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Salesforce is deepening its push into defense technology with a reported three hundred seventy five million dollar acquisition of AI logistics startup Rune. The deal would fold Rune into Salesforce's Missionforce platform, signaling that the CRM giant sees government and military contracts as a serious growth lane, not just a side bet.
Shifting to a story that touches nearly every website you've ever visited — volunteer-maintained PHP, the open-source language powering the majority of the world's web infrastructure, is facing a growing wave of AI-assisted cyberattacks. The concern isn't just the attacks themselves, but that a small, unpaid community of maintainers may simply lack the resources to keep pace with increasingly sophisticated threats.
And in what may be the most consequential — and contested — story of the week, a San Francisco company called Radical Numerics says it has injected a human patient with bacteriophages designed entirely by its AI model, Omnii-one. The target is a drug-resistant bacterial infection. The method is genuinely novel. The results, however, have not been published, peer-reviewed, or shared publicly in any form, which raises real questions about transparency in a field where the stakes couldn't be higher.
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