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🔒 CrowdStrike Acquires Pangea (AI Security)
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The AI Surface
September 24, 2025
👩💻 Greetings To All AI Learners. By acquiring Pangea for ~$260M, CrowdStrike is doubling down on AI security, especially in protecting the “last mile” of how users interact with AI: prompts, agents, responses. This move positions CrowdStrike to be a leader in securing enterprise AI both in development and usage. For customers, it promises stronger protections against new, AI‑specific risks. For the industry, it’s a signal that AI security (not just model performance or infrastructure) is now a central battleground.
✨ In today’s AI News we will cover:
💁🏼CrowdStrike Acquires Pangea (AI Security)
🤳🏽Samsung’s One UI 8 with AI Enhancements
🧬 New Method to Predict 3D Structure of Protein‑RNA Complexes
💻 Lenovo forecasts AI PC dominance in 5 years
🗡 4 Trending AI Tools
LATEST NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
✨ CROWDSTRIKE’S PANGEA ACQUISITION
💸 CrowdStrike’s acquisition of Pangea for approximately $260 million marks a strategic move to expand its cybersecurity offerings into the rapidly growing domain of AI security. With Pangea’s expertise in securing the interaction layer of AI systems—like monitoring prompts, preventing prompt injection attacks, and enforcing usage policies—CrowdStrike aims to extend its Falcon platform to include full lifecycle protection for AI models.
💫 Highlights
💰 $260M acquisition of AI security startup Pangea
🧠 Pangea focuses on securing AI prompts, interactions, and responses
🛡️ Adds AI Detection and Response (AIDR) to Falcon platform
🔐 Covers full AI lifecycle: data, models, identities, usage
⚠️ Targets prompt injection, jailbreaks, shadow AI, misuse
💫 Significance
🏢 Strengthens CrowdStrike's position in enterprise AI security
🧩 Fills a critical gap in AI interaction-layer protection
📈 Responds to growing enterprise AI adoption + threat surface
🧭 Sets industry direction toward AI-specific cybersecurity frameworks
🧱 Builds foundation for trustworthy, compliant AI deployment
✨ SAMSUNG’S UPGRADATION
📲 One UI 8 pushes Samsung’s Galaxy devices further toward becoming AI‑assisted, highly personalized devices where convenience, context awareness, and security work together more tightly. If you have a newer Galaxy device, the update promises meaningful gains in safety and smart‑features, not just cosmetic updates.
💫 Highlights
🤖 AI Upgrades across the system via Galaxy AI
🔄 Smarter Circle to Search, real-time translation, and context-aware suggestions
🔐 Enhanced security with Knox Matrix + KEEP encrypted protection
📶 Secure Wi-Fi upgraded with post-quantum cryptography
📱 Improved multi-device UI — better on foldables, tablets, and cover screens
💫 Significance
🧭 Moves Galaxy ecosystem toward AI-first design
📲 Boosts user productivity with context-smart features
🛡️ Positions Samsung as a leader in AI-integrated mobile security
🌐 Readies devices for future-proof encryption and privacy
💡 Improves user experience with adaptive, personalized interfaces
✨ 3D PROTEIN-RNA PREDICTION
🧬 ProRNA3D‑single is a deep learning framework that predicts the 3D structures of protein‑RNA complexes using only single sequences (no evolutionary alignments). By combining biological language models for both protein and RNA with a novel geometric attention mechanism, it infers interatomic interaction maps. These maps are then converted into multi‑scale geometric restraints used in geometry optimization to build the 3D structure.
💫 Highlights
🧠 Introduces ProRNA3D‑single, a deep learning model
📜 Uses single sequences only — no multiple sequence alignments needed
🧬 Combines RNA & protein language models
🎯 Employs geometric attention for accurate interaction prediction
🧱 Builds full 3D structures via multi-scale geometry optimization
💫 Significance
🔓 Enables structure prediction in data-sparse settings
🔬 Boosts understanding of RNA–protein interactions, key in biology & disease
💡 Advances AI-driven structural biology beyond proteins alone
💊 Supports drug discovery targeting RNA–protein interfaces
🌐 Opens up structure prediction for rare or novel sequences where alignment isn’t possible
✨ LENOVO’S AI PROPHECY
👩🏿💻 Lenovo believes that PCs equipped with neural processing units (NPUs) and other AI‑capabilities will shift from being niche or premium devices to becoming the mainstream standard within five years. The driving forces are hardware improvements (battery life, sleek form factors), software ecosystems catching up, a wave of upgrades prompted by Windows 10’s end‑of‑support, and growing enterprise and consumer demand.
💫 Highlights
💻 AI PCs to dominate by 2027–2029
🧠 Equipped with NPUs (Neural Processing Units)
🔋 Improved battery life and form factors
🪟 Upgrade wave expected as Windows 10 support ends
🌍 Forecast: majority of PCs globally will be AI-enabled
💫 Significance
📈 Signals a paradigm shift in PC design and functionality
🧠 Pushes AI from cloud to on-device computing
🏢 Boosts enterprise efficiency, especially in creative, productivity, and developer tools
🎯 Encourages software innovation to catch up with AI hardware
💰 Could reshape PC market dynamics and buying behavior
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✨ OTHER RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN AI
🪐 Workday is acquiring the AI startup Sana for $1.1 billion. The aim is to strengthen Workday’s position in AI‑driven learning and knowledge management.
🪐 HCL Technologies has introduced “Unica+”, an AI‑driven marketing technology platform, which is expected to impact its stock as well as push forward AI integration in marketing in India.
🪐 Joint efforts to build AI factories, supercomputing infrastructure, etc., to support AI models (including from OpenAI) and strengthen the UK’s sovereignty over AI infrastructure.
🤓 That’s A Wrap For Today!
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