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Every Fortune 500 CEO’s nightmare: the Iran war and the Pandora’s Box of AI cyber warfare

“We’re seeing disruption at major transportation hubs, pressure on global shipping routes, and cyber activity targeting private companies.”

By Nick LichtenbergMarch 18, 2026
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Social media companies are scrambling to verify minors online. Congress just made it a lot more complicated
By Catherina GioinoMarch 18, 2026
RunSybil CEO and cofounder Ari Herbert-Voss
Exclusive: AI cybersecurity startup RunSybil, founded by OpenAI’s first security hire, raises $40 million led by Khosla Ventures
By Sharon GoldmanMarch 18, 2026
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Your Instagram DMs are no longer encrypted: Meta is reversing course on privacy and removing end-to-end encryption from Instagra
By Catherina GioinoMarch 17, 2026
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says there was ‘never a sense’ AI products would be used for domestic surveillance in Anthropic-DoD feud
By Jessica MathewsMarch 13, 2026
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LawArgentines once drank 90 liters of wine a year. Now they’re down to 15 — and 1,100 vineyards have already closed
By The Associated Press and Clara PreveMarch 18, 2026
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LawUniversity of Florida College Republicans chapter sues over being shut down on antisemitism claims
By The Associated Press and Mike SchneiderMarch 18, 2026
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Middle East‘The United States is undermining itself’: China is ignoring Trump’s Hormuz request as the Iran war deepens and his Beijing trip slips
By The Associated Press and Didi TangMarch 18, 2026
Personal FinanceInvesting in gold vs. silver: How to decide which is right for you
By Joseph HostetlerMarch 18, 2026
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EconomyWhite House suspends the Jones Act for 60 days. Analysts see a gas price impact of 3 cents
By Wyatte Grantham-Philips and The Associated PressMarch 18, 2026
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LawLuigi Mangione’s lawyers say back-to-back state and federal trials violate his constitutional rights
By Michael R. Sisak and The Associated PressMarch 18, 2026
Smoke and flames rise from an energy installation in the Gulf emirate of Fujairah on March 14, 2026. Smoke could be seen rising from the direction of a major UAE energy installation on March 14, in what appeared to be the latest strike targeting the Gulf's petroleum facilities hours after the US struck Iran's Kharg Island. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) /
EnergyIt’s almost inexplicable why oil prices aren’t much higher. But here’s why markets are ‘resilient’ so far despite the biggest energy supply shock ever
By Jordan BlumMarch 18, 2026
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EconomyThe national debt just crossed $39 trillion—almost doubling since Trump vowed to erase it
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 18, 2026
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AI‘Proceed with caution’: Elon Musk offers warning after Amazon reportedly had mandatory meeting to address ‘high blast radius’ and AI-related incidents
By Sasha RogelbergMarch 11, 2026
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CommentaryThe AI risk that few organizations are governing
By Raj SharmaMarch 10, 2026
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CybersecurityGen Z is already nostalgic for TikTok—and the platform is only 6 years old
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 10, 2026
A plume of smoke rises from the port of Jebel Ali following a reported Iranian strike in Dubai on March 1, 2026.
Middle EastIran’s attacks on Amazon data centers in UAE, Bahrain signal a new kind of war as AI plays an increasingly strategic role, analysts say
By Jeremy KahnMarch 9, 2026
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Future of Work‘It feels like a video game, but in real life’: Gen Z’s love of analog ‘grandma’ hobbies jump from Pokemon to bird-watching, scrolling to needlepoint
By Kaitlyn Huamani and The Associated PressMarch 9, 2026
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CommentaryEric Schmidt: big tech should power its own AI ambitions 
By Eric SchmidtMarch 6, 2026
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CommentaryTech billionaire Shlomo Kramer: the cyber selloff proved that Wall Street can’t price tech anymore
By Shlomo KramerMarch 5, 2026
AIThe world’s largest tech gathering is talking about ‘accountability laundering’: Here’s why we should christen them Words of the Year
By Kamal AhmedMarch 5, 2026
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AISam Altman turned down a documentary’s requests to talk. So the director cast a ‘Sam Bot’ as its protagonist
By Michael Liedtke and The Associated PressMarch 4, 2026
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Middle EastIran’s revenge: drones damage data centers for Amazon Web Services, reveal west’s Achilles Heel
By Kelvin Chan and The Associated PressMarch 3, 2026
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LawRing CEO Jamie Siminoff believes if people had more cameras, we may have already ‘solved’ the Nancy Guthrie case
By Catherina Gioino and Marco Quiroz-GutierrezMarch 3, 2026
A Boston police officer uses radar to track speeding vehicles
CybersecurityCities join Amazon in cutting ties with license-plate reader Flock following Ring’s Super Bowl ad—that Flock ‘didn’t have anything to do with’
By Catherina GioinoMarch 3, 2026
EuropeQualcomm CEO: ‘Resistance is futile’ as 6G mobile revolution approaches
By Kamal AhmedMarch 3, 2026
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CommentaryEurope doesn’t lack tech talent. Its leaders lack execution
By Wolfgang OelsMarch 3, 2026
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CommentaryBoards aren’t ready for the AI age: What happens when your CEO gets deepfaked?
By James RichardsonMarch 3, 2026
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AIIran has the intent—and increasingly the tools—for AI-powered cyberattacks
By Sharon GoldmanMarch 2, 2026
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LawSocial media companies are fighting the ‘age verification trap’ as collecting biometrics on kids violates privacy rights
By Catherina GioinoMarch 2, 2026
A veiled Iranian woman holds her cellphone displaying a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
CybersecurityCyber retaliation from Iran is a problem for U.S. companies — ‘It’s in the hands of a 19-year-old hacker in a Telegram room,’ ex-NSA operative says
By Amanda GerutMarch 1, 2026
CybersecurityTrump’s FTC backs off social media regulation despite finding that nearly 20% of America’s children are online for 4 hours or more
By Catherina GioinoFebruary 27, 2026
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
AIThe Pentagon brands Anthropic CEO a ‘liar’ with a ‘God complex’ as deadline looms over AI use in weapons and surveillance
By Beatrice NolanFebruary 27, 2026
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LawCouple who got live insects, bloody pig mask mailed to them reach settlement with eBay
By Leah Willingham and The Associated PressFebruary 26, 2026
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CybersecurityOne man accidentally gained access to thousands of robot vacuums, exposing the AI cyber nightmare risk facing millions of Americans
By Nick LichtenbergFebruary 25, 2026
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LawFormer San Francisco homeless charity CEO stole $1.2 million in public funds and spent it on luxury vehicles and Louis Vuitton, authorities say
By The Associated PressFebruary 25, 2026
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CybersecurityNearly two-thirds of companies have lost track of their data just as they’re letting AI in through the front door to wander around
By Nick LichtenbergFebruary 25, 2026
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AIWe studied chatbots and language and saw a huge problem: They mean 80% when they say ‘likely’ but humans hear 65%
By Mayank Kejriwal and The ConversationFebruary 25, 2026
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AI‘Students can’t reason’: Teachers warn AI is fueling a crisis in kids’ ability to think
By Eva RoytburgFebruary 24, 2026
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CybersecurityDiscord distances itself from Peter Thiel–backed verification software after its code was found on a Google Cloud endpoint
By Catherina GioinoFebruary 24, 2026
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HealthScientists are pushing back on warnings that microplastics damage your health, saying people are just obese and calling some studies ‘a joke’
By Catherina GioinoFebruary 24, 2026
John Edward Kurtz, a former prison guard, is taken by state troopers to be arraigned in Milton, Pa., Dec. 18, 2017.
LawYour Google search history can be used against you in court. Does that violate the Constitution?
By Mark Scolforo and The Associated PressFebruary 23, 2026
AIExclusive: Anthropic rolls out AI tool that can hunt software bugs on its own—including the most dangerous ones humans miss
By Sharon GoldmanFebruary 20, 2026
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By Jacqueline MunisMarch 17, 2026
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