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Phishers Target Aviation Execs to Scam Customers – Krebs on Security
KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss’s email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company’s customers into sending a large payment to scammers. An investigation into the attacker’s infrastructure points to a long-running Nigerian cybercrime ring that is actively targeting established companies in the transportation and aviation industries. Image:…

Samsung delays $44 billion Texas chip fab — sources say completion halted because ‘there are no customers’
Samsung is reportedly delaying the launch of its Taylor, Texas, fab, citing difficulties in securing customers for its output. Sources told Nikkei Asia that even if the South Korean chipmaker brings in the necessary equipment to produce chips at the new plant, the company cannot do anything with them due to the lack of demand….

IBM sees enterprise customers are using ‘everything’ when it comes to AI, the challenge is matching the LLM to the right use case
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Over the last 100 years, IBM has seen many different tech trends rise and fall. What tends to win out are technologies where there is choice. At VB Transform 2025 today, Armand Ruiz, VP…

Phonely’s new AI agents hit 99% accuracy—and customers can’t tell they’re not human
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A three-way partnership between AI phone support company Phonely, inference optimization platform Maitai, and chip maker Groq has achieved a breakthrough that addresses one of conversational artificial intelligence’s most persistent problems: the awkward delays that immediately…

a16z- and Benchmark-backed 11x has been claiming customers it doesn’t have | TechCrunch
Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory. However, nearly two dozen sources — including investors and current and former employees — told TechCrunch that the company has experienced financial struggles, largely of its own making. Numerous people in the U.S. and U.K. told TechCrunch that the situation…