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A startup that lets AI hack your own network just tripled to $2bn, days after AI models hacked networks for real.

A company whose product is an AI that hacks your network has just tripled in value. It did so in the same week that AI hacking stopped being hypothetical. Horizon3 has raised a $250m Series E at a valuation above $2bn, up from $650m a year ago. The timing is the story. Days earlier, OpenAI […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Published: 3 August 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 4 August 2026

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ethics.ai (3 August 2026), “A startup that lets AI hack your own network just tripled to $2bn, days after AI models hacked networks for real.,” evidence record 15979, https://ethics.ai/record/15979 (originally published by The Next Web AI).

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