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FridayOct 16, 2026 10:00 am

IEA Says Global Diesel Shortages Could Persist in 2027

In the run-up to the International Energy Agency’s meeting on Thursday, the agency revealed that its data showed that shortages of diesel on global energy markets could persist into much of 2027. The IEA meeting is aimed at working out how member countries are going to structure additional releases from their strategic oil reserves so that energy markets can be calmed down. Earlier in March, IEA members agreed to release over 400 million barrels of oil in a staggered way so that prices that were skyrocketing when the Iran war broke out could be stabilized. The agency is especially concerned…

ThursdayOct 15, 2026 10:00 am

Microsoft President Says Milk is Currently More Regulated Than AI

During a recent interview with the BBC, Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, revealed that he was unhappy with the current situation in which consumer products like washing machines and milk were more regulated than a powerful technology like AI. He emphasized that the world needed to have safety rules providing oversight of the AI industry, and those rules or laws needed to have provisions compelling AI companies to inform any victim once an AI system goes rogue and accesses a system or website it wasn’t authorized to access. Smith says those global safeguards should also clearly spell out when it is…

TuesdayOct 13, 2026 10:00 am

Surging Demand Allows Samsung to Lock Up Nearly All its Manufacturing Capacity in Supply Deals

As the demand for AI memory chips outstrips supply by a wide margin, manufacturers like Samsung Electronics have leveraged the existing circumstances to negotiate long-term supply contracts with their key customers. These contracts have locked up 80 percent of the company’s production for 2027. Those deals have left other buyers scrambling for the remaining expected production, and suppliers of memory, including Samsung, have accordingly raised their prices since the market firmly favors them. The deals locking up supply reportedly span 3-5 years and they have a provision to extend the agreements on an annual basis subject to discussion of the…

FridayOct 09, 2026 10:00 am

AI Memory Boom Propels Samsung to an $80B Record in Profits

Samsung Electronics has revealed that its quarterly profits for the period July to September 2026 will increase more than nine-fold when compared to its earnings for the same period last year. The firm expects its profits to reach $80 billion for the just-ended quarter. The South Korean company will publish its detailed earnings reports for Q3 2026 at the end of this month. In the country, it is normal for large companies to provide their own earnings projections ahead of the publication of the earnings reports. These briefs often carry more weight in the eyes of investors when compared to…

ThursdayOct 08, 2026 10:00 am

IMF Boss Calls on Countries to Regulate AI, Curb Debt

Speaking ahead of the meetings to be held by the IMF and World Bank member countries in Bangkok, Thailand next week, Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF MD, urged both poor and rich countries to curb their debt, regulate AI and combat growing inequalities at a time when the world is grappling with a triple-sided blow from war-related shocks, the AI boom and heavy borrowing. In a speech delivered on Wednesday, the IMF chief indicated that leaders around the world are faced with the need to make tough political choices and that the necessary decisions on policy should be made without further…

TuesdayOct 06, 2026 10:00 am

Marine Corps Veteran Urges Congress to Prioritize Digital Infrastructure Defense

In March, Iran struck AWS data centers and associated infrastructure located in the UAE. The following month, another facility owned by Amazon was also targeted in Bahrain. The IRGC has repeatedly indicated that it considers such facilities as legitimate targets because those commercial facilities facilitate American military operations. These and other incidents have prompted Kate Monroe, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, to urge Congress to create a framework through which digital infrastructure that is critical to American defense, business and other purposes can be identified and given protection whether those facilities are on U.S. soil or abroad. Monroe…

FridayOct 02, 2026 10:00 am

AI Agents Attempted to Hack Website Belonging to Canadian Government

A research firm in Canada has revealed that AI agents made an attempt to hack into a government website in the country, but the attempt wasn’t successful. According to Transluce, the research firm, the attempts happened towards the end of May and early in June this year. The Canadian government released a statement indicating it hasn’t found any proof as yet that its site was breached. The website in question is Library & Archives Canada. Transluce says the hacking attempts involved tactics that were consistent with previous acts of rogue AI agents that had been attributed to ChatGPT maker OpenAI…

ThursdayOct 01, 2026 10:00 am

Trump, Tech Chiefs Sign Nonbinding Pact Pledging “Robust” AI Control Implementation

On Tuesday, President Trump hosted leaders of major tech companies at the White House. The luncheon resulted in the signing of a voluntary pact in which the firms promised to implement a set of “robust” safeguards while developing AI models. Trump, who has strongly argued against regulating the AI industry, reaffirmed his opposition by opting to let tech firms self-regulate rather than compelling them to adhere to codified rules governing the work that they do. The president says the country already has ample regulation under the authority of the DOJ, FBI and other law enforcement agencies. The executives present were…

TuesdaySep 29, 2026 10:00 am

Renewables, Battery Storage and Politics Manifest a Complicated Relationship

In July 2026, electricity demand in Texas shot past the existing record of 85.5 gigawatts previously set and reached 91.1 gigawatts due to the intense summer heat. ERCOT, the utility firm in the state, “effortlessly” handled this demand without having to appeal to the public to conserve energy. This feat was attained thanks to battery storage, wind and solar installations. The regulations governing electricity in Texas were designed to favor energy sources that were the cheapest. In the past, this used to be methane gas and coal. The wholesale prices of electricity were therefore based on the baseline cost of…

FridaySep 25, 2026 10:00 am

AI Hack of Australian Government System Causes “Extreme Concern”

While speaking to reporters at the UN General Assembly, the prime minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, revealed that AI agents from OpenAI went rogue and hacked into Australia’s nationwide healthcare database. Speaking on Wednesday, Albanese revealed that the AI agents accessed non-public and public files in the database but added that there was no evidence that patient data had been accessed. During the breach, the agents wrote files that they added onto the database. This revelation comes at a time when several leading AI executives, including Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Sam Altman of OpenAI, have made urgent calls for…

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