The European Commission has escalated its scrutiny of Big Tech by launching a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s use of online content to train its generative AI models. Centered on concerns around fair competition and potentially unauthorized use of publishers’ and platforms’ data, the probe reflects broader regulatory anxiety around AI’s rapid proliferation. Announced on…

Jeffrey Katzenberg, a towering figure in Hollywood with credits ranging from Disney’s renaissance era to co-founding DreamWorks, has now firmly repositioned himself in Silicon Valley. His latest strategic moves reflect a focused commitment to enterprise artificial intelligence (AI), not just as an investor but as a sectoral architect. Through his investment company WndrCo, Katzenberg is…

IBM’s recent announcement to acquire Confluent for $11 billion has sent ripples across the technology landscape. With this acquisition, IBM aims to reinforce its enterprise AI and data services arsenal, tapping into Confluent’s real-time data streaming capabilities built on Apache Kafka. Announced on December 8, 2025, this transaction signals IBM’s most assertive move yet to…

In a recent public statement, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spotlighted a widening gap between the United States and China in their ability to build and deploy artificial intelligence-era data centers. While the U.S. races to scale its AI infrastructure with massive capital allocations and public-private coordination, Huang warned that China is falling significantly behind, not…

In recent months, a particularly nuanced and alarming application of artificial intelligence has emerged: AI-generated deepfakes using the identities and voices of real, licensed doctors to spread medically inaccurate or even dangerous advice on social media platforms. This trend compounds two existing challenges—the erosion of online trust and the persistent issue of health misinformation—with the…

In a market climate that has oscillated between cautious capital preservation and speculative revival, the resurgence of large venture funding rounds in early 2025 is signaling renewed investor confidence. Despite macroeconomic headwinds and high-interest monetarist policies that defined much of 2023 and 2024, several mega-rounds have surfaced across biotechnology, fintech, AI infrastructure, and predictive markets….