Claude Mythos signals a new era in AI-driven security, finding 271 flaws in Firefox

The Claude Mythos Preview appears to be living up to the hype, at least from a cybersecurity standpoint. The model, which Anthropic rolled out to a small group of users, including Firefox developer Mozilla, earlier this month, has discovered 271 vulnerabilities in version 148 of the browser. All have been fixed in this week’s release…

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GitHub shifts Copilot to usage-based billing, signaling a new cost model for enterprise AI tools

GitHub is moving its Copilot coding assistant to a usage-based billing model, replacing fixed subscription pricing with consumption-based charges as demand for AI-driven development workloads increases. The change, announced in a company blog, will take effect on June 1 and will apply to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans. Under the new model, usage…

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MariaDB to Acquire GridGain to Tackle the AI Latency Gap

MariaDB is set to acquire GridGain Systems with the aim to deliver sub-millisecond data performance for agentic AI workloads. GridGain is the company behind the in-memory computing platform and developer of the open source project Apache Ignite. The deal comes at a time when technology vendors are rethinking the foundations of the modern data stack…

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Java future calls for boosts with records, primitives, classes

Oracle’s latest Java language ambitions are expected to offer improvements in records, classes, primitives, and arrays. As part of these plans, pending features not now marked for a future release of the language are under consideration to officially be part of Java. In a March 17 presentation at the JavaOne conference in Redwood City, Calif.,…

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How to create AI agents with Neo4j Aura Agent

You may be hearing a lot of buzz about knowledge graphs, GraphRAG, and ontologies in the AI space right now, especially around improving agent accuracy, explainability, and governance. But actually creating and deploying your own agents that leverage these concepts can be challenging and ambiguous. At Neo4j, we’re trying to make building and deploying agents…

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