Some private equity firms are adding "AI force majeure" clauses to leveraged buyout financing, allowing borrowers to delay repayment if they are hit by AI disruption. H.I.G. Capital included such a clause in a €470 million loan, but some lenders are pushing back.
Dream Labs officially exited stealth, announcing a $90 million seed round led by B Capital with multiple participating investors. It also launched Dream API, the world's first publicly accessible robot brain API, powered by its first model Dream-1 at $3 per hour, with over 20 hardware manufacturers already partnering.
OpenCode confirmed a security vulnerability linked to a large-scale distillation attack, affecting 1.4% of its Console users. Third-party API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and other services stored in user workspaces may have been exposed, with attackers draining credits for model training. Users reported unauthorized charges of $400 to $1,700. OpenCode has alerted users, and Anthropic has forcibly revoked all suspected leaked Claude API keys.
DeepSeek opened its self-developed search API alongside a model update, priced at 5 yuan per 1,000 calls, and said it would filter SEO cheating and low-quality AIGC content.
SC Capital Partners Group has partnered with NeoAI Cloud to complete development investment in a 40MW AI data center in Pohang, South Korea, with government-backed funding. The facility's liquid cooling infrastructure is ready for next-generation GPUs including NVIDIA Vera Rubin, and completion is expected by the end of 2027. Financial details were not disclosed.
Bain Capital is among the bidders seeking to acquire Edged, a data center company owned by Koch Industries, in a deal that could value the firm at more than $15 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Edged was co-founded by Koch and entrepreneur Jacob Karnemark, focusing on data center development, construction and operation; Koch Real Estate Investments had been soliciting acquisition offers.
At its 2026 Developer Day, OpenAI announced the Decisions API, designed for real-time, low-latency classification and routing, returning results in about 150 milliseconds — roughly 10x faster than regular API calls to Luna. Built on the small model Luna, it focuses on user-defined questions with a finite set of answers, returning structured decisions for uses such as customer service ticketing, content moderation, agent orchestration decision nodes, and real-time business rule assistance.
Six major global banks, including Bank of America and Capital One, jointly released a report warning that AI agent shopping poses risks in transparency, safety, privacy, data, choice, and interoperability, which grow with greater autonomy of AI agents. Consumers worry about AI agents buying wrong items, overspending, or falling victim to scams, and the report notes agents may prioritize certain products or payment methods due to incentives such as commissions.
Xapien has launched its dynamic due diligence capabilities as a native application on the ServiceNow AI Platform, enabling fully-sourced background checks on any person or organization within minutes and embedding them into onboarding and third-party risk workflows; the app is available on ServiceNow Store with free trials for ServiceNow customers.
Rapidus President Atsuyoshi Koike announced in a U.S. speech that the company plans to build a semiconductor factory on the Moon by around 2040, citing available water resources, and showed an AI-generated concept video. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said at the same event that the two companies are jointly developing 1-nanometer chips.