Harvard University's endowment posted a 27.1% return in fiscal year 2026 — its best in five years — reaching nearly $68 billion, with a $2.2 billion SpaceX position serving as the portfolio's largest single holding.
A proxyjacking campaign has silently hijacked at least 143 D-Link, Ubiquiti, and other edge devices across 34 countries, enrolling victims' internet connections into a commercial residential proxy network to generate unauthorized payouts, according to GreyNoise.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said speed-based restrictions on SpaceX's Starshield military satellite service disrupted drone intercept operations and contributed to civilian deaths, while Elon Musk attributed control of the system to the U.S. government.
Amazon unveiled the $75 Bee Frontier wearable and $100 Bee Eclipse smartphone-mounted recorder on Thursday, the first hardware update to its Bee AI listening device lineup since acquiring the San Francisco startup in July 2025.
Ukraine's sudden loss of access to Starshield, SpaceX's military satellite service, has intensified tensions between President Trump and Senate Republicans while raising questions about who controls the $6 billion government-contracted network.
SK Hynix fell more than 10% and Samsung dropped 7.1% as Asian chip stocks extended a Wall Street sell-off driven by fears of further Federal Reserve rate hikes and mounting concerns over the cost of financing AI infrastructure projects.
Federal prosecutors say OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan had booked one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia for himself and family members before his Oct. 9 arrest on charges of secretly installing a recording device in an executive conference room.
Harvard University's endowment posted a 27.1% return in fiscal year 2026 — its best in five years — reaching nearly $68 billion, with a $2.2 billion SpaceX position serving as the portfolio's largest single holding.
SK Hynix fell more than 10% and Samsung dropped 7.1% as Asian chip stocks extended a Wall Street sell-off driven by fears of further Federal Reserve rate hikes and mounting concerns over the cost of financing AI infrastructure projects.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned Wednesday that any moratorium on data center construction in the United States would trigger a recession, citing the central role AI infrastructure investment now plays in the broader economy.
Amazon unveiled the $75 Bee Frontier wearable and $100 Bee Eclipse smartphone-mounted recorder on Thursday, the first hardware update to its Bee AI listening device lineup since acquiring the San Francisco startup in July 2025.
Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft each unveiled new AI-powered consumer devices within a single week, making the 2026 holiday season the first major commercial test of mainstream demand for generative AI hardware.
A Saudi national who worked as an engineer at OpenAI has been arrested and charged with planting a recording device inside the company's offices, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.
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