Key takeaways AI-exposed companies are heavily investing in CapEx to build the infrastructure capable of sustaining current and future AI demand Bears see similarities with the dot-com bubble: too many startups, stretched valuations, and execution risk Bulls argue that AI is more about infrastructure, rather than software, with long-term pricing power and stickier usage The…

Meanwhile, California Attorney General Rob Bonta – who represented one of the leading states in the Meta lawsuit – said he was “looking to ensure” TikTok adopted similar measures to Meta. In agreeing on Wednesday to make various changes to end the states’ lawsuit, Meta said they would only be truly effective “if all our…

With roughly 85% of the AI chip market, Nvidia’s share has only one way to go. But a smaller slice of a much larger market could still mean more sales, says Umesh Padval, a Managing Partner at Seligman Ventures. “If the deal goes through, I think it’s a brilliant chess move.” Nvidia has thrown its…

As the UAE marks Emirati Women’s Day 2026 under the theme “We Emerge Stronger and Better”, the occasion offers an opportunity to reflect on the growing role of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Across the country, Emirati women are increasingly contributing to advanced industries, from artificial intelligence (AI) and aerospace to…

Ads and tracking have turned TVs into privacy nightmares. Both are so widespread among smart TVs that I’ve written a guide for avoiding them. One recommendation in that guide is to use a computer monitor. But in recent years, monitors have become more capable of pushing ads and tracking users. Without more straightforward approaches from…

Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code. At least one misconfigured site is directing visitors, human or AI, to live malware. The potentially…

Intel launched its first six Alder Lake-S processors on Wednesday evening. The SKUs forming the initial roaster of 12th gen Intel Core processors can be found detailed below in a table. Briefly, they are the Intel Core i9-12900K/KF, the Intel Core i7-12700K/KF, and the Intel Core i5-12600K/KF. From the suffixes, seasoned Bit-Tech-ies will know these…

Robot vacuums can clean floors on their own, but there is still plenty of maintenance involved. Brushes collect hair, dustbins need emptying, and mops need to be washed and dried between cleaning sessions. Roborock’s new Qrevo 2 Pro is built in a way to reduce some of that work. The robot vacuum offers 25,000Pa of…

Cutting corners: Every blank area is a potential advertising space, whether it’s on the side of a building or the back of a MacBook. People already inadvertently use that area, as is clear from the rows of laptop lids covered in stickers you’d spot at any cafe – a fair few of them featuring big-name…

Key Takeaways: Introducing Moltbook, an AI-only social network: Launched in January 2026, the Reddit-like platform lets autonomous agents post, comment, and interact while humans observe. Agents share more than jokes and code: Posts range from bug fixes and workflows to leaked credentials and even an AI-created religion. A major security flaw exposed sensitive data: An…

A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI, have signed an open letter calling on countries and organisations around the world to beef up their cyber defences before AI grows powerful enough to override them. The letter warns, external cyber-attacks which use AI will become both more widespread and more sophisticated in…

Government debt-service costs rising relative to government revenue to unacceptably squeeze out spending.  The supply of government debt becoming too large relative to demand for it, causing long-term interest rates to rise faster than short-term rates. The government treasury shortening the maturity of its debt sales to reduce the supply of bond sales. The currency…