AI news flash: Kasikornbank, Thailand’s second-largest bank, plans to use artificial intelligence to expand the customer base of its wealth management business, CEO Kattiya Indaravijaya said in an interview in Bangkok. Banks across Asia are leaning harder into wealth management as the interest rate environment stays uncertain, and it’s a business segment that keeps growing. According to the article excerpt, Katt…
AI news flash: Google’s in-house AI chip, the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), has become a ‘key contributor’ to revenue growth. As the AI infrastructure investment boom continues, demand for the search giant’s own AI chips keeps climbing, challenging Nvidia’s long-held dominance. The original summary only gives this overview and doesn’t disclose TPU …
AI news flash: Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group has landed underwriting roles in two major US initial public offerings (IPOs), Anthropic and SpaceX, building on the experience it gained from past SoftBank-related deals. Per the original summary, this is another landmark-scale listing for the Japanese financial group after SpaceX…
AI news flash: At the CFTC’s first Frontier Forum, CFTC Chair Michael Selig said that imagining a fridge that earns money by staking Ether to buy groceries on its own, or even launches its own memecoin, is ’no longer science fiction,’ and argued regulators must adapt to a financial system where AI agents can hold assets and execute trades autonomously. He cited what Trump calls ‘superintelligence’ (SI), describing it as real as the printing press, the steam engine, and the internet…
AI news flash: The UK government is urging people to prepare for emergencies, while security incidents have piled up over the past week. Cloud platform Railway disclosed that attackers accessed and decrypted customer credentials and API keys, likely targeting AI service providers. Medical testing giant Quest Diagnostics confirmed a patient health data breach. Eight certificate authorities run by India’s eMudhra used weak keys, which could let attackers impersonate trusted sites…
AI news flash: Legora is a legal tech company that, according to OpenAI, combines OpenAI’s models, ChatGPT, and Codex to speed up lawyers’ day-to-day legal workflows. The original summary says the combination is used in three main ways: first, speeding up legal workflows so time-consuming document and case work gets shorter; second, expanding the scope of contract analysis so teams can handle more…
AI news flash: OpenAI and ServiceNow are expanding their partnership with two-way integration of each other’s products. OpenAI’s models and AI agents will come to the ServiceNow platform, so enterprises can call on them directly inside their existing ServiceNow workflows for automation and service management. In the other direction, ServiceN…
AI news flash: Gemini 4 Carbon is Google DeepMind’s new flagship model, built around state-of-the-art cybersecurity capabilities and long-horizon task handling. It ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 with a score of 59, with big gains in coding and agentic tasks. On the security side, Carbon scores 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploiting them, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching…
AI news flash: Bank of America recently emailed customers a message titled ‘Protecting your finances in the AI World’, explicitly urging them not to give their online banking username and password to anyone else or any outside service, including AI tools or AI agents that claim they can act on their behalf. The background is that as personal AI assistants become more common, more and more users are handing their login details straight to AI…
AI news flash: The AI boom is sending electricity demand soaring across the US. Critics say the flood of new grid connections is stress-testing an aging grid, likely pushing up power bills in the short term and possibly causing outages or other technical problems in the long term. But at TechCrunch Disrupt this month, WeaveGrid founder and CEO Apoorv Bhargava, Veir CEO Tim Hei…