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EXPLAINERTehran has warned of zero restraint if energy facilities are attacked again, while Netanyahu signals that there could be a ‘ground component’ to the war.Published On 20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026Iran has warned it will show “zero restraint” if its energy facilities are attacked again, a day after Israel struck the South Pars gasfield and Tehran attacked energy sites across the Gulf.In the United States, President Donald Trump raised controversy during a meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi by invoking the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbour while defending the element of surprise in the Iran attack.Meanwhile, as the conflict…

The NVIDIA Agent Toolkit is Jensen Huang’s answer to the question enterprises keep asking: how do we put AI agents to work without losing control of our data and our liability?Announced at GTC 2026 in San Jose on March 16, the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit is an open-source software stack designed to help enterprises and developers build autonomous AI agents.What’s stalling broader deployment is trust. Agents that can take action inside enterprise systems need guardrails, and until now, those have been hard to standardise at scale.OpenShell and the safety problemThe centrepiece of the toolkit is NVIDIA OpenShell, an open-source runtime that…

After the assassination of Ali Larijani, the powerful secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, questions have emerged over who will lead the country.Larijani was one of the government’s most prominent faces, who had stepped into the spotlight after the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top military and political figures by Israel and the US, which began attacking Iran on February 28.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listMojtaba Khamenei has been announced as his father’s successor as supreme leader. But US officials claim that he is wounded, and analysts say he has never held…

Payments rely on a simple model: a person decides to buy something, and a bank or card network processes the transaction. That model is starting to change as Visa tests how AI agents can initiate payments. New work in the banking sector suggests that, in some cases, software agents may soon take on that role.A recent example comes from Visa, which is rolling out its “Agentic Ready” programme in Europe to test how financial systems handle AI-initiated transactions. The effort involves collaboration with banks, including Commerzbank and DZ Bank. The aim is to prepare existing payment infrastructure for a scenario…

Questions raised over US knowledge of Israeli plans to strike key Iranian gasfield as Gulf region’s energy infrastructure becomes target for attack.Published On 19 Mar 202619 Mar 2026United States President Donald Trump has tried to distance the US from Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gasfield, describing his Israeli allies as having “violently lashed out” at the facility and promising that it would not reoccur if Tehran refrains from attacking Qatar.Trump said the US had “nothing to do” with the strike on the offshore gasfield facilities in Iran’s Bushehr province on Wednesday, which was followed by Iran pledging to strike…

There’s a risk to the multi-function LTM approach, of course: A failure in a widely-deployed model could have system-wide consequences, which goes some way to explain Mastercard’s strategy of applying its technology alongside existing detection systems – at least, for the present. Mastercard hopes to increase the scale of the data used on the model and its overall sophistication. It’s also planning on API access and SDKs to let internal teams build new applications. The blog post emphasises the data responsibilities the LTM holds, mentioning privacy and transparency, model explainability, and auditability. Regulatory scrutiny of any system that influences credit…

Washington, DC – Tulsi Gabbard, the director of US National Intelligence, said that the United States intelligence community had assessed that Iran was not rebuilding its nuclear enrichment capabilities following US and Israeli attacks last year.The revelation on Wednesday appeared to undercut one of President Donald Trump’s key justifications for joining Israel in launching the latest war against Iran.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listTrump and his top officials have repeatedly cited Iran’s nuclear ambitions as one of the main reasons for abandoning ongoing diplomatic talks in favour of military action.“As a result of Operation Midnight Hammer,” Gabbard said…

When OpenAI launched Frontier in February, the announcement was described as a platform for enterprise AI agents. What it actually signalled was a challenge to the revenue architecture underpinning the software industry.Frontier is designed to act as a semantic layer in an organisation’s existing systems, connecting data warehouses, CRM platforms, ticketing tools, and internal applications so AI agents can operate with the same business context a human employee would have. OpenAI describes these agents as “AI coworkers” that can be on-boarded, assigned identities, granted permissions, and reviewed for performance.Early customers include Uber, State Farm, Intuit, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. OpenAI…

Wave of Israeli air attacks launched as ground offensive widens in south where Hezbollah are fighting Israeli forces.Published On 18 Mar 202618 Mar 2026Israel has attacked a building in Bashoura, a neighbourhood in the heart of Beirut, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported, with a blast and smoke rising over the area shortly after Israel issued an evacuation threat for the site.The attack was part of a deadly wave of Israeli strikes across Lebanon that killed at least 20 people and wounded 24 on Wednesday, according to the country’s Ministry of Public Health, with raids stretching from the capital through…

Artificial intelligence investment is entering a more selective phase as companies and investors look beyond early excitement and focus on the data centre infrastructure required to run AI systems.Recent analysis from Goldman Sachs suggests the market is moving toward what the firm describes as a “flight to quality.” In practice, investors are paying closer attention to companies that own and operate large data centres and computing infrastructure. Firms offering narrow AI tools or experimental software are receiving less attention.Goldman Sachs expects spending on AI infrastructure to grow rapidly as companies expand computing capacity for model training and deployment. Hyperscale cloud…