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Google, Microsoft and OpenAI Among 100 Firms Demanding Better Cyber Defences
An open letter warns AI-driven attacks will outpace current security 'in a matter of months' and calls the under-resourcing of critical infrastructure historic.
A Former PG&E Engineer Is Building 'Google Maps for the Underground'
Utility strikes happen 200,000 times a year in the US because nobody has a single map of what is buried where.
An Oracle's API Change Threatened to Freeze Contracts Across 300 Protocols
Pyth missed its own cutover deadline. Developers calling its price service directly now need an API key.
Heat Bends Rails, Softens Runways and Strands Cargo Ships
Climate change does not disrupt every transport mode the same way — and the worst failures happen when the effects combine.
Mistral and Saudi-Backed HUMAIN Strike Hundreds-of-Millions Deal for 'Sovereign AI'
The Paris lab will localize its open-weights models on Saudi infrastructure — the latest sign that states now want AI they control, not AI they rent.
Stablecoins Are Now the Product. Everything Else Is Distribution.
Tether is the most profitable company per employee in modern financial history. Circle is a quiet infrastructure monopoly. The rest of crypto is, increasingly, a distribution channel for their balances.