Okta agreed Thursday to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents and other machine identities will grow as companies deploy autonomous software into their operations. The identity management company did not disclose the terms of the transaction. But TechCrunch has learned that the acquisition is valued at just
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The Federal Trade Commission is suing health giant Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing its customers’ medical and health information with advertisers and tech giants, such as Meta and Snap, as well as for misleading consumers about its privacy practices. The lawsuit is the federal consumer watchdog’s latest crackdown in recent years against health care
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The Trump administration is banning the import of new foreign-made humanoid robots, robot dogs and energy inverters, citing an “unacceptable” threat to national security. The measure largely affects imports from China, which currently has the vast majority of global market share. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the ban on Tuesday, stating that foreign-made
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An untold number of Claude chats and artifacts (the interactive applets and documents that users can create within Claude) were found available for public search on Google over the weekend, after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like “site:claude.ai/share” into Google brought up a long list of shared conversations. Some reportedly contained medical records,
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Microsoft on Monday launched its first specialized cybersecurity model along with a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco, dealing a big blow to the major players in the space, namely Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The company describes MAI-Cyber-1-Flash as a model created “to find challenging vulnerabilities in complex codebases.” The
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