California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 53) into law Monday, establishing the first U.S. state regulations for leading AI companies through mandatory transparency and safety reporting requirements.
The bill is the first law in the United States to explicitly regulate the safety of powerful, frontier AI models. While other states have...
Microsoft is reuniting its Windows engineering teams into a single organization under Pavan Davuluri, President of Windows and Devices. The move, announced internally, reverses a 2018 split to accelerate the company’s development of an AI-powered “Agentic OS.”
The internal announcement on a Tuesday in 2025 detailed the consolidation of the Windows client and server teams, a move designed to...
Donald Trump has reiterated his proposal for a 100% tariff on films produced outside the United States, stating the measure is intended to counter what he described as the theft of the American movie industry by other nations.
On Monday, Mr. Trump asserted via his Truth Social platform that the levy would “solve this long time, never ending problem.” He stated, “Our movie making business has been...
Alphabet, YouTube’s parent company, has agreed to pay $24.5 million (£18.6 million) to settle a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump. The suit was brought after the video platform suspended his account following the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Trump’s lawsuit accused YouTube and other tech companies of political bias, claiming they unfairly censored conservative voices. At the time of the 2021...
AI app builder Anything secured an $11 million investment at a $100 million valuation. The company aims to provide end-to-end development tools for non-technical users, addressing a perceived gap in the expanding “vibe-coding” market.
The field of “vibe coding,” where users build software with AI tools via natural language prompts, is undergoing significant expansion. This is evidenced by the...
Gaming company Electronic Arts has agreed to a $55 billion deal to be sold to a consortium that includes Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. The transaction is a leveraged buy-out that will take the publisher private.
The acquisition, valued at £41 billion, represents the largest leveraged buy-out in history, a type of purchase where a considerable...
The blockchain landscape has evolved into a fragmented ecosystem of networks, each with unique architectures, strengths, and limitations. While this diversity fuels innovation, it also creates silos – isolated environments where liquidity, data, and users remain trapped. Just as the early internet needed universal protocols to connect disparate systems, Web3 now demands a new layer of...
The financial industry is undergoing a profound transformation, and nowhere is this more evident than in the consumer lending sector. What was once a slow, paperwork-heavy process dominated by banks and legacy credit scoring models has evolved into a digital-first ecosystem. Advances in data analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation are reshaping how ordinary people apply for, obtain,...
AI company Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.5, a new flagship model that the company positions as its most capable for coding, building complex AI agents, and using computer systems, with significant gains in reasoning and mathematics.
The new model is available now and is accompanied by a new developer toolkit and major updates across the Claude product line.
Sonnet 4.5 features that stand...
Tokenomics is still the main way we make sense of crypto systems. Even as layer-2 networks and decentralised apps proliferate. Ethereum price and valuation activity are still the focal point for market sentiment and structural narratives within the digital asset ecosystem.
The building of blockchains is transforming the old financial world, yet token metrics remain the basis of the ecosystem’s...