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Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-…

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-data-breach-puts-ai-industry-secrets-at-risk/

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.

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To the US?!
LOL!
ICE's gonna take him soon enough.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/03/russian-minister-dodges-putins-security-service-flees-us-sacking-28218311/

Russian minister 'dodges Putin's security service and flees to US' after sacking
Denis Butsaev has reportedly fled to the United States after dodging Vladimir Putin's high-profile security service.

Pam Bondi is the second Cabinet member to be fired from the Trump administration within a month,
after Kristi Noem was removed from her position as Secretary of Homeland Security on March 5.
“He is very angry,” an administration official told Politico. Adding, “and he’s going to be moving people
White House insiders told Politico that the president is frustrated with his secretaries for commerce and labor,
-- Howard Lutnick and Lori Chavez-DeRemer,
-- and is con…

Trump weighs firing more Cabinet members after Bondi ousting, report claims
White House insiders are discussing more removals from Donald Trump’s Cabinet as the midterms approach.

Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/02/alcatraz-r…

Alcatraz raises $50M to bring Apple Face ID-style security to physical buildings - SiliconANGLE
Alcatraz raises $50M to bring Apple Face ID-style security to physical buildings - SiliconANGLE

IBM security executive emerges as possible contender to lead CISA
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/05/ibm-security-executive-emerges-possible-contender-lead-cisa/413291/

IBM security executive emerges as possible contender to lead CISA
Tom Parker doesn’t have prior government experience, characteristics the Trump administration may be seeking in its next pick to lead the cyber agency, a person familiar said.

Claude Security: Anthropic bringt KI-Schwachstellenscanner für Unternehmen
Anthropic schickt Claude Security in den öffentlichen Beta-Test. Es scannt Code auf Schwachstellen, schlägt Patches vor und soll bei Sicherheit streng sein.

Anthropic startet öffentliche Beta von Claude Security für Unternehmen
Anthropic schickt Claude Security in den öffentlichen Beta-Test. Es scannt Code auf Schwachstellen, schlägt Patches vor und soll bei Sicherheit streng sein.

Mexico names new foreign secretary
Mexico’s president on Wednesday designated
Roberto Velasco,
the foreign ministry’s subsecretary for North America and a leading expert in bilateral relations with the U.S.,
as the country’s new foreign secretary during a critical time for Mexico-U.S. relations.
The previous minister, Juan Ramón de la Fuente,
a 74-year-old psychiatrist who has been a key member of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration, re…

In reversal, Johnson embraces Senate’s Homeland Security bill
Less than a week after he and other House Republican lawmakers rejected a Senate plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security
— but not its immigration enforcement operations
— Speaker Mike Johnson has made a complete about-face.
Johnson’s embrace of a two-track Senate bill marks a sharp reversal, after he had derided it as a “joke,”
and said he was “quite convinced that it can’t be that every S…