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AI voice startup Vapi has reached a five hundred million dollar valuation after beating out forty rivals to land Amazon Ring as a client. The company says its enterprise business has grown ten-fold since early twenty twenty five, as corporations increasingly hand customer calls over to AI agents rather than human staff. That shift is accelerating faster than most predicted.
On the security front, a researcher is warning that the standard ninety-day window companies get to patch vulnerabilities before they're disclosed publicly may already be obsolete. The culprit is AI, which can reportedly analyze a newly released patch and weaponize it in as little as thirty minutes. That compression of time fundamentally changes the calculus for every security team on the planet.
And in a lawsuit that could reshape how artificial intelligence is trained, academic publisher Elsevier has become the first major science publisher to sue Meta, alleging the tech giant scraped copyrighted research papers without permission. The case puts a legal spotlight on the sourcing of training data and may set precedents that ripple well beyond a single courtroom.
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