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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Cracken opens self-serve access to its AI-powered offensive cybersecurity platform
The San Francisco-based AI lab is making its proactive security tooling available without a sales call for the first time, while keeping its unrestricted offensive capabilities under enterprise contract
AMAZON
Jeff Bezos files to sell roughly $4 billion in Amazon shares after stock hits $3 trillion
The founder's first major disposal since late 2024 comes as Amazon crosses a $3 trillion market cap for the first time, buoyed by a Q2 earnings beat and a $220 billion capital spending plan
FUTURE OF WORK
PwC is hiring fewer consultants and accountants. Its CEO is still sending his kids into consulting.
PwC's US chief says the firm is hiring fewer of the junior consultants and accountants it was built on, and more data scientists. He insists the profession has a future. He is also pointing his own children toward it.
ANTHROPIC
Anthropic names global affairs chief to lead AI diplomacy as Trump tensions escalate
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, a former California Supreme Court justice who led the Carnegie Endowment, will report to president Daniela Amodei and manage US government relations