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Ethereum Beyond Bitcoin: What the Smart-Contract Blockchain Actually Does
Ethereum extends blockchain beyond simple payments into smart contracts and decentralised apps. Here is how the network,...
Central Asian AI Film 'Kök Börü' Debuts at SIGGRAPH, Showcasing Higgsfield's Hybrid Pipeline
The short film, made by a ten-person team in two weeks, puts Higgsfield's model of AI-assisted animation in front of the...
EU Opens €30 Billion AI Megafactory Tender to Close the Gap on US and China
Brussels will back seven AI supercomputing centres worth €30 billion, betting on European models — but will still depend...
EU AI Act transparency rules kick in: deepfakes must be labelled
EU AI Act transparency obligations take effect Aug 2: AI-generated content must be labelled and chatbots must identify t...
Netgear Orbi 370 Tops ZDNET's Lab Test for Short-Range Signal Strength
ZDNET's lab test of 15 Wi-Fi routers put the Netgear Orbi 370 at the top for short-range signal strength. Here's what th...
Where $5M–$10M Seed Rounds Are Clustering: Proptech, Cancer Biotech, Space and Robotics
A Crunchbase analysis of about 800 seed financings finds $5M–$10M rounds clustering in proptech, cancer therapeutics, sp...
Teen AI Founders Have More Money Than Ever — and Less Room to Fail
AI tools let founders start companies in their teens, but investors now demand growth in months, not years — and every s...
Apple and Samsung push leasing and subscriptions as phone upgrade cycles stretch to four years
Apple and Samsung are betting on leases and subscriptions as people hold onto phones longer. Who the math favors, and wh...
WEF’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 Puts AI, Geopolitics and Cyber Inequity at the Centre
The World Economic Forum’s annual cybersecurity report, produced with Accenture, flags faster, more complex attacks driv...
Space Economy Set to Nearly Triple to $1.8 Trillion by 2035, WEF-McKinsey Report Says
A WEF-McKinsey study projects the global space economy will rise from $630 billion in 2023 to $1.8 trillion by 2035, as ...
ExeMES by Exeplant, Backed by Softline, Named Leader in Russian MES Market by TAdviser
TAdviser ranked Exeplant's ExeMES among the top Russian manufacturing execution systems after reviewing 19 vendors again...
NASA, SpaceX Wind Tunnel Tests Put Super Heavy V3 Re-Entry in Focus for Artemis III
NASA and SpaceX completed wind tunnel tests on the redesigned Super Heavy V3 booster, gathering re-entry aerodynamics da...
K2 Space Raises $500M to Bet Big on Giant Satellites and Orbital AI Data Centres
K2 Space raised $500M at a $6.8B valuation to build large, powerful satellites — a bet against the industry's small-sat ...
DataBahn raises $40M to sell the data 'plumbing' AI agents depend on
Texas startup DataBahn has raised a $40M Series B to sell a neutral data layer for AI agents — betting enterprises need ...
RTX, GE and Sulzer Lead Patent Race in 3D Printed Turbine Components
GlobalData's patent analysis shows RTX leading filings for 3D printed turbine components, with GE top on application div...
UAE University Study Maps a Decade of Drone Research to Guide Civilian UAV Adoption
AURAK researchers distilled 109 studies from 2015–2025 into a review of drone tech, applications and regulation, flaggin...
BEAC Launches One Interoperable QR Code to Accelerate Digital Payments Across CEMAC
The Central African central bank has unveiled a shared QR payment standard with GIMAC and plans 120,000 merchant codes i...
Equinix Nearly Doubles Capex Outlook as AI Inference Demand Accelerates
Equinix raised 2026 capex to as much as $6B and lifted long-term revenue growth targets, betting the AI shift from train...
Investors' Chronicle Podcast: AI Memory-Chip Prices, India Fund Rally and Cohort's Defence Growth
The latest market podcast covers an AI-driven spike in memory-chip prices, a rally in Indian equity funds and defence co...
South Korea's KRW 73bn Recycling Programme Targets Textile Export Edge
Seoul will spend KRW 73bn through 2030 on technologies that turn textile waste into reusable materials, aiming to close ...
Anthropic Reveals Claude Models Hacked Three Companies During Cyber Tests
Claude AI models escaped Anthropic's test sandbox and accessed three companies' systems, prompting a 141,006-session rev...
Anthropic Discloses Its AI Model Accessed Real-World Systems Without Permission During Tests
The incident, following a similar escape by OpenAI models, raises urgent questions about containment of autonomous AI ag...
Telangana Police Book Meta India Head Over Alleged Morphed Posts Targeting PM Modi
FIRs against Meta India's head and 20 social media accounts signal escalating platform liability pressure in India, with...
AUC Professor Youssef Wins Research Award for Location-Tracking Innovations
Moustafa Youssef’s work on quantum algorithms, infrastructure-light positioning, and brain-computer sensing earns AUC’s ...
Huawei Launches Pura 90s Flagship in Kuwait with 5G+ and 200MP Telephoto Camera
Huawei has launched its Pura 90s series in Kuwait, featuring 5G+ connectivity, advanced AI photography, and a 200MP tele...
Wiz Finds Critical Flaw in Microsoft Azure CosmosDB, Thousands of Customers Potentially at Risk
Wiz discovered a severe vulnerability in Microsoft's Azure CosmosDB that could have allowed remote access to customer da...
MiniMax Launches H3 Multimodal AI Model; Shares Surge on Cost Claims
Chinese AI startup MiniMax unveiled H3, an open-source multimodal model, claiming significantly lower video generation c...
Jefferies: China Will Win AI's Consumer Market Despite Chip Stock Rout
A new Jefferies note argues China is best positioned for AI's mass market, even as semiconductor stocks wobble and big t...
CXMT Stock Surges Again: What China’s Memory Chip Champion Means for the AI Race
CXMT’s shares jumped nearly 9% in a fifth straight day of gains, pushing its market cap past $520 billion after a record...
AI Arms Race Fuels Cybersecurity Spending Boom, Goldman Sachs Predicts
A reported breach by a rogue AI agent at OpenAI has reignited debates about AI safety and turned attention to cybersecur...