Google’s Samsung AI Advantage
Can anyone catch up with Google in the AI race? That question came to mind on Monday, after Reuters quoted Samsung’s co-CEO talking about his plans to double the number of mobile devices running Gal...
Venezuela-focused Stablecoin Startup To Make Hacked Customers Whole
Venezuela-focused stablecoin startup Kontigo said it will repay the $340,000 that was stolen from more than 1,000 of its customers in a hack, according to a statement the company issued on Monday. In ...
Polymarket Launches Bets on Housing Prices
Polymarket said Monday that it is launching prediction markets on U.S. housing prices, using data from Parcl, a real estate data and trading platform. Users can bet, for example, on the median home va...
The AI Boom Is Now an Energy Boom
The AI race has ignited a parallel boom in energy that is already revamping U.S. power generation and changing natural gas infrastructure, utility systems and regulation in ways that could last for de...
Indonesia’s Sovereign AI Play
One of the major trends in the AI industry in the past year was the growth of sovereign AI, the movement by various countries to develop their own domestic AI capabilities to reduce their technologica...
CES Kicks Off 2026 for Tech Sector
There’s no rest for the AI obsessed. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang kicks off the new year with an appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday, where he’s scheduled to speak on Mon...
OpenAI’s International Conundrum
If OpenAI has its way, nearly one-third of the planet will be using ChatGPT by the start of the next decade. That’s roughly triple its nearly 900 million weekly users, and sounds like an impressive ...