Chainalysis estimates North Korean hackers stole over $6B in crypto over the past decade and accounted for ~60% of industry-wide theft losses in 2024 — More than $6 billion from heists highlights the sophistication of cyber operations funneling cash to Kim Jong Un's nuclear program
Big Tech risks losing access to Europe by embracing Trump, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms and letting Chinese companies expand access — How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost — Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.
Survey: 35% of US adults say AI will have a negative impact in the US over the next 20 years, while 56% of AI experts say AI will have a positive impact — The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI. But they share similar views in wanting more personal control …
Spotify rolls out new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada to generate scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as “nutritional” — After finally achieving profitability, the streaming platform wants to be a healthy alternative to “doom scrolling.”
Elon Musk's X and xAI all-stock merger broke Wall Street's usual rules, with the same advisers, Morgan Stanley and Sullivan & Cromwell, working on both sides — The tech titan can follow his own rules when he is combining two companies he owns, but the merger is still raising dealmaker eyebrows
The Wikimedia Foundation says base bandwidth demand for downloading Wikimedia Commons multimedia content is up 50% since January 2024, driven by AI crawlers — Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community - especially for the 144 million images …
Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...
