Category: Biz Tech

GoDaddy has teamed up with LegalZoom to launch a system designed to give AI agents a verifiable identity on the open web, as companies move from chatbots towards software that can act, transact and communicate with other systems with less human intervention. The tie-up, announced on 2 April, centres on GoDaddy’s Agent Name Service, or ANS, which uses domain name system records and public key infrastructure certificates to assign agents a human-readable name and cryptographic proof of origin.LegalZoom said

OpenAI has asked the attorneys general of California and Delaware to investigate Elon Musk, accusing the billionaire and his associates of improper and anti-competitive conduct as a legal fight over the company’s structure moves towards a jury trial in Oakland later this month. The dispute marks a sharp escalation in a feud that has come to symbolise the wider struggle over who controls advanced artificial intelligence and under what public obligations.The letter, sent to California Attorney General Rob Bonta and

Dubai, UAE — At the forefront of Middle East’ innovative medical community is the name of talented surgeon Dr. Vardan Khachatrian, a visionary specialist and celebrity doctor, whose methods are increasingly shaping expectations across high-end patient segments not only in MENA region, but globally.Industry observers note a growing demand for natural, long-lasting results with minimal visible intervention, particularly among international patients travelling to Dubai for advanced procedures. Within this context, Dr. Vardan Khachatrian’s approach — anchored in controlled tissue handling

LinkedIn is facing mounting privacy questions after an investigation branded “BrowserGate” alleged the Microsoft-owned professional network scans thousands of browser extensions and gathers detailed device information from visitors without clear consent, raising fresh scrutiny over how large platforms monitor users and enforce their rules. Independent testing by a cybersecurity news outlet said it confirmed that LinkedIn’s site loads code able to detect more than 6,000 extensions in Chromium-based browsers, alongside a wider set of system characteristics.At the centre of the

 Telegram has rolled out a broad product update that adds a private AI writing tool, a major expansion of polling functions, support for Live Photos and Motion Photos, and a new system that lets bots create and manage other bots, in a move that sharpens the platform’s push into AI-assisted messaging and developer automation. The update was announced on March 31, 2026, with related bot-management changes added to Telegram’s Bot API on April 3.At the centre of the release is

Google has disclosed a coordinated takedown of UNC2814, a suspected China-linked cyber-espionage group, after investigators tied it to intrusions at 53 organisations in 42 countries, with telecommunications providers and government bodies forming the core of the victim set. The campaign centred on a custom backdoor called GRIDTIDE, which used Google Sheets as a covert command-and-control channel, allowing malicious traffic to blend with ordinary cloud activity rather than exploiting a flaw in Google’s products.The operation was made public on 25

Anthropic’s acquisition of Seattle startup Vercept, little more than a year after the company emerged from stealth, has become one of the clearest signs yet that the contest for elite artificial intelligence talent is reshaping the sector as quickly as the technology itself. The deal folds Vercept’s team and technology into Anthropic’s push to make Claude better at “computer use”, the industry term for AI systems that can navigate live software, spreadsheets and web interfaces much like a human operator.

Cash briefly replaced cards and QR payments across parts of Russia on April 3 after a widespread disruption hit banking and payment services, an outage that Telegram founder Pavel Durov said was triggered by Moscow’s efforts to block virtual private networks as part of a broader clampdown on online communications. The disruption affected shoppers, commuters and businesses, and has sharpened scrutiny of how far the Kremlin’s drive for tighter internet control is starting to spill into everyday economic life.The

3Commas has launched QuantPilot, a new AI-driven crypto trading platform aimed at giving retail traders access to tools more commonly associated with quantitative desks, as competition intensifies among trading software providers seeking to simplify strategy design, market research and execution. The company said the product is now in early access, with a public waiting list open through quantpilot. com, and positioned it as a no-code system that can turn plain-language prompts into backtested and deployable trading strategies.The Tallinn-founded firm,

Microsoft has rolled out three first-party artificial intelligence models aimed at speech transcription, voice generation and image creation, stepping up its push to offer developers and companies a broader in-house alternative to rival tools. The new systems — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2 — are available through Microsoft Foundry, while the company’s MAI Playground has opened access for trials in the United States.The launch puts the spotlight on MAI-Transcribe-1, which Microsoft says is designed for enterprise-grade speech-to-text work across 25

du said its National Hypercloud has received certification and endorsement from the UAE Cybersecurity Council, a step the company described as making it the first compliant, secure and sovereign cloud infrastructure approved for deployment across both public and private sectors in the UAE. The announcement places the telecom group at the centre of a fast-moving contest over where sensitive data is stored, who controls the infrastructure, and how far cloud adoption can expand in government and highly regulated industries without

Alibaba has launched Qwen3.6-Plus, the latest entry in its Qwen model family, positioning it as a tool built to help companies move from chat-based assistants to AI systems that can execute multi-step work across coding, reasoning and visual tasks. The release lands as the group deepens its push into agentic AI for both enterprise clients and consumer applications, with the model set to power Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio as well as its wider AI ecosystem.Alibaba said Qwen3.6-Plus is designed

Google’s YouTube is facing mounting pressure from child development experts and advocacy groups to stop artificial intelligence-generated videos from being shown or recommended to young children, opening a fresh front in the debate over how large platforms police automated content aimed at minors. A coalition led by Fairplay has urged YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan and Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai to keep such material off YouTube Kids, arguing that machine-made clips can distort children’s understanding of the world, weaken

Voltify has raised $30 million in seed funding to push an ambitious plan to electrify freight rail without the cost and disruption of stringing overhead wires across vast rail networks, positioning the startup at the intersection of climate technology, industrial infrastructure and freight logistics. The company said the round was co-led by venture capital firm Aleph and Fortescue, with backing from Menomadin, J-Impact, The Dock and other investors, as it seeks to turn a concept that has drawn attention in

Meta is testing a paid Instagram tier for everyday users, opening a fresh experiment in how far people will pay for privacy, reach and tighter audience control inside one of the world’s biggest social apps. The test, branded Instagram Plus, centres on Stories and includes anonymous viewing, expanded audience lists, replay insights, longer visibility windows and tools designed to push a Story closer to the front of followers’ feeds. Meta confirmed to one outlet that the subscription is being tested

Anthropic has acknowledged that an internal release mistake exposed part of the source code behind Claude Code, its AI coding assistant, in an incident that has sharpened scrutiny of the startup’s internal controls at a time when it is selling safety, reliability and enterprise trust as core parts of its pitch. The company said the exposure was caused by a packaging error linked to human mistake rather than an external intrusion, and added that no customer data or credentials were

Mistral has raised $830 million in debt financing to build a large AI computing hub near Paris, a move that places the French start-up at the heart of Europe’s effort to develop home-grown artificial intelligence infrastructure and rely less on overseas cloud providers. The funding, the company’s first debt raise, will be used to buy 13,800 Nvidia chips for a data centre at Bruyères-le-Châtel, south of the French capital, with operations expected to begin in the second quarter of 2026.

Apple has brought end-to-end encryption for RCS messages back into developer testing with iOS 26.5 beta, reviving a privacy feature that appeared in the iOS 26.4 beta cycle but was withheld from the public release. The move sharpens focus on how quickly Apple can close one of the last major security gaps between iPhone and Android texting, even as the feature remains labelled beta and is not yet available across all devices or carrier setups.The return matters because RCS

Samsung is betting that a minute of low-frequency audio can help settle uneasy stomachs on the move, launching its Hearapy app with a claim that a 100Hz tone played through earbuds can reduce motion-sickness symptoms for up to two hours. The pitch is simple: listen before or during travel, stimulate the inner ear’s balance system, and blunt the sensory mismatch that often triggers nausea, dizziness and cold sweats.The company’s own app listing ties the feature closely to the Galaxy

Apple has added a new safeguard in macOS Tahoe 26.4 that warns users before potentially dangerous text is pasted into Terminal, a move aimed at disrupting ClickFix-style scams that trick people into infecting their own devices. The feature appears in the latest macOS release even though Apple’s public feature summary for version 26.4 does not spell it out directly, while the company’s broader security pages confirm 26.4 is the current macOS version and list separate security fixes delivered with the

Apple has begun offering unusual stock awards worth as much as $400,000 to members of its iPhone product design team, moving to shore up one of its most prized groups as OpenAI and other artificial intelligence rivals intensify their push into consumer hardware. The bonuses, reported by Bloomberg, were granted outside Apple’s normal compensation cycle and are structured to vest over four years, tying the awards to employee retention.The move underscores how the contest over AI is no longer

Australia has moved towards court action against Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube after officials said the platforms may have failed to keep children under 16 off their services, escalating a world-first test of how far governments can force technology groups to police the age of their users. The warning follows the first compliance review of the law, which took effect on 10 December 2025 and allows penalties of up to A$49.5 million for each systemic breach.The five platforms

Big Tech’s plan to pour about $635 billion into artificial intelligence infrastructure this year is coming under sharper scrutiny as higher energy costs, grid bottlenecks and tighter financing conditions test the durability of the market’s enthusiasm for the sector. The warning, highlighted by S&P Global Visible Alpha, lands at a delicate moment for equity markets after AI-driven optimism helped lift major indexes through 2025 before momentum faded amid a broader energy shock linked to the Middle East conflict.Microsoft, Amazon,

Google has moved a set of anti-ransomware tools for Drive from beta into full global release, adding a stronger layer of detection and bulk file restoration for organisations using Drive for desktop. The rollout, announced on 31 March, turns ransomware detection on by default for Workspace users, sends alerts to administrators when suspicious encryption activity is detected, and enables file restoration by default to help recover from damage on infected endpoints.The launch marks the formal release of a feature

Global shipments of OLED monitors jumped 92 per cent in 2025, giving Asus the leading position in a fast-growing segment of the display market as falling prices, broader model line-ups and stronger gamer demand pushed the technology further into the mainstream. Industry tracker TrendForce said shipments reached 2.735 million units last year and forecast another 51 per cent rise in 2026, suggesting that momentum is carrying into a new product cycle.Asus finished 2025 with a 21.6 per cent share

DeepSeek is investigating a prolonged disruption that knocked its chatbot offline for more than seven hours in China, in the most serious outage yet for the Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence company since its rise into the global mainstream. The company’s public status page showed web and app service problems began late on Sunday night, rolled into Monday morning, and were not fully marked resolved until 10:33 a. m. China time after a string of updates and monitoring notices.DeepSeek hit by

Rocketlane has raised $60 million in a Series C round led by Insight Partners, as the software company moves to expand an AI-driven platform aimed at professional services teams that are increasingly being asked to turn enterprise AI spending into measurable operating results. The funding, announced on March 25, takes the company’s total capital raised to $105 million and comes as more corporate buyers shift attention from AI pilots to deployment, integration and business outcomes.The company said the new

Artificial intelligence is redrawing the economics of data centres at a speed that is forcing developers, utilities and investors to rethink where digital infrastructure can be built and how it can be financed. A new 2026 marketplace report from Colliers says global investment in data centres topped $580 billion in 2025, up 27 per cent from a year earlier, as hyperscalers and infrastructure groups poured money into facilities built for AI training and inference. The same report says more than

Anthropic’s accidental exposure of internal material about an unreleased AI system dubbed Claude Mythos has jolted investors, sending cybersecurity shares sharply lower and adding to pressure across risk assets, while reviving a deeper debate over whether frontier AI is moving faster than the safeguards meant to contain it. The leaked material, first reported by Fortune on March 26 and 27, described Mythos as Anthropic’s most powerful model yet and said it showed unusually strong performance in coding, reasoning and cybersecurity

London Internet Exchange has completed a broad upgrade of its 17-site LON2 network in the capital, handing Nokia a deeper role in one of the UK’s most important interconnection systems at a time when traffic growth, AI-led workloads and the retirement of older equipment are forcing operators to rethink how core internet infrastructure is built and scaled.The overhaul covers LINX’s secondary London interconnection fabric, known as LON2, which runs alongside the primary LON1 network and is designed to give

Instagram is working on a feature that could let users watch Reels without a live internet connection, according to a leak from app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi that points to automatic downloads and offline playback controls inside the app. The feature has not been announced by Meta, and there is no public timeline for a wider test or launch.The leaked interface suggests Instagram is experimenting with a “Manage offline downloads” setting for Reels, with options to enable automatic downloads, restrict

 Qatari billionaire Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani has taken a stake in German robotics company Neura Robotics, adding Gulf capital to one of Europe’s biggest funding pushes in humanoid and cognitive machines. The investment places the former Qatari prime minister alongside Amazon in Neura’s latest financing, while corporate filings cited by Bloomberg show he became a shareholder through Prime Capital SA, a unit of his holding structure.The move matters beyond a single cap-table change. Neura, based in

Reflection, an artificial intelligence startup supported by Nvidia, is seeking to raise $2.5 billion at a valuation of about $25 billion, positioning itself as a high-profile contender to China’s rapidly advancing open-source AI ecosystem led by DeepSeek.The fundraising effort, still under discussion with investors, underscores intensifying competition between proprietary AI models backed by large capital pools and open-source alternatives gaining traction across Asia and beyond. Reflection’s strategy signals a direct challenge to the cost-efficient, open-weight model approach that has elevated

Google has introduced a significant upgrade to its Gemini platform, enabling users to generate full-length songs of up to three minutes through integration with its advanced Lyria 3 Pro music model, marking a notable step in the evolution of generative artificial intelligence for creative applications.The enhancement positions Gemini as a more competitive tool in the fast-growing field of AI-generated music, where technology firms are racing to refine models capable of producing coherent, structured, and commercially viable compositions. The integration of