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Pact Is Among Other Similar Biotech, AI Firm Collaborations to Speed Up Drug R&D
Merck has struck a multi-year deal with Google Cloud worth up to $1 billion to enhance the pharmaceutical and life sciences giant's digital backbone "as an AI-enabled enterprise." The initiative includes deploying an agentic AI platform across R&D, manufacturing, commercial and corporate functions.

TrendAI's Tom Kellermann on Defending Against Agentic Attacks, APT Collaboration
AI-driven threats now operate with speed, scale and persistence. Defenders need expanded telemetry, a global research team and an advanced XDR platform to predict and suppress adversaries defenders, said Tom Kellermann, vice president of AI security and threat intelligence at TrendAI.

How We Talk About AI Says as Much About Human Cognition as It Does About Them
The debate about AI consciousness misses the point. Asking better questions about what these systems are reveals as much about human thinking as about the technology itself.

House Democrats Are the Latest to Raise Data Collection Privacy, Security Alarms
A plan by the U.S. federal agency that oversees federal benefits that would require insurers to hand over the identifiable health data of civil servants received pushback from House of Representatives Democrats who said it throws up privacy and security risks.

French Vendor's QShield Offering Protects Edge Systems From Reverse Engineering
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus plans to acquire 100-person French cybersecurity vendor Quarkslab to strengthen sovereign European defenses by protecting aerospace and defense software, data and edge systems from AI-driven reverse engineering and exploitation.

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Overhaul, Restructuring Puts Cyber at Core of Digital Warfare
Defense officials told House lawmakers the newly-released budget request positions cyber as a core warfighting domain, funding expanded offensive operations, AI-driven capabilities and a major Cyber Command overhaul as adversaries shift from espionage to pre-positioned disruptive attacks.

Cisco's Jeetu Patel on How Machine-Speed Threats Drive Need for AI-Led Security
Cisco's Jeetu Patel explains how AI models are compressing exploit timelines to minutes, forcing a shift to machine-speed defense, real-time enforcement and deeper ecosystem collaboration to secure critical infrastructure and stay ahead of adversaries.

New Rules Will Jolt Maritime Cybersecurity Market Amid Geopolitical Anxiety
A Coast Guard rule imposing standards on operational technology systems in ports and larger U.S.-flagged commercial vessels is poised to supercharge the maritime cybersecurity market - a boon granted by concern that shipping is a weak target for a world roiled by mounting geopolitical tensions.

Complaints Allege Tempus AI Lacked Consent to Use, Share Data With Pharma Cos.
A healthcare artificial intelligence firm that sells genetic information from an acquired database holding the results of millions of screening tests faces multiple putative class action lawsuits in Chicago federal court. Genetic data resists attempts to de-identify it, plaintiffs say.

KPMG Survey Finds Organizations Must Transform Ops to Scale AI
A new KPMG survey shows that while most enterprises have an AI strategy, only a small fraction are seeing real ROI. Enterprises getting it right are embedding AI into operations, governance and workforce development from the start.

The European Union Is Cutting Ties With US Tech Companies
The European Commission made a significant move towards "digital sovereignty" by awarding a 180 million euro - approximately $213 million - cloud contract to a quartet of European providers. The deal will allow the commission and the EU Parliament and council to procure sovereign cloud services.

UPGRADE and DigiSeals Programs at ARPA-H Remain Fully Funded
A U.S. federal grant effort to develop autonomous medical device patching platforms for hospitals evaded the budget-cutting knife of the Trump administration. Program boosters hope to automate cyber defenses so that hospitals of any size can more quickly patch vulnerabilities.

Officials Warned New Models Could Accelerate Cyber Risks Faster Than Rules
Global finance officials meeting in Washington warned that advanced artificial intelligence models could expose structural weaknesses across banking and payment systems, speeding vulnerability discovery and cyber exploitation faster than regulators can build guardrails.

Tyler Buchanan Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Identity Theft
A senior figure in the Scattered Spider cybercrime group pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft on Friday in US federal district court. The plea marks the conclusion of a digital crime spree by Tyler Robert Buchanan.

How We Respond Will Determine the Future Of Cybersecurity and the Digital World
The introduction of Anthropic's Mythos model signals a shift in the cybersecurity industry - one not yet fully understood, which prompted Project Glasswing: a coordinated group of ecosystem partners who have been given early access to this capability to define impending future threats before they hit.

Equifax CTO Jamil Farshchi on Cybersecurity's Response to Flood of Vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity organizations must adapt to machine-speed threats in the age of Anthropic's Claude Mythos, a new AI model that can uncover vulnerabilities and lead to a flood of repaid exploits. Equifax CTO Jamil Farshchi says security programs must be built for scale, automation and quick response.

Bank of America, Citi and Goldman Anchor Partner Cohort for OpenAI's GPT-5.4-Cyber
OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program prioritizes financial institutions to drive adoption of GPT-5.4-Cyber in regulated environments, highlighting a split with Anthropic’s developer-centric, tech-heavy partnerships and raising questions about partnership value and data-sharing models.