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Israeli startup Milestone, which builds a data platform to link generative AI tool usage with engineering outcomes, announced a $10 million seed round led by Heavybit and Hanaco Ventures. The round also saw participation from Atlassian Ventures and a group of high‑profile angels, including GitHub co‑founder Tom Preston‑Werner. Milestone’s customers such as Kayak, Monday and Sapiens will gain visibility into AI‑driven productivity, feature‑delivery speed and bug attribution, helping enterprises measure return on AI investment. The company’s team blends founders Liad Elidan and Stephen Barrett with a focus on enterprise‑scale solutions. Read more

GitHub is rolling out a new platform called Agent HQ that lets developers use a range of AI coding agents—including OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Jules, xAI, and Cognition’s Devin—directly within GitHub. Available to Copilot subscribers, the service adds a mission‑control style dashboard, the ability to run several agents in parallel on the same task, and new VS Code tools such as Plan Mode and a code‑review step powered by CodeQL. The move expands the ecosystem of AI‑assisted development while giving users more control over which agent’s output they prefer. Read more

OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature called “company knowledge,” available to Business, Enterprise, and Education customers. Powered by GPT‑5, the update lets the chatbot search across workplace tools such as Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, and GitHub to answer user queries with clear citations. The feature is designed as a conversational search engine that can handle ambiguous questions, apply date filters, and provide multi‑source answers while users manually enable it for each conversation. OpenAI says future updates will broaden the range of supported tools. Read more

A heated debate erupted within the open‑source GZDoom community after project lead Graf Zahl added AI‑generated code to the repository. Critics accused him of violating GPL principles and using unverified snippets, while Zahl defended the move as a harmless shortcut for boiler‑plate tasks. The controversy led to calls for forks, strong backlash on GitHub, and a broader discussion about the role of generative AI in open‑source development. Read more

Ami Luttwak, chief technologist at Wiz, explains how the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence is expanding the attack surface for cybercriminals. While AI helps developers ship code faster, it also creates shortcuts and insecure implementations that attackers exploit. Luttwak highlights recent supply‑chain breaches, including the compromise of a chatbot startup and a popular JavaScript build system, where AI‑driven tools were used to harvest credentials and infiltrate corporate networks. He urges organizations to embed security from day one, adopt rigorous compliance standards, and rethink every layer of defense as AI continues to evolve. Read more

Former Periscope founders Kayvon Beykpour, Joe Bernstein, and Rob Bishop have introduced Macroscope, an AI-driven platform that helps developers and product leaders understand code changes, spot bugs, and get real‑time product insights. The tool integrates with GitHub, Slack, JIRA and Linear, leveraging large language models to generate summaries and answer natural‑language queries. Priced at $30 per active developer per month, Macroscope is already being used by a range of startups and larger firms. Backed by a Series A round led by Lightspeed, the San Francisco startup aims to reduce engineering overhead and improve productivity. Read more

Security researchers at Proofpoint have identified a new variant of the open‑source infostealer known as Stealerium that automatically captures webcam photos and browser screenshots when a victim visits pornographic sites. The malware, distributed freely on GitHub by a developer calling themselves witchfindertr, steals typical data such as passwords and crypto keys while also adding a humiliating sextortion feature. Proofpoint observed the tool being used in phishing campaigns targeting hospitality, education and finance sectors. The discovery highlights a shift toward low‑profile, individual‑targeted extortion by cybercriminals. Read more