[{"content":"Everything that mattered in tech over the last 24 hours, in about two minutes.\n🤖 AI / ML Nvidia backs up to $105B in financing for OpenAI\u0026rsquo;s Ohio data center Nvidia will guarantee more than $105 billion in financing to build out a 4.25-gigawatt (expandable to 8GW) OpenAI campus in Pike County, Ohio, developed and managed by SB Energy; in return OpenAI commits to using Nvidia chips onsite. It\u0026rsquo;s the clearest sign yet that AI compute financing is shifting from cash to chipmaker-backed credit. — CNBC, Bloomberg\nDeepSeek launches V4 Pro at a steep price premium V4-Pro-0813 is priced at $1.32/$3.96 per million input/output tokens — roughly 9x and 14x V4 Flash\u0026rsquo;s rates — while scoring 53 versus 40 on Artificial Analysis\u0026rsquo;s Intelligence Index. DeepSeek is betting flagship-grade reasoning can finally command flagship-grade pricing, a break from its low-cost positioning. — Business Standard\nMicrosoft retires free-tier Copilot Deep Research, unifies its Copilot apps Starting today, Microsoft is merging its consumer and business Copilot apps under a single copilot.cloud.microsoft identity and sunsetting Deep Research, Group Chat, and Copilot Podcasts from the free tier — Deep Research\u0026rsquo;s replacement, Researcher, moves behind a $19.99/month paywall. — Tech Times, GeekWire\n🛠 Development Atlassian\u0026rsquo;s new AI data-contribution policy takes effect As of today, Jira, Confluence, and JSM data — issue text, page content, and usage metadata — feeds Atlassian\u0026rsquo;s AI training by default on an opt-out basis for Free, Standard, and Premium tiers; only Enterprise customers keep full opt-out control. It\u0026rsquo;s a significant default-on shift for the roughly 300,000 companies running on Atlassian\u0026rsquo;s stack. — The Register, Rezolve.ai\nGemini 3.7 Flash rolls out in GitHub Copilot Google\u0026rsquo;s latest Flash model is now available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users, with early testing showing gains in code quality, codebase research, and agentic coding workflows over Gemini 3.6 Flash. Enterprise and Business admins must explicitly enable it via a Copilot policy before it appears for their org. — GitHub Changelog\n🏢 Big Tech \u0026amp; Startups Groq raises $350M Series A at a $3.5B valuation, with Nvidia joining the round The AI inference-chip company will use the round — led by Disruptive with Nvidia, BlackRock, and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners participating — to grow its compute footprint from 54MW to over 200MW in 2027, on top of $650M raised in June. — Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE\nWispr Flow raises $280M Series B at a $2B valuation Menlo Ventures led the round for the voice-dictation startup, which says revenue has grown more than 150% for four straight quarters across 125,000+ companies. Wispr also shipped a new in-house speech model, Canto, after users flagged accuracy issues with its dictation output. — TechCrunch, Fortune\n🔐 Security \u0026amp; Cloud GitLab patches critical unauthenticated data-deletion flaw CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS 9.4) let unauthenticated attackers modify or delete public projects and user data via a GraphQL directive on self-managed GitLab CE/EE. Fixed in 19.2.4, 19.1.6, 19.0.8, and 18.11.11 — GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated were already patched. No in-the-wild exploitation has been confirmed yet, but self-managed instances should upgrade immediately. — GitLab, The Hacker News\nSafePal breach exposes order data on nearly 40,000 customers The crypto wallet maker traced the exposure to an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in that let one customer view another\u0026rsquo;s order details — names, emails, addresses, and phone numbers for orders placed between March 2025 and April 2026. Wallet seed phrases, private keys, and payment credentials weren\u0026rsquo;t affected, but stolen data is already being advertised for sale, raising phishing risk for those customers. — BleepingComputer, Help Net Security\nSources CNBC — Nvidia backing OpenAI data center in Ohio Bloomberg — Nvidia to invest up to $105 billion for OpenAI data center in Ohio Business Standard — DeepSeek launches V4 Pro at prices up to 14 times higher than V4 Flash Tech Times — Microsoft Copilot rollout starts, free Deep Research retired GeekWire — Microsoft starts merging its Copilot consumer and business apps The Register — Atlassian\u0026rsquo;s new data collection policy Rezolve.ai — How to opt out of Atlassian\u0026rsquo;s new AI data contribution GitHub Changelog — Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot Bloomberg — Groq valued at $3.5 billion in funding round after Nvidia deal SiliconANGLE — AI cloud operator Groq raises $350M more in funding TechCrunch — Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation Fortune — Wispr talks its way to a $2 billion valuation GitLab — Critical Patch Release: 19.2.4, 19.1.6, 19.0.8, 18.11.11 The Hacker News — Critical GitLab GraphQL flaw could let unauthenticated attackers delete public projects BleepingComputer — SafePal data breach impacts 39,798 customers, stolen info for sale Help Net Security — SafePal breach affects 39,798 customers, data allegedly for sale ","permalink":"https://itnews.metacog.co.kr/posts/2026-08-18/","summary":"Nvidia backs up to $105B in financing for OpenAI\u0026rsquo;s new Ohio data center, GitLab patches a critical unauthenticated data-deletion flaw, and Groq and Wispr Flow both close nine-figure rounds.","title":"IT Daily Brief — August 18, 2026"},{"content":"Everything that mattered in tech over the last 24 hours, in about two minutes.\n🤖 AI / ML Anthropic posts its first quarterly operating profit Q2 2026 revenue came in at $11.5B — more than 14x year-over-year — with positive adjusted operating income for the first time, as compute cost per revenue dollar fell from 71 cents to 56 cents between Q1 and Q2. A frontier lab turning profitable this early reshapes the \u0026ldquo;AI is a cash furnace\u0026rdquo; assumption that\u0026rsquo;s been priced into the whole sector. — Forbes, CNBC\nGrok 4.6 ties GPT-5.6 Sol on Artificial Analysis SpaceXAI\u0026rsquo;s release keeps the 500K context window and $2/$6-per-million pricing while pushing DeepSWE from 54 to 65.9 and APEX-Agents from 47.1 to 57.5 — a coding/agent-focused upgrade rather than a context or price play. It ships day-one in Cursor, OpenRouter, Vercel, and Cloudflare. — VentureBeat, x.ai\nGoogle ships Gemini 3.7 Flash A refinement rather than a new pretraining run, 3.7 Flash jumps DeepSWE v1.1 from 49% to 65.3% and AutomationBench from 17% to 30.4%, targeting coding and agent workloads. Introductory pricing of $0.75/$3.75 per million tokens holds through year-end before roughly doubling in 2027. — MarkTechPost, DeepMind\nOpenAI previews Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol Built on Cerebras hardware, Ultrafast runs at up to 750 output tokens per second — 14x standard throughput — at the same intelligence level, in limited API preview for select customers. Inference speed is becoming its own competitive axis, separate from model capability. — OpenAI, Cerebras\n🛠 Development GitHub Copilot\u0026rsquo;s Agent Plugins 1.0 goes GA The open standard for packaging agent skills and MCP servers — built jointly with AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel — is now generally available across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app. Write a plugin once, run it on any compatible agent client; existing plugins keep working with no forced migration. — GitHub Changelog\nCodex CLI adds cross-harness skill portability Version 0.147.0 lets /import pull in Cursor-managed skills directly, adds a portable Agent Plugins catalog search, persistent conversation sections, and an --approve-for-me flag for auto-reviewed approvals. Skill portability across coding agents lowers the switching cost that used to lock teams into one harness. — GitHub Release, TGWise\nVS Code 1.133 improves Claude session handling The release lets developers switch providers mid-session without reconfiguring the agent host and use Claude with an existing API key when GitHub sign-in isn\u0026rsquo;t available, alongside live HTML preview refresh. — VS Code\n🏢 Big Tech \u0026amp; Startups Stripe finalizes its $7B+ OpenRouter acquisition The deal values the AI model gateway — 8M users, 400+ models — at more than 5x the $1.3B valuation OpenRouter carried after its Series B in May. A payments company buying the routing layer is a bet that metering AI traffic is the same business as metering payments. — TechCrunch, Bloomberg\nDatabricks raises $5B at a $190B valuation The round, led by Coatue with Blackstone, MGX, and T. Rowe Price among the backers, comes six months after a round that valued the company at $134B. Databricks says it\u0026rsquo;s now crossed $7B in revenue run-rate, up more than 80% year-over-year, with proceeds earmarked for AI-agent tooling. — Bloomberg, CNBC\nCodeRabbit raises $143M Series C at $1.5B valuation Revenue is up more than 5x year-over-year, with the AI code-review platform now running 2M+ reviews a week for 17,000+ customers including Nvidia, BMW, and Adyen. The company is also committing $10M+ to keep AI code review free for open-source maintainers over the next year. — BusinessWire\n🔐 Security \u0026amp; Cloud Clop\u0026rsquo;s PTC Windchill campaign widens to Shell, GE, and Philips Clop is claiming 43 victims from exploiting CVE-2026-12569, a CVSS 9.8 deserialization flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM that affiliates were reportedly abusing as a zero-day weeks before PTC shipped a patch in June. Philips says it has contained its incident; Shell and GE are still investigating claims that blueprints, facility photos, and project plans were stolen. — BleepingComputer, Tech Times\nChina-nexus actor exploiting VMware vCenter, deploying ransomware A suspected China-based group is chaining CVE-2026-59310 (directory traversal, CVSS 9.8) and CVE-2026-59309 (auth bypass) in vCenter Server to plant backdoors and, in at least one case, Babuk-derived ransomware. More than 360 IPs across 47 countries have been hit since early August. — The Hacker News\nPatched macOS Screen Sharing flaw exploited for cryptomining CVE-2026-65400 lets attackers authenticate to macOS Screen Sharing without valid credentials; Dutch NCSC confirmed root access and Monero miners planted on internet-exposed Macs with port 5900 open. Apple patched it August 6 — exploitation was already underway days later. — Help Net Security, The Hacker News\nFrance\u0026rsquo;s tax authority breach hits 678,000 people Attackers used a compromised employee login and a third-party account to access DGFiP systems between June and July, taking names, addresses, taxable income, and withholding rates. A stolen-credential breach at a national tax agency is a reminder that MFA gaps on legacy internal accounts remain a top-tier risk even at well-resourced institutions. — Help Net Security, BleepingComputer\nSources Forbes — Anthropic\u0026rsquo;s groundbreaking second quarter delivers $11.5B in revenue CNBC — Anthropic revenue jumps to over $11.5 billion in Q2 VentureBeat — SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6 x.ai — Introducing Grok 4.6 MarkTechPost — Google AI just released Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind — Gemini 3.7 Flash OpenAI — Previewing Ultrafast mode Cerebras — Cerebras powers Ultrafast mode for OpenAI\u0026rsquo;s GPT-5.6 Sol GitHub Changelog — Agent Plugins 1.0 in VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app GitHub — Codex CLI release 0.147.0 TGWise — Codex CLI 0.147: Agent Plugins and approve-for-me Visual Studio Code — August 2026 (version 1.133) TechCrunch — Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ Bloomberg — Stripe finalizes deal to acquire OpenRouter for over $7 billion Bloomberg — Databricks raises $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation CNBC — Databricks wraps $5 billion funding round at $190 billion valuation BusinessWire — CodeRabbit raises $143 million at $1.5 billion valuation BleepingComputer — Philips and GE investigating Clop ransomware data theft claims Tech Times — Clop hacks Shell, GE, Philips in 43-victim PTC Windchill zero-day campaign The Hacker News — Suspected China-nexus actor exploits VMware vCenter flaw, deploys Babuk-derived ransomware Help Net Security — Attackers exploit patched macOS Screen Sharing flaw to deploy cryptominer The Hacker News — Apple macOS Screen Sharing flaw exploited on internet-exposed Macs to install Monero miner Help Net Security — France\u0026rsquo;s tax authority admits hackers made off with data on 678,000 individuals BleepingComputer — French tax authority data breach affects 678,000 individuals ","permalink":"https://itnews.metacog.co.kr/posts/2026-08-17/","summary":"Anthropic posts its first quarterly operating profit, Stripe finalizes its $7B+ OpenRouter acquisition, and Clop\u0026rsquo;s PTC Windchill zero-day campaign keeps widening with Shell, GE, and Philips all investigating.","title":"IT Daily Brief — August 17, 2026"},{"content":"IT Daily Brief is an automated morning briefing on the technology news that matters, published every day at 6:00 AM US Central.\nEach edition covers four beats:\nAI / ML — generative AI, LLMs, major model and product releases, notable research Development — languages, frameworks, developer tooling, open source Big Tech \u0026amp; Startups — company news, funding rounds, M\u0026amp;A Security \u0026amp; Cloud — vulnerabilities, breaches, cloud infrastructure Every item is a short headline, one or two sentences on why it matters, and a link to the source. Nothing more — it should take about two minutes to read.\nHow it is made A scheduled Claude Code routine searches the web each morning for the last 24 hours of coverage, selects the most notable items per beat, writes the briefing as Markdown, and commits it to github.com/jeonck/itnews. GitHub Actions builds the Hugo site and deploys it here.\nSummaries are written by an AI system and can contain mistakes. Always follow the source link before acting on anything you read here.\nSubscribe The full archive is available by RSS.\n","permalink":"https://itnews.metacog.co.kr/about/","summary":"about","title":"About"}]