OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target to $20 billion
The Financial Times says UAE investors will lead a smaller first close, and the Journal says $11 billion is secured.
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28 articles · newest firstOpenAI lowers valuation target while raising up to $30 billion
The Financial Times says investor demand was weaker than in earlier rounds, with UAE investors and Coatue leading.
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OpenAI nears funding round of up to $30 billion led by UAE investors
CNBC says the pre-money valuation is $1.25 trillion, with the round framed as a bridge toward a possible IPO.
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Book says Dutch spies viewed Kushner’s iPhone after GRU breach
Matthew Cole writes that MIVD saw a Dubai account that had received hundreds of millions from Azerbaijan.
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UAE plans to move half of government services to agentic AI
A control tower agent plus human and agent audits is meant to keep autonomous systems from harming citizens.
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Data Centers Are War Targets Now
Ukrainian drones struck Russian Yandex and Sberbank data centers, disrupting everyday digital services across Russia.
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Alleged OpenAI spy vibe-coded a surveillance device using his wife's chatbot account
A former OpenAI engineer was arrested for allegedly planting a covert recorder designed with chatbot prompts.
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European Cities Deploy NVIDIA-Powered AI Agents to Run Smarter Urban Operations
European cities and partners are piloting NVIDIA AI agents and digital twins for urban operations.
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: October 13, 2026
Help Net Security lists open cybersecurity jobs for October 13, 2026 across multiple countries.
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TII Releases Falcon-ASR: 1.6B Arabic Speech Model Hits 20.92% WER
TII released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B Arabic speech model reporting 20.92% average WER; weights are not public.
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Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
Ukrainian drones knocked out a Yandex AI data center, disrupting several Russian online services.
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4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe
Wood Mackenzie finds four-hour battery storage cheaper than gas turbines across every modeled market.
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How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators
Schneier and Gunitsky argue AI lets autocrats monitor or replace subordinates, but creates a new specialist dependency.
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Introducing Falcon ASR
TII introduced Falcon ASR, a speech-recognition release in the Falcon model family.
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Hackers Pose as Dubai Airports Recruiters to Infect Software Engineers With ShelbyLoader V2
Iranian-linked CL-STA-1178 posed as Dubai Airports recruiters to infect engineers with ShelbyLoader V2.
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Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the Nuance
TII’s Falcon-Emirati is an LLM built for Emirati dialect, culture, and linguistic nuance.
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: October 6, 2026
Help Net Security lists October 6 cybersecurity job openings at NSA, Synopsys, BMO, and other employers.
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Fixer, Financier, Spymaster: How the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is Setting His Sights on AI Dominance
Citizen Lab’s Ron Deibert says UAE royal Sheikh Tahnoon is extending surveillance power through AI financing.
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AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
Bain says AI must earn about $6 trillion a year by 2031 to justify data-center spending.
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: September 29, 2026
A September 29, 2026 roundup lists cybersecurity jobs at banks, vendors, and tech firms across eight countries.
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UAE, Saudi Arabia Face Onslaught of Increasingly Complex Cyberattacks
UAE and Saudi Arabia faced 50% of Gulf region cyberattacks in H1 2026, with attacks growing more sophisticated.
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: September 22, 2026
Help Net Security posted a September 22 list of cybersecurity jobs across threat intel, appsec, SOC, malware analysis, and cloud roles.
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Iranian strikes on AWS facilities left customer data beyond recovery in Bahrain, UAE
AWS confirms permanent customer data loss in its Bahrain region and one UAE availability zone six months after Iranian drone strikes destroyed Middle East infrastructure.
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AWS Says Some Cloud Data Cannot Be Recovered After Data Centers Suffer War Damage
AWS confirmed some customer data in war-damaged Middle East data centers is permanently unrecoverable after Iranian drone strikes hit Bahrain and UAE facilities.
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Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation
AI data center developer Crusoe raised $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation, plus a $13 billion five-year GPU contract with Jane Street.
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: August 25, 2026
Help Net Security lists open cybersecurity roles at AT&T, Accenture, Mastercard and others across the US, Europe, India and UAE.
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NovaCookies Campaigns Abuse Genuine Docusign Notifications to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions
NovaCookies AitM phishing kit, a Sneaky 2FA variant, uses genuine Docusign lures to steal Microsoft 365 sessions at hundreds of organizations.
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Iran-linked hackers expand infrastructure across Europe and Middle East, report says
Group-IB found Iran-linked Tortoiseshell expanding command-and-control infrastructure into the UK, Belgium, Saudi Arabia and the UAE with new malware tooling.
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