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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization — US tech giant's latest action against regulator Ofcom could slow down implementation of the far-reaching

María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg: Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax” — President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead wi

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Chris Metinko / Axios: Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV — AI agent monitoring platform Raindrop raised a $35 million Series A round led by CRV, co-founders Zubin Koticha and Ben Hylak te

Pango guide defining AI agents for ecommerce logistics, covering automated delivery management, tracking, and returns workflows.

At a time when AI is introducing new risks to global systems, Oracle Corp. is shifting enterprise security toward the data layer. This approach, based on a three-pronged strategy to secure at source, secure at speed and secure through resilience, relies on robust security controls applied where the

At this past week’s AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 conference in Amsterdam, the buzz around agentic artificial intelligence was palpable – but nobody was particularly worried that AI was going to kill us all. The frontier model vendors – none of which appeared on the show floor – may have spent the we

Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. today filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which builds data centers optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, didn’t reveal how much it hopes to raise. Last month, sources told Bloomberg that Nscale is seeking up to $3 billion. The compa

Steve Hobbs, secretary of state for Washington, poses at his booth during the 2026 Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo/Thomas Wilde) If you explore the main expo hall during the Penny Arcade Expo, you can often find some interesting booths around the edges of the room. These can offer rare

ModernVivo co-founders Colin Small (left) and Ian Levine (right). Seattle-based ModernVivo is using AI to help scientists design preclinical studies for drug discovery. The goal: better experiments that are also faster, cheaper and less reliant on animals. “You’d be shocked at the way scientists des

The cryptocurrency industry has gotten a major boost from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which today announced a five-year exemption that allows companies to facilitate the trading of blockchain-based tokenized stocks and securities. It’s a big move that will help to accelerate the SEC

OpenAI Group PBC today launched Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model set up for legal research and drafting. Astra for Law is not a new model. The company has wrapped GPT-6 Astra in a legal search index and a set of instructions for legal analysis, then offered the result to law firms a

Icelandic audio startup Treble Technologies ehf today announced that it has raised $18 million in funding. Paladin Capital Group led the Series-A2 round. It was joined by returning backers KOMPAS VC, Frumtak Ventures and the European Innovation Council Fund. Many industrial robots rely on onboard ar

Enterprise audit teams are finding that the evidence trail they depend on does not survive contact with AI agents. Financial and operational data still sits across NetSuite, human resources platforms and data lakes, but the judgment calls once recorded in email threads, Slack messages and tick marks

PQC implementation becomes more manageable when organizations treat it as a migration program rather than a physics problem. As the post-quantum cryptography transition moves from discussion to implementation, organizations can test what is ready while planning around unresolved dependencies. Even s

The Doolan-Larson House and Storefronts in San Francisco, a potential future KEXP location. (SF Heritage Photo / Alvis E. Hendley) Seattle independent radio station KEXP is exploring the possibility of building out a second physical home — far from its beloved base at Seattle Center — in San Francis