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Finance Faces a New Kind of AI Surge as Autonomous Agents Double Traffic
Last month, financial institutions saw a sudden jump in traffic from autonomous software agents. According to Human Security, which tracks automated web behavior, agent-driven visits to financial sites more than doubled in May 2026. While…
Cloudflare's AI Gateway Now Cuts Off Expensive Models When the Money Runs Out
The honeymoon phase of AI deployment is over. Companies that rushed to embed large language models into their products are now staring down unpredictable bills, some reaching tens of thousands of dollars with no clear trail of who spent…
OpenAI’s Lockdown Mode Cuts Off Web Access to Shield Sensitive Data from Prompt Attacks
OpenAI has rolled out a new security setting called Lockdown Mode, designed to help businesses and power users reduce the risk of prompt injection attacks. These attacks occur when malicious instructions are hidden inside webpages or other…
Washington Eyes a Slice of OpenAI: Could the Public Become a Shareholder?
President Trump confirmed Friday that his administration has held talks with AI companies about structuring deals that would let the American public share in the industry's financial upside. While Trump didn't name names, CNBC reports that…
Why Russia’s AI Market Moves Slower—and Smarter—Than the Global One
While the global AI race often prizes speed and hype, Russia’s approach to artificial intelligence is markedly more deliberate. That’s according to Dmitry Yudin, head of AI at Cloud.ru, who told RIA Novosti that Russian companies are…
Reid Hoffman exits Microsoft board to focus on AI drug discovery startup Manus
Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board of directors after nearly a decade, the company confirmed Thursday. The move comes as the LinkedIn co-founder and longtime tech investor shifts his attention to a new venture: Manus, an AI-powered…
OpenAI and White House Negotiate Potential Government Equity Stake
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the Trump administration have been quietly negotiating a potential government stake in the AI startup for over a year, CNBC confirmed Friday. The talks, which began in 2025, have continued this week as Altman met…
Why Your AI Agents Are Only as Good as the Network Connecting Them
For all the buzz about AI models and agents, the real bottleneck in enterprise AI isn’t the intelligence—it’s the infrastructure underneath. After years covering data pipelines and ML deployments, I’ve seen too many promising AI projects…
Big Tech’s New Pitch: Your Next Laptop Is an AI Appliance
The developer conference circuit is in full swing, and the message from Silicon Valley’s largest players is consistent: artificial intelligence will fundamentally reshape personal computing. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang drove this point home with…
Cambridge’s AI-Designed Antigen Passes First Human Trial, Promises Pandemic-Proof Vaccines
A team at the University of Cambridge has reached a milestone in vaccine development: the first human trial of a vaccine whose active ingredient was designed entirely by a computer. The results, published this week, show the AI-generated…
Beeline Cloud Rolls Out Centralized Security Hub for Russian Enterprises
At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Beeline Cloud introduced Cloud Security Center, a new service built on the SECURITM information security management platform. The offering consolidates tools for building, configuring,…
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Chip Could Finally Give Windows an Apple Silicon Moment
NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX Spark chip might be the catalyst that pushes Windows PCs into a new era of performance and efficiency—one that rivals Apple’s M-series revolution. By combining Arm CPU cores, a powerful Blackwell GPU, and up to 128GB…
How Real-Time Data and AI Are Reshaping Apparel Manufacturing
The apparel industry is caught between two eras. On one side, you have factories running on paper tickets, disconnected departments, and wasted materials. On the other, a new model where the shop floor and the executive suite share the…
Anthropic deploys AI model Mythos inside U.S. intelligence for offensive cyber operations
Anthropic, the AI company behind the powerful Mythos model, has embedded roughly six engineers with the National Security Agency to help the agency adapt the technology for offensive cyber operations, according to sources cited by the…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is building his own AI lab
Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, is done playing kingmaker in artificial intelligence. According to a Bloomberg report confirmed by TechCrunch, Chesky plans to launch his own AI lab—joining a growing list of Silicon Valley heavyweights who…
Anthropic’s IPO Filing Signals Big Bets on AI Infrastructure Demand
Anthropic’s confidential IPO filing, announced this week, underscores a central tension in the AI infrastructure market: the enormous capital required to train and serve frontier models. Co-founder Daniela Amodei, speaking at the Bloomberg…
Helion Scores $465M to Build Microsoft’s Fusion Power Plant—Skeptics Want Proof First
Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, has raised $465 million in Series G funding, bringing its valuation to $15.5 billion. The company is racing to complete Orion, its first power plant, with a goal of delivering grid-connected…
Japan’s AI Stock Surge Sparks Investor Jitters and Profit-Taking
International investors are pulling back from Japanese equities, selling nearly $2.5 billion in shares during the week ending May 29, according to Bloomberg, citing Japan Exchange Group data. The sell-off comes as the Nikkei 225 breached…
Who’s actually walking the AI walk? A new index names the S&P 500 leaders
Every company talks about artificial intelligence. But a new study from the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute (AIDE) reveals a wide gap between those simply mentioning AI and those actively weaving it into their operations. The AIDE Index,…
Trump’s AI Safety Order Faces a Credibility Gap: The Teams to Execute It Were Already Cut
President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at expanding voluntary safety testing for frontier AI models. But industry observers are already questioning whether the order is more about optics than impact. The core problem?…
Seattle Hits Pause on Data Center Growth, Sending a Signal to Big Tech
Seattle is poised to become the largest U.S. city to impose a one-year freeze on new data center construction, a direct response to mounting local opposition and concerns over energy consumption. Four companies had proposed five massive…
Silicon Valley's Primary Bet Pays Off—With a Few Stumbles
California’s primary election this week delivered a mixed but largely favorable outcome for the tech industry, which poured tens of millions of dollars into races across the state. While high-profile gubernatorial candidate Matt Mahan, a…
Startup Cash Is Flowing Into Defense Tech. Not Everyone Will Survive.
Defense technology is attracting massive investor interest right now. Anduril and Mach Industries recently saw their valuations double and quadruple, respectively, while the U.S. government is pushing for a 40% increase in defense…
Alphabet’s $85B Stock Sale Signals Public Markets Are Hungry for AI
When Alphabet set out to raise $40 billion through a stock sale last week, the plan was straightforward. What happened next was anything but. The offering was so heavily oversubscribed that it pulled in $45 billion — with Berkshire…