At TED 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced tough questions on AI ethics, artist compensation, and the risks of autonomous agents in a tense interview with TED’s Chris Anderson, revealing new details about OpenAI’s explosive growth and future plans. [...]
The Federal Communications Commission has given the go ahead for two of the US' biggest cable providers, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, to merge. Charter announced its intention to acquire Cox for $34.5 billion in May 2025, with specific plans to inherit Cox's managed IT, commercial fiber and cloud businesses, while folding the company's residential cable service int [...]
Visa has agreed to acquire BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash, buying a fraud-detection company whose models judge who is at the keyboard during an online banking session. The payments network announced the signed agreement on August 3, 2026, and is buying the business from funds advised by the private equity firm Permira along with other shareholders. The deal moves Visa's fraud tooling well [...]