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🪲 'It is scary': Oak-killing beetle reaches Ventura County, significantly expanding range
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-01-10/it-is-scary-oak-killing-beetle-reaches-ventura-count…

'It is scary': Oak-killing beetle reaches Ventura County, significantly expanding range
The goldspotted oak-borer, an invasive beetle responsible for killing 200,000 trees in Southern California, is now present in Ventura County. It's the northernmost reach of the insect.

GitHub updates VS Code with Plan Mode for building step-by-step project approaches, MCP Registry integration, definable project rules via AGENTS.md, and more (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/githubs-agent-hq-aims…

OpenAI discloses API customer data breach via Mixpanel vendor hack
Mixpanel reported that the attack “impacted a limited number of our customers” and resulted from a smishing (SMS phishing) campaign that the company detected on November 8.
OpenAI received details of the affected dataset on November 25 after being informed of Mixpanel’s ongoing investigation.
The AI company notes that the exposed information may include:

• Name that was provided to …

OpenAI discloses API customer data breach via Mixpanel vendor hack
OpenAI is notifying some ChatGPT API customers that limited identifying information was exposed following a breach at its third-party analytics provider Mixpanel.

This is so much "AI" reporting: Claims about potentials and/or threads. I'd just like to have grown-up conversations about tech again :(
"The actual current user base for evil chatbots is the cyber security vendors, who scaremonger how only their good AI can possibly stop this automated hacker evil!"
(Original title: AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!)

AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!
A chatbot is a wrapper around a large language model, an AI transformer model that’s been trained on the whole internet, all the books the AI vendor can find, and all the other text in the world. A…

Range, which uses AI to offer flat-fee financial planning services to mass affluent households, raised a $60M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/11/25/range-flat-fee-invest…

Exclusive: Flat-fee advisor Range raises $60M for AI financial planning
The company offers flat-fee financial planning to mass affluents.

Période : en semaine de soirée.
Dates : du lundi 03 au vendredi 07 novembre et le lundi 10 novembre et du mercredi 12 au vendredi 14 novembre et du lundi 17 au vendredi 21 novembre et du lundi 24 au vendredi 28 novembre.
Le trafic est interrompu entre La Verrière et La Défense. Dernier train de La défense vers La Verrière: 22h15.
Dernier train de La Verrière vers La Défense: 21h20.
Un service de bus de remplacement est mis en place, avec desserte des gares intermédiaire…

Flora, whose node-based design tool uses AI to create media assets for clients like Lionsgate, raised a $42M Series A, bringing its total funding to $52M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/node-based-design-tool-flora-r…

Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures | TechCrunch
Flora's node-based design tool is being used by companies like Pentagram and Lionsgate.

Coverbase, an AI procurement and risk platform provider, raised a $16.5M Series A led by Canapi Ventures, bringing its total funding to $20M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/coverbase-raise-ai-powered-procurement/

Exclusive: With Customers Like Okta And Coinbase, Coverbase Raises $16M To Grow AI-Powered Procurement...
Coverbase, an AI-powered procurement platform, has raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Canapi Ventures, the startup tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

Reliance, Brookfield, and Digital Realty's joint venture Digital Connexion plans to invest $11B by 2030 to build a 1 GW data center in India's Visakhapatnam (Sanjai P R/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and legal rules across 60 countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight, taking its total funding to $32M (Mary Ann Azevedo/This Week in Fintech)
https://www.thisweekinfintech.com/slice-ra

Slice Raises $25M Series A Led By Insight Partners For AI-Powered Global Equity Compliance
Slice Global Equity, an equity compliance and management startup, announced Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding. Insight Partners led the financing, which included participation from Fenwick and Cooley LLP and existing backers TLV Partners, R-Squared Ventures, and Jibe Ventures. The round brings Slice’s total