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How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise.
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How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.

Agentic AI promises a swift revolution for cybersecurity defenders, with one expert calling it a "Cambrian explosion" and another likening it to "the fastest train ever made."
But it's a technology still in its infancy, and other experts caution CISOs to take it slow until the kinks can be worked out.
Check out my latest CSO piece on agentic AI for more details. Thanks to Jimmy Mesta of RAD Security, Andres Riancho and Hillai Ben-Sasson of Wiz, Ben Seri of…

Agentic AI promises a cybersecurity revolution — with asterisks
Experts say agentic AI will rapidly change cybersecurity, freeing up talent to focus on more dynamic work. But with AI agents still in their infancy, they also urge CISOs to ask a lot of questions before committing to this new security paradigm.

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After years of patient investment, China is on the cusp of a robotics revolution.

If embodied intelligence
— think AI-powered robots that can navigate the real world
— is the next frontier of AI, then China appears poised to dominate.
Though the United States still has distinct advantages in software, advanced AI chips and foundational research, China leads in robot hardware, deployment and policy support.

Last year, China installed nearly 300,000 robots in its fact…

The Chinese robots are coming
China is miles ahead in the race to dominate a technology that could define the 21st century.

Must read: "Flight Tracking, OSINT, Roblox: The Cyber frontline of Gen Z's Revolution in Madagascar" by @andrinivo
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MIoT-Driven Comparison of Open Blockchain Platforms
Abdou-Essamad Jabri (UPJV, MIS), Mostafa Azizi (UPJV, MIS), Cyril Drocourt (UPJV, MIS), Gil Utard (MIS, UPJV)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08399

MIoT-Driven Comparison of Open Blockchain Platforms
Being propelled by the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), IoT devices and solutions are well adopted everywhere, ranging from home applications to industrial use, crossing through transportation, healthcare, energy, and so on. This wide use of IoT has not gone unnoticed, hackers are tracking the weakness of such a technology and threatening them continuously. Their security at various levels has become an important concern of professionals and researchers. This issue takes more risk, …

Strategies educators can use to counter misinformation related to the quantum information revolution
Jaya Shivangani Kashyap, Chandralekha Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12489

Strategies educators can use to counter misinformation related to the quantum information revolution
Remarkable advances in quantum information science and technology (QIST) have taken place in recent years. However, they have also been accompanied by widespread misinformation. This paper provides suggestions for how educators can help students at all levels and especially early learners including those at the pre-college and college levels learn key QIST concepts so that they are less likely to be misinformed, e.g., by online unvetted resources. We discuss findings from interviews with five c…

A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Anti-Jamming UAV Swarm Behavior
Tiago Silva, Ant\'onio Grilo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07292 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Anti-Jamming UAV Swarm Behavior
In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have brought a new true revolution to military tactics. While UAVs already constitute an advantage when operating alone, multi-UAV swarms expand the available possibilities, allowing the UAVs to collaborate and support each other as a team to carry out a given task. This entails the capability to exchange information related with situation awareness and action coordination by means of a suitable wireless communication technology. In such scenario…