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‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue
‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue
AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants…
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…
Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis
Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis
Microsoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp.…
Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools
Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools
Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data.…
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database
Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. …
The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown
The US Navy’s current carrier-based refueling aircraft may soon be getting help, as Boeing has completed the first flight of its autonomous tanker drone designed for carrier operations.…
Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm
The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific
Core Scientific is trading coins for tokens, revealing plans on Monday to convert a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation in Pecos, Texas, to an 1.5 gigawatt AI datacenter campus.…
Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins
Medical and utility tech companies hacked by digital intruders
Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal regulators.…
South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations
South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations
South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot.…
Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again
Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again
It's been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead - sort of - with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve. …