Last Week in Tech – AI Writes Its First Zero-Day, OpenAI's Deployment Play, and the Canvas Mega-Breach

Your Monday catch-up on the week that was, with a security lens. This week: researchers document the first known case of attackers using AI to develop a working zero-day exploit. OpenAI launches a $4B Deployment Company and buys consultancy Tomoro to get AI into enterprises faster, while SoftBank pours money into AI data centres and batteries. On the breach desk: ShinyHunters complete what's now called the largest education-sector breach on record, defacing Canvas login portals at around 330 institutions — including Harvard and Princeton — before Instructure paid up. Plus Washington turns up the heat on AI, with the Pentagon flagging a major AI lab as a supply-chain risk.

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Sources: Tech Startups; Coaio; cm-alliance; SharkStriker; TechCrunch.