France is taking a drastic step to protect kids online. A new bill, passed by the National Assembly, would ban social media access for children under 15 and prohibit mobile phones in high schools. It now heads to the Senate.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and artificial intelligence company xAI are reportedly in talks to merge. This would follow xAI’s $33 billion acquisition of the social platform X last year. The potential deal raises big questions about the future structure of Musk’s sprawling business interests.
Marquis, a Texas-based fintech firm, says a hack at SonicWall led directly to its own data breach. The company is now considering legal action to recoup costs from the cybersecurity provider.
Enterprise AI use is up 50%, but daily workflow adoption is stuck below 60%. The next phase isn’t about access to intelligence, but about turning it into smarter, faster decisions in factories and supply chains.
Wolfspeed has launched a new top-side cooled semiconductor package for its silicon carbide power devices. The TOLT package is built on its Gen 4 MOSFET tech and targets the intense power demands of AI data centers. It’s the second of three planned top-side cooled families from the company.
The South African industrial group Barloworld has been delisted from the JSE and A2X following its acquisition. The new ownership is a 51/49 split between the black-owned Entsha and the Zahid Group, with longtime CEO Dominic Sewela leading the transition.
In a startup world obsessed with speed, South Park Commons is raising $500 million to fund its “anti-accelerator” model. The members-only community lets technologists explore for six months, with no pressure to even start a company.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is clarifying the nature of a major US-Taiwan trade deal involving TSMC. He says the agreement focuses on adding new semiconductor manufacturing capacity globally, not transferring existing output from Taiwan. This comes amid intense geopolitical pressure and Taiwan’s own ene
New data shows ransomware groups are resorting to threats of physical violence and repeated extortion. With 69% of breached organizations paying up, building true cyber resilience is the only way out.
Mark Zuckerberg told analysts to wait 90 days for details, but revealed a staggering plan to spend up to $135 billion by 2026 on AI infrastructure and “superintelligent” agents. The move doubles Meta’s current capex, betting everything that AI can reinvent its core business and finally make smart gl
