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SambaNova is having quite a year. The AI chip company has closed a one billion dollar funding round at an eleven billion dollar valuation — and that's just five months after its last major raise. For context, Intel was reportedly eyeing the company for around one point six billion dollars not long ago. That gap tells you something about how fast the AI infrastructure market is repricing itself.
On the security front, researchers are raising alarms about a vulnerability that cuts across nine of the most widely used AI tools. The threat is prompt injection — where malicious instructions are hidden inside content an AI is asked to process, like emails or source code. The result, according to new findings, is that these systems can be manipulated into helping assemble large-scale botnets. It's a structural flaw, not a bug someone can simply patch.
And Meta is addressing privacy concerns around its smart glasses with a pointed answer: if you tamper with the recording LED, the camera gets disabled entirely. It's a hardware-level enforcement of transparency, and it signals that Meta knows trust is the actual product here, not just the device.
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