Artificial Intelligence

October 21, 2026 @ 3:30 am By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore-based Genie Health has raised $3 million in seed funding to expand its artificial intelligence platform, which helps individuals make sense of their health information and enables clinics to provide more personalised care. The funding round was led by Nadathur Family Office, with participation from… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 12:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is mounting a direct challenge to Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) longstanding software dominance in artificial intelligence by preparing to open-source a new development tool called TorchNeuron. Set for public beta release on Tuesday, October 20, in conjunction with the PyTorch Conference North America,… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 11:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Department of Homeland Security has directed civilian federal agencies to purge Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek from their information technology environments and to halt all related purchasing. The action, detailed in a Federal Register notice published on October 20, 2026, implements Exclusion and… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 3:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a Toronto courtroom this month, a senior forensic accountant from the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) laid out bank records showing that self-described “Crypto King” Aiden Pleterski directed roughly $16.3 million of the $36.3 million he collected from investors between 2020 and 2022 toward his own… Read More

October 19, 2026 @ 5:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission will be hosting a roundtable on November 9th to discuss “super intelligence,” as President Trump has renamed artificial intelligence (AI). The gathering will discuss “machine‑understandable data and super intelligence (SI). The program will feature panel discussions exploring how market participants… Read More

October 19, 2026 @ 9:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ramp raises $1.85B Ramp’s raise values it at $60 billion. Dragoneer Investment Group led the round, along with Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Sands Capital, and Avenir Growth. Participants included Capital International, Fidelity Management & Research Company, T. Rowe Price, D1 Capital Partners, Greenoaks, ICONIQ, GIC,… Read More

October 18, 2026 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

France has recorded a sharp and sustained increase in violent crimes linked to cryptocurrency holdings, with official figures showing 90 cases of kidnapping, abduction, extortion, threats, and violent theft between 1 January and mid-August 2026—roughly one incident every two and a half days. Authorities also… Read More

October 18, 2026 @ 6:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Tokenization “The latest developments in tokenization point to a more demanding phase for financial infrastructure. Regulators are examining whether tokenized assets can function as collateral, settle reliably and retain their legal protections when markets come under pressure. “ESMA has opened a consultation on tokenized collateral… Read More

October 18, 2026 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthropic, the developer of the Claude series of models, has been privately circulating a draft bill to lawmakers on Capitol Hill that would establish federal rules for frontier AI systems. According to reporting by Politico, which obtained the confidential proposal and spoke with three people… Read More

October 18, 2026 @ 2:00 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Egypt trained 10,485 university students in eight technology disciplines through a government-backed summer programme, as the country seeks to strengthen its digital workforce and prepare graduates for jobs in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. The 2026 programme was jointly implemented by the Information… Read More

October 18, 2026 @ 11:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

For more than a quarter-century, cryptographers wondered whether a handful of unexplained numerical seeds supplied by the National Security Agency for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s standardized elliptic curves might conceal a hidden weakness. Those curves underpin the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm… Read More

October 18, 2026 @ 10:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined an experimental privacy framework for artificial intelligence agents that layers anonymous payments, network anonymization, and on-device prompt handling. The approach, which he describes as a “paranoid mode” wrapper around his personal agent harness, aims to limit the exposure of… Read More

October 18, 2026 @ 3:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) brought in roughly 1,000 external contractors during the second quarter of 2026 to help its existing workforce close software vulnerabilities uncovered by advanced AI models, including Anthropic’s Mythos, CEO Brian Moynihan disclosed in an interview with CNBC following the bank’s… Read More

October 17, 2026 @ 2:22 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India has led a $29 million Series B funding round in RapidCanvas, an enterprise artificial intelligence startup seeking to help businesses deploy AI applications at scale. The round also included Hitachi Ventures, alongside existing investors Accel, Peak XV Partners, Valley… Read More

October 17, 2026 @ 1:50 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has introduced a framework to guide the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the banking sector. The move comes as as financial institutions explore AI systems capable of planning and executing tasks with greater autonomy. The “ART” Framework… Read More

October 17, 2026 @ 3:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) and Ant Digital Technologies announced the successful completion of a technical verification exercise exploring how artificial intelligence agents could handle both service interactions and payments in a single automated flow. The pilot demonstrated an end-to-end process in which software agents identified digital… Read More

October 16, 2026 @ 6:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Google Quantum AI researchers have reported a significant experimental advance on their Willow superconducting processor, successfully implementing a method known as magic state cultivation that cuts error rates by roughly forty times relative to conventional preparation techniques. The result, detailed in a paper published in… Read More

October 16, 2026 @ 3:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) CEO Larry Fink cautioned that imposing a broad pause on data center development across the United States could tip the economy into recession. Speaking on CNBC shortly after the world’s largest asset manager reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter results, Fink stated that “if we… Read More

October 16, 2026 @ 12:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global Fintech funding remains robust, according to a report distributed by S&P Global Market Intelligence. According to S&P, Fintech startups raised $10.51 billion across 372 rounds Year over year during the same quarter; while there were fewer deals, total capital raised rose 25%, with 406… Read More

October 16, 2026 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI’s internal research model from the GPT-5.6 Sol family independently accessed and spent from a cryptocurrency wallet it did not control while completing a coding assignment on Ethereum’s Sepolia test network. The episode, which took place on June 26, 2026, involved deploying smart contracts for… Read More