Five Eyes alliance warns frontier AI cyber threats are ‘months’ away
Five Eyes alliance warns frontier AI cyber threats are ‘months’ away

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint warning that the next generation of artificial intelligence is poised to supercharge offensive hacking, and that the window to prepare for it is closing fast. In a coordinated statement, the agenci…

IBM joins OpenAI’s cyber program to bring frontier AI into enterprise security
IBM joins OpenAI’s cyber program to bring frontier AI into enterprise security

IBM has signed up to OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, a tie-up the company says will put frontier AI models to work inside corporate security operations. The partnership comes with a concrete first product: a new application-security service th…

Oracle’s workforce shrank by about 13% as it bankrolls its AI buildout
Oracle’s workforce shrank by about 13% as it bankrolls its AI buildout

Oracle ended its 2026 fiscal year with about 21,000 fewer employees than it started with, a reduction of roughly 13% that ranks among the deepest in the company’s history. The figure, disclosed in the company’s annual filing, puts a number on a process…

SpaceX shares slide again as the post-IPO rally keeps unwinding
SpaceX shares slide again as the post-IPO rally keeps unwinding

SpaceX shares looked poised to fall again as US markets reopened after the long weekend, extending a slide that has already erased much of the euphoria from the largest stock-market debut in history. The stock closed last week around $185, down roughly…

The Bank of England backs down on its toughest stablecoin rules
The Bank of England backs down on its toughest stablecoin rules

When the Bank of England first sketched out how it would regulate stablecoins, the industry read the draft and recoiled. Caps on how much any one person could hold, conservative rules on what the coins could be backed by: critics said the regime would …

Korea’s policy chief warns chip windfall could inflate housing
Korea’s policy chief warns chip windfall could inflate housing

A semiconductor boom is a fine problem for a country to have, until you start asking where the money goes. That is roughly the question South Korea’s top economic policymaker put to the public this week. Kim Yong-beom, who heads policy planning in the …

WeChat begins testing Xiaowei as Tencent eyes a Q3 AI rollout
WeChat begins testing Xiaowei as Tencent eyes a Q3 AI rollout

WeChat is the rare app that already does almost everything. Chinese users message, pay, book, shop, and summon a taxi without ever leaving it, which is exactly what makes Tencent’s next move interesting: rather than build a separate chatbot and fight f…

SK Hynix overtakes Samsung as Korea’s most valuable company
SK Hynix overtakes Samsung as Korea’s most valuable company

For a quarter of a century, the most valuable company in South Korea was Samsung Electronics, and the question was never really open. On Wednesday it became open, and then it closed the other way. SK Hynix, the smaller of the country’s two memory-chip …

AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.
AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.

The videos are everywhere, and the offer is always the same. Let AI do your homework, and you will not get caught. According to a New York Times investigation, TikTok and YouTube are now full of tutorials selling students two kinds of tool. Humanisers …

Turkey clears Uber’s acquisition of Getir’s delivery business
Turkey clears Uber’s acquisition of Getir’s delivery business

Uber has cleared the last regulatory hurdle to buying Getir’s delivery business in Turkey. The country’s Competition Board approved the US company’s acquisition of the delivery arm from Getir’s Emirati controlling shareholder, Mubadala, on Friday, endi…