Oliver Grant

The Digital Quant 2026 Global Digital Asset Quantitative Trading Competition concluded in Hong Kong after more than 60 days of continuous live trading, having launched on March 30, 2026. Organized by Barron's China and DeAI Expo, the event marked the first competition in the Asia-Pacific region to i

OpenAI announced its entry into the robotics sector on June 1st, with CEO Sam Altman posting recruitment information on social media seeking hardware, operations, systems, and machine learning engineers to develop socially useful robots. The initiative aims to

Ukrainian forces equipped with AI-powered drones are inflicting over 1,000 daily casualties on Russian troops, according to Ukrainian General Staff battlefield analysis released Friday. The Ukrainian General Staff reported Russian casualties totaled 32,980 in April, averaging 1,099 per day,

Community Bank, a Pennsylvania-based financial institution, disclosed a data breach earlier this month that exposed customer names, social security numbers, and dates of birth, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The breach was caused internally after an

A study published this month by researcher Kosta Jordanov at Lenz Research found that five frontier AI models disagreed on 67% of 1,000 real-world fact-check claims, with unanimous agreement occurring on only 328 claims. The research tested GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 3 Pro with

South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya have been ranked as Africa's leading business process outsourcing destinations by US consultancy Ataraxis, as global firms shift customer service, AI training, and back-office work to lower-cost English-speaking markets. The rankings place South Africa fifth

Japan's three largest banks — Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), and Mizuho Bank — are set to gain access to OpenAI's latest AI model to strengthen cybersecurity defenses and improve threat detection capabilities, according to reports from Nikkei.

Anthropic completed a $65 billion Series H funding round on May 28, 2024, bringing its post-money valuation to $965 billion and surpassing OpenAI as the highest-valued AI company in Silicon Valley. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. The funding

The Philippines joined Pax Silica in April 2026, the US-led alliance launched in December 2025 to secure supply chains for AI, semiconductors, and critical minerals. The agreement includes establishing a 1,618-hectare Economic Security Zone in New Clark City designated as a network node. Economist