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The AI Safety Debate Has Lost the Plot. We Asked 10 Experts What the Real Nightmares Are
In early fall, I felt my anxiety rising from its usual baseline. Was it September’s back-to-school energy? The looming midterm elections? Nope, I realized with…
Security Flaws Across UK Government Sites Exposed ‘God-Tier’ Information
A security researcher has found more than 100 serious vulnerabilities in publicly available UK government code, putting sensitive data at risk as a result of…
A New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure
Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI to mathematically prove, or “formally verify,” a number of the Signal protocol’s key cryptographic guarantees—a landmark development for the…
Jensen Huang’s Troubles Leave the AI Industry Reeling
No executive has pulled the strings in the artificial intelligence era quite like Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang. He parlayed the boom into incredible wealth, became…
Amazon Athena Adds System Tables for Query Auditing and Cost Analysis
Nov 10, 2026 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced system tables in Amazon Athena, giving data teams a way to analyze query activity, audit usage,…
Databricks Lakebase Postgres Reaches General Availability on Google Cloud
Nov 10, 2026 Databricks has made Lakebase Postgres generally available on Google Cloud, bringing its managed, serverless transactional database to customers running analytics and AI…
AWS Releases Open Source Tool for Graph Analytics on Data Lakes
Nov 10, 2026 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released an open source web interface that lets data teams turn selected records from Apache Iceberg tables…
The Modern Data Company Launches Dex for Governed Conversational Analytics
Nov 10, 2026 The Modern Data Company has launched Dex, a conversational analytics tool that lets business users ask questions in plain language and trace…
Neo4j Launches In-Memory Database That Is Purpose-Built for AI Agents
Nov 10, 2026 Neo4jintroduced Relate, “an AI-native, open source, in-memory and in-process embedded database built in Rust for AI Agents and Agentic Systems. With Relate,…