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GlobalData’s April CPMI shows resilience masking pre-execution caution, with conflict risk surfacing unevenly by country and sector.

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GlobalData’s April CPMI shows resilience masking pre-execution caution, with conflict risk surfacing unevenly by country and sector.

Insurance Authority data shows Hong Kong hitting a new first-quarter record, powered by affluent China and overseas buyers.
A new Glo-CoH dataset gives decision-makers the first comprehensive view of UNESCO coastal heritage at greatest flood risk.

New public preview releases plus production metrics are Microsoft’s most aggressive case yet to shrink reliance on OpenAI.

At its San Francisco Advancing AI event, AMD pitches MI455X and Helios to win both training and inference performance.

Berlin’s volunteer-run host votes to block most generative-AI-written code and refuses AI training use of users’ data.
A key cloud partnership gets a long runway: Databricks runs core ops on Azure and pushes further into Microsoft’s Arm Cobalt.

The build-measure-learn loop, proprietary multimodal data, and a Kendall Square “lab of the future” are reshaping drug R&D.

Everest hit Stadler through a supplier data exchange platform, but Stadler claims no security-relevant or personal data was stolen.

A new petition urges the FCC to scrutinize satellite and rocket emissions that experts say could reshape the stratosphere.

Creators and locals are building data collectives to decide what gets collected and how it gets shared.

What was stolen, why it matters for regulators and operators, and how fast the risk can move beyond data.