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A New Jersey-based AI startup has turned its own product into the lead negotiator for its fundraising, raising $100 million in Series B funding without a single in-person investor meeting.

After law enforcement discovered the abuse, the man took his own life in March, leaving the young girl—identified as Jane Doe 4—in a state of extreme crisis.

The attack, disclosed Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, exploits autonomous modes in Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, turning them into unwitting vectors for compromise.

A cryptocurrency trader lost nearly $1 million on Wednesday after falling victim to a phishing token approval scam on the Ethereum blockchain, according to onchain data from security firm Scam Sniffer.

xAI launched Grok 4.5 this week, calling it their smartest model yet, trained alongside Cursor for coding and agentic tasks.