Under the Radar: U.S. Sanctions Target Cartels in Mexican Gambling Recent U.S. sanctions have put a spotlight on the infiltration of Mexico’s gambling industry by drug cartels, signaling an escalation…
Here is the full newsletter with incorporated citations and a Sources section at the end: The Price of Progress: NS&I’s £1.3 Billion Digital Debacle In a cautionary tale for all…
Digital overhaul at UK’s NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late Summary The National Audit Office (NAO) has found that National Savings & Investments’ (NS&I) business transformation…
Chinese spies told Claude to break into about 30 critical orgs. Some attacks succeeded Summary Anthropic reports a state-backed Chinese threat group (tracked as GTG-1002) used its Claude Code AI…
Baidu answers China’s call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators Summary Baidu has unveiled a new generation of custom AI accelerators as China pushes to reduce dependence on Western…
The human touch: A CIO’s wake-up call on customer service AI Summary Sarah Amsler warns that widespread adoption of AI in customer service — often used as a cost-cutting measure…
Britain’s first small modular reactors to be built in Wales Summary The UK has chosen Wylfa on Anglesey for its first small modular reactor (SMR) plant. The £2.5bn project will…
OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military Summary OpenAI has released open-weight models (gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b) that can run locally and allow access to model weights. That capability…
Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents Summary Microsoft has begun linking datacentres across large distances to create what it calls “Fairwater” superclusters — multi‑datacentre training fabrics intended to…
Google sues 25 China-based scammers behind Lighthouse ‘phishing for dummies’ kit Summary Google has filed a US lawsuit against 25 unnamed China-based defendants it accuses of operating Lighthouse, a phishing-as-a-service…
