Editor’s Note: U.S. pressure on Kyiv took concrete form in the second week of October. Treasury’s General License 135 relaxed specified sanctions on Russian diesel transactions, including imports, though its fit with a 2022 import ban remains unresolved, and European officials told CNN the administration threatened to suspend intelligence sharing and weapons purchases over Ukraine’s
Editor’s Note: Microsoft’s Oct. 15 release of over 20 legal skills for Copilot moves drafting, contract review and matter work into Word and Cowork, and names 25 partners whose plugins are beginning to roll out, including Everlaw and Relativity. Approved redlines land as tracked changes in the document. Microsoft’s general Copilot documentation says the prompts
Editor’s Note: IBM’s new survey of 3,221 executives in Europe and the Middle East puts a number on how often AI incidents reach senior leadership: eight in 10 say an AI-related incident reached their board or C-suite in the past year. The figure that deserves a second look is how those incidents were handled at
Editor’s Note: New York’s $33 million consent order against Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken converts a Baltic monitoring backlog into a U.S. regulatory finding, and much of its evidence comes from the bank’s own internal audits. The order describes alert queues that built up across SEB’s Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian subsidiaries, alerts often closed on outdated standardized
Editor’s Note: Generative AI review got a headline benchmark in June, when a Redgrave LLP working paper reported that Relativity aiR for Review found 88 percent of responsive documents against 64 percent for a managed review run with Relativity Active Learning. A research paper posted Oct. 12 by Gordon V. Cormack, Maura R. Grossman and
Editor’s Note: Hackers pushed refrigerated display cases into defrost at French supermarkets overnight Sunday, in an attack Finance Minister Roland Lescure says affected about 700 of the country’s 10,000 supermarkets. CERT-FR, the national computer emergency response team, said in an alert updated Tuesday that attack campaigns against Danfoss, Copeland and Dixell controllers were probably still
Editor’s Note: Slush, the not-for-profit startup event, has grown from a 250-person gathering in 2008 into a week that brings thousands of founders and investors to Helsinki each November. For its Nov. 18 and 19 main event, organizers say they will trim the audience by 10 percent to better serve early-stage startups and award the
Editor’s Note: Engineers at firms that adopted AI coding agents added about 30 percent more code, yet finished work did not measurably rise and getting code through review took 49 percent longer, according to a working paper by Harvard Ph.D. candidates Fiona Chen and James Stratton covering 718 firms. The paper, a job-market paper with
Editor’s Note: Estonia hosts the ninth Tallinn Digital Summit on Nov. 5 and 6 around one question: how to thrive in the agentic era. The program pairs Estonian ministers, OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann and European Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva with AI safety researchers and security leaders. Sessions include a live cyber range demonstration of AI assurance,
Editor’s Note: Washington’s Oct. 9 designation of the International Criminal Court extended U.S. sanctions from individuals and organizations around the court to the institution itself, and the four general licenses issued with it largely shape what may keep running. The license for maintenance and wind-down, including salaries, rent and payment for routine services, ends April
Editor’s Note: Cooley and Google Cloud said Oct. 8 that Cooley is the launch partner for an agent being built on Gemini Enterprise to flag confidential information in court filings and recommend redactions, with attorneys deciding every redaction. Google’s blog the same day placed the agent on Gemini Enterprise for Legal. The agent is still
Editor’s Note: Drones shut one Yandex data center and knocked part of a second out of service within two days this week. Yandex Cloud says a fire caused by the drone attack on its Sasovo site took down one of its availability zones, still down on Oct. 10.
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Editor’s Note: A defunct airline’s corporate correspondence is up for sale, and the fight over it reads like a discovery dispute. Spirit Airlines proposes to sell Google enterprise data for $10 million to train AI, and the asset schedule it filed in August listed about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams items alongside
Editor’s Note: Zohar Pinhasi, owner of Florida ransomware-recovery firm MonsterCloud, was arraigned Oct. 7 in Brooklyn on federal charges that he told clients he had proprietary decryption tools while secretly paying their attackers. The U.S. Attorney’s Office told BleepingComputer he pleaded not guilty, and the charges are allegations. The case reaches past the fraud counts.
Editor’s Note: September’s 193 preliminary HSR transactions closed fiscal 2026 at 2,555, the Premerger Notification Program’s largest annual total since fiscal 2022 and 27.4 percent above fiscal 2025’s finalized count. The month itself cooled, falling 28.8 percent from August and 4.0 percent below September 2025. The cause appears to lie less in the economy, which
Editor’s Note: Agents the Wikimedia Foundation believes OpenAI operates made unapproved sandbox edits, made citation-tool changes the Foundation believes were potentially malicious, tried without success to use a hosted Etherpad as a data proxy and sent heavy traffic that may have contributed to a May outage of the Wikidata Query Service. The Foundation found no