Wed 27 May 2026
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ECB Warns on AI Credit, Microsoft Finds Humans Cheaper, and Chile Faces Drought Costs
TL;DR The ECB has raised concerns about the financial risks posed by AI-driven private credit markets. Microsoft and Uber have found AI deployment more costly than human labor, challenging the narrative of AI-driven productivity gains. Alphabet-backed OpenRouter raised $113 million to support AI model exchanges. Meanwhile, Chile's datacenter expansion is exacerbating its mega-drought, highlighting the environmental costs of AI infrastructure.
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AI tools lead to ‘clear racial disparities’ in job hiring
New Stanford-led study finds candidates that fail AI-hiring tests face ‘systemic rejection’ across companies
OpenRouter, an Exchange for A.I. Models, Raises $113 Million
An investment arm of Alphabet is backing OpenRouter, which helps companies choose among hundreds of models for different software tasks.
AI and the brave new world of deals
Global M&A is now dominated by the race to control the world’s energy, fibre networks and compute
In AI Infrastructure, the Offtake Agreement Is the Asset
Committed Demand as the Primary Credit Variable, Counterparty Quality Over Real Estate, Compute Factory Underwriting from First Principles, What CoreWeave's Microsoft Contract Actually Is
‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought
The country is positioning itself as Latin America’s next technology hub, but communities are pushing back The Andes mountains frame what was once a wetland – now a stretch of dry, yellowed grass. Rodrigo Vallejos, a final-year law student, noticed the change five years ago while observing the Quilicura wetland, on the northern outskirts of Santiago. One of Chile’s largest swamps, spanning 468.4 hectares (about 1,200 acres) and partially protected, was drying up right before his eyes. “What you see here is a wetland without water,” says Vallejos, who has investigated the causes alongside activists from the group Resistencia Socioambiental de Quilicura. “I discovered that Quilicura is home to the largest concentration of datacentres in Latin America.” Continue reading...
UK law firm Pinsent Masons reprimanded by court over AI error
Judge Mark Mullen warns lawyers against outsourcing legal research or reasoning
Economics & Markets
Chipmaker ETF rides AI excitement to quickest $10bn valuation on record
Roundhill Memory ETF, known as DRAM, surges 87% within 50 days of April launch
Micron joins $1 trillion club as AI race powers memory chip boom | Reuters
While Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab makes the powerful processors used to train and run AI models, Micron mainly produces memory chips used to store and move data. The company's ascent gives the U.S.
S&P 500 hits record closing high on AI optimism, Micron joins $1 trillion club | Reuters
equities higher despite the ongoing conflict with Iran, with investors now turning their attention to IPOs of some of the largest private AI companies, including SpaceX (SPCX.O), opens new tab.
Hedge funds are AImaxxing
Software is out, semis are in
Corporate Treasuries' AI Investment Surges Despite Low ROI | Global Finance Magazine
Despite low initial ROI, corporate treasuries are ramping up AI investments. Discover why workflow debt is holding back finance departments.
In AI Infrastructure, the Offtake Agreement Is the Asset
Committed Demand as the Primary Credit Variable, Counterparty Quality Over Real Estate, Compute Factory Underwriting from First Principles, What CoreWeave's Microsoft Contract Actually Is
India vs Taiwan: How Taiwan Overtook India As World’s Fifth Largest Stock Market
That’s a sign of a broader market ... money at AI infrastructure, semiconductors and tech supply chains at breakneck speed. India still has deeper domestic growth drivers, a much larger economy and a wider investor base. But right now, global capital is making one point clear — by 2026, artificial intelligence will be shaping market leadership as much as economic growth. Also Read: Wall Street Today: Futures Jump After Holiday Break; Tech Strength, Calm Geopolitics, Falling Oil ...
Nandan Nilekani's Fundamentum launches F2A with Rs 3,000 Cr corpus
F2A has also brought in Debraj Banerjee, a former SIDBI Venture Capital executive, as a general partner to help lead its AI and deeptech investment strategy. Before joining F2A, he was a senior fund manager and investment committee member at SIDBI Venture Capital. He has invested in startups like ...
TMV's $200M Fund Targets Maritime Innovation to Tackle Global Shipping Challenges
TMV has unveiled a $200 million venture fund dedicated to advancing maritime infrastructure and logistics technologies to modernize global supply chains.
On-Device AI Market Size to Hit USD 185.23 Billion by 2035 | Research by SNS Insider
The US On-device Artificial Intelligence Market reached USD 4.88 billion in 2025 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 26.32% up to USD 50.43 billion during...
Building Competitive Advantages with AI Systems: Insights from McKinsey, ETEnterpriseai
As AI adoption surges, McKinsey's latest report emphasizes the importance of developing unique, hard-to-replicate AI systems for sustaining competitive advantages in business.
In AI, Bigger Firms Mean Faster Progress | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Large firms are not slowing AI; naïve regulatory policies do.
The end of the internet's golden age
Google's overhaul of its search bar marks a shift away from the traditional blue-link experience toward an AI-driven model that prioritizes zero-click answers.
Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows
Britain's 'free' internet economy is powered by invisible data extraction that feeds advertisers, AI firms, and digital platforms.
Opinion: AI transforming how tenders are written but not how they’re evaluated
AI is changing how tenders are written but not how they're evaluated in Ireland. That gap is becoming a problem, says BidReview.ai founder Tony Corrigan. Read more: Opinion: AI transforming how tenders are written but not how they’re evaluated
UBS’s Khan Says AI Will Have ‘Ramifications’ on Jobs - Bloomberg
UBS Group AG’s Asia Pacific President Iqbal Khan said artificial intelligence will free up capacity and improve productivity but also have an impact on jobs.
OpenRouter, an Exchange for A.I. Models, Raises $113 Million
An investment arm of Alphabet is backing OpenRouter, which helps companies choose among hundreds of models for different software tasks.
ByteDance offers AI team special stock to fend off poaching
TikTok owner issues shares tied to AI business unit as China’s tech talent war heats up
Meet the top 10 European startups powering the agentic AI boom
Agentic AI is quickly becoming one of the most active areas of Europe’s AI landscape. Unlike traditional AI tools that mainly generate text, images or summaries, agentic AI systems are designed to take action. They can plan tasks, use tools, follow instructions, analyse results and adapt their next steps, making them useful for real business […]
Constructor Group | Constructor Group selects Singapore for new global AI and quantum headquarters, creating 200+ high-skilled roles
The country is also continuing to strengthen its AI and deep tech ecosystem under National AI Strategy 2.0, supported by sustained investments in infrastructure, research, and talent development. Singapore has become an important regional base for many leading technology companies, including ...
Labor, Society & Culture
OpenAI's Altman says AI unlikely to lead to 'jobs apocalypse' | Reuters
SYDNEY, May 26 (Reuters) - Open AI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday the rapid development and adoption of AI would not lead to a global "jobs apocalypse" and the technology had not claimed as many white-collar jobs as he had feared.
AI tools lead to ‘clear racial disparities’ in job hiring
New Stanford-led study finds candidates that fail AI-hiring tests face ‘systemic rejection’ across companies
Reuters AI News | Latest Headlines and Developments | Reuters
Fears are growing among workers as banks offer more frank assessments about how AI could replace their jobs.
The Download: puncturing the AI jobs panic
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria Despite the growing hysteria over AI’s threat to white-collar jobs, there’s still scant evidence that the technology has had a large-scale impact on…
AI is ‘going to break down millions of careers,’ Gartner analyst says | HR Dive
Organizations need to rethink how employees gain expertise, or they will find themselves without talent for the jobs artificial intelligence helps create, the analyst said.
Southeast Asia’s AI boom leaves 40 million gig workers exposed - UPI.com
Southeast Asia is emerging as a major beneficiary of the global AI race led by the U.S. and China, but analysts warn that gig economy workers exposed
AI job losses are increasing. Are training programs the answer?
From Atlanta Technical College to statewide data, Georgia faces AI-driven job losses even as training expands. Experts question if skills equal jobs.
How Leaders Are Automating Away Their Own Future Talent
Leaders cutting entry-level roles for short-term AI efficiency are building a talent gap that will hollow out their senior bench within a decade.
‘2045 Strategy’ to address youth employment·polarization in the AI era···Securing funding is key - 경향신문
The government has begun formulating a national development strategy that sets out a future vision ahead of the 100th anniversary of Liberation in 2045. Youth employment challenges arising from the...
The new rules for getting hired in an AI-driven job market | Lexington Herald Leader
Toptal reports that AI is reshaping the job market, especially impacting entry-level positions.
$7.2 billion AI CEO gets thousands of job applications a day but still can’t find candidates with a strong work ethic
Millions of Gen Z grads can't find jobs. This AI boss can't find candidates. And the one skill he's looking for has nothing to do with your degree.
The Deep Shift: A Comprehensive Roadmap of AI Capabilities and Labor Market Realignment (2026–2036)
The Deep Shift: A Comprehensive ... and Labor Market Realignment (2026–2036) ... (STL.News) The arrival of generative artificial intelligence sparked a global rush toward digital transformation. However, looking out toward the next decade reveals a fundamental shift. We are transitioning from a period of assisted productivity—where humans ...
Nbcpalmsprings
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming workplaces across industries, raising concerns about what it could mean for jobs — especially for recent graduates entering an already challenging labor market. Business leaders have increasingly warned that AI could lead to cuts in entry-level ...
FROM THE GRCA: Looking at some workforce trends for 2026
Organizations that embrace innovation, invest in their employees and remain adaptable will be better positioned for long-term success in an increasingly competitive labor market.
91% of College Grads Used AI in 2026 - #134
Today’s article is from the Yale Daily News. Their senior survey for the class of 2026 came back with ninety-one percent of seniors saying they’ve used AI for schoolwork. That isn’t a usage stat anymore. That’s saturation.
Inside The Government’s Big Bet On Coordinating AI Workforce Readiness
A new federal initiative led by the U.S. National Science Foundation aims to stand up AI education and literacy coordination hubs in each U.S. state and territory.
Technology & Infrastructure
Stop Using LLMs Like Giant Problem Solvers
How I turned 100 messy pdfs into structured insights by building a deterministic loop around agents.
How to Build Useful AI Agents for Business Workflows: 7 Patterns Beyond Chatbots
Useful AI agents for business workflows do more than answer questions. They take a goal, gather context, use tools, prepare the next step, and hand work back to a human when judgment matters.
‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought
The country is positioning itself as Latin America’s next technology hub, but communities are pushing back The Andes mountains frame what was once a wetland – now a stretch of dry, yellowed grass. Rodrigo Vallejos, a final-year law student, noticed the change five years ago while observing the Quilicura wetland, on the northern outskirts of Santiago. One of Chile’s largest swamps, spanning 468.4 hectares (about 1,200 acres) and partially protected, was drying up right before his eyes. “What you see here is a wetland without water,” says Vallejos, who has investigated the causes alongside activists from the group Resistencia Socioambiental de Quilicura. “I discovered that Quilicura is home to the largest concentration of datacentres in Latin America.” Continue reading...
Data centers need a lot of energy. Some turn to fossil fuels for power
Here's what we know about how fossil fuels will power Indiana's data center boom.
AI and the brave new world of deals
Global M&A is now dominated by the race to control the world’s energy, fibre networks and compute
AI infrastructure spending lifts Taiwan electronics sector outlook
Cloud providers' large-scale investments in AI infrastructure have strengthened demand for Taiwan's electronics supply chain, boosting optimism among local manufacturers, according to a Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER) survey. The survey noted that nearly 40% of Taiwan's electronics ...
SMCI stock rallies 6% after strong AI server demand drives 100% sales surge - ECIKS.org
The broader sector faces the question: can SMCI maintain its specialization advantage as AI server market competition intensifies? Emerging rivals include Chinese custom server vendors and OEM in-house teams at Amazon and Google. Over the next 24-36 months, industry consolidation is likely, ...
Air-cooled AI infrastructure in demand in agentic era - SiliconANGLE
AMD and Dell say rising agentic AI workloads are increasing demand for CPUs and accelerating enterprise adoption of air-cooled AI infrastructure.
Cisco making SONiC available to all customers – not just hyperscalers
Hardened version of open-source NOS coming to Nexus 9000s
AI Infrastructure Boom: Demand Surges as Costs Collapse | StartupHub.ai
ARK Investment Management's "Big Ideas 2026" report details the AI infrastructure boom, with demand surging and costs collapsing, driving massive investment.
Pentagon Seeks Nearly $30B for AI Supercomputing Modernization
The Pentagon has requested $29.5 billion in FY 2027 funding to build secure AI data centers and deploy advanced GPUs and AI supercomputers.
2026 Cloud Security Report: Why Traditional Network, Cloud, and Security Architecture Are Lagging Behind the AI Transformation - Check Point Blog
As AI rapidly reshapes industries, the role of the cloud has become even more critical. From automated customer experiences to intelligent cyber security
Cerebras CEO says AI 'as an industry' has done a terrible job of selling data centers: 'We ought to pay our own way
"There's no reason why we can't add these to communities and have the community benefit from it," Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said.
Equinix opens MD5 data center in Madrid, Spain
Equinix has officially opened MD5, its new data center located in the Alcobendas area of Madrid, Spain. The colo firm this week held an official ceremony attended by the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso; the Regional Minister for Digitalization, Miguel López-Valverde; the Regional Minister for the Economy, Rocío Albert; and the […]
Why AI Infrastructure Downtime Is No Longer the Biggest Risk in 2026 | Blogs
Organizations reevaluating long-term ... Infrastructure Correctly in 2026, and Why AI Inference Performance Degrades Over Time because organizations increasingly recognize that infrastructure quality involves much more than maximum theoretical compute performance....
Why Is Digital Risk Protection Becoming a Business Priority in the AI Era? - Market Research - Global Risk Community
Organizations today operate in an environment where cyber threats extend far beyond traditional networks. Brand impersonation, phishing campaigns, data leaks, exposed credentials, and malicious activity on the dark web can damage business operations and customer trust within hours.
The attack dominating financial services doesn't steal passwords. It resets MFA and steals the token.
The attacker who hit the most financial services organizations over the past 12 months never phished a password. They called an IT support line, convinced an employee to reset their MFA, and registered their own device on the network. CrowdStrike’s 2026 Financial Services Threat Landscape Report, released this month and covering activity from April 2025 through March 2026, identified Mutant Spider as the single most active threat to the financial services sector. The group’s primary technique was voice phishing over Microsoft Teams. Operators impersonated internal IT support, convinced employees to reset their credentials and multifactor authentication, then registered their own devices on corporate networks. The security control worked exactly as designed — and that was the problem. Within days, the FBI published a public service announcement warning about Kali365, a phishing-as-a-service platform sold on Telegram for as little as $250 a month. Kali365 captures Microsoft 365 OAuth tokens through the legitimate device code authentication flow. MFA fires on the victim’s device, not the attacker’s. The token grants persistent access to Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive without triggering another MFA prompt. The Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, also released in May, confirmed that credential theft dropped to 13% of breach initial access vectors. Vulnerability exploitation took the top position at 31%, displacing what Verizon called the longtime leading initial-access category. That's three independent sources, same structural finding. MFA protects password-based authentication, but the attacks dominating financial services increasingly bypass password theft through resets, token grants, and exploitation. The MFA Bypass Exposure Audit Grid at the end of this article maps all five confirmed attack surfaces from the CrowdStrike, FBI, and Verizon reports, what MFA misses on each one, and the specific fix for Monday morning. The CrowdStrike numbers paint a sector under sustained pressure Financial services ranked as the fourth most targeted sector by Q1 2026, accounting for 12% of all observed adversary activity, according to the CrowdStrike report. Globally, financial institutions faced 43% more hands-on-keyboard intrusions in 2025 compared to two years earlier. In North America, that figure was 48%. The e-crime side of the problem grew faster than most defenders expected. Big game hunting operators named 423 financial services entities on dedicated leak sites during the reporting period. That is a 27% increase from the 334 entities named in the prior 12 months. REVENANT SPIDER, which operates the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service program, posted the most financial services victims of any e-crime adversary on its dedicated leak site. The group’s financial services victim count jumped from 14 to 97 over the reporting period. “Who needs a zero day if all you have to do is call the help desk and say, 'I forgot my password'?” Adam Meyers, senior vice president of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike, told VentureBeat. That one sentence captures the structural shift his team documented across twelve months of financial services intrusions. The interactive intrusion breakdown tells the story of who is actually getting inside these networks. E-crime actors drove 75% of hands-on-keyboard intrusions against financial services. State-sponsored adversaries accounted for the remaining 25%. That ratio has not moved since 2023. What changed is the total volume and the sophistication of the access techniques. Mutant Spider’s vishing campaigns over Microsoft Teams represent a structural shift in initial access. The group impersonates IT support, manipulates employees into resetting MFA, then deploys custom post-access tools including PrionFlaire, SocksLoader, and SleepyMutagen. CrowdStrike believes the group sells that access to ransomware operators. The Teams call is step one. The ransom note is step five. “Who needs a zero day if all you have to do is call the help desk and say, 'I forgot my password'?” Scattered Spider returned to aggressive ransomware operations against insurance companies from April through July 2025, following a significant operational pause that began in December 2024. The group ran the same playbook it has used since 2022: help desk social engineering; credential and MFA reset requests; then lateral movement through integrated SaaS applications to locate data for extortion. In September 2025, the U.K.’s National Crime Agency arrested and charged two members for allegedly targeting Transport for London. The U.S. Department of Justice separately charged one of them in connection with multiple cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure. State-sponsored groups added scale and speed The report’s state-sponsored findings reinforce the identity problem from a different direction. DPRK-nexus adversaries stole $2.02 billion in digital assets in 2025, a 51% increase from the prior year. In February 2025, Pressure Chollima executed the largest single theft ever reported, stealing $1.46 billion in cryptocurrency by compromising Safe{Wallet}, a digital asset management platform supporting the Bybit exchange, after a developer’s machine was infected through a trojanized Python project. China-nexus groups conducted sustained campaigns against financial institutions across multiple continents. Hollow Panda exploited Check Point VPN appliances to target banks in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Brazil. Vault Panda gained initial access through compromised VPN and firewall appliances across four continents. Every state-sponsored campaign CrowdStrike documented shared a common thread. The adversary’s first move targeted an identity, a credential, or a trusted access path. Elia Zaitsev, CrowdStrike’s CTO, told VentureBeat in April that the speed of these operations is outpacing traditional defense models. “Traditional approaches are just not designed for this sort of behavior,” Zaitsev said. Kali365 turns token theft into a subscription service The FBI’s May 21 public service announcement on Kali365 confirmed the second attack path that makes this a compound problem. The platform exploits Microsoft’s OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant flow, a mechanism designed for devices like smart TVs and conference room systems that cannot support interactive login. Kali365 sends phishing emails impersonating trusted services like Adobe Acrobat Sign, DocuSign, and SharePoint. The email contains a device code and instructions to visit a legitimate Microsoft verification page. The victim authenticates normally. MFA fires. The token goes to the attacker. Arctic Wolf, which published a technical deep dive on Kali365 in April, documented a three-tier commercial structure. An admin tier for the developers, an agent tier for resellers, and a client tier for paying affiliates. Subscription pricing runs from $250 for 30 days to $2,000 for a year. The platform supports 14 languages and includes AI-generated phishing lures, automated campaign templates, and a real-time tracking dashboard. The device code flow is not a vulnerability. It is a feature. Microsoft designed it for devices that cannot support interactive login. The problem is that default Entra ID configurations do not restrict its use, and most organizations have never audited whether any legitimate workflow actually requires it. Kali365 exploits that gap between design intent and deployment reality. The Verizon DBIR reinforced that assessment from a different angle. The 2026 edition analyzed more than 22,000 confirmed breaches across 145 countries. Vulnerability exploitation at 31% now leads credential abuse at 13%. The median time for full patching increased to 43 days, up from 32. Organizations patched only 26% of critical flaws in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, down from 38% the prior year. That data creates a clear picture. The industry has spent two decades building defenses against credential theft. The attacks that are actually working in financial services either remove MFA through social engineering or capture tokens through legitimate authentication flows where MFA does not protect the attacker’s session. MFA Bypass Exposure Audit Grid Security directors need to run this audit against their environment this week. Each row represents a confirmed attack path from the three reports above. Attack Surface Confirmed Event What MFA Misses Action Teams vishing/help desk MFA reset Most active FS attacker called employees on Teams, got MFA reset, registered own device (CrowdStrike) Help desk verifies caller identity without out-of-band confirmation. Social engineering removes MFA entirely. Out-of-band verification for all MFA resets. FIDO2 hardware keys. Callback on a separate channel. OAuth device code flow $250/mo tool captures M365 tokens via devicelogin page. MFA does not fire on attacker’s device. (FBI) Not restricted in default Entra ID configurations. Authentication channel separates user’s MFA challenge from attacker’s token grant. Restrict device code flow in Entra ID conditional access. Block unmanaged devices. Token persistence Both paths end here. Valid tokens can grant weeks or months of silent access depending on token lifetime configuration. (CrowdStrike + FBI) Traditional credential-theft monitoring does not flag token-based access. Tokens are credential-equivalent bearer artifacts, but most detection tools do not classify them that way. Monitor OAuth refresh token usage from unfamiliar devices. Token lifetime policies. Post-access SaaS movement After reset, attackers pivoted to SaaS apps for credentials and docs. (CrowdStrike, insurance sector) DLP monitors file downloads, not post-reset session activity or token-based API calls from authorized sessions. Audit Graph API access. Flag bulk ops from reset or device-code sessions. Budget misalignment Credential theft at 13%. Vuln exploitation at 31%. (Verizon DBIR) Patch reverse-engineering within 72 hours. (Ivanti) Legacy, login-only MFA investment addresses the threat that just dropped to third. Token capture and social engineering sit outside that investment. Rebalance toward token monitoring, session validation, identity verification for resets. Mike Riemer, SVP and field CISO at Ivanti, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview that the speed problem compounds the budget misalignment. “Threat actors are reverse engineering patches, and the speed at which they’re doing it has been enhanced greatly by AI,” Riemer said. “They’re able to reverse engineer a patch within 72 hours. If I release a patch and a customer doesn’t patch within 72 hours of that release, they’re open to exploit.” The structural problem is clear “People are forgetting about runtime security,” Zaitsev said. “We’ve done this before, with endpoint and virtualization and cloud. People really focused on, hey, let’s patch all the vulnerabilities. Impossible. Let’s make sure we lo ck down all the permissions. Somehow always seem to miss something.” The attackers who matter most in financial services right now are not stealing passwords. They are calling help desks. They are exploiting legitimate authentication flows. They are capturing tokens that persist for months. The defenses that consumed the largest share of security budgets for the past decade are pointed at a threat that just dropped to third place. The fix is not adding another layer of MFA — Zaitsev and Riemer both said as much. It's rethinking what MFA actually protects, what it doesn't, and where the budget needs to go next.
Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust
Unsafe bits get a warning label in planned low-level coding shake-up.
Ransomware Attacks on Automotive and Smart Mobility More Than Doubled in 2025, According to New Research by Upstream Security | The Manila Times
Upstream's report finds that the rapid adoption of Physical AI, with autonomous vehicles among the first production-ready systems in real-world operation, is expanding attack surfaces and accelerating attacker capabilities, creating large-scale cyber risks with massive impact potential.
CERT-In Recommends 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks
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Study of 34 AI models finds biggest risks in privacy and fraud
TELUS (NYSE:TU) released its April 2026 GenAI Safety Model Benchmark, based on over 620,000 adversarial tests across 34 AI models from 10 global providers. Vulnerability rates ranged from 1.3% to 93%, underscoring that no model is fully immune. The study finds reasoning models are hardest to exploit, smaller models most vulnerable, and privacy, fraud and cybersecurity ...
Gambit Says Speed of AI-Powered Cyberattacks Drives Need for Cyber Resilience | PYMNTS.com
Recent cyberattacks by a persona linked to Iran reportedly demonstrate the speed with which AI-enhanced attacks can be carried out.
AI Attacks Are No Longer Experimental: Key Findings from the March-April 2026 AI Threat Landscape
Check Point report reveals rise in AI-powered cyberattacks, exposing risks to government agencies, enterprises, AI tools, and cloud security systems. Technology For SMEs | Cybersecurity
e& Cyber Security Council and Open Innovation AI Collaboration | WebWire
The UAE Cyber Security Council (CSC), e& UAE, and Open Innovation AI (OI) launched the UAE Sovereign AI Platform for national-scale infrastructure, an initiative delivering secure AI capabilities across national security, mission-critical operations, critical infrastructure, and classified ...
Cybersecurity Roundup: Partnerships, Funding, and Emerging Threats — May 26, 2026 | CISA, Securonix, GRAMAX Cybertech, TELUS Digital, Upstream Security, and Autonomous Patching
Home » Blog » Cybersecurity Roundup: Partnerships, Funding, and Emerging Threats — May 26, 2026 | CISA, Securonix, GRAMAX Cybertech, TELUS Digital, Upstream Security, and Autonomous Patching ... The latest headlines point in one direction: AI is speeding up both attacks and defenses, critical-infrastructure operators are relying more on managed cyber defense partnerships, enterprise buyers are demanding clearer AI safety ...
Adoption, Deployment & Impact
UK law firm Pinsent Masons reprimanded by court over AI error
Judge Mark Mullen warns lawyers against outsourcing legal research or reasoning
Beware of “trophy-style” AI adoption - Fast Company
Companies are celebrating AI usage for its own sake, but activity isn't the same as impact.
From AI insight to business outcomes: What enterprises need to move beyond the “Chat Phase” | TechRadar
Moving enterprise AI from conversations to coordinated execution
Proving the case on day two at TechEx North America – Michael Brian Cotter
The AI and Big Data programme on day two of TechEx North America referred at least once to the “AI graveyard,” meaning the large number of pilots that never become durable systems. That phrase set the tone. The question was proof. The Enterprise AI Implementation, ROI and Adoption track ...
One in five workers say AI has replaced parts of their job
Staff are changing how work is done with artificial intelligence tools, often outside company systems and without clear oversight.
AI Health Check: No Governance, No Trust - MedCity News
Will doctors or patients who are burned by one AI solution trust the next one they’re given? Probably not. That’s why every provider rolling out AI tools has to understand this risk and build governance into its development process.
Nearly 500 New York Small Businesses Back Moratorium Push on AI Data Centers - Business2Community
Nearly 500 small business owners across New York have signed a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul and the state…
The Domain Shift: Moving Data Governance from Product Triage to Infrastructure Investment
How shifting the operational focus from isolated data products to systemic domain architecture resolves technical bottlenecks.
AI is putting European data governance under pressure - BetaNews
New research from Netskope Threat Labs’ 2026 Europe Report finds that AI is becoming harder for security teams to govern as it moves beyond standalone tools
Geopolitics, Policy & Governance
Gulf States Double Down on Sovereign AI as Cyber Threats Escalate: How the UAE Is Securing Critical National Infrastructure
UAE’s focus shifts from AI adoption to securing national digital control
China pushes homegrown AI stack with local chips, LLMs
Following the conclusion of the Trump-Xi meeting and amid continued delays in China approving imports of Nvidia H20 GPUs, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on May 22 sent a strong policy signal on artificial intelligence (AI) self-sufficiency, explicitly calling for ...
ISM 1.0 gave India a seat at the chip table. ISM 2.0 will decide if it stays there - BusinessToday
Chandak added that the next phase must also strengthen India’s design-led semiconductor ecosystem through expansion of DLI support, fabless semiconductor startups, indigenous IP creation, AI hardware innovation and product engineering.
Cerebras
We began working together under ... AI compute to the Middle East. That collaboration expanded into Condor Galaxy in 2023, and the original Jais family was trained on infrastructure we built with G42. By the time JAIS 2 arrived, the partnership had evolved into an end-to-end sovereign AI workflow: train locally relevant models, release them openly, and serve them in production at high speed. In February 2026, G42 announced ...
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
The Dutch government has intervened to block the acquisition of a critical digital infrastructure supplier by a US firm.
AI assurance emerges as the operational backbone of AI governance
AI assurance is becoming a key operational layer for governing autonomous AI systems, with experts emphasizing continuous testing and independent verification for agentic AI in live environments.
US judges stay true to ‘substantial similarity’ test in weighing AI output claims
US judges continue to require copyright owners to plausibly allege substantial similarity to sustain claims against AI outputs, a trend favoring defendants in copyright litigation.
Australian Senate inquiry into AI, data centers taking submissions
An Australian Senate committee is seeking public input on whether current regulations are keeping pace with the rapid growth of data centers and their environmental impacts.
GEMA, Suno copyright ruling postponed by Munich court to July 31
A ruling in German music rights body GEMA's lawsuit against Suno has been postponed by the Munich Regional Court to July 31.
UK, Australia announce AI security partnership
UK and Australian AI risks will be scrutinized together under a new partnership between the two countries' AI safety institutes.
The permission paradox: Who controls AI as governments scale adoption? - TNGlobal
As AI becomes more integrated into the citizen journey, the focus is extending beyond deployment toward accountability, orchestration, and trust. The next phase of digital government will depend on how effectively agencies connect data, content, and service delivery across increasingly autonomous ...
State AI Law Updates - American Society of Employers -...
As the federal government is pursuing a more laissez-faire approach to AI regulation, the states are picking up the slack. The two most recent states with AI regulations are Colorado and Connecticut. Colorado On May 17, 2024, Colorado’s governor signed the Artificial Intelligence Act, Senate ...
Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
Spain has blocked access to prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi, citing a lack of required gambling licenses.
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