Category: AI
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The $1 Million Password: How One Infostealer Campaign Exposed the Gap Between Enterprise Security Rhetoric and Reality
One criminal leveraged old stolen passwords and a lack of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to quietly breach roughly 50 large enterprises—showcasing that the weakest link in cloud security is not technology, but basic governance and accountability. This campaign, run by a threat actor known as Zestix or Sentap, is a case study in how organizations can…
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The Compliance Countdown: How the EU AI Act’s Enforcement Phase Is Reorganizing Global AI
Europe’s AI Act has moved from legislative theory to regulatory reality, and the clock is now ticking toward its most consequential deadline: 2 August 2026, when the core obligations for high‑risk AI systems and enforcement powers fully bite. For global businesses, this is no longer a “future regulation” but a rapidly hardening compliance regime that…
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Playing Checkers While China Builds Chess: How the U.S.–China Race in Chips and AI Is Rewriting the Global Tech Order
U.S.–China competition in chips, AI, and advanced manufacturing is crystallizing into a long-term structural race: the United States holds a widening hardware and fabrication lead, while China is choosing to sacrifice performance for sovereignty, betting that domestic capacity and energy advantages will eventually erode Washington’s leverage. The Trump administration’s decision to approve exports of Nvidia’s…
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The EU’s Quiet AI Revolution: How the AI Act Is Rewiring Global Rules for Artificial Intelligence
Europe’s Quiet AI Revolution: How the EU Is Rewriting the Rules While the World Watches The European Union is no longer debating whether to regulate artificial intelligence—it is already doing it. Since the EU’s AI Act entered into force on August 1, 2024, Europe has been methodically switching on a comprehensive set of rules that…
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From TikTok to Gmail: How €3 Billion in GDPR Fines Are Rewriting the Rules for AI, Adtech and Global Data Flows
Regulators in Europe are reshaping the data protection landscape, with GDPR fines hitting unprecedented levels and increasingly targeting AI systems, adtech practices, and cross‑border data flows. From TikTok’s €530 million penalty for China transfers to Google’s sanctions for manipulative consent flows, enforcement is no longer a theoretical risk—it is a structural business reality that organizations…
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The Federalism Battle Over AI: How Trump’s Executive Order Could Reshape Tech Regulation
The Trump administration’s new executive order on artificial intelligence is more than a deregulatory maneuver—it is the opening shot in a high‑stakes federalism fight that will determine who sets the rules for one of the most consequential technologies of the century. By moving aggressively to preempt state AI laws, threaten litigation, and condition billions in…
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The April Gambit: Why Trump’s Beijing Visit Could Decide Whether AI Becomes a Weapon or a Tool
Trump’s planned April 2026 visit to Beijing is not just another high‑stakes summit between the world’s two most powerful leaders. It is emerging as a turning point that will help determine whether artificial intelligence (AI) becomes primarily a weapon of strategic competition or a tool embedded in shared safety norms and crisis protocols. For all…
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The $262 Million Security Theater: How MFA Failures and Three‑Year‑Old Passwords Fueled a Global Infostealer Breach
A single criminal campaign has exposed a structural weakness at the heart of modern enterprise security: organizations are spending heavily on advanced tools while still allowing three‑year‑old stolen passwords to unlock terabytes of their most sensitive data. Over roughly a year, a threat actor known as Zestix (aka Sentap) quietly breached about 50 global enterprises…
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Federalism on Trial: How Trump’s AI Crackdown Pits States’ Rights Against Tech Innovation
The 2026 fight over artificial intelligence in the United States is rapidly becoming a defining test of American federalism, pitting a deregulatory White House against states that have moved aggressively to police algorithmic harms. At the center of the clash is a new AI Litigation Task Force inside the Department of Justice, which begins operations…
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Racing Against the AI Clock: How the Pentagon Is Automating Its Cybersecurity Fortress
The Pentagon is racing to secure an AI‑enabled military at the same speed that new AI threats emerge. To break out of a human‑limited, episodic testing model, the Department of Defense (DOD) is moving from traditional red‑team exercises to autonomous purple‑team operations—AI systems that continuously attack, defend, and validate the security of battlefield and enterprise…