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Technology · Media Business
Hollywood's New Giant: Paramount-Warner Deal Closes as Skydance

The $111 billion merger closed after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute challenge, uniting Paramount+, HBO Max, CBS and CNN under one company carrying roughly $80 billion in debt.

By Sofia Marino · 07:45 ET · 4 min read
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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Technology · AI Policy
Tech Giants Sign 'Morally Binding' Pact to Police Their Own AI Development

Meeting at the White House, the CEOs of OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia and xAI pledged internal controls and outside audits for their AI models — but accepted no binding rules and no penalties for breaking the promise.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:00 ET · 4 min read
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
AI SAFETY
Nvidia Unveils Hardware-Level Kill Switch for Runaway AI Agents

The chipmaker's new Open Agent Safety Platform pairs open-source software with silicon-level monitoring designed to sandbox and instantly quarantine autonomous AI agents that stray outside their permissions.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:45 ET · 5 min read
Monday, September 28, 2026
Technology · Consumer Tech
Dyson's $499 Toothbrush Comes With a Built-In Camera

The CameraJet uses a macro lens and machine learning to spot gaps between teeth and fire a precision rinse jet at them, the product of six years of development and 38 patents.

By Claire Fontaine · 04:25 ET · 2 min read
Sunday, September 27, 2026
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AI Investment
SoftBank Launches Record $11 Billion Bond Sale to Fund Its OpenAI Bet

The Tokyo conglomerate is borrowing more than $11 billion in what would be the largest non-financial corporate bond deal ever out of Asia-Pacific, all to cover the next installment of a stake that will make it one of OpenAI's largest outside shareholders.

By Sofia Marino · 06:00 ET · 4 min read
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Technology · Security
Signal Tests Sign-Up Without a Phone Number, for a $3 Fee

The encrypted messaging app's beta lets users register with an account ID and a one-time payment instead of a phone number, aiming to curb spam without sacrificing anonymity.

By Claire Fontaine · 07:25 ET · 2 min read
Friday, September 18, 2026
Technology · Deals
British IT Reseller Softcat to Buy US Rival GDT for $1.05 Billion

The London-listed reseller is funding part of its biggest-ever acquisition with a fresh equity raise, betting that AI-driven demand for networking and data-center gear justifies a bigger US footprint.

By Sofia Marino · 06:35 ET · 4 min read
Technology · AI Chips
Huawei Moves Up Timeline for AI Chip Aimed at Nvidia's Home Turf

The company says its next Ascend accelerator will ship roughly six months early as it races to give Chinese AI developers a domestic alternative to Nvidia, ahead of a planned Trump-Xi meeting next week.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:30 ET · 4 min read
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Artificial Intelligence · Funding
China's Z.ai Raises Second $5 Billion War Chest in Two Months for AI Race

The Hong Kong-listed GLM developer combined a $2 billion share placement with $3 billion in convertible bonds, its second major raise since July, as Chinese AI labs race to match the capital intensity of their U.S. rivals.

By Sofia Marino · 06:35 ET · 2 min read
Artificial Intelligence · Global Policy
King Charles Presses AI Chiefs to Sign a 'Flourishing' Charter at Scotland Summit

Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and OpenAI's Sarah Friar were among roughly 30 industry figures the king urged not to let humanity 'lose control of our destiny,' at a summit convened days after Anthropic's Dario Amodei publicly called for the industry to slow down.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:00 ET · 4 min read
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Cybersecurity
AI Agent Swarm Breached Nearly 400 Organizations in Days, Researchers Find

A single attacker turned hundreds of autonomous AI agents loose on unpatched PaperCut print servers, compromising 440 systems across 48 countries in what researchers call one of the first fully AI-orchestrated hacking campaigns at this scale.

By Claire Fontaine · 07:05 ET · 3 min read
Technology · AI & Misinformation
How an AI 'Cat in the Hat' Stalker Spooked Two Countries

Fabricated images of a menacing Dr. Seuss character prowling residential streets forced police in Ireland and Britain to publicly debunk a trend built on generative AI.

By Claire Fontaine · 04:45 ET · 2 min read
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Technology · Apple
Apple Ships AI-Rebuilt Siri to Hundreds of Millions of iPhones

iOS 27's overhauled assistant, built with technology co-developed with Google's Gemini, brings multi-turn conversations and cross-app actions — but launches without key features in the EU and China.

By Claire Fontaine · 06:00 ET · 6 min read
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