Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
How internet censorship tech maker Sandvine, a vendor to repressive regimes like Egypt, nearly collapsed before US restrictions forced new ownership and a pivot  —  Sandvine built a business offering network management tools that, in the wrong hands, could be used for censorship, until the US government intervened.

Wired:
US digital rights group Holistic Resilience launched Mahsa Alert to provide Iranians with offline mapping and strike notifications, hitting 100K DAUs in days  —  The crowdsourced website and app Mahsa Alert provides citizens in Iran with crucial information amid the country's ongoing war …

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg:
OpenAI hires Kiran Mani, the CEO of Indian streaming platform JioStar, for a newly created role leading its Asia-Pacific operations, reporting to CSO Jason Kwon  —  OpenAI is tapping Kiran Mani, the chief executive officer of Indian streaming platform JioStar, for a newly created role leading its Asia-Pacific operations.

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bias, and security risks before enterprise AI agents go live. 42CAP led the round; Mozilla Ventures participated. The gap between an AI agent that works in a demo and one that works in production is, […]

The BT subsidiary, operator of the UK’s largest broadband network and the country’s second-largest commercial fleet, has built a digital twin of the UK’s transport and broadband infrastructure on Vertex AI, and is using Gemini Enterprise to cut engineering overhead by more than half. Openreach, the BT subsidiary that operates the UK’s largest broadband network, […]