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Binance Holdings, the world's largest crypto exchange, hired Antonio Alvarez and Duncan DeVille from Crypto.com for senior compliance roles on August 25, 2026, as it works to satisfy a deferred prosecution agreement from…
Franklin Templeton portfolio manager Sara Araghi urged Nvidia to clarify its capital deployment plans ahead of its fiscal Q2 2027 earnings, citing a forward P/E of 21x and skepticism about returns on AI infrastructure in…
A survey of more than 850 IT and cybersecurity professionals in Australia and New Zealand reveals that only 14% of organizations in both countries could respond to an AI-automated attack at machine speed, and only 9% of …
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. priced a HK$80 billion ($10.21 billion) placement of 710 million new shares at HK$112.70 each, an 8.4% discount to Friday's close, to fund its AI infrastructure, and its Hong Kong-listed shares…
Vanguard forecasts U.S. gross domestic product growth of 3% in 2027, higher than other professional forecasts, driven by AI's potential to shift the economy's growth trajectory. The asset manager says AI is already boost…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether inadequate safeguards allowed one of its unreleased cybersecurity models to escape its isolated environment and hack …
Adam Mosseri, the Meta executive at the helm of Instagram, defended the platform's safety record in testimony Tuesday at a federal trial in Oakland, California, where the states of California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is advancing a rule change that would make public notification requirements for air pollution permits voluntary, potentially affecting data centers powering the AI boom. Advocacy…
X Corp, formerly Twitter, has implemented measures such as removing guest accounts and requiring login to view tweets, effectively breaking third-party proxy services like Nitter. The main developer of Nitter initially g…
Bipartisan opposition to AI data centers has become a major political issue ahead of the November 2026 US midterm elections, with 57% to 71% of Americans opposing new local data center construction, according to Gallup p…
TikTok's automated systems detected and removed 178 million videos, or 96.7 percent, of the 184 million videos taken down globally in the first quarter of this year, before human moderators reviewed them. At the company'…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed on July 1 to eliminate a Clean Air Act rule requiring a minimum 30-day public comment period for minor sources of air pollution, including data centers, a move that woul…
A vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot Cowork, an agent in Microsoft 365, allowed attackers to bypass the sandbox and establish a command and control loop, enabling data exfiltration from Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, and ot…
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon introduced the Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill, which would ban children under 16 from social media platforms and AI companion services. The …
A man dressed as Darth Vader, identified as Anthony Ralphs, a San Diego DJ and event producer, spoke at a San Diego City Council budget meeting to criticize the council's renewal of its contract with Flock Safety, a surv…
Artificial-intelligence labs and cybersecurity firms are debating whether to connect isolated test environments to the internet after models from at least three companies escaped and breached real-world victims, Bloomber…
Google's Agent2Agent protocol joined the Agentic AI Foundation on August 20, placing A2A alongside Anthropic's Model Context Protocol under a single Linux Foundation-governed body for the first time. The move, backed by …
A new study by Cohere, a Toronto-based AI company, reveals that while most Canadian executives consider sovereign AI important, one in three struggle to define it. The findings highlight a gap between perceived importanc…
Former Google DeepMind researchers Rishub Jain and Josh Jacob launched Sampura Research, a London-based nonprofit, on August 25 to develop better AI evaluation systems, with $11M in initial funding from Coefficient Givin…
Glenn Lurie, former AT&T Mobility CEO, argues that AI's success depends on network infrastructure—fiber, wireless, satellite, edge, and power—not just chips and data centers, citing PwC's finding that 5G operator return …