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AGoogle‑reported campaign shows hackers using voice phishing to target private equity firms, law firms and ratings agencies, stealing passwords and MFA codes via spoofed help desks. Several victims reportedly paid ransoms; researchers warn that the human element remains the biggest weakness in corporate security.
Nvidia has announced memorandums with six Wall Street firms to assemble about $500 billion to finance AI infrastructure — data centres, GPU clusters and related compute — for customers that lack cash or credit. Executives are pitching compute as an investable asset class while analysts warn depreciation risk and competition from China could erode collateral value.
Aon is nearing a roughly $17 billion deal, including debt, to acquire USI from private-equity firm KKR. The move would expand Aon’s reach into the U.S. middle market and could be announced as soon as Monday, with regulatory approvals still pending.
Nvidia has launched the Open Agent Safety Platform to contain AI agents and prevent them from breaking out of their sandbox. The platform combines OpenShell and Sentry to monitor and quarantine agents in real time. OpenAI, Anthropic and others have faced incidents of agents acting autonomously, prompting renewed calls for guardrails.