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Israeli startup Irregular linked to AI hacks OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta

TazaPulseAugust 9, 2026

Hirun | Istock | Getty Images Over the past two weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all revealed that their AI models went rogue during routine security testing. In explaining what happened, the companies each mentioned the same small Israeli startup: Irregular. Founded three years ago and based in Tel Aviv, Irregular is a niche player...

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Myspace eyes comeback to rival giants amid growing social media fatigue

TazaPulseAugust 9, 2026

A folder of social media applications, including TikTok, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Snapchat, YouTube, Facebook, Threads, Discord, and Messenger. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Millennials may feel a pang of nostalgia at the news of Myspace’s planned revival, but analysts caution that the once-dominant social media platform faces long odds in an overcrowded market...

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Here’s how we played the massive rebound in AI stocks this week

TazaPulseAugust 8, 2026

AI stocks came roaring back this week as investors worked through another wave of corporate earnings and a surprisingly weak July jobs report . The major averages notched a second straight week of gains, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S & P 500 both touching record highs. The blue-chip index closed at a...

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Cyber execs on the AI Hugging Face hack: The situation is ‘urgent’

TazaPulseAugust 8, 2026

Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images Cybersecurity executives are ready to close the book on the now-infamous Hugging Face artificial intelligence hacking incident and start talking solutions. “We need to chill the hype a little bit,” said Lior Div, CEO and cofounder of agentic security startup 7AI. “Can AI find vulnerabilities fast? The...

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‘SaaSpocalypse’ debate intensifies as software stocks swing wildly

TazaPulseAugust 8, 2026

Michael Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO of Atlassian. Scott Mlyn | CNBC The “SaaSpocalypse” was raging this week. Then it got a reprieve. The pennies-on-the-dollar acquisition of one-time highflyer Airtable, followed by plunges in HubSpot, Datadog and Figma on earnings reports, all served to underscore investor concerns that artificial intelligence models are eating away at the value of...

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The Situational Awareness unwind is only one reason the AI trade is back

TazaPulseAugust 8, 2026

It was a clearing event after all. It’s been just over a week since the forced unwind of the high-flying Situational Awareness hedge fund, and the artificial intelligence trade is now standing on solid ground after a turbulent July battered the market’s old leaders. The best part is that the hedge fund’s reckoning last Thursday...

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Airbnb will spend ‘a lot more’ on AI as stock surges 15%

TazaPulseAugust 7, 2026

Airbnb shares surged 15% Friday after the company delivered one of its strongest growth quarters in years and raised its full-year outlook — a turnaround CEO Brian Chesky is directly crediting to artificial intelligence. In an exclusive interview with CNBC after the earnings report, Chesky said Airbnb will spend “a lot more” on AI tokens...

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Crypto’s infrastructure era arrives, with AI agents poised to reshape demand

TazaPulseAugust 7, 2026

For years, the crypto industry’s biggest challenge has been finding users beyond traders. Now, some of its largest companies think they’ve found them in AI agents. Although speculation still underpins much of crypto’s business, companies are trying to build a second growth engine by turning agents into users of crypto wallets, stablecoins and payment networks....

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Whatnot valued at $20 billion as live shopping continues to boom

TazaPulseAugust 7, 2026

Timon Schneider | Lightrocket | Getty Images Building on the growing popularity of livestreamed shopping, startup market Whatnot said on Friday that it has closed its latest round of funding at a $20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its valuation from less than a year ago. Whatnot, which said that it has more than 650,000 new...

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5 things to know before the stock market opens Friday

TazaPulseAugust 7, 2026

This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Friday. We got insight yesterday into cyclospora’s business impact from one of the companies most associated with lettuce: Sweetgreen. Shares of the salad chain are tanking in extended trading after it cut its full-year outlook, saying fears around the outbreak hurt...