April 2026

In an order denying Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial, a judge accused the disgraced FTX founder of wasting precious court resources on wild conspiracies. To the judge, the motion seemed like a last-ditch attempt to give himself a MAGA makeover that the Trump administration absolutely wasn’t buying. Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024 for “masterminding one of the largest financial frauds in American history,” US District Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in his […]

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A data center developer has paused all Middle East project investments after one of its facilities was damaged by an Iranian missile or drone attack. The decision comes as the Iran war is forcing Silicon Valley investors and tech companies to rethink a trillion-dollar plan to build more AI and cloud data centers in Gulf countries. The damaged data center is owned by Pure Data Centre Group, a London-based company that is operating or developing more than 1 […]

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Getting stalled enterprise AI rollouts in the EMEA region moving again will require CIOs to aggressively audit their systems. Over the past 18 months, AI deployments across Europe advanced far beyond initial testing. Companies poured capital into large language models and machine learning, expecting heavy operational upgrades. IDC research reveals that boards are slowing down, scaling back, or refocusing these initiatives. The contraction rests on execution issues and financial validation rather than a loss of technical interest. Competing […]

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AI coding agents can read your code, reason about changes, and act on your behalf. To choose the right one, it helps to understand the four common workflow types: integrated development environment (IDE), terminal, pull request (PR), and cloud. In this tutorial, you’ll: Identify the four common agent interaction modes Understand what makes each workflow distinct Recognize which mode fits common development scenarios Weigh the risks and tradeoffs of each workflow Before exploring the four workflow types, it’s […]

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Vanguard is a global investment management firm, offering a broad selection of investments, advice, retirement services, and insights to individual investors, institutions, and financial professionals. We operate under a unique, investor-owned structure and adhere to a straightforward purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investing success. When Vanguard’s financial analysts needed to query complex datasets, they faced a frustrating reality: even basic questions required writing […]

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When AI agents connect to tools through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), they gain access to capabilities that range from database queries and API calls to file operations and third-party service integrations. In production, these interactions need proper governance, controls, and observability aligned with an organization’s security policies. This includes sanitizing tool inputs before they reach backend systems, generating audit trails in specific formats, or redacting sensitive data at the protocol layer. These requirements are shaped by internal […]

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OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 on April 23 as what it calls “a new class of intelligence for real work and powering agents,” and the framing is deliberate. OpenAI says it’s the most capable agentic AI model to date, built from the ground up to plan, use tools, check its own output, and work through tasks independently. GPT-5.5 is the first retrained base model since GPT-4.5, co-designed with NVIDIA’s GB200 and GB300 NVL72 rack-scale systems. The company says the practical […]

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