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President Donald Trump recently signed an Executive Order that pushes artificial intelligence (AI) oversight firmly into federal hands and blocks states from enforcing their own rules on the technology. Titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” the directive targets laws in states like California and Colorado that demand safety tests and bias checks for AI systems. This move comes as AI companies face a patchwork of 50 different state regulations, creating headaches for tech developers to build the next generation of technology. This move also comes months after the U.S. Senate voted against a 10-year moratorium on State…

Australian-based energy technology company IND Technology has closed a $50 million first institutional funding round to scale its AI-powered Early Fault Detection system, which spots electrical faults in power grids before they spark outages or wildfires. The round drew lead investments from U.S. energy specialists Angeleno Group and Energy Impact Partners, alongside Southern California’s Edison and Australia’s Virescent. This capital arrives as utilities worldwide grapple with aging infrastructure amid rising wildfire risks and extreme weather. The news also comes at a critical moment for power companies worldwide. Extreme weather events have caused devastating fires from faulty lines, like Australia’s 2009…

Agentic AI has entered a transformative hyper-growth phase, moving from experimental artificial intelligence systems to enterprise-grade autonomous intelligence. New projections show that the global agentic AI market size is expected to grow from approximately $9.9 billion in 2025 to $199-253 billion by 2034, which represents a remarkable compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43.84%, according to Precedence Research. This explosive growth reflects enterprises transitioning from task-based automation to fully autonomous systems capable of reasoning, planning, and executing complex multi-step operations with minimal human oversight. At the center of this hyper-growth stands the U.S. and China, with each country wielding the…

Hedge Fund giant Bridgewater Associates recently warned that the artificial intelligence (AI) spending boom is entering a “dangerous” phase as major technology companies increasingly rely on external financing to fund and sustain mounting AI infrastructure costs. According to Greg Jensen, the firm’s Co-Chief Investment Officer, this “dangerous” phase creates conditions that could allow for a significant market bubble that could rival past technology bubbles, as the escalation signals growing market anxiety about whether the massive capital investments will ultimately generate sufficient profits to justify the valuations. The fundamental problem Bridgewater identifies and speaks on is that AI infrastructure costs have…

U.S.-based cybersecurity startup 7AI recently closed a $130 million Series A funding round, the largest ever in the cybersecurity space. The Series A was led by Index Ventures, with participation from new Blackstone Innovations Investments alongside existing seed investors including Greylock Partners, CRV, and Spark Capital. This raise brings 7AI’s total funding to $166 million since its stealth launch in February 2025. 7AI founder and CEO Lior Div, who previously built Cybereason to a $3 billion valuation, calls the massive funding plus what 7AI does the “agentic security inflection point. The company deploys autonomous AI agents to handle complex and…

Perplexity has unveiled BrowseSafe, an innovative security system specifically designed to protect AI browser agents, just like its own Comet, from prompt injection attacks that are embedded widely in web content, representing a worthy advancement in the security of agentic AI systems navigating the open web. What is Prompt Injection in Browser Agents? Prompt injection attacks in browser content involve malicious instructions hidden within seemingly innocuous web content such as comments, product descriptions, forum posts, or page footers. Unlike traditional text-based attacks, these threats blend seamlessly into legitimate HTML structure, making them difficult to be detected through conventional security measures.…

Saudi Arabia’s cybersecurity startup COGNNA has raised a fresh $9.2 million in a Series A funding to accelerate the rollout of its AI-powered security operations center (SOC) across the Middle East and beyond.  The round was led by Saudi investment firm Impact46, co-led by BNVT Capital, and with participation from Vision Ventures and Tali Ventures, which altogether highlights the growing investor confidence in the Kingdom’s emerging cybersecurity ecosystem. COGNNA As a Young Saudi Player With Global Ambitions Founded in 2022 by Ibrahim Alshamran and Ziyad Alshehri, COGNNA was built to focus on helping organizations detect and respond to cyberthreats using…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently sent a company-wide internal memo, announcing a “Code Red” status on prioritizing and upgrading ChatGPT as fast as possible. This urgent directive came as Google’s recently launched Gemini 3 began rivaling ChatGPT’s strengths in reasoning and multimodal capabilities across several industry benchmarks, putting OpenAI’s market lead at risk. The internal memo, seen and reported by The Wall Street Journal, outlines a sharp reallocation of resources, pulling talent from experimental projects like ChatGPT Pulse and the Sora project to address core product shortcomings that have frustrated users and put a dent on their lead. For its…

Meta poaches Apple’s top designer Alan Dye, who is famous for being the brain behind the sleek designs of the iPhone X, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro. The Design Executive is set to join Meta as a Chief Design Officer, leading a new creative studio inside Meta’s Reality Labs Division, as announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This move is part of a series of Meta’s efforts to play catch-up in the AI arms race, by ultimately blending AI with every of its services, including its incoming consumer hardware like smart glasses and virtual reality headsets. Zuckerberg frames this talent…

Samsung Electronics has announced a major pre-CES event called “The First Look” scheduled for January 4, 2026. This preview event, occurring just two days before the official opening of Samsung CES 2026, will unveil the smartphone giant’s comprehensive vision for its Device eXperience (DX) Division and announce next-generation AI-driven customer experiences that the company plans to launch throughout 2026. The keynote presentation for this preview event will be led by TM Roh, CEO and Head of Device eXperience Division, who will outline Samsung’s vision and roadmap for its DX businesses and demonstrate how AI will reshape device integration in the coming…