Pacific Northwest national lab unveils generative Artificial Intelligence cyber defense tool
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.
Cyber remains top UK business risk as artificial intelligence climbs Allianz rankings
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.
Musical artificial intelligence platform raises $4.5M US for attribution technology expansion
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.
Trump imposes 25% tariff on select Artificial Intelligence chips over security concerns
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.
Trump uses Section 232 to impose 25% tariff on Nvidia and AMD advanced chips
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.
Trump approval for Nvidia artificial intelligence chip sales to China faces criticism
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.
Digital assets in 2026: regulation, interoperability and Artificial Intelligence convergence
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.
Debating capital intensity and financing in technology startups
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.
Sodium-ion batteries and China’s confident tech outlook
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.
Nvidia reportedly delays GeForce RTX 50 series Super refresh amid artificial intelligence push
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.