Company: CSLMF
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-155514
Chunk: 138

Company: CSLM ACQUISITION CORP.
Filing Date: 2025-07-03
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 138
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 could negatively affect our business and financial performance.

As cybersecurity attacks continue to evolve and increase, our information systems could also be penetrated or compromised by internal and
external parties’ intent on extracting confidential information, disrupting business processes or corrupting information. These risks could arise from external parties or from acts or omissions of internal or service provider personnel. Such
unauthorized access could disrupt our business and could result in the loss of assets, litigation, remediation costs, damage to our reputation and failure to retain or attract customers following such an event, which could adversely affect our
business.

Cyber-attacks and security vulnerabilities could lead to reduced revenue, increased costs, liability claims, or harm to Fusemachines’ competitive position.

Increased sophistication and activities of perpetrators of cyber-attacks have resulted in
an increase in information security risks in recent years. Hackers develop and deploy viruses, worms, and other malicious software programs that attack products and services and gain access to networks and data centers. If we experience difficulties
maintaining existing systems or implementing new systems, we could incur significant losses due to disruptions in our operations. Additionally, these systems contain valuable proprietary and confidential information and may contain personal data of
our customers. A security breach could result in disruptions of our internal systems and business applications, harm to our competitive position from the compromise of confidential business information, or subject us to liability under laws that
protect personal data. As cyber threats continue to evolve, we may be required to expend additional resources to continue to enhance our information security measures and/or to investigate and remediate any information security vulnerabilities. Any
of these consequences would adversely affect our revenue and margins.

Fusemachines may not be able to adequately protect or enforce its intellectual property rights or prevent unauthorized parties from copying or reverse engineering its solutions. Fusemachines’ efforts to protect and enforce its intellectual property rights and prevent third parties from violating its rights may be costly.

The success of Fusemachines’ services and its business depends, in part, on Fusemachines’ ability
to obtain patents and other intellectual property rights and maintain adequate legal protection for its products in the United States and other international jurisdictions. Fusemachines cannot be certain that the steps it has taken will prevent

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unauthorized use of its technology or the reverse engineering of its technology. Moreover, others may independently develop technologies that are competitive to Fusemachines or infringe
Fusemachines’ intellectual property.

Protecting against the unauthorized use of Fusemachines’ intellectual property, products
and other proprietary rights is expensive and