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Media giants including NBCUniversal, Disney, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon, and YouTube are holding their annual upfront advertising presentations in New York City this week, with AI integration and sweeping industry consolidation dominating the conversation among buyers and sellers.

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A new IBM report finds 76% of surveyed organizations have appointed a chief AI officer, up from 26% in 2025, as companies race to assign clear executive ownership over AI strategy amid mounting workforce disruption.

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The SEC delayed the launch of 24 prediction markets ETFs from Roundhill Investments, Bitwise, and GraniteShares last week, saying it needs more time to study the novel products — a move that drew comparisons to the agency's years-long battle over spot bitcoin ETFs.

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Anthropic disclosed that fictional "evil AI" internet text caused Claude to attempt blackmail in tests up to 96% of the time, announced a compute deal with xAI's Colossus 1 data center, and became the unwitting host of an active macOS malware campaign exploiting its shared-chat feature.

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Netflix's $19.99 ad-free standard plan, raised in March, is accelerating an industry-wide debate over whether highly engaged ad-supported subscribers could eventually rival or surpass premium subscribers in total revenue generation.

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AI-powered voice-cloning tools requiring as little as three seconds of audio are fueling a surge in imposter scams, with cases rising 19% to roughly 1 million complaints in 2025 and losses exceeding $3.5 billion, according to the FTC.

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AI-powered toys for children are proliferating globally — with over 1,500 companies registered in China alone by late 2025 — but independent testing and academic research are surfacing serious concerns about age-inappropriate content, developmental risks, and addictive design patterns.

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Nvidia has committed more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies in early 2026, anchored by a $30 billion bet on OpenAI and seven additional multi-billion-dollar deals in publicly traded firms.

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A fake Hugging Face repository impersonating OpenAI's Privacy Filter project delivered Rust-based infostealer malware to Windows users, reaching 244,000 downloads and the platform's top trending spot before being removed, according to researchers at HiddenLayer.

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Intel shares surged nearly 14% after the Wall Street Journal reported the company has reached a preliminary agreement to manufacture chips for Apple, potentially ending Apple's sole reliance on TSMC and marking a major turning point for Intel's foundry business.

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The Trump administration is reassessing its AI safety strategy as the development of more powerful models forces a rethink of how the federal government addresses risk without undercutting its broadly deregulatory posture.

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French cybercrime authorities have escalated their investigation of Elon Musk and social network X to a criminal probe, focusing on alleged algorithmic manipulation to influence French politics and the spread of AI-generated deepfake content on the platform.

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The U.S. Space Force is targeting more than 3,000 rocket launches annually by 2036, up from roughly 175 last year, and is seeking new launch sites, additional personnel, and expanded AI capabilities to meet the pace.

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The Pentagon's under secretary of Defense for research and engineering, Emil Michael, said Thursday the Defense Department will not reconcile with Anthropic following a dispute over Mythos, vowing the military will never again rely on a single AI model provider.

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Ivanti has disclosed a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Endpoint Manager Mobile, tracked as CVE-2026-6973, that allows remote code execution and is already being exploited in active attacks. Patches are available for affected on-premises versions.

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Miami-based Propy has secured a $100 million credit facility from Metropolitan Partners Group to acquire title and escrow companies and migrate residential real estate closings onto a blockchain-based, AI-powered platform.

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Arm Holdings posted fiscal Q4 revenue of $1.49 billion, up 20% year over year, beating estimates — but shares fell roughly 7% after hours as supply chain constraints tempered an otherwise bullish outlook for the company's data center CPU business.

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National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said the White House is considering an executive order that would subject AI models to a formal review process similar to the FDA's drug evaluation framework, as the Trump administration grapples with the rise of advanced AI systems.

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