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GitBook, a platform widely used to host documentation for crypto and Web3 projects, is warning users to rotate their API keys after attackers exploited an AI-assisted breach to access infrastructure credentials. The company shut down affected systems and issued emergency token resets, raising fresh questions about how AI agents expand the attack surface for developer tooling.
Shifting from security to money, AI inference startup Fal has doubled its valuation to sixteen billion dollars after closing a one point three billion dollar funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The five-year-old company sits in the fast-moving business of running AI models at scale, and that surge in demand is clearly catching investor attention in a big way.
And on the lighter side of the feed, someone has built what can only be described as a social network where every post must be drawn in MS Paint. The project, called Peck, strips away text entirely and asks users to communicate through crude digital brushstrokes. It is either a brilliant commentary on online discourse or just a very funny afternoon project. Possibly both.
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