Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026 (Jennah Haque/Bloomberg)
Inside Consensus Conference, one of the biggest crypto conferences, which had a decidedly corporate sheen in 2026 amid Wall Street's embrace of digital assets (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers (Anthropic)
Instructure disables its Canvas edtech platform, used by thousands of schools and universities, amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
Specialist chipmaker Silex raised ~$220M in a Stockholm IPO and jumps nearly 160% in trading, the strongest open for a sizable European IPO in almost five years (Bloomberg)
Source: Samsung offered to allocate ~13% of operating profit to chip division staff; unions threaten an 18-day walkout, seeking a 15% share and a 7% wage hike (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)