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The SEC’s 2026 examination priorities reveal a significant shift: Concerns about cybersecurity and AI have displaced cryptocurrency as the industry’s dominant risk topic of the past five years. Compliance specialist Rebeca Vergara Goana examines how AI washing has become more relevant than greenwashing, why vendor risk is now inherent risk and how small and mid-sized businesses will face regulations that previously applied only to large corporations as they navigate four layers of compliance simultaneously just to use cookies. When a new year begins, we all try to enter fortune-teller mode. Like the Oracle in “The Matrix,” we try to predict…

CES shows 12 companies redefining Personalization using Robots, AI and Web3. The Agibot X2 humanoid robot dances. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesCES has always been a preview of what is next, and with AI, Web3 and Robots all converging, it became a measure of what is becoming foundational.Bringing together over 148,000 attendees from over 150 countries, alongside 4,500 exhibitors and 1,400 startups, the show rocked Vegas per CTA.Artificial intelligence was everywhere, but the most important takeaway was not about smarter models or faster chips. The major theme I saw running through everything…

Mark Savage Music CorrespondentSienna RoseSienna Rose has almost three million monthly listeners on SpotifySienna Rose is having a good month. Three of her dusky, jazz-infused soul songs are in Spotify’s Viral Top 50. The most popular, a dreamy ballad called Into The Blue, has been played more than five million times.If she continues on this trajectory, Rose could become one of the year’s hottest new stars. There’s only one problem: All the signs indicate she’s not real.Streaming service Deezer, which has developed tools to tackle AI music, told the BBC that “many of her albums and songs on the platform…

Cloud computing continues experiencing explosive growth as artificial intelligence drives unprecedented infrastructure demand. Amazon AMZN and Oracle ORCL represent two distinct approaches to capturing market share in this trillion-dollar opportunity.Amazon dominates through AWS, commanding approximately 29% market share with $33 billion in third-quarter 2025 revenues. Oracle pursues enterprise database workloads and AI training infrastructure, partnering with OpenAI, Meta, and NVIDIA to achieve 68% Cloud Infrastructure growth.Let’s delve deep and closely compare the fundamentals of the two stocks to determine which one is a better investment now. AWS delivered its strongest performance in nearly three years during third-quarter 2025, accelerating to…

CompuChild Expands AI and ML After-School Programs for Elementary and Middle School Students DUBLIN, Calif., Jan. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CompuChild, a children’s education franchise business dedicated to offering after-school enrichment programs across the United States and Canada, today announced the continued expansion of its suite of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) awareness classes for elementary and middle school students. CompuChild is one of the very few children’s education franchises in the United States that is STEM Certified by Cognia and has been actively teaching AI and ML concepts to children for more than two years. As AI-powered…

After surging last year to new heights of influence and record prices, the crypto industry is facing a major test, with federal lawmakers preparing to work on a market regulatory bill that crypto advocates argue is critical to the industry’s continued success in America. In Texas — a state that’s been attempting to position itself as a global crypto hub — the industry has also lately provided notable storylines. Here’s what’s been going on lately:Cuban, Mavs off the hook Back in 2021 — a year when crypto was seeing volatile price swings and attracting high-profile endorsements from celebrities including Matt…

Cybersecurity startup investment for 2025 hit the highest level in three years, bolstered by big rounds for AI-focused companies in the space. Overall, investors put $18 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies in Crunchbase security and privacy categories last year. That’s up about 26% from 2024, with particularly pronounced growth at early stage. It’s also the third-highest annual total in 10 years, as charted below. Table of contents Supersized rounds boosted totals A handful of supersized rounds contributed heavily to boosting annual funding tallies. Per Crunchbase data, cybersecurity companies raised at least seven rounds of $400 million or…

Retail automation is now in its artificial intelligence era, turning every transaction into a real-time stress test. When millions of shoppers check out simultaneously, even minor delays can escalate into catastrophic losses. But which companies are truly equipped to deliver at an AI-powered scale? That question set the agenda for theCUBE’s AI & Retail Trailblazers coverage, where retail technology leaders weighed in on what it takes to secure measurable throughput. In November, U.S. shoppers spent $43.7 billion online during the five-day Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday period, with Cyber Monday sales alone reaching $14.2 billion. At this level, any latency or performance…

In 2025, new data show, the volume of child pornography online was likely larger than at any other point in history. A record 312,030 reports of confirmed child pornography were investigated last year by the Internet Watch Foundation, a U.K.-based organization that works around the globe to identify and remove such material from the web.This is concerning in and of itself. It means that the overall volume of child porn detected on the internet grew by 7 percent since 2024, when the previous record had been set. But also alarming is the tremendous increase in child porn, and in particular…

Key Takeaways AMZN’s AWS delivered 20.2% YoY growth in Q3 2025, its strongest expansion in nearly three years.Amazon reported $200B in cloud backlog, offering long-term revenue visibility as AI demand accelerates.Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure revenues surged 68%, but heavy capex and customer concentration raise risks. Cloud computing continues experiencing explosive growth as artificial intelligence drives unprecedented infrastructure demand. Amazon (AMZN Quick QuoteAMZN – Free Report) and Oracle (ORCL Quick QuoteORCL – Free Report) represent two distinct approaches to capturing market share in this trillion-dollar opportunity.Amazon dominates through AWS, commanding approximately 29% market share with $33 billion in third-quarter 2025 revenues. Oracle…