibe coding
Base44 launches Base1, its own AI model for vibe coding

Base44 spent its first year building apps on other companies’ AI models. Now it has built its own. It is betting that owning the model is the only way to survive the vibe-coding gold rush. The Tel Aviv startup lets anyone build a working app by describ…

MGX raises a $50bn AI fund and is already spending it
MGX raises a $50bn AI fund and is already spending it

Abu Dhabi’s MGX AI fund has raised close to $50bn. For the first time, the emirate leaned on outside investors to do it, and the money is already going out the door. MGX is the Abu Dhabi investment firm built for the AI era. It has pulled in nearly $50…

Upriver raises $14M to fix the unglamorous layer where enterprise AI quietly breaks: the data
Upriver raises $14M to fix the unglamorous layer where enterprise AI quietly breaks: the data

Most enterprise AI projects do not fail because the model is bad. They fail because the data feeding it is a mess: broken pipelines, mismatched systems, and context locked in one engineer’s head. Upriver, an Israeli startup, has raised $14M to automate…

Aryon Security raises $29M to stop cloud breaches before they happen
Aryon Security raises $29M to stop cloud breaches before they happen

Aryon Security, an Israeli cloud-security startup, has raised $29M in a Series A round to push a prevention-first approach to securing the cloud. The round, which the company says brings its total funding to $38M, was led by US-based Brightmind Partner…

These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked

The startup’s own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.

Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups

Security researchers exposed a spying campaign by a hack-for-hire group that used Android spyware and phishing to steal iCloud credentials and hack victims’ devices.

Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi
Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi

In short: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a video threatening “complete and utter annihilation” of OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi, singling out the facility by name for the first time and warning it will strike if …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.

At 8pm Tehran time on Tuesday, a new kind of front line was drawn, not through desert terrain or along a disputed border, but through the server farms, cloud regions, and corporate campuses of America’s largest technology companies. The Islamic Revolut…

South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze
South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze

When Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February, choking off the corridor through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas flows, the immediate consequences were predictable: crude prices spiked, energy markets convulsed, and geopoli…