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The Surface Pro 12" starts at $1,149 and the Surface Laptop 13" at $1,199, both with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus delivering 60% faster graphics and 95% faster on-device AI. On sale October 13.
Bitget says attackers compromised a backend wallet system on September 24, making off with $351.6 million in ETH, XRP, BNB, AVAX, and stablecoins — the largest crypto heist of 2026.
Akamai will provide distributed cloud infrastructure to handle Anthropic's growing compute workloads, while Anthropic receives warrants for roughly 5% of Akamai's stock, tied to how much of the expanded deal it eventually commits to.
A prototype satellite carrying four Tensor Processing Units launches October 1st aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, testing whether solar-powered orbital data centers could one day scale AI compute beyond what Earth's grid can support.
Security firm Gambit recovered the attacker's staging server, reconstructing a campaign that used Hermes, Strix, and Cairn — none built as malware — to compromise a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline, and dozens more, for under $18,000 total.
The Standards Authority for Frontier AI, modeled after FINRA, would run third-party safety testing and incident reporting for frontier models — filling a gap after the companies' public-private regulatory push stalled.
A new Selling Partner plugin lets Amazon sellers manage inventory, pricing, and listings directly through Claude or Amazon's own Quick assistant, with persistent memory and always-on automation added to Seller Assistant.
A six-year inquiry into Web & App Activity, Location History, and Location Accuracy found Google failed to meet GDPR's lawfulness, transparency, and accountability standards — the fourth-largest DPC fine to date.
The Chinese AI startup's annualized revenue doubled in a few months despite a steep price hike, as it prepares a second funding round at a $75 billion valuation and a Shanghai Stock Exchange listing.
A new framework covering Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE commits Microsoft to cloud and AI infrastructure through 2030, plus $400 million for subsea and terrestrial connectivity.
The Portuguese-British company behind AI surveillance drones used in Ukraine closes a $580M Series D led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford — one of Europe's largest defense-tech raises ever.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei stood before the UN Security Council to argue that AI, if left unchecked, could threaten humanity — and called for binding international standards.