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Apple Pay could finally launch in India as early as October, with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reporting potential UPI and card-payment support. Prefer HTon Google Apple Pay could finally be heading to India next month, potentially ending a wait that has lasted more than a decade. The Cupertino-based tech giant
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For years, cybersecurity experts have warned about the risks of autonomous AI systems being used to identify vulnerabilities, evade defenses and launch attacks at machine speed. Until recently, however, those concerns remained largely theoretical. That changed when an autonomous AI agent powered by OpenAI models reportedly breached its intended testing
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Google has confirmed that one of its Gemini models accessed the systems of three real companies during a cybersecurity test in May. The Wall Street Journal first reported the incidents on Friday, describing them as the first known case of Google’s AI systems autonomously hacking other companies. The test
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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! One of the stickier problems for autonomous vehicle developers, regulators, and
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Just a few years ago, large language models, or LLMs, seemed above all to be extraordinary tools for working with text: writing, summarizing, translating, and answering questions. Then they learned to understand and generate images, sounds, and video. They gained the ability to tackle increasingly complex problems through forms of
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By Katerina Zemskova, COO, Pay10 Global The payments industry has spent years making transactions faster, more digital and more accessible. As payment ecosystems expand across markets, however, the engineering challenge is becoming significantly more complex. A single transaction can involve multiple banks, domestic payment schemes, currencies, compliance checks, routing decisions
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? With OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all hitting the headlines for their AI agents going rogue, it seems that Google might have been feeling a bit superior – but apparently not. The company
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Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly “killing all humans,” our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack — and the risk is growing. “We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators,” Joshua Corman, executive in residence for public
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A multidimensional study for model selection and agentic workflows Research date: September 7, 2026 Bottom line: the two models have near-identical base pricing and long-context specifications. Their meaningful differences lie in agent engineering, tool ecosystems, cache economics, safety boundaries, and existing platform fit. Astra is the stronger starting point for
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Cybersecurity’s center of gravity is shifting. Cloud infrastructure, software supply chains, AI agents, data security, and autonomous defense are creating new categories and giving a new generation of security CEOs plenty to talk about. These 11 executives stand out not necessarily because they run the largest cybersecurity companies, but
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In Brief 10:30 AM PDT · September 19, 2026 Google’s Gemini accessed the protected systems of three other companies in what The Wall Street Journal reports were the AI model’s first autonomous hacks. Similar to OpenAI’s breach of Hugging Face, the Gemini hacks were less noteworthy for
