China's Open-Source AI Sprint: Four Labs Drop Frontier Coding Models in 12 Days, Closing Gap With Western AI
Four Chinese AI labs — Z.ai, MiniMax, Moonshot, and DeepSeek — released open-weights coding models within 12 days, each...
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ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers Chart Unified Cross-Border Payment Future as Tokenisation Emerges as Next Frontier
The 29th ASEAN+3 finance ministers' meeting backed building on local currency payment systems and pursuing tokenisation,...
GitHub Enterprise Server Flaw CVE-2026-3854 Lets Users With Push Access Execute Code — Patch Now
CVE-2026-3854, a high-severity flaw in GitHub Enterprise Server (CVSS 8.7), let any user with push access run code on th...
Coinbase Joins PayPal in AI-Driven Job Cuts: Is the Great Fintech Workforce Reset Just Beginning?
Coinbase confirmed a 14% workforce cut and PayPal was reported to be planning a 20% cut on the same day, extending a wav...
Anthropic Takes On Wall Street: Claude's 10 Financial AI Agents Target Manual Banking Workflows
Anthropic released 10 financial AI agent templates paired with Claude Opus 4.7, which it says leads Vals AI's Finance Ag...
Global AI Adoption Hits 17.8%: Asia Leads the Charge But Digital Divide Is Widening, Microsoft Report Finds
Microsoft's State of Global AI Diffusion report shows 17.8% of the working-age population now uses AI globally, led by t...
Critical Palo Alto Firewall Zero-Day Actively Exploited by State-Sponsored Hackers — CISA Orders Patch by 9 May
CVE-2026-0300, a critical PAN-OS buffer overflow enabling unauthenticated root-level RCE, is being actively exploited by...
Singapore's Semiconductor Firms Eye US Expansion as AI Boom Reshapes Global Chip Supply Chains
Singaporean semiconductor companies are establishing US operations to capture AI chip supply chain opportunities, spurre...
PayPal's AI Reckoning: Reported 20% Job Cuts and a $1.5 Billion Savings Target Under New CEO
PayPal plans to cut about 20% of its workforce, according to Bloomberg and WSJ reports, as new CEO Enrique Lores splits...
ShinyHunters Breach Instructure Canvas: 275 Million Students' Data Stolen in One of Education's Largest Ever Cyberattacks
Hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have stolen data on 275 million people from Canvas LMS operator Instructure, exposi...
Cohere and Aleph Alpha Agree to Merge to Build Europe's "Sovereign AI" Champion — But Can It Really Challenge the US-China Duopoly?
Cohere and Aleph Alpha have agreed to merge, with backing from the Canadian and German governments, pitching a "sovereig...
NVIDIA Says the Agent Inflection Point Has Arrived — and Jensen Huang Credits Claude Code
NVIDIA launched its open-source Agent Toolkit at GTC 2026, citing Claude Code as a trigger for the enterprise AI agent i...
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