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Ransomware is on a trajectory that is forcing a reckoning. Claimed attacks surged 50% in 2025, the most active year on record, with more than 8,000 organisations publicly named on leak sites. The median ransom demand jumped from roughly US$12,700 in 2024 to nearly US$60,000 in 2025. And yet the share of victims who pay […]

The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to use a power it has never before exercised: retroactively banning gadgets that already have its approval to be imported and sold in the United States. The target is a network of companies the FCC suspects are fronts for Chinese drone maker DJI. In a proposed action reported by […]

Alphabet is developing a server chip that does something no Google processor has done before: it embeds the architecture of Gemini directly into silicon. The chip, referred to internally as Frozen v2, is designed exclusively for Google’s flagship AI model family, trading away the general-purpose flexibility of a TPU for a steep efficiency gain. The […]

A Chinese company has demonstrated what it calls the world’s first integrated brain-to-robot platform, allowing users to control humanoid robots, robotic arms, and even a robotic dog using only electrical signals picked up from the scalp. BrainCo demonstrated the system at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai this week. A user wearing an electroencephalogram […]

Anthropic has confirmed that Fable, its most powerful Claude model, will not be removed from all subscription plans, but access now depends on which tier you pay for. Under the new policy, which took effect July 20, Claude Max ($100-$200 per month, approximately £80-£160) and Claude Team Premium ($100 per seat) subscribers retain full Fable […]

Microsoft has released an out-of-band (OOB) Windows update to fix an incompatibility that caused certain Dell PCs to overheat, slow down, and randomly shut down after a June preview update. The glitch was traced to a conflict between the Intel Innovation Platform Framework driver and the new Windows USB-C Connection Manager interface introduced in the […]

Nvidia announced a partnership with Japan’s Noetra Corp. to build what it calls the world’s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, a 140-megawatt AI factory powered by 13,750 Nvidia Vera CPUs and 27,500 Nvidia Rubin GPUs. The facility, backed by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), will provide the computing foundation for […]

The Trump administration is showing renewed signs it could restrict access to cutting-edge Chinese AI models, following the release of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weights model that matched or surpassed US frontier models on key benchmarks at a fraction of the cost. According to Axios and multiple industry sources, parts of the […]

Hugging Face disclosed on July 16 that an autonomous AI agent infiltrated its production infrastructure, stole cloud and cluster credentials, and was ultimately detected by another AI system, marking one of the first real-world incidents where an AI-powered attacker breached a major AI platform. The attacker exploited two code-execution paths in Hugging Face’s data processing […]

The UK’s National Audit Office has cast doubt on the government’s claim that artificial intelligence and digital transformation could save the public sector £45 billion (approximately $58 billion) annually, finding that departments have not produced consistent or detailed methodologies for how those savings would be achieved. In a report published July 20, the NAO warned […]