Securing Shadow IT in the corporate environment
Securing Shadow IT in the corporate environment

Every organization has two technology environments. The one that IT built, documented, and maintains visibility over, and the one that employees assembled around it to get their work done faster. The second environment is shadow IT, and in most enterpr…

The John Deere repair win isn’t about tractors. It’s about software lock-in
The John Deere repair win isn’t about tractors. It’s about software lock-in

John Deere owners can finally fix their own machines. The US Federal Trade Commission and five states have reached a settlement with the tractor giant that forces it to share the software and tools needed for repairs, the Associated Press reported. It …

Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model
Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model

The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle‘s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an A…

Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation
Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation

Oxylabs has raised $130M from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. It is the company’s first outside investment since it launched in 2015. The deal values the Vilnius-based data infrastructure firm at around $3.6bn. Oxylabs announced the raise on Thursd…

Jack Dorsey’s Block settles Cash App fraud claims with 46 states for $45m
Jack Dorsey’s Block settles Cash App fraud claims with 46 states for $45m

Block, the payments company chaired by Jack Dorsey, has agreed to pay $45 million to settle claims from 46 US states that it mishandled fraud on Cash App, its money-transfer and digital-banking app. The settlement is the latest sign that state regulato…

SK Hynix’s Nasdaq listing draws more than seven times the shares on offer
SK Hynix’s Nasdaq listing draws more than seven times the shares on offer

SK Hynix’s American listing has been more than seven times oversubscribed, according to people familiar with the deal, a sign of heavy demand for one of the largest share sales Wall Street has fielded from a foreign company. The South Korean memory-chi…

Quant fund Qube is hiring human stock pickers to sit beside its algorithms
Quant fund Qube is hiring human stock pickers to sit beside its algorithms

Qube Research & Technologies, one of London’s largest quantitative hedge funds, is doing something that would once have looked heretical for a firm built on code: it is hiring humans to pick stocks. The move, reported by Business Insider, places th…

Taiwan’s central bank chief urges caution on leverage as AI stock rally runs hot
Taiwan’s central bank chief urges caution on leverage as AI stock rally runs hot

Taiwan’s top central banker has urged investors to steer clear of heavy borrowing to chase the island’s surging stock market, a rally powered by global demand for the AI hardware that Taiwanese firms supply. Yang Chin-long, governor of the Central Bank…

Europe’s sovereign AI ambition risks stalling on data centre limits, new research warns
Europe’s sovereign AI ambition risks stalling on data centre limits, new research warns

Europe’s drive for sovereign AI has rarely looked more urgent, yet the infrastructure meant to carry it may not be ready. As Washington tightens access to its most capable models and Brussels leans harder into the case for European AI sovereignty, a ne…

Half of parents worry their children rely on AI too much, survey finds
Half of parents worry their children rely on AI too much, survey finds

Artificial intelligence has moved out of the office and the university lecture hall and into the primary school classroom, and a fresh survey suggests plenty of parents are uneasy about it. Half of those polled said they were worried their child “relie…