Salesforce shares surged 22.6% on Thursday, delivering the company’s second-best trading day on record and helping ignite a broader rally across software stocks as investors reassessed fears that artificial intelligence could undermine the traditional software industry. Editorial credit: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock The enterprise software giant closed at $252.05 after its shares jumped following a stronger-than-expected fiscal second-quarter earnings report, an upgraded

Security researchers have uncovered three backdoor-like surveillance implants embedded in the firmware of routers manufactured by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics, better known as ZBT, raising fresh concerns about the security of networking equipment sold around the world. The findings, published by cybersecurity firm VulnCheck, reveal that several ZBT routers contain software capable of giving remote operators powerful control over affected devices. Because ZBT manufactures ha

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, in what would rank among the chipmaker’s largest acquisitions and significantly expand its influence across the open-source AI ecosystem. Editorial credit: sdx15 / Shutterstock The deal was first reported by The Information, which cited a person familiar with the matter. Reuters also reported the agreement, noting that neither Nvidia nor Hugging Face immediately responded

Beijing-based generative AI startup Moonshot AI has officially launched its highly anticipated flagship model, Kimi K3. The massive rollout marks the arrival of the world’s first open-weight model in the coveted three-trillion-parameter tier, establishing a direct, highly disruptive challenge to premium, closed-source Western models like Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. Boasting a staggering 2.8 trillion total parameters, Kimi K3 represents the single largest

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its UK cloud infrastructure with the addition of a fourth Availability Zone to its Europe (London) Region, giving businesses greater capacity for artificial intelligence, machine learning and other demanding workloads. The new Availability Zone, identified as eu-west-2d, increases the number of Availability Zones available to AWS customers in the London Region from three to four. AWS announced the expansion on August 19, 2026, describing