'I saw Terminator 2 ': YC's Garry Tan pushes back on AI doom fears

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Fintechs conquered payments in India. Now they're eyeing credit

Participants during the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. Policymakers, bankers, technology companies and fintech founders have gathered at the annual Global Fintech Fest to debate what comes after the Unified Payments Interface, which unleashed a digital-payments revolution.

Council Post: The AI Platform Everyone Wants And Nobody Owns

Stoyan Mitov is the CEO of Dreamix, a custom software development company helping tech leaders increase capacity without giving up quality.

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Ask any technology leader whether it makes sense to build an AI capability once and reuse it across every product line, and they will agree with you immediately. But if you ask the same leader six months later how many separate AI integrations their company is running, the number is usually higher than they expect.​

How hard is it to get into the US' most selective universities? See the 25 lowest acceptance rates.

People are applying to more colleges than ever before, but admission to some of the US's top universities remains highly competitive.

Coinbase partners with Moov to boost community bank stablecoin capabilities before Clarity vote

CEO of Coinbase Brian Armstrong is interviewed for CNBC in the Russell Senate office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., Jan. 15, 2026.

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Coinbase is partnering with financial services provider Moov to increase access to stablecoin capabilities such as acceptance, settlement and real-time funding for community banks and credit unions ahead of a key vote on crypto legislation in the U.S. Senate next week.

Council Post: Every AI Incident Has Two Timelines. We Default To One

Global Field CISO at Mimecast. Creator of Risk Reframing. 20+ years across intelligence agencies, cybersecurity, and executive leadership.

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​We’ve entered a new phase of AI security.

A frontier model, tested for offensive cyber capability, found thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities in foundational infrastructure software—including a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD, long regarded as one of the most secure operating systems in the world.

Amazon backs Ariane with rocket launch orders as Europe battles to close its space gap

Amazon has ordered six additional launches from Europe's Arianespace as it builds out a satellite network to challenge SpaceX's Starlink, handing the continent's space industry a major commercial boost as governments push for greater sovereign capabilities.

Council Post: What Public Transit Can Teach Tech Companies About Designing For Uncertainty

Miroslav Katsarov is the CEO of Modeshift, a technology company bringing intelligent transportation to small- and mid-size transit agencies.

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​Modern systems must be designed to withstand unpredictable environments, where disruptions, changing conditions and evolving customer needs are inevitable. Public transit is a compelling example of this, as it operates under constant real-world uncertainty with little room for failure. Services must keep running despite delays, connectivity failures, hardware problems and other unforeseen events such as severe weather. Transit technology must be built to accommodate these day-to-day scenarios while handling fluctuating demand, changing government policies and emerging industry trends. ​

Council Post: How AI Projects Can Beat The Odds And Succeed

Chris Burchett is Senior Vice President AI Transformation at Blue Yonder, a leading AI company for end-to-end supply chain transformation.

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​From top-secret defense projects to supply chains, I’ve been working with AI for over 20 years. During that time, I’ve seen many failures blamed on technology when they often stemmed from weak strategies.

Ryanair CEO says to brace for a 'significant uplift' in airfares as oil prices soar

Passengers wait to board an aircraft of low cost Irish airline Ryanair at the Berlin-Brandenburg airport in Schoenefeld near Berlin, Germany, on March 13, 2024.

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