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SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform. As spotted by tech ethicist Ed Newton-Rex, the latest version of SoundCloud’s terms include a provision giving the platform permission to use uploaded content to “inform, train, [or] develop” AI. “You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services,” read the terms, which were last updated February 7. SoundCloud seems…

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its lead in the AI race and whether the demand for AI chips will sustain. But where did DeepSeek come from, and how did it rise to international fame so quickly? DeepSeek’s trader origins DeepSeek is backed by High-Flyer Capital Management, a Chinese quantitative hedge fund…

VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — When Villanova University’s president, Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope wasn’t far away on campus, studying math two grades below him.On Thursday, church bells rang out for hours in celebration at the Augustinian school near Philadelphia after the 1977 alumnus Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The school on the suburban Main Line near Philadelphia had reached the pinnacle of men’s college basketball three times — winning championships in 1985, 2016 and 2018. But celebrating a…

The new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the United States has warned his staff that he will not tolerate any resistance to President Donald Trump’s agenda for the organisation. Friday was the first full day of David Richardson’s leadership at FEMA, after the agency saw a shake-up at its helm earlier this week. But he began his tenure as head with a stark warning for the agency. “I — and I alone in FEMA — speak for FEMA. I’m here to carry out the president’s intent for FEMA,” he reportedly told staff in an agency-wide call.…

Sage has announced key progress in its strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on enhancing AI-powered accounting and compliance tools for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).As an AWS SMB Software Competency partner, Sage is leveraging services such as Amazon Bedrock and AWS’s AI chips to accelerate the development of reliable, purpose-built AI models.The collaboration has helped Sage integrate Large and Small Language Models into its suite of financial tools, enhancing its AI assistant, Sage Copilot. Currently available in the UK, US, France, Spain, and Germany, Sage Copilot is embedded across core platforms including Sage Accounting and Sage Intacct,…

CUBE, a global RegTech company specialising in regulatory intelligence and compliance automation, has launched its new global headquarters at Tower 42 in the City of London.The site also houses its new AI Centre of Excellence, the RegBrain AI Lab, marking a multi-million pound investment into artificial intelligence for regulatory and risk innovation.The move follows a year of rapid growth for the company, which has more than doubled its revenue, workforce, and international presence. CUBE now supports 1,000 customers across 20 countries, with a team of 700 employees. The company also completed two US-based acquisitions and strengthened its global expansion through…

payabl., a European FinTech specialising in modular payment solutions, has teamed up with Sift, a global leader in AI-driven fraud prevention, to enhance real-time fraud protection for merchants.The partnership addresses a sharp rise in payment fraud across the EEA, where fraud losses reached €4.3bn in 2022 and another €2.0bn in the first half of 2023, according to data from the EBA. By embedding Sift’s technology into its payments platform, payabl. offers merchants automated fraud checks, fewer false positives, and improved approval rates—all without compromising the user experience.payabl. enables businesses to accept payments securely and flexibly across borders, while Sift uses…

As resentment of the rich and powerful surges, billionaires and CEOs are using everything from secret trackers to full security squads to protect themselves and their families. Billionaires are more concerned than ever about the safety of themselves and their families. Tensions spiked after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. Then came the January kidnapping of French cryptocurrency founder David Balland, who was held for ransom for two days while the assailants mutilated his hand, followed by an April arson attack on the home of billionaire Steve Sarowitz by a suspect who also made ransom and…

SecurityWeek’s cybersecurity news roundup provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless important for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape. Each week, we curate and present a collection of noteworthy developments, ranging from the latest vulnerability discoveries and emerging attack techniques to significant policy changes and industry reports.  Here are this week’s stories: Radware cloud WAF vulnerabilities CERT/CC reports that Radware’s Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) could have been bypassed using specially crafted HTTP requests. An…

WealthTech has transformed the modern world of investing. No longer is wealth management locked off to the wealthy. Tools are now available that can support investors at whatever life stage they are in and build portfolios that can support their financial situation and plan for the future.However, while investing has become more readily available, there are still many that are not actively engaging with investing. Almost half of Americans (48%) do not hold any investment assets, according to a recent report from global active asset manager Janus Henderson. Staying in North America, a survey from CIBC found that only 48%…