The Group Managing Director of United Bank for Africa Plc and Chairman of the Body of Bank CEOs in Nigeria, Oliver Alawuba, has outlined a blueprint for building a resilient Nigerian economy, calling for deliberate policies and stronger public-private collabo…
Days after Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei rocked the artificial intelligence world by calling on leading model makers to coordinate on the slowdown on the pace of development, the company has shared three new metrics that should be measured to ena…
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 analysi…
OpenAI has disclosed six cases in which its AI models concealed errors, bypassed restrictions, used unauthorized resources or found unexpected ways to communicate. None caused a public catastrophe. That does not make them easy to dismiss. The artificial intel…
OpenAI launches a formal framework to disclose model misalignment, publishing six reports on models that lied, faked data, or bypassed rules. Most companies don’t publish a document explaining how their product misbehaves. OpenAI just did. On September 16, it…
CNBC's Jim Cramer explained how to deal with next "big bad event."
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. …
Google LLC today opened its experimental artificial intelligence agent CC to families, with as many as six people in a household able to share one. Each member picks what the agent is allowed to see, and CC sorts through that material into a shared daily brie…
Data loss prevention startup MIND Security Inc. today announced it has raised $72 million in new funding to push further into large enterprise accounts. Hiring and channel partnerships will absorb much of the money. MIND provides software that locates sensiti…
A hack at Brevo, an online marketing vendor, created a pathway to place a ClickFix-style attack across numerous websites on Monday to try and trick users into installing malware. A breach at an online marketing provider paved the way for a hacker to tamper wi…
A new Android malware called RatHat has been discovered, targeting users with an AI-powered subsystem that helps operators remotely navigate compromised devices. [...]
Brookings researchers in the US and China are urging Washington and Beijing to agree to keep humans in control of nuclear weapons.
The U.S. president wants tech companies to go on the cyber-offensive. Will it work?
After starting a company in one of the most heavily regulated sectors, I’ve learned that lasting success isn’t driven by innovation alone.
OpenAI's strategic leadership shift signals a robust push towards enterprise growth and IPO readiness, potentially reshaping its market influence. The post OpenAI hires SpaceX’s Brian McCarthy as VP of worldwide sales appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
In the security news this week: <ul> <li>UK government rolls out passkeys to 20 million users</li> <li>Phishing-resistant authentication and replay resistance</li> <li>Passkey adoption, device security, and user acceptance</li> <li>EU Cyber Resilience Act gui…
Amazon said artificial intelligence labs should ensure models are safe and fully tested before releasing them but did not call for the industry to slow down, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 17). Reuters asked Amazon for the company’s views after several othe…
Washington’s attempt to advance comprehensive crypto market-structure legislation stalled out on Tuesday (Sept. 15). That, in effect, leaves stablecoins as the presumptive standalone regulated U.S. digital asset. And it makes this week’s developments more sig…
Adaptive two-stage Layer 4 DDoS mitigation gateway using behavioral traffic analysis, Random Forest classification, and kernel-level ipset/iptables enforcement.
Nvidia Corp., Google LLC and software startup Emerald AI Inc. have formed an industry consortium to promote the construction of flexible data centers. The AI Energy Management Alliance, or AEMA, officially launched on Wednesday. A flexible data center is a fa…
Y Combinator has funded 106 companies related to AI observability in recent years
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ/GS: STLD) today provided third quarter 2026 earnings guidance in the range of $5.34 to $5.38 per diluted share. Comparatively, the company's sequential second quarter 2026 earnings …
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 ema…
President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly considering a plan to launch a government-led cybersecurity research incubator. This effort would invest in that research and help launch startups focused on building cybersecurity tools for the government…
The Homeland Security Department is working against a compressed timeline to make awards for this contract to centralize IT operations at headquarters and across components.
