Malicious hackers will outpace defenders in their deployment of AI tools in the coming year, ethical hacker and SocialProof Security CEO Rachel Tobac told Axios.
Why it matters: It's not just businesses that will have to worry about hackers stealing intellectual property and customer data.
President Trump launched an hours-long Truth Social posting spree late Monday night as he lashed out at political rivals and boosted supporters' messages about his accomplishments.
By the numbers: Trump made 158 posts from 9pm Monday to 12am Tuesday, per an Axios analysis, a rate of nearly one post per minute.
Nvidia's CFO on Tuesday rejected the argument that competitors are catching up to the world's most valuable company and insisted that the AI economy is not in a bubble.
Why it matters: Nvidia briefly passed the $5 trillion market cap threshold in October, becoming the first company to do so, but the stock is down more than 11% over the last month amid concern about competition.
Amazon Web Services announced a flurry of new chips and models on Tuesday along with a new offering that allows businesses to integrate their own data to train custom versions of frontier models.
Why it matters: Amazon is trying to define itself as more than just a low-cost cloud provider to run other companies' models.
Pressure from President Trump to block state-level AI regulation is falling short on Capitol Hill.
Why it matters: The White House and Hill allies have landed on an AI preemption proposal and are pressing ahead, but time is running out and opposition is mounting.
The U.S. government has agreed to invest $150 million into xLight, a Silicon Valley-based developer of new technologies for semiconductor manufacturing.
Why it matters: This would be the Trump administration's first new award under the CHIPS Act, a Biden-era law designed to boost domestic chip production and research.
An AI tool that Claude uses to automate tasks can be easily weaponized to execute ransomware, Cato Networks found in new research shared first with Axios.
Why it matters: Hiding malicious code inside third-party tools is nothing new, but now it's creeping into the AI plug-ins and automation scripts that engineers, developers and other corporate workers are rapidly adopting.
Tech mogul Michael Dell said Tuesday he will pledge $6.25 billion to fund 25 million "Trump accounts" for kids.
Why it matters: The massive gift, likely one of the largest ever to benefit children, will extend the reach of the new child investment accounts beyond those made eligible by the "big beautiful bill."
Growth will slow and inflation will rise in the U.S. next year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development forecast Tuesday, as the labor market weakens and tariff price pressures remain.
The big picture: The pessimistic forecast has an even gloomier caveat: Things could get worse if the AI-driven stock market bubble were to burst.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday endorsed the idea of cellphone bans in high schools, becoming the latest world leader to back restrictions on teen tech and social media use.
Why it matters: Data continues to suggest a correlation between children's smartphone use and poor mental and physical health.
Though President Trump was named Time Magazine's "2024 Person of the Year," something — rather than someone — may be in the running for the title this year: Artificial Intelligence.
The big picture: Time's Person of the Year issue has been published for nearly a century, but Polymarket predicts this could be only the second time a non-human wins the designation — edging out contenders like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Pope Leo XIV and Trump.
The publisher of the "Franklin the Turtle" children's books series said Monday it condemns the unauthorized use of the beloved character, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared an image of him apparently firing at drug boats.
The big picture: Hegseth posted the image to his personal X account amid reports questioning the legality of adeadly strike on a suspected drug boat near Venezuela that prompted some congressional lawmakers to warn that, if substantiated, the deaths could violate the laws of war.
