Novo Nordisk A/S, the Copenhagen-based pharmaceutical company, is responding to a significant cybersecurity incident after a criminal group claimed to have stolen 1.3 terabytes of internal data and demanded a $25 million ransom. The company disclosed the breach on June 11, 2026, stating that unauthorized access occurred on a limited...
The cyber extortion group ShinyHunters has launched a coordinated campaign targeting major U.S. corporations, including Eastman Kodak Company and JCPenney, focusing on data theft rather than ransomware encryption. On June 18, 2026, the group claimed to have exfiltrated millions of internal records and threatened public leaks if ransom demands are...
Researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute have developed an artificial intelligence model that more accurately assesses pleural mesothelioma treatment response than human physicians and the current international RECIST criteria. Trained on more than 11,000 CT scans from 2,000 patients across 121 hospitals, the model analyzes complex imaging features to guide...
SAN JOSE, California – Investors in Adobe Inc. have filed a shareholder derivative lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the company’s top officers and directors of misleading statements about its generative artificial intelligence strategy and the risks behind it. The complaint, filed on...
United States — A team of former Cisco artificial intelligence security researchers has launched Tenet Security Inc., a startup focused on stopping so‑called rogue AI agents from causing harm in enterprise environments. As more companies deploy autonomous AI systems that can execute code, query internal databases and make real-time business...
SpaceX has disclosed in an SEC Form 8-K that it has signed a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger to acquire Anysphere Inc., developer of the AI coding platform Cursor, in an all-stock deal valuing Anysphere at about $60 billion. Each Cursor share will convert into SpaceX Class A common...
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a federal court in Mississippi to intervene in and dismiss a civil rights and environmental lawsuit against Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI and MZX Tech LLC. The suit, filed in April by the NAACP and other groups in the Northern District of...
The U.S. Department of Commerce has designated Anthropic’s Mythos artificial intelligence model, also known as Fable 5, as a specialized cyber weapon, triggering stringent export controls that bar any access by foreign nationals worldwide. The move followed a report from Amazon to federal authorities that it had found a structural...
San Jose, California-based Cisco has released an emergency security update to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly known as vManage, which the company confirms is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-20262, the flaw stems from a critical weakness in the file upload...
London-based Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaGo visionary David Silver, has closed a $1.1 billion seed round, described as the largest early-stage funding of its kind in European history. Announced on June 16, 2026, the funding accompanies a strategic partnership with Google Cloud that will give the startup access to AI-optimized...
