Arm CEO Rene Haas says investor fears about AI hurting software companies are a “micro-hysteria” that exceeds the reality of how businesses use AI tools (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Arm CEO Rene Haas says investor fears about AI hurting software companies are a “micro-hysteria” that exceeds the reality of how businesses use AI tools  —  SoftBank-owned chip group foreca…

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The Buyer’s Guide to AI Usage Control

Today’s “AI everywhere” reality is woven into everyday workflows across the enterprise, embedded in SaaS platforms, browsers, copilots, extensions, and a rapidly expanding universe of shadow tools that appear faster than security teams can track. Yet m…

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Analog chipmaker SiTime agrees to acquire Tokyo-based Renesas’ timing unit for $1.5B in cash and 4.13M shares in a ~$2.9B deal, set to close by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Analog chipmaker SiTime agrees to acquire Tokyo-based Renesas’ timing unit for $1.5B in cash and 4.13M shares in a ~$2.9B deal, set to close by the end of 2026  —  Analog chipmaker SiTime Corp. has agreed to acquire Renesas…

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The UK says Microsoft, the UK government, academics, and experts plan to build a system to spot deepfakes online as part of an detection evaluation framework (Muvija M/Reuters)

Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK says Microsoft, the UK government, academics, and experts plan to build a system to spot deepfakes online as part of an detection evaluation framework  —  Britain will work with Microsoft (MSFT.O), academics…

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Why is Grazalema the rainiest place in Spain?

Locals in Grazalema – which just got hit by almost 600 litres of rainfall/m2 in 24 hours – are used to wet weather, albeit not as bad as that caused by Storm Leonardo. How is it that this town in sun-drenched Andalusia is known as the rain…

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