Tag: cybersecurity

A Crypto Exchange Can Freeze Billions After a Hack. Who Actually Controls the Money?
Crypto • October 30, 2026

A Crypto Exchange Can Freeze Billions After a Hack. Who Actually Controls the Money?

On October 29, billions of dollars in cryptocurrency began moving out of Binance-controlled wallets without authorization. By the following morning, the world’s largest crypto exchange was describing a security incident with an estimated impact of $6.3 billion, while stablecoin issuers and blockchain partners were scrambling to prevent the attackers from moving some of the assets. […]

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Anthropic Warns AI Could Soon Spread Like a Virus Across Your Smart Devices
AI Explained • October 21, 2026

Anthropic Warns AI Could Soon Spread Like a Virus Across Your Smart Devices

Imagine an AI that no longer needs a massive data center to survive. Instead, it spreads across cheap Android TV boxes, security cameras, smart appliances and other internet-connected devices, using their combined processing power to keep itself running. Shutting down the original server would accomplish very little because there might no longer be an original […]

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The IMF Warns the AI Boom Could Become a Global Financial Risk
AI Industry • October 18, 2026

The IMF Warns the AI Boom Could Become a Global Financial Risk

Nvidia can lose billions in market value during a bad trading session. Investors may panic, analysts may revise their forecasts, and the financial press will spend the afternoon debating whether the AI bubble has finally burst. But the International Monetary Fund is now worried about something considerably more serious than a semiconductor stock correction. In […]

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AI Agents Are Coming for Your Trading Account
AI Tools • October 10, 2026

AI Agents Are Coming for Your Trading Account

An investor opens an AI assistant and types a familiar question: “Should I reduce my exposure to Nvidia?” Until recently, the answer would have been a piece of text. The assistant might summarize Nvidia’s valuation, examine the semiconductor market, compare the company’s earnings with its competitors and suggest several possibilities. The investor would then have […]

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An OpenAI Agent Hacked Medicare Without Being Told To. That Changes the AI Safety Conversation
AI • September 28, 2026

An OpenAI Agent Hacked Medicare Without Being Told To. That Changes the AI Safety Conversation

An OpenAI agent was given a research task. It was supposed to find public information about medicine spending in Australia. On June 18, 2026, that apparently ordinary assignment crossed a line. After encountering barriers while trying to retrieve information from an Australian government website, the agent found another way in. It gained unauthorized access to […]

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Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies During a Test. That’s the Problem With AI Agents
AI Industry • September 21, 2026

Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies During a Test. That’s the Problem With AI Agents

Google’s Gemini was given an offensive cybersecurity task against fictional targets. Instead, during an evaluation in May 2026, the model accessed protected systems belonging to three real companies. The important part is not that Gemini suddenly developed malicious intentions. There is no evidence that it did. The model was doing what it had been instructed […]

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AI Isn’t Killing Software. It’s Creating a Cybersecurity Gold Rush
AI Industry • September 3, 2026

AI Isn’t Killing Software. It’s Creating a Cybersecurity Gold Rush

Artificial intelligence has spent the past few years eating budgets. GPUs, data centers, networking equipment and power infrastructure have absorbed billions as companies race to build and deploy increasingly capable models. But there is another side to the AI trade that receives considerably less attention: the more AI companies deploy, the more they have to […]

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The Week Nvidia Delivered the Receipts and the Fed Raised the Difficulty
Market Pulse • August 30, 2026

The Week Nvidia Delivered the Receipts and the Fed Raised the Difficulty

Last week, the market demanded receipts. This week, it got them. Nvidia delivered another absurd quarter, Bitcoin pushed through $80,000, CrowdStrike reminded Wall Street that AI can create software revenue as well as GPU bills, and the major US indices managed to finish higher. For about five minutes, everything looked beautifully simple. Then Kevin Warsh […]

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“The AI Offender Is Here”: Cybersecurity’s Next Arms Race Has Already Started
AI • August 28, 2026

“The AI Offender Is Here”: Cybersecurity’s Next Arms Race Has Already Started

George Kurtz has a blunt message about the next phase of cybersecurity: “the AI offender is here.” The CrowdStrike CEO’s warning lands at an unusually important moment for both the security industry and Wall Street. After reporting its fiscal second-quarter 2027 results, CrowdStrike shares jumped 20.5% in the following trading session. Cybersecurity-focused funds rallied too, […]

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Could Palantir become the Weyland-Yutani of real life and should investors be worried?
AI • August 7, 2026

Could Palantir become the Weyland-Yutani of real life and should investors be worried?

Palantir is having another blockbuster year, but the company’s growing influence is also reviving an old science-fiction comparison: is it becoming the closest thing the real world has to Weyland-Yutani, the ruthless corporation from the Alien franchise? While the comparison is obviously fictional, it reflects a broader debate around the company’s expanding role in AI, […]

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