Comprehensive updates on data protection, hacking, deepfakes, identity security and threat intelligence. Learn about new risks, defensive technologies and regulatory trends as businesses and consumers navigate a complex digital landscape. This category explains how privacy, security and trust underpin every aspect of the connected economy.
A coalition of nonprofits urges federal suspension of xAI’s Grok AI, highlighting nonconsensual image generation, bias, and potential national security threats.
OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness to study emerging risks tied to rapidly advancing AI models, including mental health impacts and cybersecurity threats. The move reflects rising concern over how frontier capabilities could be misused as models grow more powerful.
OpenAI enhances AI cybersecurity capabilities with safeguards, trusted access programs, and collaborations to empower defenders and mitigate misuse risks.
Security startup Verkada reaches a $5.8 billion valuation after a $100 million funding round led by CapitalG to expand AI-driven security solutions.
Amazon is investing up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capacity for U.S. government agencies through AWS’s secure cloud regions, adding nearly 1.3 gigawatts of advanced computational infrastructure.
The European Commission has proposed easing key GDPR and AI Act rules, allowing broader data use for AI training and delaying high-risk AI requirements.
A massive Cloudflare outage shut down major AI platforms worldwide, disrupting ChatGPT, AWS AI services, and other critical AI infrastructure.
Microsoft will invest $15.2 billion in the UAE over four years, shipping advanced Nvidia GPUs and building AI infrastructure while training local talent.
Google has withdrawn its Gemma model from AI Studio after U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn accused the AI of fabricating defamatory claims about her.
IBM has unveiled a detailed development plan for Quantum Starling, the world’s first large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer, aiming for deployment by 2029 – setting a milestone for practical quantum capability.