North America tech news
Technology news from North America: official announcements from its governments, companies and institutions.
MIT Transit Lab wins $2.1M from Google.org for AI transit hub
The three-year Public Transit Intelligence Hub project aims to merge fragmented control-center data into one AI-orchestrated platform for transit staff and riders.
MIT
Google AI model tops CDC FluSight flu hospitalization ranking
Google says its forecasting model, built with an AI tool called Empirical Research Assistance, best matched observed U.S. flu hospital admissions in the 2025-26 season.
Google
Microsoft tracks Zimbra flaw CVE-2026-73570 exploited in the wild
Microsoft Threat Intelligence says attackers used a crafted email to run commands on internet-facing Zimbra servers, deploying web shells and stealing authentication keys.
Microsoft
Cisco Talos details tactics to frustrate attackers in networks
Eight Talos researchers recommend deception, behavior-based detection, RMM allowlisting and tighter AI agent boundaries to make adversary operations slower and noisier.
Cisco Talos
PaleBlueDot AI raises $200M Series C at $3.2B valuation
The Palo Alto GPU cloud company says the ComputeCore-led round will fund more compute capacity after signing over $5 billion in customer contracts.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
Nebius acquires Inferize to speed AI inference cold starts
The AI cloud company said Inferize's technology shortens the time large models need to load, cutting idle GPU costs inside its Token Factory inference platform.
Company filings with the US SEC
BreakingFortinet FortiMail flaw CVE-2026-104286 is being actively exploited, CISA warns
CISA added the Fortinet FortiMail vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 1, 2026, with a federal remediation deadline of October 4, 2026.
CISA
CFTC wins $31 million judgment over Fundsz digital assets fraud
The U.S. derivatives regulator says a Florida federal court ordered restitution, penalties and permanent trading bans over a scheme tied to the unincorporated Fundsz entity.
CFTC
NASA, CSA, German Aerospace Center plan lunar crop demonstrator
The three agencies signed a joint statement of intent to prepare an Earth-based demonstrator for growing crops under Moon-like conditions, NASA said.
NASA
NASA’s Webb maps 21 extreme debris disks from planet smashups
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope assembled the largest sample yet of extreme debris disks, linking their dust chemistry to collisions between Mars- and Moon-sized bodies.
NASA