Sara Montes de Oca

The Pentagon has unveiled Agent Network, an agentic-AI system built with Palantir and Lumbra that aims to deliver targeting options to U.S. commanders within seconds, even as experts warn that governing autonomous AI agents at scale may prove nearly impossible.

128 DAYS AGO

Imposter scams topped FTC fraud reports for the fifth year running in 2025, with roughly 1 million reports filed and $3.5 billion in losses — part of a record $15.9 billion in total fraud reported to the agency.

130 DAYS AGO

Qualcomm unveiled its Dragonfly C1000 data center CPU with Meta as a launch customer, acquired AI software startup Modular for a reported ~$3.92 billion, and nearly doubled its 2029 non-handset revenue forecast to $40 billion, sending shares up 15%.

132 DAYS AGO

Microsoft, Europol, and international partners disrupted the Amadey and StealC malware operations under Operation Endgame, seizing 326 servers, 142 domains, and identifying over $47 million in linked cryptocurrency.

132 DAYS AGO

Germany is reportedly scrapping plans to build six F126 frigates in what would have been its largest warship commission since World War II, sending Rheinmetall shares down as much as 17.3% and dragging European defense stocks broadly lower.

132 DAYS AGO

S&P Global announced Tuesday that Alphabet will replace Verizon in the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average, with the Google parent's Class A shares set to join the index ahead of trading on Monday, June 30.

133 DAYS AGO

The NHTSA has opened a special crash investigation after a Tesla Model 3 struck a home in Katy, Texas, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila. The driver told authorities he was using Tesla's partially automated driving systems at the time.

134 DAYS AGO

Chevron and Microsoft have signed a 20-year natural gas supply agreement for Project Kilby, a planned 2.7-gigawatt data center in West Texas's Reeves County expected to begin receiving power in 2028.

134 DAYS AGO

Silicon Data has partnered with CME Group to develop the first futures contracts tied to AI computing power costs, giving companies a potential tool to hedge against GPU rental-rate volatility. The contracts are still awaiting CFTC approval.

135 DAYS AGO

A shortage of high-bandwidth memory chips is squeezing the four major hyperscalers — Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta — driving up AI infrastructure costs while memory and storage stocks surge 41% over the past month.

135 DAYS AGO

Apple's iOS 27 distributes artificial intelligence across eight features built into existing apps, including a bill-splitting tool in Apple Cash, automated password updates, and natural-language Shortcuts — with a public release expected this fall.

135 DAYS AGO

Apple's iOS 27 will bring a range of AI-powered features to iPhone this fall, including receipt-based bill splitting in Apple Cash, autonomous password updates, and smart notification grouping in the Home app — all running through Apple Intelligence.

135 DAYS AGO

Nobel Prize-winning scientist John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic, the latest departure to rock Alphabet's AI research division amid an intensifying industry-wide talent war.

136 DAYS AGO

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner has made four music datasets — containing as many as 12 million tracks and used to train AI models — fully searchable by the public, revealing that artists from Lady Gaga to Radiohead appear in AI training pipelines.

136 DAYS AGO

CISA has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-20253, a critical Splunk Enterprise flaw that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to manipulate files, and ordered federal civilian agencies to patch by Sunday under Binding Operational Directive 26-04.

136 DAYS AGO

Market intelligence platform Klue has confirmed attackers stole OAuth tokens connected to customer Salesforce environments on June 12, as the newly emerged Icarus extortion group publicly claims responsibility and the list of affected organizations continues to grow.

137 DAYS AGO

Human Rights Watch obtained Bulgarian export licensing records showing surveillance firm Circles sold phone-interception and geolocation tools to ten governments — including the UAE, Bahrain, and Azerbaijan — between 2018 and 2023, raising fresh questions about the EU's export control enforcement.

137 DAYS AGO

Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal that price increases on the company's products are "unavoidable" due to a worsening global memory shortage driven by AI chip demand, signaling the supply crunch has reached even the most insulated players in consumer hardware.

137 DAYS AGO