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Pacific Northwest national lab unveils generative Artificial Intelligence cyber defense tool

15 Jan 2026

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a generative Artificial Intelligence system called Aloha that can rapidly simulate and adapt cyberattacks, offering defenders a faster way to reconstruct and test intrusions. The project highlights how U.S. national labs are turning years of classified Artificial Intelligence cyber research into practical defensive tools.

artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, defense technology, national laboratories

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Cyber remains top UK business risk as artificial intelligence climbs Allianz rankings

15 Jan 2026

Cyber incidents stayed at the top of UK corporate risk concerns in the latest Allianz Risk Barometer, while artificial intelligence risks jumped sharply up the rankings. The shift underscores how technology issues are reshaping how businesses prioritise threats.

artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, insurance, risk management

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Musical artificial intelligence platform raises $4.5M US for attribution technology expansion

15 Jan 2026

Musical artificial intelligence has raised $4.5M US to scale its proprietary attribution and rights management platform, which traces how licensed content informs generative artificial intelligence outputs and ensures creators are credited and paid.

artificial intelligence, copyright, music industry, startups

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Trump imposes 25% tariff on select Artificial Intelligence chips over security concerns

15 Jan 2026

The Trump administration has imposed a 25% tariff on certain high-end Artificial Intelligence chips in a move framed as a national security measure, while carving out broad exemptions for key domestic users such as data centers and startups.

artificial intelligence, semiconductors, trade policy, us politics

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Trump uses Section 232 to impose 25% tariff on Nvidia and AMD advanced chips

15 Jan 2026

United States president Donald Trump has invoked Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to immediately impose a 25% tariff on a narrow set of advanced Nvidia and AMD semiconductors, citing national security concerns over United States dependence on overseas chip manufacturing.

artificial intelligence, semiconductors, trade policy, us politics

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Trump approval for Nvidia artificial intelligence chip sales to China faces criticism

15 Jan 2026

U.S. lawmakers and former officials are challenging President Donald Trump's decision to let Nvidia sell its second most powerful artificial intelligence chips to China, arguing the move could weaken U.S. leverage over Beijing and aid Chinese military capabilities.

artificial intelligence, national security, semiconductors, us-china relations

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Digital assets in 2026: regulation, interoperability and Artificial Intelligence convergence

15 Jan 2026

Digital assets moved from experimentation to adoption in 2025, and 2026 is set to test whether regulation, market infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence integration can support mainstream, large scale use cases across finance. Legislators, regulators and industry are now focused on cash settlement, interoperability, data protection and the interaction of distributed ledger technology with Artificial Intelligence and privacy law.

artificial intelligence, data protection, digital assets, financial regulation

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Debating capital intensity and financing in technology startups

15 Jan 2026

A Hacker News discussion dissects whether technology companies are truly less capital intensive than other industries, and how that shapes founders' wealth and financing choices in the era of large language models.

artificial intelligence, finance, startups, venture capital

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Sodium-ion batteries and China’s confident tech outlook

15 Jan 2026

Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as an alternative to lithium-ion for vehicles and the grid, while Chinese firms exude confidence at CES and a startup pushes experimental gene therapies targeting muscle growth and longevity.

artificial intelligence, biotechnology, china, energy technology

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Nvidia reportedly delays GeForce RTX 50 series Super refresh amid artificial intelligence push

15 Jan 2026

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 50 series Super graphics cards were absent from CES 2026, with a reported indefinite delay tied to shifting production toward more profitable artificial intelligence server and compute products.

artificial intelligence, graphics cards, pc hardware, semiconductors

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Nvidia expands Bionemo platform for artificial intelligence driven drug discovery

14 Jan 2026

Nvidia has significantly expanded its Bionemo platform to connect artificial intelligence models directly with laboratory workflows, aiming to cut drug discovery costs and speed up research.

artificial intelligence, drug discovery, healthcare, semiconductors

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Gen and Intel push on device artificial intelligence deepfake detection

14 Jan 2026

Cyber safety company Gen is partnering with Intel to bring on device artificial intelligence deepfake detection to consumer hardware, targeting scams that hide inside long form video and synthetic audio. New research from Gen suggests most deepfake enabled fraud now emerges during extended viewing sessions rather than through obvious phishing links.

artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, deepfakes