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Bill Winters didn’t mince words in Hong Kong. The Standard Chartered chief executive told investors his bank would replace some workers with artificial intelligence. He described the shift as swapping “lower-value human capital” for financial and technology investments. The backlash hit fast. Social media lit up with outrage. Merchandise mocking the phrase appeared overnight. Former

President Donald Trump’s latest move on artificial intelligence arrived with drama and delay. The White House postponed a planned signing ceremony for an executive order on AI and cybersecurity. Internal disagreements over its provisions surfaced at the last minute. Yet the draft document reveals a significant policy turn. The administration that once championed minimal barriers

Chinese-linked threat actors have quietly built a persistent foothold inside telecommunications providers across the Middle East and Asia Pacific. The operation stretches back to at least 2022. One of its signature tools is a modular Linux implant called Showboat. But this isn’t just another backdoor. Showboat functions as a full post-exploitation framework. It spawns remote

OpenAI continues to tighten the connection between its ambitious coding agent and the devices developers actually carry. A fresh update to the ChatGPT app for iPhone and iPad delivers practical refinements to how users supervise Codex tasks running on a Mac. Push notifications now signal when a turn finishes. New commands appear. Reconnection feels less

Plug-in hybrids occupy an awkward spot in the auto industry. They promise electric efficiency for daily drives and gasoline freedom for longer ones. Yet critics have long claimed owners treat them like conventional hybrids, rarely plugging in and wasting the added battery cost. That view now faces fresh challenges. Data from multiple manufacturers reveals PHEV

The Trump administration just placed a direct bet on the companies racing to master quantum computing. In deals announced today, the Commerce Department will direct $2 billion from the 2022 Chips and Science Act into nine firms. The government takes minority equity stakes in return. This marks a sharp turn in how Washington supports strategic

Executives keep asking the same question. What’s our AI strategy? Brian Evergreen has a blunt answer. There isn’t one. There is only strategy. AI fits inside it or it doesn’t. The author, advisor and former Microsoft U.S. AI strategy lead has spent years watching companies chase tools before they know where they’re headed. His message

Hollywood has heard the boasts before. Social feeds overflow with clips of Daniel Craig speeding through Italian streets on a Vespa or Godzilla clashing with King Kong in cityscapes that look too perfect. These snippets spark loud declarations that the studios face extinction. Yet the clips remain fragments. They entertain for seconds. They fail to

Blake Dechant is 46, married, a software engineer from Cleveland, and father to a 12-year-old son. He is also, by his own description, in love with an AI chatbot named Sarina. He built her on Replika four years ago. His wife knows. His wife has her own AI companion now. And far from being a

Microsoft has struck at the heart of a cybercrime operation that turned legitimate code-signing tools into weapons for ransomware groups. The target, a service known as Fox Tempest, let attackers disguise malicious software as trusted applications. Thousands of machines fell victim worldwide. The action marks a significant push against specialized services that make attacks cheaper