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Drogue, a Washington DC-based startup founded six months ago, has raised $20 million to build floating data centers powered by ocean thermal energy conversion. The company plans to install a multi-megawatt prototype on an ocean-going ship in early 2028, using temperature differences between warm surface water and cold deep water to generate electricity.

LangChain has raised a $300 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation, led by CapitalG with participation from GIC, DFJ Growth, IVP, and Sapphire Ventures. The valuation more than doubles from $1.25 billion a year ago when it raised $125 million led by IVP. The company, founded in 2022 as an open-source project, now focuses on AI agent management through its LangSmith software.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stepped down after admitting to an affair with Alice Huang, executive of Megaspeed, a company implicated in smuggling Nvidia chips into China. Research claims Chinese frontier labs trained open-weight models on Blackwell GPUs banned from export to China, highlighting enforcement gaps in US export controls.

OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Cristiano warned at a Toronto lecture that AI accidents could become the most likely cause of death for most people, describing a potential AI takeover with a coin-flip probability within six to 12 months if development continues at its most rapid trajectory.

OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Cristiano warned at a Toronto lecture that AI accidents could become the most likely cause of death for most people, describing an AI takeover scenario with mass death risk and calling for the industry to slow down or stop development.

Researcher Nightmare Eclipse disclosed SignDrop, a Windows zero-day in the Common Log File System that lets local users escalate to System privileges by abusing Windows Defender. The exploit works on Windows 11 26H2, Windows 11 26H2 Experimental, and Windows Server 2025 Experimental when CLFS authentication mode is set to 0 or 1. Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment.