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GMO Puts a $1 Million Bounty on Its Hackers After Refusing to Pay Ransom
After a breach of its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service led to unauthorized FX trades and an extortion demand, Japan's GMO Internet Group refused to pay and instead opened a $1 million bounty for information leading to the attackers' arrest.
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OpenWorld to Acquire Blocksight for RWA Agent Automation
OpenWorld signed a definitive deal to acquire Blocksight, aiming to embed its human-approved AI agents in tokenized infrastructure and energy finance.
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Waymo's $5 Billion Loan Marks a New Era for Autonomous Driving
Waymo has closed its first-ever debt financing, a $5 billion term loan backed by PIMCO, Blackstone, and Sixth Street, to fuel its robotaxi expansion across the US, Europe, and Asia. The move signals that autonomous driving has officially entered its capital-intensive scaling phase.