Deals
Accenture Buys Dragos Trio in $4.2B OT Security Deal
Accenture paid roughly 20x ARR for Dragos, runZero, and NetRise, betting AI threats will turn a $27B OT security market into $59B by 2031.
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AI
NO FAKES Act Clears Senate Panel, $750K Per Deepfake
The NO FAKES Act cleared committee: $750K per deepfake, heir rights for at least 70 years. Civil liberties groups warn it will gut satire and parody online.
Legal
FTC Orders Aurobindo to Shed 4 Drugs in $250M Lannett Deal
FTC's proposed consent order forces Aurobindo to sell four generics to rival Quagen Pharmaceuticals before its $250M Lannett acquisition can close.
Deals
Cleared: Santander's $12.3B Webster Deal Needs Fed
Santander's $12.3B Webster bid cleared OCC in 74 days, but Fed, ECB, and DOJ reviews still stand between Santander and a $327B U.S. lender.
Legal
Repurposes EU IP Addresses: Google Targets August 3
Google's August 3 deadline brings IP-based ad personalization into GDPR territory, and the ICO's May advice means advertisers carry the risk.
Deals
OCC Cleared Santander's $12.2B Webster Buy
Santander's $12.2B Webster deal cleared the OCC, but the Federal Reserve and ECB still hold the pen on a close worth $75 per share.
Legal
Hit 49 Times: Fortinet FortiSandbox Before CISA Acts
49 exploitation events, 13 sources across nine countries, and Fortinet's three FortiSandbox flaws still aren't on CISA's KEV catalog.
Legal
Vermont Signed 23rd State Privacy Law After Prior Veto
Vermont signed its 23rd-state privacy law, but the enforcement clause has a built-in PRA threat if the attorney general goes underfunded.
Deals
Jazz Paid $56M Upfront in $2.46B AbCellera Deal
Jazz dropped $56M to option into AbCellera's T cell engager pipeline for GI cancer, days after Zepzelca's Phase 3 failed its SCLC expansion.
Legal
Cracked: 73,000 Fortinet Firewalls Hit by Russian Group
FortiBleed exposed credentials for 73,932 Fortinet firewalls across 194 countries, covering roughly half of all internet-accessible FortiGate devices.
Deals
SpaceX Bought Cursor for $60B Days After IPO
SpaceX's $60B Cursor deal prices the startup at 23x revenue. Days after the IPO. The catch: Anthropic already controls half the AI coding market.
SEC
Coinbase Clears SEC for AI Adviser, Eyes Full Finance Stack
Coinbase's new system update puts an SEC-registered AI adviser at the center of its bid to become a bank, brokerage, and crypto wallet in one app.
AI
Suspend or Face Criminal Charges: Anthropic Pulls Fable 5
Lutnick threatened Anthropic over a Fable 5 jailbreak claim with criminal and civil penalties, setting a bar that would freeze all frontier AI.
Deals
DOJ Cleared $111B Paramount Deal; Staff Wanted to Sue
DOJ greenlit a $111B streaming merger over the objections of its own antitrust staff, and state AGs are already lining up a lawsuit to stop it.
AI
DOJ Seized CFAKE, SOCFAKE Under TAKE IT DOWN Act
The DOJ's first domain seizure under the TAKE IT DOWN Act took down CFAKE and SOCFAKE, with a French suspect already arrested in Nice.
