Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw
Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw

Security teams at Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaviate, France’s interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) and the city government of Tangerang in Indonesia have each fixed the same type of flaw in their Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Independent…

San Diego sues AppLovin over explicit ads on kids’ devices, Bloomberg reports
San Diego sues AppLovin over explicit ads on kids’ devices, Bloomberg reports

San Diego County has sued AppLovin, a mobile advertising technology company. The county alleges that AppLovin bypassed parental controls to serve ads for adult dating services, alcohol, vaping and graphic sexual content in games played by children. The…

RBI chief says the next financial crisis may start with a cyberattack
RBI chief says the next financial crisis may start with a cyberattack

The next financial crisis may not start in a bank at all, India’s central bank governor has warned. Sanjay Malhotra said it could come from a war, a cyberattack or a tech failure, as Bloomberg reported. He spoke at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New…

Micron sees the memory shortage tightening into 2028 after a record quarter
Micron sees the memory shortage tightening into 2028 after a record quarter

Micron says the global memory shortage will get tighter over the next two years. The US chipmaker reported record results on Wednesday. Revenue for the quarter to 3 September rose nearly fivefold from a year earlier, to $54.23bn, the company said. Net …

Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for its chips, Reuters reports
Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for its chips, Reuters reports

Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for its AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Anthropic’s IPO prospectus. The loan could cover about a third of the $125.2bn Anthropic has committed to a five-year lease of…

Bank of England’s Bailey warns the AI boom could bring market shocks
Bank of England’s Bailey warns the AI boom could bring market shocks

AI could set off shocks in financial markets, and the UK has to be ready for them, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC on Thursday. He said the Bank is watching the money flowing into AI “very carefully”. Mitchell Labiak and Faisal Isla…

Meta tells the IRS its AI data centres are experiments, NYT reports
Meta tells the IRS its AI data centres are experiments, NYT reports

Meta tells the IRS that its AI data centres are an experiment that could fail, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That lets Meta claim a research tax credit on the AI chips it buys. The credit cut almost $4bn off its tax bill last year. Kashmir …

Oura postpones its $2.2bn IPO, citing market uncertainty
Oura postpones its $2.2bn IPO, citing market uncertainty

Oura has postponed its Nasdaq IPO, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market”. The Finnish-founded smart ring maker said so in a statement on Tuesday, a week after it launched the offering. It said it is postponing “despite strong demand”, and gave no new …

Nvidia talks to insurers about loans backed by its AI chips, FT reports
Nvidia talks to insurers about loans backed by its AI chips, FT reports

Nvidia has talked to insurers about taking on some of the risk of loans backed by its AI chips, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The talks are at an early stage and may not lead to any deals, according to the FT. TNW has not independently verif…

Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue grew 12-fold, Reuters reports
Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue grew 12-fold, Reuters reports

Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025, while its revenue grew 12-fold to nearly $4.6bn, Reuters reported on Monday. Echo Wang, who reviewed the draft filing, reported that nearly a quarter of that revenue came from just two customers. Reuters did not name them….