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Hong Kong will expand its yuan facility by 150% to 500 billion yuan (US$73.6 billion) to meet international demand, HKMA Chief Executive Eddie Yue announced Tuesday. The facility's tenure will extend to two to three year…
Meta Platforms announced plans to spend between $115 billion and $145 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, nearly double its 2025 spending, triggering over $1 trillion in market cap losses across AI stocks. Nvidia and P…
A veteran HBO executive who navigated four tech disruptions advocates 'AI Minimalism' as the strategy for surviving the fifth wave of artificial intelligence. The approach calls for stripping operations to essential, eff…
The European Central Bank has ordered all supervised banks to submit cybersecurity action plans by October 31, citing a surge in AI-powered cyberattacks. The directive, announced by ECB Executive Board member Frank Elder…
The FCA-commissioned Mills Review signals a major regulatory shift, moving away from a hands-off approach to AI in financial services and recommending new rules for AI agents. The review highlights that one in five UK ad…
Project Kilby, a gas-to-data project twice the size of Project Stargate in Abilene, Texas, is months away from a final investment decision and could disrupt Permian oil and gas flows, according to Doomberg. The project i…
Cloud security in 2026 is being reshaped by rapid adoption of zero-trust architecture and a growing focus on quantum-safe encryption, driven by advanced AI, autonomous agents, and the quantum computing threat. Gartner pr…
Banks are rapidly adopting agentic AI systems that can take actions, not just answer questions, creating a new security risk of overprivileged agents. In April 2026, Five Eyes cyber agencies issued joint guidance on secu…
Anthropic hired Teresa Carlson as its first Global Head of Public Sector, tapping a veteran of Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Splunk to lead government relations. The move comes as the AI company navigates complex t…
Samsung Electronics reported an 18-fold surge in second-quarter operating profit to 89.4 trillion won ($58.4 billion), driven by rising memory chip prices amid AI demand, but a subsequent share slump revealed investor co…
A product manager recounts how an automated evaluation caught a bug that would have slipped through a 'vibe coded' tool, prompting a historical look at human-in-the-loop versus human-on-the-loop automation. The US Air Fo…
Christof Salis argues that humanity is currently living through an AI utopia but fails to recognize it, urging readers to imagine the most optimistic plausible scenario for AI development from a 2017 perspective.
A surge in cyberattacks, physical strikes on cloud infrastructure and AI-driven threats have forced Gulf states to rethink critical digital protection since the U.S.-Iran war began on February 28. Daily cyberattack attem…
A mathematician named Norbert Wiener sent a letter in 1949 warning about the dangers of intelligent machines, but his concerns were ignored. The piece traces the history of AI safety concerns from Wiener's cybernetics to…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other AI providers are offering startup compute and model credits in July 2026 to win early company workloads before vendor choices harden, with packages reaching millions of dollars. The W…
Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI chip budgets to domestic suppliers within a year, up from 30% currently, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence survey. The shift is driven by U.S. export restrictions an…
Microsoft announced 4,800 job cuts globally, including 1,600 immediate layoffs at Xbox, as part of a restructuring to focus on artificial intelligence. The Xbox division is undergoing its largest overhaul in history, wit…
Russia's Ministry of Digital Development introduced a bill on July 7, 2026, to tighten state control over the domestic AI sector, favoring models under close government supervision. The proposed rules cover labeling, tra…
Indonesia's communications ministry on July 7, 2026 emphasized the development of national compute clusters as critical to the country's AI competitiveness, with Deputy Minister Nezar Patria urging stronger domestic infr…
A new approach to AI agent governance proposes distributing control inside the agentic loop rather than front-loading it, aiming to reduce costly late-stage rejections and accelerate development. The platform team would …