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Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Warp Sciences, founded by former OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil to speed up drug development using AI, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation  —  Kevin Weil, the former OpenAI executive who led the ChatGPT maker's AI-for-science efforts, is launching a new startup aimed …

Madison Mills / Axios:
Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of users' instructions  —  Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting …

Abhirami G / Reuters:
eMudhra says it will exit the SSL/TLS certificate business, 1% of its revenue, after its TLS certificates with private keys of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised  —  Indian digital trust services provider eMudhra (EMUD.NS) on Thursday said it would voluntarily withdraw from the global SSL/TLS …

Matthew Prince / @eastdakota:
Cloudflare's Matthew Prince says PHP2Shell exploit attempts on its network rose from thousands in the 10 hours before the disclosure to millions afterward  —  Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.

John Koetsier / Forbes:
Maxinsights, which creates training data for robots using first-person footage from cameras worn by 5,000+ contractors, raised a $30M seed led by Peak XV  —  This voice experience is generated by AI.  Learn more. … Investors put $47.4 billion into physical AI in the first half of 2026 …