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Bezos' Prometheus nears $10 billion funding round

Bezos' Prometheus nears $10 billion funding round

Jeff Bezos' secretive AI lab, Project Prometheus, is reported to be close to securing a $10 billion funding round that would value the company at about $38 billion. The round is said to include institutional investors such as JPMorgan and BlackRock; Prometheus launched in November 2025 with roughly $6.2 billion of initial backing and is building so-called 'physical AI' systems.
$290 million Kelp DAO heist blamed on North Korea-linked group

$290 million Kelp DAO heist blamed on North Korea-linked group

Security firms say attackers drained about $290 million from the Kelp DAO by exploiting a LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, and have pointed to the North Korea-linked Lazarus group. Investigators say the attackers poisoned RPC nodes, launched a DDoS to force failover to compromised nodes and then fed a forged cross-chain message to authorise the transfer.
OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Images 2.0 with built-in reasoning

OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT Images 2.0 with built-in reasoning

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Images 2.0, a major upgrade that adds built-in reasoning, web-search 'thinking' capabilities and improved text rendering for its image generation models. The update can produce up to eight consistent images from a single prompt, supports wide aspect ratios and higher-resolution outputs through the API.