Crypto platforms are providing international retail investors with alternative avenues, such as prediction markets and synthetic assets, to speculate on SpaceX's upcoming IPO, bypassing traditional Wall Street gatekeepers.
The EU General Court partially overturned the European Commission's decision to designate Meta's Marketplace as a 'gatekeeper' under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The court ruled that the Commission did not provide sufficient grounds for applying gatekeeper regulations to Marketplace, but upheld the designation for Meta's Messenger.
Palantir faces increasing competition for US defense contracts as rival AI firms challenge its dominant position. Despite Palantir's criticism of AI lab outputs as unreliable, competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic are expanding into its core business areas. Palantir views these labs as a supply chain, integrating their models into its operational platform.
Hong Kong’s security chief has reaffirmed that fire services will act as the gatekeeper for safety after a legal vacuum was exposed during an inquiry into the city’s deadliest fire in decades, stressing the department’s existing manpower could cope with expanded oversight duties. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung on Tuesday reiterated the pledge earlier made by Fire Services Department director Andy Yeung Yan-kin during the hearings into the inferno at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po. The...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that 75% of all new code at Google is now AI-generated, up from 50% six months ago. The company is transitioning to agentic workflows where engineers orchestrate autonomous digital task forces. Human engineers remain gatekeepers, reviewing and approving every line of AI-generated code. A complex code migration was completed six times faster with AI agents than with engineers alone. The announcement was made at Google's Cloud Next 2026 conference in Las Vegas.
