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Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their partnership to reduce their dependence on each other amid an escalating global artificial intelligence race, the companies said on Monday.Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest financial backer, holds a stake in the start-up valued at more than $135 billion. The tech giant has long held exclusive rights to offer OpenAI’s technology to other customers on its cloud computing service, a major draw for its business.But the companies’ relationship became strained as OpenAI grew from a small nonprofit research lab to a start-up expecting a massive initial public offering as soon as this year. OpenAI has needed more…

by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman April 27, 2026 The clothing store is back in the hot seat again after another incident of allegedly mistreating Black customers. A Zara location in Atlanta is facing backlash for another instance of alleged mistreatment toward Black customers. An Atlanta shopper called out the Zara at Atlanta’s Perimeter Mall after security accused her of shoplifting. The woman, named on Instagram as Mika Terrell, detailed the humiliating” experience” on Instagram. Terrell explained that she spent over $350 at the store before the altercation. As she tried to leave the establishment, security accused her of stealing a piece of…

Attackers drained roughly $292 million from KelpDAO’s bridge this month, then used the released tokens as collateral on lending protocols that were never originally hacked. The result is a textbook example of how one failure can spread through DeFi — and why that matters as more tokenised assets move into wider markets. On April 18, 2026 attackers exploited KelpDAO’s cross-chain bridge and drained roughly $292 million in rsETH, a liquid restaking token. The attack is being described as the largest DeFi exploit of the year to date — just the latest in a series of incidents to have earned April…

Strategy’s preferred equity instrument, STRC, has been trading below its $100 par value — a detail that has quietly drawn attention from investors watching the company’s ability to keep funding its Bitcoin purchases. Related Reading Saturn Steps In As Questions Mount The company behind the Bitcoin treasury strategy recently attracted fresh capital despite the uncertainty. Saturn, a STRC-backed yield provider, put $18 million into STRC, bringing its total investment to $33 million. The move came even as critics questioned whether demand for the instrument is strong enough to sustain Strategy’s aggressive acquisition pace. STRC offers holders a monthly payout with…

Enterprise AI governance still authorizes agents as if they were stable software artifacts.They are not.An enterprise deploys a LangChain-based research agent to analyze market trends and draft internal briefs. During preproduction review, the system behaves within acceptable bounds: It routes queries to approved data sources, expresses uncertainty appropriately in ambiguous cases, and maintains source attribution discipline. On that basis, it receives OAuth credentials and API tokens and enters production.Six weeks later, telemetry shows a different behavioral profile. Tool-use entropy has increased. The agent routes a growing share of queries through secondary search APIs not part of the original operating profile.…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The organizations that consistently win the security talent war have moved the following five questions from diagnostic exercises into operational frameworks. Most CEOs find out about security team problems the hard way — when a key analyst hands in their notice mid-project, or when they realize the incident response capability they thought they had disappeared along with the person who built it.Here’s what makes this worse: Threat actors are paying attention. They monitor LinkedIn for patterns of security professionals leaving organizations. They track signs of team instability and time their…

Digital payments are fast, convenient, and widely used across the UK, EEA, and globally. But even with modern financial apps, payment errors still happen — often for simple, preventable reasons. Whether you’re sending money to a friend, paying a bill, or making an international transfer, small mistakes can lead to failed payments, delays, or even funds going to the wrong place. Understanding why payment errors happen is the first step to avoiding them. Here are 7 common payment errors — and what usually causes them. 1. Entering Incorrect Payment Details One of the most common mistakes is entering incorrect details. Even a small typo can cause…

A new poll shows that Russians are losing their patience with Vladimir Putin. His approval rating has dropped to its lowest since the Ukraine war started. The economy is also on the brink, while the internet blackouts are adding to the frustration of millions. Putin’s approval rating is now at 65.6% according to the Russian Public Opinion Research Center. It may not look as bad, but it is down 12.2 this year from its peak 88%. In reality, the true sentiment may have been masked by the country’s strict policy against war criticism, which it considers a criminal offense. Peace…

When Yong Wang recently received one of the highest honors for early-career data visualization researchers, it marked a milestone in an extraordinary journey that began far from the world’s technology hubs.Wang was born in a small farming village in southwestern China to parents with little formal education and few electronic devices. Today the IEEE member and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics is an assistant professor of computing and data science at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore. He studies how people can employ data visualization techniques to get more out of artificial intelligence tools. YONG WANG…

It’s 2 p.m. on Tuesday, and your three-person team is fully booked. Two reps are on active calls, and one is in a client meeting. So what happens when the phone rings, and then it rings again? By the time anyone is free, four calls have gone to voicemail. One was a new lead from a Google Ads campaign you’re spending $3,000 per month on. What happened is they called your competitor instead. That lead cost you $85 in ad spend and potentially thousands in lifetime value — gone because nobody picked up. The other three? What if they were…