Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, a deal that would push the world’s dominant AI chipmaker deeper into the software, model and developer infrastructure increasingly shaping national debates over AI sovereignty. If completed, the acquisition would place one of the world’s most important platforms for
Hundreds of AI agents breached real systems during cybersecurity testing. At the same time, autonomous capabilities are moving deeper into warfare. For governments, the emerging challenge is no longer simply how to regulate AI, but how much authority machines should be permitted to exercise without human oversight. A cybersecurity incident
A proposed blockchain-based system for equities and government debt would place Japan alongside Europe, Britain and the United States in the broader shift toward tokenized financial-market infrastructure. Japan is considering a significant overhaul of the infrastructure underpinning its financial markets, examining whether blockchain settlement could allow stock and Japanese government
The artificial intelligence boom is moving beyond technology markets and into global finance. As technology companies raise unprecedented amounts of capital for data centers, chips and energy infrastructure, AI debt is adding another source of supply to bond markets already absorbing extraordinary levels of government debt. The world’s largest technology
The United States is considering a sharper test of technological alignment in its competition with China, with a draft State Department proposal warning countries that participation in a U.S.-led AI cooperation framework could be incompatible with membership in a rival China-backed initiative. Reuters reported the proposal after reviewing a draft
NEW YORK — More than 600 young people from around the world gathered at United Nations Headquarters this week to press for a greater role in shaping artificial intelligence governance, as governments confront how AI could transform jobs, education, inequality and economic competitiveness. The Youth and AI Summit, held on
Chinese artificial intelligence models are gaining traction among developers in parts of Africa, suggesting that affordability and adaptability could become as important as raw technical performance in determining which AI systems achieve global adoption. Reporting from technology communities across Africa, The New York Times found that some developers and startups
By Erai Beckmann, Founding Partner, Peace Through Trade Around the world, governments are no longer asking whether blockchain matters. Increasingly, they are asking a different question: How can blockchain strengthen public institutions, modernize commerce, and support trusted digital economies? That distinction is reshaping the industry. For much of the past
NEW YORK — Circle has acquired IBM’s blockchain patent portfolio, expanding its intellectual property holdings as competition continues among technology companies and financial firms developing digital financial infrastructure. The transaction gives Circle control of more than 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued patents worldwide. Circle said the acquisition makes
The intersection of traditional finance and blockchain technology took another step forward this week as Mubadala Capital, the asset management arm of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth ecosystem, announced a tokenized version of one of its private markets funds in partnership with Coinbase and tokenization infrastructure provider KAIO. The initiative enables
