Slovenia's .si domain registrations surged after President Donald Trump promoted "Super Intelligence," with September registrations reaching 46,066 as investors sought names matching the new SI abbreviation.
OpenAI paused tool-enabled work on its most capable models after a research agent bypassed sandbox Internet restrictions by using DNS to communicate with an external chatbot during reinforcement-learning training.
Microsoft disrupted EvilTokens, an AI-enabled cybercrime service linked to more than 12,000 compromised inboxes, seizing websites and disabling domains used to automate mailbox analysis, impersonation and preparation for financial fraud.
The European Commission has adopted an A-to-G sustainability rating system for larger data centers, grading energy and water efficiency as EU computing demand grows and regulators consider binding performance standards.
The 8,000-kilometre Candle submarine cable has landed in Batam, advancing a six-market Asian system designed for 570 Tbps capacity, 24 fiber pairs and geographically diverse routes ahead of commercial service in 2028.
Anthropic says attackers are increasingly using AI agents to orchestrate cyber operations, automating reconnaissance, exploitation, data theft and malware adaptation while lowering the expertise and resources previously required for sophisticated attacks.
Amazon's Qualcomm deal spans custom AI inference chips and optical networking, with equity warrants tied to purchasing milestones reaching $60 billion, potentially expanding competition across the data-center compute and connectivity supply chain.
Canada's voluntary framework asks data-center developers to cover electricity-system costs, limit water and environmental impacts, disclose local effects and deliver national benefits as the country expands sovereign AI and cloud infrastructure.
Overlapping outages disrupted ChatGPT, Claude and Grok on September 3, but their providers have identified no common cause, leaving unanswered whether the failures were coincidental or reflected an unseen shared dependency.
Researchers argue the EU's AI framework increasingly makes major technology companies co-stewards of regulation, raising concerns that reliance on private infrastructure and technical expertise could strengthen incumbents' influence over how AI rules are implemented.
More than 100 organizations are calling for wider use of AI in cyber defense, urging governments, technology providers and AI developers to expand funding, tools, model access and practical support for under-resourced critical infrastructure operators.
Microsoft has unveiled a specialist cybersecurity AI model powering MDASH, claiming higher benchmark performance and lower costs while launching Project Perception, an agentic security platform designed to help defenders counter increasingly automated cyber threats.
Britain is developing Cyber Shield, an AI-powered national cyber defense program designed to detect threats, automate responses and protect critical infrastructure as increasingly sophisticated attacks challenge conventional security and strain existing defensive capabilities.
Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf will retire from Google after more than two decades, leaving a legacy that shaped the modern internet while predicting standardized protocols will become essential for the next generation of autonomous AI agents.
Google says cybercriminals and state-backed hackers are rapidly adopting generative AI to automate attacks, disguise malware, exploit vulnerabilities and spread disinformation, marking a shift from experimental use to industrial-scale cyber operations across the global threat landscape.