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Google Seeks to Raise $80 Billion for AI Infrastructure
The company says it has reached an agreement to sell $10 billion of stock to Berkshire Hathaway as part of the plan.
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Snowflake Expands AWS Deal as Enterprise AI Demand Grows
Snowflake is committing $6 billion to AWS over multiple years as the cloud data company works to secure the compute capacity needed to support growing enterprise AI workloads. The expanded agreement deepens Snowflake’s long-running relationship with AWS and comes as the company reports stronger revenue growth tied to AI adoption. Revenue outlook improves as AI…
AI, Europe, Global Security News, Network Security
SoftBank to Plow $52 Billion Into French Data Centers
SoftBank is promising to spend at least $52 billion on building a network of massive data centers in France, helping advance Europe’s goal of tech independence with what would be the continent’s largest AI infrastructure project.
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IBM, Red Hat launch Project Lightwell to secure open-source software
IBM and Red Hat launch $5 billion effort to secure open-source software supply chains.
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IBM and Red Hat are betting $5 billion that open source needs a security guard
IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of more than 20,000 engineers to help enterprises secure open source software. Together, these investments establish a new model for enterprise use of open source software, from upstream development through production environments. Project Lightwell…
AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News, malware
19.6 Billion Files Are Sitting Open on the Internet. No Password Required
19.6 Billion files are exposed in misconfigured cloud buckets, including 685K credential files and nearly 1M database dumps. There’s a comfortable myth most people carry around: that the data they hand to companies is locked somewhere safe. Researchers at Mysterium VPN just ran the numbers, and the numbers disagree. Across 535,480 publicly listable cloud storage…
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China Memory-Chip Maker CXMT Clears Shanghai Listing Review
China’s securities regulator has cleared an approximately $4 billion share offering by a leading memory maker, bringing the highly anticipated listing a step closer following the company’s recent technological breakthroughs.
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Risk Management
Microsoft, EY to spend $1 billion on helping customers buy agentic AI
Microsoft and EY will spend $1 billion on helping their customers adopt AI over the next five years. The billion will support assisting clients with pioneering AI projects and capability building, said EY’s global Microsoft alliance leader, Paul Clark. Clients will be able to access those resources based on their specific needs, he said. “We’re…
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Downtime has become a $600 billion business problem
The average cost of downtime has reached $600 billion for the Global 2000, a 50% increase in two years. According to Splunk’s The Hidden Costs of Downtime report, unplanned outages and service degradation cost each company an average of $300 million. Percentage of technology executives who consider a direct cost very or prohibitively disruptive (2024…
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SpaceX Postpones Launch of Newly Redesigned Starship
The company estimates it has spent $15 billion developing its next-generation rocket.
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SpaceX Set to Launch Upgraded Starship on Pre-IPO Test Flight
The company estimates it has spent $15 billion developing its next-generation rocket.
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Apple blocked over $11 billion in App Store fraud in 6 years
Apple revealed that it blocked over $11 billion in fraudulent App Store transactions over the last six years, more than $2.2 billion in potentially fraudulent App Store transactions in 2025 alone. […]
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Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter
The startup expects a 130% revenue surge to $10.9 billion in the June quarter and its first operating profit, defying skeptics of the AI boom.
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Risk Management
Splunk: Downtime Costs Hit $600B as Shadow AI Grows
The average cost of downtime has reached $600 billion across the Global 2000, a 50% increase in just two years, according to a newly published report from Splunk. Produced in partnership with Oxford Economics, Splunk’s “The Hidden Costs of Downtime” report highlights the rising financial impact of cyber incidents, outages, and breaches, including a growing…
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Google and Blackstone to Create New AI Cloud Company
The duo plans to launch the unnamed U.S. company with $5 billion in equity capital from Blackstone, which will be the majority owner, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Startup Makes Switching AI Chips Easier—and Nvidia Is a New Investor
Decart’s valuation hit nearly $4 billion as investors pour capital into startups making AI computing more efficient.
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How Amazon Went From an AI Also-Ran to a Real Contender
The pieces are coming together for AWS’s AI strategy, thanks to $200 billion in spending, custom chips and savvy deals.
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Massive “Low and Slow” DDoS Attack Hits Platform With 2.45 Billion in 5 Hours
DataDome researchers uncovered a massive low and slow DDoS attack that delivered 2.45 billion requests using 1.2 million IP addresses.
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Top Five Sales Challenges Costing MSPs Cybersecurity Revenue
The managed security services market is projected to grow from $38.31 billion in 2025 to $69.16 billion by 2030[1], with cybersecurity being the fastest-growing sector[2]. Despite this opportunity, many MSPs leave revenue on the table because their go-to-market strategy fails to connect technical expertise with business needs. This execution gap is where most deals stall.…
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Microsoft Reports Strong Cloud Growth, but Questions About AI Returns Persist
Sales reached $82.9 billion in the January-to-March quarter, exceeding Wall Street analysts’ expectations.
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Microsoft Reports Strong Cloud Growth, Easing Fears Over AI Spending
Sales reached $82.9 billion in the January-to-March quarter, exceeding Wall Street expectations.
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US state privacy fines reached $3.425 billion in 2025
State privacy regulators across the United States collected $3.425 billion in privacy-related fines from companies in 2025. Gartner said the upward trend is expected to accelerate through 2028. Annual cumulative fines stood at $1.827 billion in 2024, putting the 2025 result at nearly double the previous year’s level. Gartner derived the estimate by compiling and…
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U.S. companies hit with record fines for privacy in 2025
U.S. states issued $3.45 billion in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, according to research and advisory firm Gartner. The increase is partly driven in part by stronger, more established privacy laws in states like California, new interstate partnerships built around enforcing laws across state lines,…
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China Bans Meta’s Acquisition of Manus on National Security Grounds
Beijing has banned the $2.5 billion acquisition and ordered the parties involved to rescind the transaction.
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Google Expands Anthropic Investment With $40 Billion Commitment
Racing toward a potential IPO and grappling with computing needs, AI startup has amassed up to $65 billion in new funding deals.
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Intel Sales Rise 7% as AI Agents Drive Growth
Demand from data centers for its CPUs pushed quarterly revenues to $13.6 billion.
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Employment Hero AI unlocks new employment model targeting $12.6 billion in duplicated employment admin holding Australia back
New modelling shows businesses are paying $12.6 billion more than they should in employment administration Complex, manual HR processes are driving duplication, costing up to a quarter of an employee’s salary and dragging down productivity Despite Australian businesses spending $160 billion annually on compliance, hundreds of thousands of workers remain underpaid and over half of…
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Gigamon Showcases Momentum in the Network Observability Market, as AI and Hybrid Cloud Drive Demand for Deep Observability
GUEST RESEARCH: Network observability market growth projected to be 6.5 percent to $4.39 billion by 2029, with AI-, cloud-, and security-driven segments poised to double or triple that pace
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MITRE releases a shared fraud-cyber framework built from real attack data
Financial fraud losses in the United States reached $16.6 billion in 2024, up from $4.2 billion in 2020. Behind those numbers is a structural problem: the teams responsible for stopping fraud, fraud investigators and cybersecurity analysts, have historically operated separately, using different tools, different terminology, and different mental models of how attacks unfold. The MITRE…
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Survey: Governance Gaps Threaten MSP AI Revenue Opportunity
For managed service providers, AI represents a $276 billion opportunity. The problem? More than half of them can’t get their customers ready for it. That’s the headline finding from new research published this week by AvePoint and analyst firm Omdia, which surveyed 333 MSPs across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific on what’s actually blocking AI…
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Analysis of one billion CISA KEV remediation records exposes limits of human-scale security
Analysis of 1 billion CISA KEV remediation records reveal a breaking point for human-scale security. Qualys shows most critical flaws are exploited before defenders can patch them. […]
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Questions raised about how LinkedIn uses the petabytes of data it collects
Through LinkedIn’s more than one billion business users, the Microsoft unit has access to a vast array of personally-identifiable information, including data that could identify religious and political positions. What is less clear is what LinkedIn does with all of that data. A small European company that sells a browser extension to leverage different aspects…
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Questions raised about how LinkedIn uses the petabytes of data it collects
Through LinkedIn’s more than one billion business users, the Microsoft unit has access to a vast array of personally-identifiable information, including data that could identify religious and political positions. What is less clear is what LinkedIn does with all of that data. A small European company that sells a browser extension to leverage different aspects…
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FBI: Americans lost a record $21 billion to cybercrime last year
U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says. […]
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Cybercrime losses jumped 26% to $20.9 billion in 2025
Cybercrime remains a booming business. Annual cybercrime losses amounted to almost $20.9 billion last year, reflecting a 26% increase from 2024, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said in its annual report Tuesday. The comprehensive study exposes a worsening digital crime environment that is driving financial losses, with momentum moving in the wrong direction…
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Over $17bn Lost to Cyber Fraud in the Last Year, Warns FBI
Cryptocurrency scams alone cost victims over $7 billion, while AI-enabled fraud threats are on the rise, says FBI
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AI Trainer Mercor Offers to Pay People for Prior Work—Work Employers Might Own
AI models from the tech giants constantly need new training data. This $10 billion startup is on the hunt for fresh resources.
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Musk’s SpaceX Files to Go Public in One of the Biggest IPOs Ever
The company, which launches satellites and is building an AI business, is aiming to raise between $40 billion and $80 billion in an offering.
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OpenAI Closes Silicon Valley’s Largest-Ever Funding Round
The $122 billion round includes Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, wealthy investors and a money manager that plans to add the startup to its exchange-traded funds.
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Workday Bets Big on Sana: 300+ AI Skills, 24 Tasks Collapsed Into a Conversation, and the End of Enterprise Software as We Know It
Workday’s co-founder Aneel Bhusri met Joel Hellermark last summer in Stockholm. Bhusri, who returned as CEO of the $65 billion enterprise software giant after a two-year hiatus, called the 28-year-old Sana founder “one of the most talented entrepreneurs I’ve met” and “one of those guys that comes around once in a decade.”
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Chatbot Makers Try Sex Appeal
Plus, why we believe AI is actually thinking, phase two of the boom and Bezos’s $100 billion fundraising effort.
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Apple Is Way Behind in AI—and Still Making a Fortune From It
The iPhone maker’s AI revenue is set to top $1 billion this year, reassuring investors who are wary of the sky-high spending of its rivals.
AI, Apps, Global Security News, Government & Policy, Risk Management, Russia
How AI is changing your mind
Humanity is diving headlong into a global experiment. More than 1 billion people have a new and unprecedented source of information and cognitive guidance: artificial intelligence (AI) trained on trillions of words. So, how exactly are AI chatbots affecting our minds, thoughts, beliefs and opinions? Scientists are scrambling to find out — and reports that…
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InterSystems Appoints Former NHS and Mass General Leader Dr Tim Ferris as Vice President, Healthcare Practice
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering more than one billion health records globally, announced the appointment of Tim Ferris, MD, as Vice President, Healthcare Practice. The announcement comes as healthcare leaders gather for the 2026 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition.
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Nvidia to Invest $2 Billion in Nebius to Expand AI Cloud Infrastructure
Nvidia will invest $2 billion in Nebius Group as part of a strategic partnership to expand artificial-intelligence cloud infrastructure.
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Cloudflare tracked 230 billion daily threats and here is what it found
Cloudflare’s network blocks over 230 billion threats per day. The volume indicates how routine and automated the attack cycle has become, and the patterns behind that volume point to a shift in how breaches begin and progress. Cloudflare’s threat research unit, Cloudforce One, published its inaugural cyber threat report 2026, covering activity observed through 2025…
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Amazon Leads Massive OpenAI Capital and Compute Deal
OpenAI just announced that it has raised $110 billion in a single private funding round, led by Amazon with significant contributions from Nvidia and SoftBank. The deal values the company at roughly $840 billion after the investment, according to Reuters. Amazon’s $50 billion followed by $30 billion each from NVIDIA and SoftBank The breakdown is…
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Best Cloud-Based Access Control Systems for Remote and Multi-Site Teams
GUEST OPINION: The global access control market was valued at USD 12.8 billion in 2025 and is estimated to reach USD 13.76 billion in 2026, with projections showing it will exceed USD 28.41 billion by 2035 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.3%.
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OpenAI Raises $110 Billion
New funding, which values the company at $730 billion before the investment, came from Amazon, SoftBank and Nvidia.
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Aussie Broadband Is Quietly Building a Telco Empire – And the Numbers Prove It
The scrappy challenger brand from regional Victoria just upgraded its ambitions to $2 billion in revenue. Here’s why you should be paying attention.
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News, malware, privacy
South Korea fines Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Tiffany $25M for SaaS security failures
South Korea’s data protection authority has handed down a combined KRW 36 billion (approximately US$25 million) in administrative fines to the local subsidiaries of three global luxury houses, after finding they failed to implement basic security controls while managing customer data through a SaaS platform. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), South Korea’s top privacy…
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Palo Alto closes privileged access gap with $25B CyberArk acquisition
Cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks has completed its $25 billion acquisition of Israel-based identity security firm CyberArk, bringing privileged access and identity security into the core of its platform strategy. With this acquisition, Palo Alto aims to extend privileged access controls across human, machine, and AI identities, reduce standing privileges, limit lateral movement, and stop…
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Bill Ackman Makes a Big Bet on Meta
Pershing Square has disclosed a roughly $2 billion position in Facebook’s parent.
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EU clears Google’s $32B Wiz acquisition, intensifying cloud security competition
Google has secured unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $32 billion acquisition of cloud security firm Wiz, clearing a major regulatory hurdle and paving the way for one of the largest cybersecurity acquisitions to date. The decision removes a key uncertainty for enterprise customers and positions Google Cloud to aggressively expand its security portfolio…
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Apple Sends Alert – iPhones are at Risk
Around 1.6 billion people around the world have iPhones, and while Apple is usually diligent regarding security, there are two major problems that have surfaced. These problems leave iPhone users completely vulnerable to cyber criminal attacks and if users don’t address, they can steal all of your personal data and even your financial information. The…
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Senior scams topped $4.8 billion in 2024: What to watch out for
Americans aged 60 and older lost $4.8 billion in 2024 to scammers, according to a report released by the FBI. These figures represent real people, real families, and life-changing financial devastation. The impact extends beyond just the numbers. The average loss among people over the age of 60 was $83,000, more than four times the…
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Senior scams topped $4.8 billion in 2024: What to watch out for
Americans aged 60 and older lost $4.8 billion in 2024 to scammers, according to a report released by the FBI. These figures represent real people, real families, and life-changing financial devastation. The impact extends beyond just the numbers. The average loss among people over the age of 60 was $83,000, more than four times the…
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Senior scams topped $4.8 billion in 2024: What to watch out for
Americans aged 60 and older lost $4.8 billion in 2024 to scammers, according to a report released by the FBI. These figures represent real people, real families, and life-changing financial devastation. The impact extends beyond just the numbers. The average loss among people over the age of 60 was $83,000, more than four times the…
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Senior scams topped $4.8 billion in 2024: What to watch out for
Americans aged 60 and older lost $4.8 billion in 2024 to scammers, according to a report released by the FBI. These figures represent real people, real families, and life-changing financial devastation. The impact extends beyond just the numbers. The average loss among people over the age of 60 was $83,000, more than four times the…
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Senior scams topped $4.8 billion in 2024: What to watch out for
Americans aged 60 and older lost $4.8 billion in 2024 to scammers, according to a report released by the FBI. These figures represent real people, real families, and life-changing financial devastation. The impact extends beyond just the numbers. The average loss among people over the age of 60 was $83,000, more than four times the…
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Senior scams topped $4.8 billion in 2024: What to watch out for
Americans aged 60 and older lost $4.8 billion in 2024 to scammers, according to a report released by the FBI. These figures represent real people, real families, and life-changing financial devastation. The impact extends beyond just the numbers. The average loss among people over the age of 60 was $83,000, more than four times the…
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Senior scams topped $4.8 billion in 2024: What to watch out for
Americans aged 60 and older lost $4.8 billion in 2024 to scammers, according to a report released by the FBI. These figures represent real people, real families, and life-changing financial devastation. The impact extends beyond just the numbers. The average loss among people over the age of 60 was $83,000, more than four times the…
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Senior scams topped $4.8 billion in 2024: What to watch out for
Americans aged 60 and older lost $4.8 billion in 2024 to scammers, according to a report released by the FBI. These figures represent real people, real families, and life-changing financial devastation. The impact extends beyond just the numbers. The average loss among people over the age of 60 was $83,000, more than four times the…
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Senior scams topped $4.8 billion in 2024: What to watch out for
Americans aged 60 and older lost $4.8 billion in 2024 to scammers, according to a report released by the FBI. These figures represent real people, real families, and life-changing financial devastation. The impact extends beyond just the numbers. The average loss among people over the age of 60 was $83,000, more than four times the…