Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life

Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.

Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

Altman said that Musk’s focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experience running the prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator, knew “founders who had control usually did not give it up.”

Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares

“Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, offered by these firms is void and will not be recognized on our books and records,” the company’s support page reads.

Google launches new Android security feature to help uncover spyware attacks

Intrusion Logging is a new part of Android’s Advanced Protection Mode, which aims to help protect human rights activists, journalists, and dissidents from government spyware attack and law enforcement forensic devices.

US bank discloses security lapse after sharing customer data with AI app

Community Bank, which operates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, disclosed a cybersecurity incident that exposed customers’ names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.

Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen

As bad actors weaponize AI to exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, companies are increasingly recognizing the need to bolster their cybersecurity defenses. The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million.

Instructure strikes deal with hackers who breached it twice

The maker of the Canvas school software said it “reached an agreement” with the hackers, but provided no guarantees that the hackers would not release the data or keep their word.

NYT’s Wordle to become a TV game show

This will be the first time that The Times has collaborated with a TV broadcaster for an entertainment-based program, representing yet another pivot in the media company’s attempt to build a sustainable digital subscription business as print revenue continues to decline.

Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

In an email to beta testers, the company said the site’s goal is to “track the most influential voices in a space” and to surface the news that’s actually worth “paying attention to.”

‘Too early’ to talk IPO, Redwood Materials’ incoming CFO says

The battery-recycling and energy-storage company has hired former Tesla finance chief Deepak Ahuja, reuniting him with former Tesla CTO JB Straubel.