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Google sues data scraping company SerpApi, alleging it used millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted content and sold it to third parties (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

December 19, 2025

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Google sues data scraping company SerpApi, alleging it used millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted content and sold it to third parties  —  Google on Friday sued a Texas company that “scrapes” data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions …



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Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)

December 19, 2025

Emily Mullin / Wired:
Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech  —  Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.



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Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $100M Series C, bringing its total funding to $130M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

December 19, 2025

Chris Metinko / Axios:
Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $100M Series C, bringing its total funding to $130M  —  Neural Concept closed a $100 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives as the engineering intelligence startup looks …



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Sources: Armadin, launched by Mandiant's founder Kevin Mandia to fight AI hacking, raised a $24M seed and is in talks to raise $100M+ at a $600M+ valuation (Wall Street Journal)

December 18, 2025

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Armadin, launched by Mandiant's founder Kevin Mandia to fight AI hacking, raised a $24M seed and is in talks to raise $100M+ at a $600M+ valuation  —  As AI threatens to give advantage to attackers, man who built Google's $5.4 billion Mandiant business works to restore balance



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Twenty-four companies, including Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and AWS, join the US Genesis Mission to boost the use of AI for scientific discovery (Courtney Subramanian/Bloomberg)

December 18, 2025

Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg:
Twenty-four companies, including Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and AWS, join the US Genesis Mission to boost the use of AI for scientific discovery  —  Two dozen top artificial intelligence companies have signed on to join the federal government's “Genesis Mission,” …



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Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death (Libby Brooks/The Guardian)

December 17, 2025

Libby Brooks / The Guardian:
Parents of sextortion victim sue Meta for alleged wrongful death  —  Exclusive: Lawsuit is the first UK case of its kind, with Ros and Mark Dowey accusing Meta of ‘putting profit before our young people’  —  The parents of a 16-year-old who took his own life after he fell victim …



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In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay victims of a 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen (Connor Jones/The Register)

December 17, 2025

Connor Jones / The Register:
In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay victims of a 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen  —  Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings  —  In proposing a settlement agreement, the Federal Trade Commission …



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